skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
White balance those photographs! Also you can make them much smaller with no apparent loss. http://i.imgur.com/EQulv.jpg
You're right, but at the same time email addresses have worked pretty well for the last 20+ years, even my parents cope with it...
It also "misses" the fact that the magazine Dale Dougherty is the editor of, and which is associated with the Maker Faire, is called "Make Magazine", not "Maker Magazine" as the article repeatedly states. Fail.
Unless Twitter angers their users greatly there's not much that can be done. Twitter stands for status updates just like Google stands for search. A competing product would have to have a (slightly?) different feature-set I think..
Yeah I don't need hundreds of minutes, I use maybe 50 mins a month on average, but I use data and texts every day. I also don't have an iPhone, I have a Galaxy Nexus for another chunk of savings.

Admittedly the deals aren't as bad in the states if you are maximizing your usage of the plan, but for my use case it's a total rip off, as are the UK contracts to a lesser extent (because of competition).
Here's another one: The Storm Umbrella (can withstand 65 miles p/hour winds). http://www.stormparaplu.nl/ Created by a student in Holland that got sick and tired of today's umbrella's.
They can android apps on the playbook. Having a Android like styling, makes the foreign apps look more native.
It'd be cool to read about what did they have to do after it was hijacked.
Same from Japan. Can we get an alternate link?
Getting a 502 error when i visit
What license are the images? There is a license mention on the bottom of the website but to me that seems to cover the website only, not the downloaded images. It would be great if each zip would include a proper license.
The inevitable economic collapse from the warped incentives would likely cost more lives.
You can go with something like Titanium http://www.appcelerator.com/
Whenever we need to access some hardware (printers, smart cards, cameras, automate file updloads and downloads) we have to rely on a Java applet or Flash. The user must agree to the Java security warning before. Until browsers don't give us a better multi-browser and multi-plataform solution, we still need to use Java. Some of the html5 specs are to solve these issues.
Beginning Perl (Wrox) is now released
It's a real gem, especially for someone who isn't as aesthetically astute, like me. I used it on a couple of websites I've been working on recently. [1][2]

[1] http://tweetfad.com/

[2] http://db.uwaterloo.ca/dmc2013/
Actually no. I've looked at a couple of these videos, and all they show is that current technology can be pushed to somewhat approximate realtime ray-tracing. Here's another example of that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbokPe4_-mY&feature=relat...

So I'll spec it out. HD video, 30fps, editable with in-world physics.

Don't see anything off-the-shelf that's close to that today. My question was if it were possible to hack something together. If so, what did the configuration/cost look like.

Perhaps the answer right now is "no". That's cool. Just wondering.
Video and lessons-learned from my Toastmasters public speaking adventure
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For the sake of completion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication#No_suppo...
I see it more as a donation kind of pricing. :)
What I meant was that if a founder spends say 3-5 years building up a start up to get to series A (The first VC round), and they do not get any liquidity out from the
round they are just going to turn off. If you are still living on ramen after 10 or even 5 years, its your psychology that is driving you, not a well rounded approach to business.

BTW, house prices are mostly insane, but they are insane because we cannot design cities right, and almost everyone wants to live in a city. (Or more accdurately have the amenities of a city)

I think this is something pg recommends, but a lot of these things fall into my mental "just in time" bin - when I am looking for VC funding, I will look up the reference.
Oh no, yet another Java vulnerability discovered
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The article is kind of misleading, the exploit was part of Android rather than anything to do with Samsung and was patched in AOSP as of 4.1.1(?). This meansn it was an issue on any phone that dialled automatically and doesn't run a build with the patch applied. Also the patch from Samsung was part of an OTA update from at least a week ago in the US, I know it pinged up just after I booted the S3 I bought on Saturday in the UK.
I was going to say the same thing.

What's wrong with marco@example.com?
"They would have to scale the game down into 20-30 minute chunks to keep the audience entertained but as with Starcraft, passionate people will watch anything on the internet."

Why not just show highlights, move between several games at once or put players on the clock. I would watch this but not some super hyped version. Chess is as comparable to Stagecraft as Rugby is.
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Isn't that woman's fault?
I can feel the breeze of it going over your head from my desk.
You have options. You can apply the schema restriction only to new inserts (since you have full control over where it's applied - the "all data" store is generally not an SQL DB).
You can "retcon" the old data (and knowing when to violate immutability is what separates the good from the great). You can make a new "table", and put the logic for dealing with the difference between old and new formats in the batch processor.
abc@example.com would seem natural to me -- but I still use e-mail and didn't get twitter.
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Will the real digital strategists please stand up?
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Isn't this what denotes an era or school of design/architecture/art though, like realism, romanticism, bauhaus, modernism, industrialism, etc? Changes in the approach and visual style.

In a sense, this is creating a language to talk about UX in the same way we talk about architecture. No doubt it's a bit grandiose, but it works.
> "@example.com/abc" is one (not particularly nice) way of doing it, but I'm struggling to think of any way that would work nicely.

The obvious 'let's use email instead of that @you thing' would make implementation really non obvious, because it dramatically changes the @ role from the current usage: @ means 'adressed to', not 'residing at' like email/xmpp.

I'd reverse the order, which would read much better and follow known ordering conventions (FQDNs, email...):

email tag syntax inspired: @abc%example.com. That would be @marcoarment%twitter.com and @marco%app.net.

FQDN inspired: @abc.example.com looks much better. That would be @marcoarment.twitter.com and @marco.app.net. It would follow the convention that a non qualified name belongs to the local net. I don't know how that could possibly extend to actually integrate with DNS itself, so that a something-record @marco.marco.org. would resolve to the service handling marco's status stream, MX style.
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Same here in Poland.
Over at the Gerontology Research Group list, epidemiologist S. Jay Olshansky commented:

"It was quite a silly story. The authors misunderstood the evolutionary theory of senescence. Furthermore, they failed to account for other behavioral attributes of the folks being studied. I don't understand how that paper passed through peer review."

There are a lot of theories floating around regarding gender differences in longevity; that we cannot definitively say why the difference exists is a good example of the tremendous complexity of the intersection of metabolism, genetics, and aging:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=site%3Afightaging.org+...

But read the paper - it's open access:

http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2812...

For my money, I'd wager that their methodology for finding life spans in the genealogy data for the 81 out of 385 mentioned eunuchs (and/or the intrinsic structure of that data) is predisposed towards selecting longer-lived individuals.
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I'd agree. It doesn't feel finished yet. I think the OEMs will be all over it customising it which is going to ruin the experience.
...and this is a bad thing?? Twitter went downhill fast when the mainstream started using it.

I say leave it to the celebs, plebs and TV networks to use - as soon as my majority circle of followees moves to tent (i.e. the geeks) I think I'd happily ditch Twitter.
There is? A link would make me happy.
It's meant to work, for example see here https://github.com/hotsh/rstat.us/issues/387
A discovery option would be great,or some sort of user tags.
Someone should make a list of hacker news users on tent.is.
Here's mine. https://vacipr.tent.is/
As a developer, I would love to see this get more traction. I really would.

It's really painful working with Twitter now. Twitter's display 'requirements' and other aspects of the API are super restrictive after their latest update.

However, the sad truth is that the population of Twitter users isn't going to be shifting anywhere else anytime soon. Most users hardly care about the 'openness' of the platform. I imagine the best way for a competitor to succeed would be by allowing users to cross post statuses to Twitter.. but Twitter API restrictions would kick in there too!
He probably meant to write "Superstition".
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Now there is more than one page of Google to rank for...take on the big brands in your own back yard.
Don't have an exact figure since I use the same referral tag on different sites but my estimation is about $100 per month in commissions for this one page static website. Domains are inexpensive and they are the cheapest investment you can have, so I would suggest getting it. However make sure you get the SEO right. If you Google snugies, the first result is the link to the above site. Try to have yours listed within the first 10 results for the prime keywords.

Good Luck!
Same here in Austria.
I would love for this to work, but "like X but open" is not enough. What you need is "better than X and open". I wish I knew how to do "better", but unfortunately, I don't.
OStatus uses "@chrismdp@rstat.us nice post!" style-messages.

This kind of works. Ideally I'd like to drop the leading @ but I guess that'll be hard to do.
There is a hot discussion going on about Tent.io, a project with a very similar and promising direction: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4572427

They launched there first Alpha Status App that's build on top of the Tent.io protocol: https://tent.is/

If you like to get more information about the Tent.io protocol, checkout: http://tent.io/
A fair point. Much of the advantages are for developers, not the wider userbase.
Hrm, I once took part in preparation of a grant application related to some algorithms for dynamic frequency assignment in radio networks. The reviewer(s) pointed out that there already exist official institutions that take care of assigning radio frequencies. Sadly, this is not a joke.
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That's how it currently works.
If "like Twitter but open" was enough, Laconica/StatusNet would have won already.
I think the retention mechanism is built in.

If you want to play, you can do so without registering.

However, if you want to get messages from other people, or to follow up with people later, you'll likely end up registering, and then I'm sure random messages will end up bringing you back.
Both points are accurate.

The case for upping the age of maturity to 25 is that there is solid brain science suggesting that that is how old we are when our brain finishes developing the ability to make mature decisions. See http://www.hhs.gov/opa/familylife/tech_assistance/etraining/... for that.

However you're absolutely right that children who are never given responsibility never develop their ability to take responsibility.
Gotta go with bang paths.

@chrismdp!{twitter,rstat.us,app.net}.
Wouldn't it be a better strategy to release it straight away so Apple doesn't get to harvest as much data from users potentially making Apple Maps better?

If no one uses Apple Maps then there isn't much Apple can do to compete.
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Cool, thanks. Love that there are others trying to do similar things: we all need to work together as much as possible.
In which case they need to have launched this product yesterday. Really they should have a product on the market now considering Windows Phone 8 has had their couple of years in the troff where they've been building the product, the app ecosystem and carrier deals (As Android had to do) and are now really pushing the OS with carriers like HTC and Nokia bringing out great hardware.

If they want to compete, sometime next year is not good enough in my opinion. If they can build something compelling they'll be 4th if they just kept their current customers on board with a new OS.

Blackberry already has touchscreen phones and the people using Blackberry's seem to avoid them because they want to stay in that age with the physical keyboards and classic handsets, if they do switch to QNX will people switch to iOS or Android?
I don't see the user experience of those platforms being on a par with Twitter. Yet.
In what way was the exploit a part of Android? I thought it was a touchwiz dialer issue that it automatically dialled USSD numbers without secondary confirmation from the user?
"... when eunuchs were less unique"
Could do it like HTML5 video, and use the figure tag.

<figure>
<img src=blah.png dpi=72/>
<img src=blah_hq.jpg dpi=300/>
<caption>The fabled Blah stalks it's prey.</caption>
<copyright year=1997>John Doe</copyright>
<license href="http://cc.org/sharealike">CC Sharealike</license>
</figure>

And then your browser could choose the DPI most like your screen.
Thanks, that "June 4" reference could be the reason, but I'd think too many webpages would be blocked if it were. (Of course, I had to look at the .in version of that blogspot page as HK's version, like many others, is blocked in the mainland.)

The FTP site works for me. I visit Hong Kong often enough so not having access to the latest internet stuff isn't usually a problem for very long.
RIM is spending a lot of time designing an OS that will appeal to everyone. I think they are going to find its going to be used by no one.

Even here in Canada they are losing core enterprise customers left and right. Without these core supporters, RIM isn't long for this world.

And while I've got the conch, what kind of strategy is "We want to be #3"? I've written about RIM's bad strategy extensively on my blog, and this feels like just another in a series of mis-steps. None of their staff are going to be inspired by Thorsten's lack of conviction and worse, its going to spook whatever remaining customers and developers they have. No one wants to be on a sinking platform, and shooting for number 3 isn't going to give anyone any confidence that RIM will be around in a year.

My vote still goes to RIM getting out of the OS business, becoming an Android licensee, designing some killer handsets that focus on enterprise customers and separately, spinning Blackberry Mail and Messenger into standalone apps that put RIM onto as many handsets as possible.

This will never happen of course. RIM, as I understand it, is still organized around carrier sales. They don't have a user focus, and it would be hard for this leopard to change its spots and get out of the business of catering to carriers. (IMO, this is the real magic of the Apple story - getting a user-centric handset into the market in a real way without pandering to the carriers.)
Tent.is (https://tent.is/) uses ^https://tent.tent.is.

You will soon be able to use your own domain names so ^https://example.com will be possible.
If the right individuals had seen the public service announcment. Were there any public service announcements for that abduction example given?

I think it's a given that nearly all the impressions of a public service announcement of a child abduction will be seen by people who have never seen that child. There's a cost of seeing a PSA of a child abduction. People will now consider child abductions more likely than they actually are. This causes them to make decisions that may be against the best interest of their children like go outside and play.
Good luck to them but I just can't see this happening.

1) I worked with their app store previously. It was a nightmare so I see hurdles building this asset.

2) The mobile environment is being increasing linked to the desktop/home environments and other on cloud services for the best experience and they don't have a great foothold here.

3) The business sector has largely let them go now. A few years back they could have used this as a strong launching platform but this advantage has gone.

On the other hand the interface looked cool and they could trump everything if this is coupled with reasonable hardware.
This thread on Stack Overflow is useful if you want to broaden your C# skills by using features/idioms/techniques you may not yet even be aware of:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9033/hidden-features-of-c

The question is closed, but there are plenty of interesting answers.

One caveat: some idioms may seem really smart and/or terse, but others may have trouble understanding such code at at glance.
Show HN: the6pct : a tool to help you track weekly growth based on PG's essay
Built this as a quickie to help me apply the method outlined in PG's Startup = Growth essay.
Python is doing just fine
As someone who has suffered from the absence of testosterone: castration? brilliant idea!
"Partial" implementations don't implement the current spec at all, check the footnote. New flexbox uses completely different syntax than the old one and it's impossible to polyfill it on IE8 and IE9 without excessive use of JavaScript.
Reading the article, I get the impression that working for this guy is similar to being a cult member:

"To become an employee of Broad, you must recite a life manual penned by Zhang, guidelines that include tips on saving energy, brushing your teeth, and having children."
> aluminum smelters

Why aluminium smelters? I haven't heard this before.

> we ought to be willing to invest a little in the distribution as well.

I agree. I've read that's it's a huge challenge though, which is one of the factors holding up the development of large scale solar installations in the desert. Another challenge is the variance and relative unpredictability of power generation which means batteries are needed to smooth out the peaks and troughs to balance supply and demand.
I can haz readymade Apple ITC API import? Me so lazy. ;)
Maybe your driveway is replaced by a compartment container.

I propose we call this component the garage.
The mines where iPhones are born
It wont work because the password cannot be used from another machine, as i understand. But If a new request is made, it will be logged, but that may not be good enough. Ya if you lose email address and simultaneously lose access to the system from which you originally logged in, you may not ever be able to login.
Oops, I was calling HTTP/2.0 HTTP2 as a shorthand seems that I was so wrong to do that :-)
I use MPD + ncmpcpp/ario, and then Picard for tagging. It works pretty well, and I can do a bunch of stuff I couldn't do with Foobar2000, too, such as controlling my music via an app on my phone.
Nothing gets a team motivated like aspiring to be the #3 player in a market, right? Pragmatic perhaps but this messaging would seem to be pretty demotivating.
WordPress(.org) is one of the few open source projects to have encouraged large numbers of non-technical users to download, setup, and host their own serverside software. I think the Ostatus "movement" could learn a lot from it.

A single OStatus-based PHP app, marketed well, and with an easy install path, might make widespread adoption of OStatus more likely. It could even piggyback on existing WordPress installations as a plugin. Then, anyone with a self-hosted WordPress blog would be able to host their own status updates under a fixed path appended to their existing blog, such as example.com/status/. It also offers the potential for anyone with a WordPress blog to become a provider of status pages for people who didn't want to host their own (because WordPress has an inbuilt user registration system), which could create a distributed, portable network with no lock-in.

There are supposedly 60 million WordPress installations out there. These users already understand the value of owning and hosting their own content. That's an awful lot of potential to kickstart the uptake of a distributed social network, and I'm not sure that anyone's thought to exploit this yet.
This is a reasonable architecture, but it introduces complexity of its own - you have to implement all your view creation logic in two places, which should go against every programmer's instincts. If you have a system capable of streaming all the events and writing out the reporting views, why not use it for everything.

At my previous^2 job, we had a distributed event store that captured all data and could give you all events (or events matching a very limited set of possible filters) either in a given time range, or streaming from a given time onwards. For any given view we'd have four instances of the database containing it, populated their own streaming inserters; if we discovered a bug in the view creation logic, we'd delete one database and re-run the (newly updated) inserter until it caught up, then repeat with the others (queries automatically went to the most up to date view, so this was transparent to the query client - they'd simply see bugged data (some of the time) until all the views were rebuilt).

The events system guaranteed consistency at the cost of a bit of latency (generally <1 second in practice, good enough for all our query workloads); if an event source hard-crashed then all event streams would stop until it was manually failed (ops were alerted if events got out of date by more than a certain threshold). This could also happen if someone forgot to manually close the event stream after taking a machine out of service (but at least that only happened in office hours); hard-crashes were thankfully pretty rare. Rebuilding the full view after discovering a bug was obviously quite slow, but there's no way to avoid that (and again this was quite rare).

In use it was a very effective architecture; we handled consistency of the events stream in one place, and building the view in another. We only had to write the build-the-view code once, we only had one view store and one event store to maintain. And we built it all on mysql.
It's a .png file of the code...
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Great thoughts. I especially like the idea of a WordPress plugin to implement the OStatus protocol... looks like someone has already thought of that:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ostatus-for-wordpress/

Once installed, there's nothing to stop you sharing your entire posts (or snippets) as OStatus messages.
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It's also what I expected when I read the title.
I thought one man physically created the building (like the guy who carved the road in the mountain)
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Bollocks to that.
I'm not arguing either way but why would this be resetting via an USSD be a useful feature?
does not compute
If by "adopted" you mean "are being considered in part of a plan pitched to the Prime Minister", then yes, otherwise... Well let's just say I've worked in a French administration's IT dept and they tend to take their time.