skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I lived in an apartment building our SSID was "internet-304". 304 being my apartment number.

No one ever showed up at my door or anything, but it was there. Seems like the most obvious and succinct way to tie the access point to a physical location, which seems the most obvious way to open communications.
I think when you accomplish some of the things Google does, it becomes less of a "advertising company which enjoys masquerading as a computer science R&D lab" and more of "an advertising company that owns and funds a computer science and engineering R&D lab".
I'm pretty sure it's this one:

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/samsung-series-3-xe303c12-11-6...

But it's 300 GBP, or 484 USD (excluding shipping), almost twice the price advertised!
Thanks, one of the biggest problems with Gnome 3 is that there is not even one distribution that actively promotes Gnome 3, get rid of kinks, themes it, and make it look like modern DE/OS. Fedora is a lot of work, Arch Linux believes in KISS. On the other hand Ubuntu does everything for you.
Don't become a physicist
I haven't heard of followupthen.com. Followupthen v. Boomerang, which is better? Pros and cons?
Thanks Chip.
These devices are certainly getting better. Since it's so reliant on connection, the 100MB free/month is appealing.
<passionate_rant>

Since I learned I was going to be a dad (in 7 months!), I've found these kinds of advertisements increasingly unsettling, in an uncanny-valley kind of way.

I love my tiny one. I've heard the quick little heartbeat. I'm largely responsible for if this little person grows up happy and healthy. The enormity of the ensuing feelings is impossible to express.

Uncanny valley situations arise when a simulation looks almost real, maybe 96% real, but the 4% difference is very unsettling because it just looks _off_. You feel a creeping sensation that something is wrong.

In this video, Google very poignantly portrays a bunch of vibrant people, children and fathers prominently featured. They are picking at the deepest heartstrings I've ever known. At the deepest anxieties and aspirations that it is possible to have in the human experience. It's 96% poignant.

But...they're doing this for what reason again? So they can sell me a $250 piece of electronics and absorb my family into their ecosystem? It's a 4% that makes the entire rest of it feel fake.

Turns out that cognitive dissonance relating to your children, even peripherally, is really uncomfortable. :/

</passionate_rant>
Good points, but what if it was flat and secured to just swivel out of the way? For example might, make a flat ultra-minimalist design. Nothing to get lost, ultra-low profile, etc. Similar idea to this concept.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31svMawjKxL._SL500_SS5...
Yep, you're 100% correct that freedom of speech, and the first amendment aren't one and the same. But what you're advocating is precisely what I'm talking about. Gawker is free to bring a spotlight to this guy's actions, just as you are free to express disapproval for their behavior, and they are free to not care what you think until you make a big enough noise about it that they start losing advertisers. This cycle will continue until someone bows out, which makes you the "more powerful" party that is stepping on Gawker's rights to print what they like.

As long as the government can't limit my freedom when I say something ... I'm good with the above scenario.
The oft-cited statistic that mutual funds do not return as much as the dow ignore the concept of risk-adjusted returns. A mutual fund very well should return less than the dow if it takes upon lower risk. (However you might define risk, there are many definitions, volatility only being one.) The article presumes the goal of every investor is to maximize return vis a vis some arbitrary benchmark.

A stock-based mutual fund might actually be doing its job if it is simply not losing money when the dow surges since it's goal might be diversification via non-correlation by long-shorting the market.

There is of course some truth to the fact that mutual funds often do not earn their fees. But simply saying they cannot "beat the market" overlooks important questions about what those funds actually set out to do in the first place, and what their respective risk-taking philosophy was.

Of course, please perpetuate this nonsense, as it makes life easier for those of us who are investing relying upon it.
Agreed. Someone please explain this to Capitol Hill (re Huawei).
It seems weird to me that power users need so much GUI support. I find Gnome 3 very convenient. If I need to launch a program, I press the super key, start typing the name, and press enter. It's like using IDO mode in Emacs.

As far as I'm concerned, most of the stuff they removed was just noise.

There are a couple things I dislike about Gnome 3 though. There doesn't seem to be an obvious way to set the Date/Time format. Also, it's annoying that you have to install the Gnome Tweak Tool to set things like focus follows mouse, instead of it just being part of the Gnome settings.

But these are pretty minor things.
That's not really what he said at all.

He made the assumption that these analysts didn't do their job well, and that he in fact knows more about Google's financials/operations than they do.

The "programmer" remark jmduke made is just an assumption based on the fact that nearly everyone that uses this site is a programmer of some kind.
Facebook launches its own Android SDK and Dev Center
There is a lot of good numbers in that release.

Motorola down to be expected.

PPC yields -15% is concerning but the soon to come monetization of Shopping is going to reverse that.

The p/e is 20 vs FB at 66.

Google are still the strongest and most consistently innovative large-cap around. They've already moved past the point that MS failed at.

Google ad systems are going to be able to subsidise hardware (TVs, phones, tablets, cars) in a way no other company can going forwards.
This is the $249 one here:

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/samsung-series-3-xe303c12-wifi...

£229 or £249 in-store. Bananas.
Middleman? That is the official announcement (the "news") on the Chrome blog.
The developers basically get their choice of a job at Apple or quitting and going off on their own. Better yet, they can stay with Apple for a few months and see how they like it, or stay with Apple while they figure out what their next move is. "My company was acquired but I'm looking for the next opportunity" looks a lot better on your resume than "we went out of business and now I'm unemployed".

When the other option is your company being "wound down" and you having no income, this seems like a pretty good deal. And if you don't like it, you're under no obligation to actually show up in Cupertino. You're a free agent who can go find a better deal at will.
I'm trying this out right now and it's pretty slick to get started fast. Will see how well it scales but the UI is really good.
Here: http://dhirajkumarsingh.wordpress.com/2012/07/31/animated-sm...
My guess is that a good group of people not already at a company would more likely want to work together, for themselves.

Also, it would probably send a bad signal if the head of a startup started posting groups of his employees up for sale.

I would also imagine the transaction cost involved with selling individual groups of developers is more prohibitive than selling a company wholesale.
Another good one is sending a query string of '?a=1&a[a]=1'. 500s Rack applications.
Oh dear I see that too on Aurora, though I don't see the same problem locally for some reason.

Thanks, I'll investigate.
The IP (may be | is) worthless. The people, on the other hand, still have the potential to be very valuable (Remember, the reason that Color was able to raise so much money was because the team of founders has an impressive record of success.).
Yeah, that was the first thing I looked at on the specs. I was amazed they were going to include a 1080p screen in this machine.

I think that's very misleading. The average consumer is just going to take that claim at face value and believe they are getting a 1080p screen.
If you want to avoid the tiny-yet-annoying bugs, switch back to Windows (that's what I did) (OS X is good too).
At 250 bucks and the rate at which technology advances you'll probably be tempted to swap it out before 2 years is up.
Might actually be on to something here. But what situations would you have a cohesive team together outside of a company?
If you look at that data though and view 10 years it's only 58 out of 100 not 90 out of 100.
I can't personally, as I can't afford a mac. But I see what you mean.

There are different senses in which the word 'programmable' can be used - you can program a VCR without ever seeing a line of code!

What I assume ekianjo meant was: There is a long standing tradition in the personal computing industry of being able to program on the computer itself without costly extra equipment or software. You look at your BBC Micro, your ZX-81, your TRS-80 they can all be programmed on the device. It was the same with mainframes and servers. Even DOS and Windows had QBASIC. Nowerdays, programming tools can be downloaded over the internet in a few clicks. The PC has always been a device which can not only consume software, but can produce it.

Many people in the hacking community see this as a good thing - as a democratisation of creative power, and for educating the next generation of technologists, engineers, scientists and makers.

The iPad lacks the ability to program on the device itself. It can only consume software, it cannot produce it. It does not belong to the long, revered tradition of self-programmability. It is in that sense that it is not programmable.
I find this hard to believe: $5 million for a team of 20 developers is incredibly incredibly cheap. 20 developers would go for $20-$30m.
who would run PHP on some cloud service if you can have web hosters host your PHP applications for next to nothing? I think that, without even realizing it, they're competing with the good old webhosters that provide you with webspace on a shared system.
"Avoid the pain of Windows 8"

If you think Windows 8 is going to be a pain, I don't recommend moving to Ubuntu. BTW, I really like Ubuntu. I don't like that sales pitch though.
Well, you're free to decide, aren't you?
God is just. Why else would Jesus say "turn the other cheek."

God says...

LORD be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without
blemish.

3:7 If he offer a lamb for his offering, then shall he offer it before
the LORD.

3:8 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill
it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons shall
sprinkle the blood thereof round about upon the altar.

3:9 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an
offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat thereof, and the whole
rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone; and the fat that
covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards, 3:10
And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the
flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he
take away.
I'm not exactly sure how can you develop a popular and polished interface without a lot of user testing. From the bugs I reported it seems like they don't have enough testers in Canonical itself, or maybe their qa its just not going deep enough. Either way... I don't think that cutting off early beta testers will be good for the project.
Meet Two of the Developers Behind the Internet ‘October Surprise’
Droid Razr HD and Razr Maxx HD released
Of course they seem to be quite happy. This entire article was basically an infomercial by the wine industry. Do you really expect them to post any photos of obviously miserable workers?
Oh, right the guy who said: "Unity 3D behaves spectacularly on all tested hardware, including old and new graphics cards. The performance is quite good, the responsiveness is great, and you even get reduced power consumption."
Hmmm... I didn't give the controls: arrows move and space shoots. Shooting will mix it up.

Either way though, you're right. It's too easy to get into a safe spot and let everything reach steady state.
I predict the secret whiz-bang features will be even more half-baked than normal for new Ubuntu features - on their six-month release schedule, new stuff generally isn't stable and full-featured for about three releases (which is a bit of a pain).
The video linked in the article claims they can harvest a tree every 9 years.
Keep an eye on your precious bodily fluids. They're the first thing to go.
Hyperbole and drama. Ubuntu was the same as all other versions of Linux. All other versions of Linux are still the same as Ubuntu has been changing. The answer to your problem? Just use some other flavor of Linux. They're exactly the same as they've always been.

This is the entitlement that Shuttleworth hates. It's his project. People contribute because they want to contribute, but it's still his project. He owes you nothing, and you owe him nothing. You're mad because... you don't have any other choice? I know that's not true.

How about, you're mad because you want to be mad about something and this is what you've picked? That's about the only reason to be this emotionally involved in your operating system of choice.
NetBSD 6.0 - now released.
You can run Chrome (and all Chrome webapps) on Win8.
If it was you'd only have 14 days worth of storage, like the undersized ink that comes with new printers.
Posts that aren't negative about Microsoft are routinely flagged off the front page.
No that ways fixed.
The acquihire is traditionally done by converting unvested options from one company to the next, quite often with a 15-20% retention bonus for employees that stick around for 12 months.

The employees, of course, are free to walk away from those unvested options and retention bonus, should they chose to do so.
startups not always set up as C corporations--for instance, if you expect it to be several years before you reach any profitability (happens a lot in biotech), you set up as an LLC to flow losses through to investors for tax purposes. most of these convert to c-corps upon profitability or if there's going to be a major financing event.
What you could do is submit a post describing the website and
why HN readers should be interested in it. Then immediately post a comment with a clickable link to the URL.
Google Play Seller Support in India
Xubuntu has some tiny bugs like anything else, but I can't say I've seen anything annoying so far.
> This is the person that forced his user base into living with interface and design decisions they did not want.

Who do you think the Ubuntu user base is? I'm willing to bet the vast majority are not developers locked into the gnome 2 style desktop environment as you appear to be claiming.

> His decisions were made solely with personal goals in mind.

How dare he make choices he believes will benefit the company he has personally dumped massive piles of cash into. Really, what an asshole. </sarcasm>

> That meant merging the desktop version of Ubuntu and his proposed baby, the portable device version of Ubuntu. Mouse and keyboard do not function well on portable devices so...enter Unity.

The gnome dev process was a train wreck, KDE is a bloated mess, and xfce is devoted to being minimalist. His only choices were forking gnome 2 or building their own DE. I really can't blame him for not wanting to take over a massive existing code base. Particularly one that is locked into a desktop metaphor that doesn't have a long term future for the masses.

> All of these things would be fine, if Mr. Shuttleworth did not claim that all of this was to provide his users with a superior experience. We already had a wonderful experience. Now, not so much.

What makes you think people like you (developers, presumably) are the target market for Ubuntu? They aren't, they never were, ubuntu has always had the goal of being a distro for non linux geeks. Its pretty clear looking at the mass market that the standard desktop metaphor is on its way out for general purpose computing needs.
Yes, unfortunately with all the things Linux gets right, there's always those tiny but annoying bugs. Windows and OSX have fewer because they have huge budgets and strong management to make sure things are polished.
I don't think they should develop in secret, but they most definitely shouldn't release until things are polished.

Much of the criticism Unity and various other features received was well-deserved, because Canonical released essentially alpha software. Then when the criticism comes in, the defense is, "hey take it easy guys, we weren't done yet!" Well if you're not done--don't release!

There's a middle ground here: develop and design in public, but don't release until you're truly ready. Everyone says that sticking to LTS is the only way to guarantee a stable system, but that's just not practical in the milestone-distro world, where an important update to one piece of software you find critical requires an update to the entire system.
> and bandwidth doesn't seem to be getting cheaper

Google seems to be working on that. :)
Google is incompetent at expanding into adjacent markets to search engine marketing. That is their core competency. You think they can enter the automobile industry? You're insane.
Or buy things
Who are we if we cannot doctor?
In the free market competition is good, it keeps pricing competitive, and despite Envato's popularity, they are still from my experience, not popular enough. To make it work well for the majority of authors they need everyone who works in the tech and creative space to know about them. I would give more as an author to the market if the market eliminated my need to spend much money/time on advertising.
New(?) way to center elements verticaly
I love the goal of keeping it lightweight. This is very similar to my grid of choice, the 1KB grid[1] which I like because you can adjust the number of columns and width in px.

[1]http://1kbgrid.com
They've already moved past the point that MS failed at.

Can you elaborate? Are you referring to the late 90s trials and their aftermath?
Is the pre-ordering working for anyone? I've tried the Amazon link, but no luck. It still says, "Pre-orders will start at 12pm PST."
Not sure if joking or not... I keep running into big bugs in windows all the time and I'm using it only as an outlook box.
Great infograph on this post! It's amazing how quickly eCommerce is transitioning to mobile devices, although I'm not sure who all the people are that are buying via mobile. I almost never buy anything via mobile as it's a hassle - much easier to do so on my primary machine.

Regardless, as an eCommerce shop owner I need to do some serious mobile optimization this year to stay ahead of the curve.
This looks interesting, but I had a few questions:

1. If I use this do I have to handle account linking? Ex: Monday user logs in with FB, Tuesday with Twitter. Do you pass a unique key saying this is a canonical "user"?

2. From the gem docs it looks like you're returning a hash of whatever the social provider returns and explicitly not trying to "normalize" the result (ex: One service might return "email" and another "email_address"). This seems fairly different to what happens with Devise and Janrain. Is this going to change with time or do you see this as key point of differentiation.

3. What happens if you guys win the lottery and all retire to a tropical island? How screwed am I with my users?
TCTV interview with Davy Kestens, 22yo CEO of TwitSpark
Both fraternities and synagogues are examples of non-profit organizations.
Yeah, the good ol' inflector. There's actually more to it, it can use locales now and it's been cleaned up: http://davidcelis.com/blog/2012/07/31/edge-rails-a-multiling...

It's going to be a great release.
Why won't they take this same kind of device and scale it up. I love most things about the chrome book, but I would rather have a 14" laptop with a bigger battery. O know you'll be competing with "full feature" laptops, but honestly chrome books have most of the features I would want ( I would like to see better native support for the development life cycle, but i can get by with ssh )
miahi's point was about new trees reaching the point that they could enter the 9 year harvesting cycle.
I should probably know this one but I am having trouble placing that font. It looks beautiful. Can I get a hint?
The only "machine readable" comments I've seen that are useful are those structured in a simple, non-intrusive manner that makes generating documentation from them more automatic.

Remember that comments and documentation are no substitute for proper testing that will expose usage errors. No amount of machine readable specification can prevent this, so it's often a waste of programmer time to produce.
Assuming you know web stuff already (HTML, CSS, maybe some JS), you could start working with something like Django or Flask. Django has a lot of stuff built in, where Flask is on the other end of the spectrum. If you don't know at least the basics of HTML and CSS you should check out the comment by carlsednaoui[0].

The Machine Learning uses are pretty interesting too. I'd be curious to see what libraries are recommended for that. PyBrain, maybe?

0: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4668944
"100 MB of internet per month, for free, from Verizon Wireless."

So I'm really sort of conflicted by Chromebooks, I love the concept, but wonder why it doesn't come with 4G/LTE (seems like a 'new' device should), what sort of data plans and are they dynamic like the iPad? (month to month) And 100MB a month? Seriously? That is what 5 minutes of 3 mbit video? 10 minutes of cheezy 1.5mbit video a month? Web sites that start up a youtube embed video when you visit? poof go the mBytes. Heck the WSJ is like 20 - 30MB per issue these days. Seems like 2.5GB is a healthy net allocation for a tablet/laptop experience, that 25x more.

Looking forward to seeing one 'in the flesh' as it were.
most webhosters don't provide GIT or SSH - you have to go the odd FTP way.
Omission 3: Address engineering and hard science education in the US. If we could double the number of kids leaving school with an engineering degree, we'd probably start to see some amazing stuff happening.

My out-there proposal for a way a president could actually effect change: interest-free federal student loans for graduates with ABET-accredited engineering and engineering-tech degrees (or even "negative interest" depending on how much you want to push it). Or, just pass the Fundamentals of Engineering exam to get your interest waived.

Someone could do the math to figure out if the additional tax income from higher-earning tech salaries would make up for the lost interest income, but I'm guessing it'd even out pretty soon.

Start encouraging students in all fields into tech-heavier majors. Want to work in the fashion industry? Industrial Engineering should be your start. Want to become a business executive? Get a Math or Systems Engineering degree before you head to B-school. Even future lawyers would be better served with a degree in Physics rather than cranking out another Political Science graduate.
> you are expected to sustain worthwhile content that isn't overrun by village idiots who end up pushing the key contributors away.

That's why there are subreddits.
If you don’t struggle with managing your time, don’t do it. In fact, you should probably stop reading now because this blog post doesn’t apply to you.

That, right there, I think sums up nicely the appropriate response to posts like "[productivity tools] are a waste of time, and you're a useless human being if you use them." (that last part was a bit of an exaggeration). Granted, people can waste time on "productivity porn" and being more excited about success than actually doing things, but hell, at least they're trying to improve themselves, it's not like they're wasting their time watching some inane TV show.