skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why Kickstarter something you can buy on Amazon right now?

http://www.amazon.com/RADStickerTM-radiation-exposure-determ...

To be more precise, there are also badges that are configured to change color once a dose threshold has been breached, and can provide a very precise dosage number if you send it into a lab.

At the highest end you also have active dosimeters that can give accurate readings on the spot.
Users as Co-Creators: On Tech, Art, and Meaning
RR is always enjoyable.

UI issue: I found the descriptions hard to read. Too many things thrown at me, and the thing I want to see, the description, is in a small font and low contrast color.
That's a strawman though, nobody actually says that. People complain about "flip flopping" when they see a politician campaigning and he or she says one thing on tuesday, something contradictory on wednesday, and then is back to the previous position again on thursday.
Ask HN: How important is location of college/university in the tech industry?
I am a first year CS student going to school in the midwest. I want to use my CS degree to do web development/mobile development/development for start ups. Right there you can probably already see a problem. Here is another problem: My school has a great reputation, for business, not CS. I originally came here with intent to study business. However, once I switched to CS (I already had interest in it and had been programming in Python for a year) I found out that the program here sucks.

How important is location in the long run? If I moved to the San. Fran Bay area and went to school there, I feel like I would be learning mostly from the community. I would have access to events that don't exist here. To do this though, I would want to go to a decent school in Cali, most likely one of the public uni's. To establish residency I would most likely need to work and go to community college for a year. This would be done after my freshman year, so I would have 1 year of theory based CS knowledge/Java, and 2 years of Python experience if I continue learning on my free time.

It would be a pretty rough road to transfer out of state, establish residency, start over, all of that fun stuff. Will the community benefit me enough to make this move worth it? My other option to consider is transferring to a school where I can still get in state tuition (Yes I will still be in the midwest - but I will most likely transfer to UW-Madison, a school with a respected CS program unlike the one I am currently at)

Opinions?
Thanks in advance!
> now she has no health care insurance.

More than anything else, this is yet another condemnation of the American health care system.
Exactly. It's kind of embarrassing how much of the profit pool Apple has.

This article (http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/05/03/with-8-8-market-share...), though a bit outdated, show how insanely lopsided this market is: Apple has 8.8% of the market of worldwide mobile phones, yet makes 73% of the profit pool.

(An interesting note: Apple + Samsung combined make 99% of the profit pool)!
Well, if they're moving them from busy airports to less-busy ones then hypothetically less harm is being done overall, on account of fewer people being exposed.

Less bad is still no good. . . but it's still less bad, too.
Agreed, I'd rather not have them anywhere...
Yahoo! was definitely the first (or amongst the very very first) directories/portals. Directories worked just fine when there weren't a lot of links. That is why for a while, search was viewed as an add-on to portals versus a primary service.

eBay was the first online second hand marketplace of any reach AFAIK.

I think defining "first mover" becomes a semantic argument at some point. I think Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon, and Craigs List were in situations where there were no strong incumbents and were the first to grow to any scale and that is the key point.

The question this post tried to address is "What if there is an incumbent or strongly growing competitor? What can you do?"

I definitely agree that the saying "pioneers are often the ones with arrows sticking out of their backs" so am by no means arguing being first is the same thing as winning.
This article doesn't mention what Google will do better than Amazon other than: "The instances boot fast". I don't understand why Google is releasing this cloud offering with the same paradigm as EC2 but as a subset of features. I would think they would have attacked the pain points of EC2 much better. Their Google app engine was a different paradigm which people liked but didn't take off. Why would anyone bother with Google's offering? The costs are roughly the same and the featureset is less. I would think they could differentiate with hosted machine learning or more in the BigTable querying.
I really wish people would stop posting about this most recent bout of reddit drama on HN. Are people not noticing that every article so far has been deleted?
Same here, from the UK and always wished the outgoing local calls were free like the US.

However, many of the robocalls and scam calls coming into my line these days appear to come from overseas. I don't know how they can afford to do that but I've seen reports that some are using spare capacity in legitimate overseas call centres as a side-business. Otherwise you have to assume they make enough from their scam to be worth it, or purchase the capacity on credit and do a runner before paying the bill, or using stolen credit cards. Actually there are many ways now that I think about it!

Point being that charging for outgoing calls won't stop the robocalls but will cost legitimate users.
Well... if you define it as “market + problem + opportunity”. Even then you don't have everything covered. If you are going to go that route you might as well broaden the definition.

Ideas = "market + problem + opportunity + solution + financials + Porter's 5 forces analysis + implementation plan + team"

I think it is called a Business Plan.
I think it goes back to politics. It's considered a bad thing in that arena because people can't trust that you will keep your word on the platform that you hired them on. This is especially true for the divisive issues like abortion, healthcare, etc....

I think it's a stupid policy in general though.
But Reddit is more about the community than the organization that runs it.
Using the language you're comfortable with client-side. Though what this really shows, once again, is that we really need a good, open, virtual machine specification for client-side byte code so we aren't stuck with the same javascript hammer for all problems.
Javascript Harmony (ES6) Proxies will allow to define getter catchall and other kinds of traps.

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Referenc...
The victims in this case are the people who were stalked and harassed by people posting to creepshots, not violentacrez.
Apple Fired Its Resident iPhone Hacker for not Answering an Email
Sorry bout that :)
I didn't even know what Robocalls were until looking them up on Wikipedia just now. This is common in Canada it seems? And I assume it's a bad problem (worth 50 grand) because they're simply spam, only without available spamfilters?
Show HN: Steerway - Share Tips and Libraries for Android Development
This is a fine opportunity for those who don't live in a "battleground" state to really vote for the guy they want to.

Yes, quite a few states are sure things for one major party candidate or the other, and those of us who live in "safe" states like that can vote for anyone we please without undue worry about actually influencing the election result. My state (Minnesota) has cast its Electoral College votes for the candidate of the same major party for as long as I have been able to vote (more consistently than any other state in the country). Minnesota has fairly reasonable ballot-access laws, so there are ten different presidential candidates on the Minnesota ballot. There is also a third party that is a "major party" for purposes of Minnesota law, and that party is running a United States Senate candidate this year. I have a lot of choices here. Over the years, I have split my ticket when voting such that I have till not voted for candidates from six different political parties. I will be splitting my ticket again this year.
Which only works if you need something that doesn't extend existing classes but only interfaces.
Agreed. I am implicitly implying a lack of strong incumbents and a degree of real traction rather then "has anyone ever tried anything remotely similar".
>> He said existing ICT teachers "would need lots of help" to become adept in computer science

I'm fairly sure they'd have better luck training up Maths teachers.

Either way, I can't see how 2ok will be significant enough to permanently drag people away from industry. (Which I am thankful for: this drive for education is the beginning of programming's commoditisation.)
The first sentence was asking why you think non-commercial news sources would be bad for journalism.

As to the rest, I think a lot of our disagreement comes from how we define the middle and whether "moderate centre" can exist on it's own or only relative to the local politics. There is a difference between philosophical differences in political views about subjective or unknown issues and actual bias, where ideological commitments result in irrational positions on subjects with real evidence (roughly: denial of evolution/climate change is most often political bias, differences in taxation policy or social safety net policy are most often philosophical differences)

Also, I don't think I'm moderate centre or middle at all, nor am I just left. My worldview is based on science, rationality and skepticism so on the scale you are using I swing from centre to extreme left to fairly right depending on the issue. Perhaps that's why I consider the single axis political spectrum to be a framework for the ignorant and only useful to those writing the talking points. I certainly consider The Economist to be more similar to The Guardian than to the Daily Mail, which probably sounds crazy to you.

I understand you could read the different broadsheets to understand how their politics differ but how do you translate that to bias? How have you decided where the middle is other than averaging the broadsheets? That's textbook middle ground fallacy. It's completely open to manipulation by shifts in the Overton window.
Great, have to check that out. Here is the Redactor integration for Create: https://github.com/bergie/create/blob/master/src/editingWidg...
The hypothetical cleverest, most correct person possible would be right 100% of the time and therefore would never change their opinion because changing it would go from right to wrong.

Therefore a simplistic view is that the closer to that person you are, the better. Some people may even think they are that person.

Realising that you are not going to be correct 100% of the time is the first step. The second step is working out when you are wrong, so you know when to change your opinion. Nobody manages both these steps all the time, some people rarely manage either.
This assumes that the person inside the diner/cafe is nice enough to come out and move their car at exactly 30 min. If he is getting food, he could end up just leaving the car in the charging spot for an extra 15-30 minutes while he finishes up.
Easy plugin development and unstyled contentEditables are the top two reasons we chose Hallo over Redactor for our project.

Took a long look at Aloha, but it has such a big footprint that it scared me away.

Thanks for the pointer to CKEditor 4, I wasn't aware they had an inline mode.
Company Culture
No Microbes In First Sample From Lake Vostok
Right, unless you measure everything on a log-scale.

And I am only half-joking. It is actually quite natural to think in log=terms. Just think how questionnaires have a size of organization, for example, as a multiple choice between 1-10, 10-100, 100-1000, 1000-10000, more than 10000.
I suspect the racist tag was applied because stereotypically white men are slower runners than black men. But as far as racism goes that's... not to mention that it's a white guy talking about himself.
>My comment was really based on my experiences, in particular with misogyny (racism and to a lesser extent homophobia are definitely more taboo where I live)

Of course if you classify everything under the sun as misogyny than it will seem more common. Misogyny has an actual definition, which is the hatred of women. When it is used in cases where there is clearly no such hatred, it devalues the word and makes it meaningless. Thus you can't point out actual misogyny any more, like the boy who cried wolf.
10 datacenters in 30 days really isn't anything terribly amazing. We're doing about double that in half the time with about half the staff ;)
A reminder that mathematicians shouldn't be too confident that something like the Sokal hoax could never happen in their discipline.

The reviewer(s) had at least some suspicions, although the fact that the paper was complete gibberish overall seems to have eluded them.
Which is all fine and dandy, but I'm pretty sure that the community isn't seeing many of those ad dollars.
Government consultant with 25,000 employees dumps BlackBerry for iPhone, Android
I'm going to second this. Crockford's book Javascript the good parts helped me a ton when getting up to speed in javascript. Ended up building a timecard javascript application for mobile.

I'll also recommend spending a little time with javascript before jumping into jQuery. learning how things are scoped is important.
I'd love to hear more about what you (and others) are doing with Hallo, as most of the interaction has been with the CMSs that use it
One of the most interesting things to me about this is the listing of gems/plugins and APIs used for each entry. If it's all in a structured form, it'd be interesting to see a table/list of the most used.

In terms of API, just browsing through, I saw that the Solo winner (http://medpass.es) used a government drug pill identification API I'd never heard of before:

http://pillbox.nlm.nih.gov/index.html
SnapLogic CEO: Cloud, Big Data Drive G2000 Push to Modernize Middleware
Keep an eye on the up and coming http://effectivejs.com/
Any pointers on how to integrate with Django?
Even though he didn't post or created those creepy subreddits

What? VA certainly did create a lot of them (e.g. /r/PicsOfDeadJailbait) and he moderated and posted on most.

(This is not a post pro or against the recent events)
Alto, a Gmail replacement from AOL
They are worthless, you can't sell them. They are not useless, you can use them.
While I'm generally happy with the position that white guys can take it, I think it's still racist to imply white men are slow, whether one is a white guy or not.
Huh. I didn't view this as a Reddit vs. HN elitism post. I viewed it as a solid example of the inherent problems with balancing anonymity, legality of content and freedom of speech on a user-generated website.
I sat in on a MS presentation the other day, and it was a disaster. The terminology is off the chart confusing, the presenter constantly dropping terms then backing off with "oh but we aren't supposed to call it that" and then "oh but if marketing isn't listening i'll just call it that" ... back and forth.

It took forever just to explain metro (not metro) and windows RT (not metro but metro) and windows pro (with metro but not metro, i mean RT or ARM, or modern UI). ARM but not intel, desktop but including ARM/RT/metro but not metro. Just build apps for windows phone (but not mobile), but metro no wait not metro on mobile (i mean phone).

Honestly really crazy stuff, round and round.
Just curious, do you get access to the full un-minified Redactor source code once you get a license?
Every word is made up.
This article critiques the theatricality of MS's release process quite thoroughly and concludes that it is not the same as Apple's.

This is true, but nobody should give a crap.

What's important is that Windows 8, the surface, etc. are actually good.

Until Apple came along and turned computers into fashion accessories, brand image didn't matter so much. Now it clearly does. What the author ignores is that brand image is a product of many things, with press releases being only a small part for most companies (They are a somewhat larger part of Apple's brand). A long track record of high quality and innovative products coupled with clever advertising is what makes or breaks a brand like Apple's more than anything else.

Microsoft's brand is currently rather mediocre. Missteps over the last decade have really hurt it, but Windows 7 did go a long way to help it recover. Vista, as maligned as it was, was actually a really good OS saddled with some bad default settings (e.g. The overly obtrusive UAC). Windows 7 brought some minor innovations to the interface, greatly improved the default settings, and added a little bit of "cool" with details as subtle as just adding some unusually funky and artistic default backgrounds. Windows 7's default backgrounds made OSX look like the bland, boring corporate OS that Apple has long tried to brand Windows to be!

Movie studios often keep stinkers under strict wraps until opening weekend. If they advertise enough and prevent the film from being savaged by critics until the day of release they can still get a good opening weekend out of a poor film. Good films are frequently shown to critics or at film festivals well in advance of general release. This "festival route" builds word of mouth.

If MS had kept Windows 8 under wraps until a big press event this month and then hyped it as the most awesome thing ever, just like Apple does with their products, few people would likely believe them. By broadly distributing a release candidate for Windows 8 and showing the Surface publicly prior to release, MS took the "festival route" and built a big word-of-mouth effect. MS's brand isn't what Apple is, and they were smart enough to realize they have to do things differently, and did.
Not my experience. The gifted classes I attended were far better than the regular ones, and allowed me to study some JHS and HS-level material. The major failure in my education happened during that wasted period between elementary and college.
Microsoft IE10 and its "Do Not Track" Default Settings
Copybar cofounder here.

Thanks! Yeah, we're using the CDN to dynamically display your edited content.

When editing an element, we invalidate the cache on the CDN. It may take a minute or 2 to propagate.

Search engines these days execute Javascript so it can index this dynamic text. However we also have a backend integration solution (via a simple rest call) for people who would rather serve the content from their web servers directly.
I feel as though cardiffmedia could be a Doctor Who fansite of sorts (Fake news relating to Doctor Who universe, or unofficial news about Doctor Who). I realize there's a lot of other local applications for the domain, but it is an idea for a larger market.
I think what you've described would be mostly accomplished by source maps: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/source...
Dumb autocompletion easily covers 50% of my cases and with Emacs hippie-expand (or one of its modern siblings) up to 75%: http://emacswiki.org/emacs/HippieExpand

That said, Emacs and Vim also have intelligent autocompletion depending on the language and support for it has only been getting better.

disclaimer: numbers have been made up
Backscatter workers are not the airplane crews - the exposure concern is from the machines.
The whole concept of "flip flopping" being a bad thing is something from the political arena that spilled out into a broader social context.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with changing your mind as your understanding evolves.
This is all obviously anecdotal but one would assume Windows would be #1 priority for hardware vendors to test against as it's the most popular platform. Microsoft also has WHQL which helps to some degree in ensuring quality. I can't imagine an x86 laptop vendor not testing their hardware with Windows but I can definitely imagine them not testing Ubuntu.

In terms of recovering from faults Windows is much easier for me which isn't surprising since I've been using Windows for a long time. I find things like the Device Manager to be more user friendly than looking at kernel logs.

(I also have an external WD drive, no problems)

EDIT: By the way power management in Ubuntu on this laptop is all broken as well. It doesn't detect closing the lid, I have to go through some voodoo sequence to get it to sleep.
Excellent point - it seems that tightening up the ease of getting a new number would be important - yet that just causes other issues, people just don't want to have to jump through hoops.
Applying Lessons from Big CSS
> There are many presidential contenders, and regardless of your beliefs, you will find someone who fits them much more closely if you simply look.

But the way our system works, voting for a third-party contender is effectively a vote for your least-favorite major party contender.
While we are posting contrived examples. What was ever wrong with this?

var Foo = function() {};

Foo.prototype.jump = function() {
return "I jump."
};

Foo.prototype.run = function() {
return "I run."
};

var mario = new Foo();
mario.run();
mario.jump();

I can't imagine that opal code running nearly as fast as javascript. And if we are waving around compiled js - coffeescript does a much better job of being readable. You just black-boxed the whole thing. I like to know what is happening with my js.

Cool for the rubyist in you i guess. I just kinda go o_0
Designing First Run Experiences to Delight Users
a good candidate for http://bootsnipp.com
Google and Microsoft under threat from the march of the mobiles
Minor FYI: for this who want to play with Proxies right now, you can use a recent-ish copy of node invoked with
node --harmony_proxies
Enjoy!
How is this possibly a step in the right direction? The direction that they need to move in is one they will NEVER move it. That'd be like you going to your boss and saying "I'm redundant, useless and ironically harmful. Please throw me out."

Because that's what needs to happen with the entire security theatre that encompasses DoHS and TSA.
Backscatter doesn't pose any health risk to travelers. You get a much higher dose of radiation from the flight. The only real health concerns are for the workers who are exposed to them continuously.

X-ray, mm-wave, magic pixie scanners, I don't care what type they are, I'm still opting out because it's a blatant violation of the 4th amendment (when mandated, staffed, and managed by the gov).

I'll be celebrating when body scanners and other security theater is ended entirely. I'm not getting my hopes up.
I live in Minnesota. I had never heard of Coursera, but I just signed up for my first course. I had also never heard of BuckyBalls before the government threatened to ban them and ended up buying some. Interesting how prohibition or threat of creates certain desires.
I have very successfully used ThreadSanitizer [1] on Linux to find data races in a large C++ codebase. The Linux and OSX versions are based on Valgrind/Helgrind.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/data-race-test/wiki/ThreadSanitizer
I Ran Spike of Twitter Bootstrap + Rails 3.2.3 to Know How to Use Them
I tried to use Twitter Bootstrap which allows programmers (like me) to design likes designer and code a spike with Rails. e.g. Grid system and design to table and form. This entry may help you who want to create some codes by Rails + Twitter Bootstrap from scratch.
Definitely. I'll shoot you an email when there's something tangible to show.
Often they would hack people's VoIP or telephone exchange and just route calls through that.
The spokesperson says that the machines are not being removed due to radiation safety concerns. Thus there is no credit to be given.