skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had this exact same idea years ago. I think I had a better name too. What's the expression on HN? Was it, "Ideas don't matter, execution does"? :-)

Well done! (Only immediate thought is that you should make the "Write a Variation" more prominent the way Forking is more prominent on GitHub.)
250$? I really don't get it. Three years ago I bought a Gateway LT23 Netbook, with a 160GB HD and 1GB memory, it runs Windows7 and cost me 300$.
Aren't Netbooks better? And have been availbable for many years now?
Blogging For Small Business And Promotion
Speeding up and running legacy test suites, part two
Successfully replicated the Facebook LIKE Hack.. by Killswitch team.. So easy
try again, it works now.
I found the "so-called" bit weird.
Thats where the question of morality enters. Vbulletin could choose not to sell their software to racist hate groups, the same way a newspaper chooses not to publish a racist screed in their editorial section, the same way a hosting company can choose not to host pro-anorexia sites.

Reddit could choose not to allow the horrible side of humanity to use their platform. Even tumblr has standards. There will always be awful parts of human nature, but through our moral choices we minimize or promote them.
what is the battery performance for that thing, I am defiantly gonna get it, if it can at least get me through a day with out carrying charger.
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I love this stuff! I used to be in this whole jazz, with a website I co-founded named CentSports that was along the same lines as this, and I would love to chat if y'all have time! Really awesome stuff guys(gals) ! Skype: "JustBivIt" Email: bentechwild@gmail.com
The Cuban Cigar Crisis
$333 rather than $320 - not a huge difference numerically, but a flaw in your calculation that's worth pointing out :)
> Samsung Exynos 5 Dual Processor

So cortex A15 has finally landed.. no mention of RAM or size of on-board SSD, i'm guessing 1-2GB and 8/16GB respectively (e: 2/16). Disappointing battery life ('over 6 hours', same as the x86 one), i guess the battery wasn't spared from the cost-cutting. Exynos 5 also means USB 3.

And do we know if you can definitely get linux on these (==interesting), or might they be super locked-down?

Definitely a device worth recommending to the former netbook/ 'only use my computer for facebook' crowd.

e: the battery is 2 cell, AFAIK even cheap x86 laptops come with 6-cell batteries, so it is a case of cost-minimizing.. shame, i'd lap this up with a 12-18hr battery life.
Interesting. Have you thought about using the micro clearfix instead of overflow hidden to sort the columns?

Also, what made you choose to go fluid instead of fixed?

Also, would love feedback on a project I've been working on: http://wail.es/opendaws/ | HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4669809
It depends on the method of testing. If I'm doing an in-person session, I'll record the session with Silverback, review the footage in there and make some notes along the way, then build a quick powerpoint deck with major findings and selected video clips.

If I'm using usertesting.com, then that stuff is all built into the app itself and you can just send the videos around, which'll be annotated with your feedback. Each note is a clickable timestamp that takes you straight to the time slice you want to highlight.

Either way, it's important to not only review the test afterwards but to also pull out clips that you can show the team, because video has such a motivational impact and cuts through debate. It helps if you can take a few minutes in imovie to make a "lowlights reel", where different people all run into the same obstacle.

And if I'm doing the drunken bar testing, I just bring a witness to watch and compare notes with, hopefully also somebody sober :)
Key parts of Ubuntu 13.04 will be developed in secret
Who is better? mongoHQ vs. mongoLab
who the better mongodb host?
in terms of:
1) reliability
2) service
3) product / pricing
Where is that source?
Good question. Let me ask you this - Is the Social Security Administration ready to handle our retirement? Is the Department of Health and Human Services ready to take the lead on health care? Is the Treasury ready to take the lead on reducing our deficit?

Let's be realistic. Government is good at a few things - blowing things up, printing money, and remaining in charge. But they are terrible at everything else. So no, I don't think they are ready. The most ready force for cyber-security in the US is the Department of Defense, the one branch of government that can actually get a task accomplished. Slowly and with the soft touch of King Kong yes; but they can at least get things accomplished. Know how? A clear chain of command and the ability to deal with employees through a meritocracy. No other government institution can do these things. They can't even fire bad workers!
Why won't they reach the cap? It's only 100,000 users over the entire lifespan of the app. That seems like it could go rather quickly.
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Agreed. I think $150 is more appropriate. What makes me even MORE confused is the 550 model. $450 seems awfully expensive when compare to all your other computing options.

http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebooks.htm...

Edit - After a bit more consideration, I might be interested if the HDMI output is decent and the network TV websites won't block the browser. I would use the Chromebook as a replacement HTPC for my Google TV which is basically a brick now.
This is exactly my point - the quotas are monthly not daily, but he's doing the wrong kind of work. He's putting his data into a daily format and then trying to extrapolate monthly information.

The right way to solve this problem is to find the exact thing you want - the precise last weekday of the month, the precise first weekday, and a precise weekday average - which is trivial with any decent date/time library. These would be the RIGHT kind of gymnastics. Tallying information by day and then running some kind of regression to approximate last-day traffic is a waste when you can just GET the last-day traffic.
Awesome free service for getting share counts for URLs (includes API)
I don't know much about medical devices, so can anybody tell me why so many of them are running on Windows?
clickable https://drone.io
What Is the Speed of Sound?
Can I install GNU/Linux on it?
John Jonas, the interviewee, has over seven years of experience outsourcing to the Philippines and currently employs over 12 full-time VAs.

He's got a lot of great tips on how to effectively find, hire, train and manage VAs to build a full-time business around them.
Growing a Rails Application: How We Made Deploy Fast Again
"How to disable permission to read 'System Fonts' and 'Browser Plugin Details' in Chrome and Firefox"

http://superuser.com/questions/292666/how-to-disable-permiss...
Thanks for posting, this is great, simple CSS grid.
Show HN: One OAuth API for Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Email
Correct me if I'm wrong but as far as I know none of the Tapbots apps were ever on sale and I'm sure they won't do one now.
Your "Get Started for FREE" button does not really stand out at least in IE8. It looks like another link on the homepage. I suggest you make it more appealing
Ask HN: Rumble entry - DecideVia - polling app with a twist - Feedback please 
This was developed over the past weekend for RailsRumble competition. If you like the idea, please vote for it.
http://railsrumble.com/entries/254-decidevia

If you would like a demo account, please use rumble@example.com and password: rumble12

Comments, feedback, feature requests welcome here.
Products Don't Really Fade Away
Red Bull Stratos: Why Didn't Felix Free Fall for 5 Minutes?
As an interesting aside, I created a word cloud with the last 1000 Hacker News headlines to cross the 250-point threshold. I found Google was in 49 of those. Hacker News seems to care more about Google than any other company.

http://images.diegobasch.com/newsyc250.png
Disabled HTML form elements don’t get submitted with the form. I had no idea.
If you want a product that I would use, an open-source OCR reader that took an image of text and then outputted the formatted text in a plain readable file would be awesome.
Well, taxes, living expenses (Housing, food, transportation) are equally ridiculous compared to other areas of the US too.
Argh I HATE that phrase, they "just work" as often as any Windows PC since XP has. In the past week in fact one of my designers was complaining of problems getting some work finished on her Mac that "just works" because guess what? It didn't JUST WORK!
(IANAL)

The key question is whether Mega is practicing "Willful Blindness" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willful_blindness) by providing this service. The players involved, especially Dotcom, seem to have already "tainted" themselves as being _knowledgeable_ of infringement through their involvement in MegaUpload. So in what way is their "design" of a client-side encrypted system different from "designing" a drug trafficking briefcase so that the courier doesn't have a key? If the courier/service has reason to believe that the service is being used for copyright infringement, it could be argued that they are being criminally negligent by offering such a service.
Between Mongo and Heroku, we've been able to stay small and super focused on functionality, which is by far the best use of our time. Paying these guys a few hundred$ a month is just way cheaper than my engineering team spending mind share on being good database admins.
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Unfortunately, this is the case with more or less all products that are available in both the US and the UK.
I'm skeptical about the 'for everyone' part. Will I be able to buy this in Canada? Or is it really just 'everyone' in the USA and UK?
Reddit globally banned links to the article, and may subreddits blocked all links to Gawker.

The global ban has been lifted, but many of the moderators of the most popular subreddits consider Violentacrez a mentor/friend, and the individual blocks remain in effect. In the end it doesn't matter because during the crucial window of relevance the article was blocked.
I'm happy to pay $20 if I like the software, but if not I'll be pretty annoyed.

Is there any way to test before you purchase? I didn't find a demo.
That's a spinning disk. There were 8/16 GB SSD netbooks for around the same price as that 160 GB HDD netbook. Plus, this seems higher quality than those typical netbooks. It's more like an ultrabook for $250, at least in terms of build quality and looks. The specs are obviously lower than a $1000 ultrabook.
I've recently run across a handful of political messages in prominent locations. Taking the train from Tampere to Turku, Finland, for example, someone on the train was broadcasting a really long SSID that translates roughly to "Support tram construction in Tampere and Turku!"
No problem, I was just making sure people didn't misinterpret the title as I did. I think your new title is quite a bit more clear.

Great site & concept though. I'll be sure to bookmark it and look around later. I'm curious to see how you applied the forking (I like the pun) concept on recepes for people that aren't familiar with software version control systems.
In this kind of deal, the reality is that Apple are getting some seriously valuable IP.

They're hiring a team of software engineers who have been working together for a while in an area which is clearly of interest to Apple (I'm betting they're going to be working on Facetime).

They've been working with live video extensively. They know the lay of the land. It's very valuable.

And if you want to acquire this many engineers from a company simultaneously you're probably fighting against a huge amount of non-competes, so approaching the company and negotiating directly for the hires is the best way to avoid getting slapped with a lawsuit.
Iron Man 3 and the Human Chain
Execution truly does.

The name bit is a bit surprising to me. As an Indian the name struck with everyone. But when I came over to the US, the feedback for the name from the average user was – I’d say not so great.
$20 is a pittance regardless of Tapbots cost structure. The markets for Mac and iOS software are not equivalent; far fewer people buy random applications for their Mac. The prices for these products need to make sense in the context of an actual business, or no rational developer will produce desktop software.
You should write a post about your experience with DynamoDB. We considered using it, so i'd love to hear more about your experience
Beautiful site. Looks (and works) really well on an iPad. And it looks like you've got some great content on there already.

A question, because I'm curious: Seems like there are several marketplaces online for stuff like this (mostly the Envato universe of stuff - themeforest, etc.)

What's the motivation for building this? Not knocking the project - I dig it. But I'm curious what specifically you guys feel is missing from existing offerings and what advantage you guys offer. Would love to hear the pitch and what's driving and motivating your team. Thanks!
That makes a lot of sense, they make a very good case. Personally I still don't think I can stomach it for now, as I try not to run a distracting Twitter client all day on my desktop. I primarily use it on the commute.
They had a public beta for a while.
I think there's a reasonably clear difference between a forum dedicated to sharing sexual content defined by the subject's lack of consent and pretty much any other forum discussing potentially "offensive" material.
So they can pop in and remove it, just to have it reappear ten times. It will be completely futile waste of time, unless Mega lets them automate this process somehow.
Hi Matt, it is the latter. I looked up your website and would love to chat more if you are up to it.
Comparing:

Processor: Atom n450 (single-core 1.6ghz vs Arm 15 (dual core 1.7ghz)

Fan: Yes vs No

HDD: Spinning rust vs. SSD

Weight: 2.75lbs vs 2.lbs

Screen 10.1" 1024x600 vs 11.6" 1366x786

Innovation continues apace from what I can see.
Free speech is a Human Right: http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml

The US Constitution describes how that human right is protected in the United States from the US Government.

This doesn't mean that Brutsch did anything right or wrong, it's just a description of how freedom of speech is different and embodied in culture and is not just some form of right given to us by the The First Amendment.
If you check out the flat flags the colors are exact, obviously the styled ones have subtle shadowing etc, and are probably out by a very small margin.
Because of the token limit, I'm sure they don't want to offer a demo because that could cost them a token they might never get back.
It’s Time for a Tax to Kill High Frequency Trading
Can't believe I'm meeting all sorts of cool guys in this thread - expect something in your mailbox soon. :)
And yet everyone goes on about an ipad being a 'cheap laptop alternative'. This isn't for everyone, but it definitely has a great niche. It has USB3, HDMI, 1366x768 screen, no moving parts and 6.5 hour battery life.

Putting the time difference aside, how many of those does your gateway have? The processor is probably a little faster, too.
Interesting: I could not spot Facebook there easily?
Weird future moment: a 21st century industry titan has to use puppies, kitties, and children to sell a machine that freely dispenses the sum total of humanity's knowledge.
Does anyone else find it depressing that humans are still used for these jobs?
I don't normally use recipe sites because they are so obnoxious. My team and I tried Cucumbertown based on the GitHub comparison and it was worked well. Check out the Chicken and Mushroom gratin we made here: http://www.cucumbertown.com/recipes/55365/chicken-mushroom-g...
I really can't see the value for Twitter in limiting 3rd party clients to slivers of the user base. I'm guessing it's because they're going to (shortly) stuff ads and other unwanted junk into peoples feeds, and 3rd party clients could easily just filter that out. Forcing people into their clients ensures the crap gets in front of eyeballs.

However, 3rd party clients were the route into Twitter for a huge amount of early adopters (and even later adopters). Most Twitter "features" (including the retweet concept, hashtags an even the word "tweet") were from the open community they started with. Moreover, their own clients are falling behind even simple 3rd party experiences. Twitter for Mac has, essentially, been abandoned. How many users will swallow an inferior experience, just for the privilege of getting adverts thrust in?

For my 2p, I certainly won't - to me, the value of Twitter has been decreasing over time, not increasing. As it moves towards "mass market", it seems to be seeking a broadcast model, where billions of users subscribe to feeds of a few celebrities. It's becoming a "send only" service - the total amount of micro-conversions I've had in the last year is much lower than even 2 years ago.

Perhaps this will work out for them as a company - a real time newswire for companies and celebs to send 140 character press releases, interspersed with adverts. Or maybe I'm wrong, and mass adoption of their web and iffy mobile/desktop clients is coming. I just can't see it, yet.
Specifically, today I used the cut down milk carton to make a small "dustpan" for picking up beads, screws, and other small items, and then I used a stocking over a vacuum cleaner to pick up some of said small items that had fallen down earlier.

Later I used toilet roll core to hold some wrapping paper neatly, and I'm looking at using more to tidy some cables. I've made notes of several of the others and am putting them in my associative store. I expect I will use the "USB on TV to charge phone" idea at some point, I'll just need to remember it at the right time.

As for reddit, yes, perhaps I should go, but I have enough infinite time sinks already, and I'm disinclined to add another. If it pops up in a web search then I'll use it, but otherwise I'm unlikely to get started. I tend to be a bit obsessive, so not reading is better than reading and trying to limit myself.

And I'm not really a serious HNer, although sometimes people get the impression that I am. There are other things I do way more seriously.
Trading has been halted as well.
They are getting better (although what's up with that hinge? Blech!). Still not as cute or clever as it's ancestor tho: http://litl.com/
Where did I say that every app should be cheaper than Mountain Lion?

If you can sell a twitter app for 20 bucks, by all means, do it!
I love this sports betting app...its soo much fun
Why is Tweetbot for Mac $20?
2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of SSD + 100 GB of SSD storage in Google Drive (for 2 years). The battery life does seem a bit strange. My guess is Google hasn't had enough time to optimize it as well as they did for Atom, which gives them pretty equal battery lives now, or they are using a smaller battery to cut costs, or Chromebook simply isn't as "ultra-mobile" as Android. But for a Chromebook, I think they need to increase that battery life somehow.
It looks interesting and I found a couple promising recipes but why not let us create accounts so we can actually try it out? You'll get more specific feedback.
Curious - are you using NetBase for this?
These guys have bluntly copied woopra.com
You don’t see it since the post recipe is for the users under login.

But here’s a peep. http://d.pr/i/DB3L

When you try to write a recipe, we figure out if the recipe exists and suggests a “Write a variation”.

The variation is essentially a fork http://d.pr/i/fG09 that allows you to delete ingredients, change prep methods etc.

You can manually "fork" a recipe too.
It's based on their existing token count (double), not a flat 100k.

http://tapbots.com/blog/news/dont-panic
1) Why the old Bluetooth?
2) I bet flash performance on this thing is terrible.
Why do they do this? Isn't the whole point of the free market that the prices stabilize quickly without interventions?
Until Google upgrades their apps, or write new ones, that utilized advanced HTML5 capabilities, I have to assume they aren't serious about the platform and neither should anyone else be. They didn't release Android without apps, Chromebooks should get the same treatment.
There's a quote from Google confirming in this TC post: http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/18/googles-stock-takes-a-dive-...

Also, trading was halted at Google's request while they complete the document.
To paraphrase, they are getting the intellectual/s without the property.[1] =D

__________

[1] What is interesting, though, is that they may have legal reasons for this. Any extant creditors, for example. We may see a second stage disposition of the IP. Transfer of people for $$ != transfer of legal-owned Gaap assets, when it comes to fraudulent transfer. Relevant > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraudulent_conveyance
Google requested to halt so they could finish the report. The early released version is not 100% finished.
Yeah, I've considered that before. Thanks for the suggestion. If you want me to ping you when I get around to writing it, drop me an email (address is in my profile).
* Why are sign ups restricted to google+ and github ? https://drone.io/auth/login

* The layout of the pricing page is odd. Use the plan name as a column instead of a row. Most folks are used to seeing it that way - https://drone.io/pricing

* Do not start by showing the user a free plan. Users scan a page from left to right. Don't give them something they will easily choose right away.

* Get yourself a 'features' page that highlights what you offer in bullet points.
I found Zuck, but no Facebook.
Because the market is "stabilizing" on possibly inaccurate information that was not meant for release. It goes into securities fraud pretty quickly if you knowingly put out incorrect financials and allow trading.
Color acqhired for $2-5M
The difference is that celebrities know that they will have to deal with paparazzi as part of being a voluntary and willing participant in the public spotlight.

The random woman on the street does not voluntarily choose to have a picture of her posted all over the internet for perverts to ogle.

Note that this difference is important legally -- beating up a paparazzi is a crime, but beating up a pervert taking creepshots of your wife/daughter is either not a crime or would not be realistically prosecutable.
I really think the company will suffer greatly during the transition. They are no longer a unique product and frankly the quality of writing is negligible. They are still a brand name, and that will help for a while, but in this flattened world of competition that won't cut it.

Hopefully, for whomever is in charge, they can make the type of transition the Atlantic started making years and years ago. But to be totally honest I doubt it. They don't really have much to offer.

In my own personal news consumption, there is a stratification going on: For every-day information, I'm 90% in the social media (mostly Twitter) camp. For insightful analysis, I'm going to specialized publications such as the Atlantic or the Economist. Not that I'm an expert on media, but I wonder if that type of polarization will continue, with the guys and gals in-between becoming dinosaurs.
My impression from the article is that you'd have to grind them up and use them for the 2nd-tier corks at best. The cleaning involved may make the savings unimpressive, and there is the problem of getting the consumer to get the corks back to you. You could probably counter this by focusing on restaurants though.
:nth Tester
According to the press release, it's not just the BBC being affected.
I'm guessing he/she's asking what JDK/JRE is installed. Since 1.6 still seems to be the default for other OSes.