skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, my application is mostly going to be based on the storm itself, so this is excellent. Thanks :)

We've collected more than 100,000 atmospheric pressure readings of Sandy so far and they're still coming in through pressureNET, our open source Android app.
"Yet I see no purpose or value to it at all"

Did you visit that link? If you don't see the "purpose or value" in having all of that functionality instantly just by adding CSS classes, I don't know what to tell you.

Another huge perk is the responsive design. Bootstrap looks great on any device out of the box.
> For what it's worth, Apple's been grouping windows by application, GNOME now does it, elementary OS does it, Android/iOS/WP7 arguably do it. Honestly, Windows and KDE(?} are the only modern DE that don't do it. I'm not saying that makes it de-facto right or that you must accept it at all though.

Fair enough. For now I run OpenBox with Tint2. It's quite minimal, but it does everything I need for a GUI at present. My poor wife on our home computer though... :D She's pretty techie but still Unity is a hard sell for her.

Perhaps Ubuntu could have a "Developer's Build" that includes Unity and other goodies as default, and a "Consumer Build" that defaults to Gnome Classic with many configurability options. Just throwing that out there.
Windows Phone 8 SDK Now Available
Fortunately number of apps in the mobile space is still pretty well correlated with number of important apps, so the marketing is not fully uninformative.
MDMA is not used clinically like Amphetamines are.

You can find amphetamines at pharmacies in the USA under the brands: Adderall, Dexedrine, Dextrostat, Desoxyn, Didrex, ProCentra, and Vyvanse.

In addition, the article doesn't say they are specifically going to use Meth, only amphetamine.
In Outbound Sales it is either Timely or It Isn't
ItsOn gets funding, implements worst case scenario for Net-Neutrality proponents
Maybe Y!, but ermm, Microsoft has a great web-mail product? Are you referring to something other than Hotmail? Because ads aside (bills have to get paid), I find Hotmail to be infuriatingly bad with its UI. Multiple lines of text-only toolbars (hard to find what I want), one text box to search the web and another to search mail (and I always get the web one when searching mail), and just too much non-mail crap on the screen.

That said, HM does seem to have some nice features such as a decent spam filter (finally; it used to be laughable) and easy unsubscribe. But bury it under a poor UI and I just dread using it.

Or maybe when you say "great web-mail" it's blindingly obvious to everyone but me that you're referring to something else, in which case ignore me. :)
you're stll kind of new, so let me give you some friendly advice, since i've been here slightly longer: hacker news hates jokes and jokes are a great way to get downvoted.
Where do you work that you aren't graded on a metric?

The places I have worked have all emphasized goal-based metrics. The software developer lays out what they think their responsibilities should be and how they'll be measured on them. The manager then reviews the list with the developer and confirms the responsibilities and the measurements. The developer is then later graded upon his or her ability to meet the predetermined requirements.

I think the same thing could be used for teachers. Seems workable to me.
A statistical study of inversions (slash chords) in popular music
Interestingly, ATI had mobile GPUs but sold them to Qualcomm. Nvidia's trickle-down approach of putting really old desktop GPUs in a mobile SoC doesn't seem to be doing very well.
Content-Centric Networking Would Speed Up Internet Data Transfer, Downloads
Ways to Delete Embarrassing Posts from the Internet
It does not read the results back to me. Is there something wrong with my settings?
Thanks pg!

I expect another strong YC class this session. We've submitted our app already, but I am happy those on the east coast aren't denied by something out of their control.
As someone who spends far too much money on 20+ years old cars, I think I have to agree with you. Being an audiophile is a bit like being a car enthusiast: there really is nothing rational about spending so much money on something that most people don't see the value of, something that is so subjective that you can't explain it to them. I think in the end, it's more about the joy you get out of the idea of being able to spend that kind of money on something that so few people are willing or able to do. Subliminally, it affects your perception of how awesome the car or the audio setup actually is, if you ask an outsider, chances are he or she doesn't see or hear anything better that what 'normal' people are using.
Exec launches professional cleaning service
Based on my past experience working on self-hosted Kiln, I firmly believe creating a self-hosted version would cost more than it would rake in. It's different for every product and it's different for every company, though.

(Sorry for the conversation derail.)
The dummies guide to increasing conversions using email (re)marketing
And how many millions of correct searches was that? How many millions of extra seconds are spent wrapping whole words in quotes rather than just a '+'? It could even be costing lifetimes!

+ was changed because of Google+ branding, IMO.
Pretty sweet boat. I want to see it in motion. Wonder if they'll sell it? And who will buy it?
An entire data center is becoming unrecoverable, but they had 3 days of advance notice to pull drives and bring up servers somewhere else. Don't people plan to have redundant data centers?
"...You could have a plan that gives you unlimited access to data for specific apps like Facebook, but pay as you go for services that you don’t rely on so much."

The big guys get to put themselves on the 'basic' data plan, and everyone else has to pay to play. I thought TechCrunch was supposed to support disruption not stifle it.
What about the case of homeschooling? I'm not familiar enough with the economics of it to say it is cheaper than private schooling. I do, however, know quite a few families that have taken this route and I wouldn't classify them as upper middle class or elite.

Having worked with numerous schools over the last decade I feel there are some serious problems that we as a society need to fix. I do feel that there are other options that are available to parents though.
Another unexpected use of GitHub:

https://github.com/norinori2222/boyfriend_require/
Audiophile & Student checking in here. Most people don't realize that there is gold on craigslist that older crowd is throwing out due to their wives nagging ("These speakers are too big.." etc) I've put together an amazing system using Polk SDA-2b's, Parasound HCA-1200, & Onkyo TS-DX787(as a preamp)(donated) and behringer uca-202 DAC for under 300 dollars. Cables are all monoprice and it blows my mind that people pay more for snake-oil cables.

Being an audiophile is rather cheap once you gather the knowledge on forums (audiokarma.org) and patience at craigslist/thriftstores/ebay.
You might also appreciate "Automated Landscape Painting in the Style of Bob Ross"

http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/poster/alex_NPAR.pdf

The full paper is behind a membership wall here https://diglib.eg.org but you can read the first page here

https://diglib.eg.org/EG/DL/WS/COMPAESTH/COMPAESTH09/115-122...
WebScript.io: Just choose a URL and type in a script. No servers, no deployment
Thanks guys! I think I may do a milestone based method. Each milestone reached will earn him X% equity. That way he can earn his way in and the risk is low for me.
Personally, I like the approach of the tutorial.

It starts with the amount of code you would usually write if you were to write an API by hand and then simplifies things along the road. At the end it makes it clear how the framework can be simple to use while you've learned how to use it behind the hood if the magic needs tweaking.
At least you could tell the difference between a cheap car and an expensive car in a blind test.
You can do all sorts of things with an Android(prostitute) that you can't do with your iPhone(wife).
I don't follow politics, what are the arguments against allowing insurance companies to make such decisions?
Isn't that a loaded message anyway? More apps means more likelihood that your idea's been implemented or has benefited from some sort of first mover's advantage.

Eventually, discoverability will cause problems that probably makes the market look saturated when it isn't.
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New CPanel website rips off WooThemes website
Convergence of visual art with music
See new artwork aligned with musical form. See
cronbergafrica@bandcamp.com
(Shrug) I don't know anything about this app but I don't immediately get the hate for it. It looks cool.

The spinner dial may not be functional, but it could be and should be, because weather conditions change incrementally and (more or less) predictably. If it's humid and cloudy and the barometric pressure is falling, then it would make sense for the spinner dial to move slowly between "cloudy" and "raining" positions, for instance.

And maybe the author of the app is an advocate of the metric system and wants to encourage users to treat the °F/°C switch as a prominent educational feature. Like I said, I don't know anything about it, but the amount of negativity being aimed at the app seems difficult to justify.
This approach is used by Scala with its immutable vector, and many other functional languages have a similar thing.
This doesn't necessarily need to be a privacy concern so much as a user experience concern. She's his wife, not some random stranger on a bus. There's the user experience of being able to hand your wife your tablet and have her be able to pull up her own Gmail in a native app without a bunch of reconfiguration of settings.
I almost like it. I do have compact mode turned on. My biggest gripe with the newer style though is the themes/color schemes. I had my own custom color scheme all picked out in the old gmail, now I can no longer pick my own color for each and every little detail/item in gmail, which irks me quite a bit, as this is an option I used to have. I'm not big on custom background images either, I just want to choose my own colors. But hey, I'm a control freak, I guess most people just take whats given to them...
Well they could start by replacing Calexda's 32 bit physical memory addressing (4GB) with 40 bit physical addressing (1TB) all my servers have 96GB and will have 192GB on the next iteration. I'd love to put 512GB of 'flash' memory in the physical address space And then bump of L2 Cache to 12MB maybe 16MB.
No, it only speaks the result if there is single answer to say. If you ask it what is 15% of 51 it will speak the result. But if you ask a broad question (what is quantuum mechanics) it will just list all results.
Although I'm sure this could be spoofed easily, whatever version control system you're using almost certainly timestamps commits. You could easily bring up the version of the file that existed at the timestamp of the user's account creation date.
What you describe, I think, is simply one of the Stages Of Being An Erlanger. It is unfortunate that this language has that stage, as other languages don't, but giving it another 3-4 months will get you thru it.

For me, I was in that stage for the middle 3 months of the first 6 months I used erlang. Then working with other languages for a couple years and not erlang, put me back in it when I had to relearn the language.

Still, of all the languages I've learned or looked into, none of them have the key features of erlang or compare.

For instance, people talk about ruby, and I might consider ruby for something then I start thinking "ok, for this one part of my application, I'm really going to need a pool of processes... how will I do that" and realize that I really want to be in erlang.
I'm definitely interested in this product, and tried them out a little while ago when I first saw them mentioned on HN. I was very confused then. The math didn't seem to work out, and I couldn't understand what calculations they were making at all.

I just tried it again. It continues to be a mess. I tried the "better to rent or buy" comparison. I input information about my income, my rent, and my available cash.

I get a chart that says the two are almost equal over a long period, given a house value of $393k. I click on the "change" link by the house value to try playing with it. I get a popup that has the value (which I can't seem to change), a slider below for the down payment, which says $14k above and "10% of home value" below. Note that 10% of $393k is not $14k. Below that, another slider that says mortgage value, and has $379k above it and "30 year mortgage at 2.75%" below. As soon as I adjust the down payment slider, the percentage corrects to where it actually should be. But changing the slider changes the value of the house! Apparently the way to adjust the price of the house is to fiddle with both the mortgage amount slider and the down payment slider. Also, the numbers change colors. I assume red is bad and green is good, but I'm not sure what exactly the color signifies.

I get things to something reasonable and go to check the chart. Here's what I see off to the side for the 30 year summary

If you rent
Income	$5,989,000
Rent	$555,000
Expenses	$533,000
Income Tax	$1,942,000
Net Wealth	$2,997,000

If you buy
Income	$5,802,000
Home Equity	$464,000
Home Payments	$378,000
Expenses	$946,000
Income Tax	$1,841,000
Net Wealth	$3,140,000

Why is my income $187k more when I rent? Did I get a side job instead of mowing the lawn at my hypothetical house? What about other investments? Maybe that's why my income is higher when renting? None of this is explained.

I read down below, and it seems to think I live in Littleton, CO. I guess that's the default? Since tax rates vary so widely, it seems weird to have a default location rather than ask me that at the beginning. Oh well, I click on the location bar and enter my zip code. The first time, it pops up with the city name, and I click Done. The city name goes away and the text telling me to enter zip code or city name stands out in red. I try the zip code again. No dice. There's a "where do you live" field, and a "where do you want to live" field. Not sure why we need two of those. Which one will show up in the results? Ah, apparently, the first one is where you're renting, the second is where you might buy. I guess that's useful. Why aren't the two boxes called "Rental location" and "Purchase location"?

Overall, it seems like a complete mess.

I submitted this feedback via their website as well. I hope they make this awesome, since I definitely like the idea.
This is a good problem for consumers to have, though. And actually for vendors. It's a lot easier to carve a niche in a big and competitive marketplace than try help bootstraping a marketplace you don't control.
Does anyone know if there's a way to try this out before they roll it out? It doesn't mention anything about it on the blog.
No, that happens to me all the time. Gmail used to have a "new messages have been added to the conversation" popup when that occurred, but now that doesn't always happen.
I think there are two main sects in audiophile-land, really: perfection and experience.

The perfection side has scopes, meters, and blind testing among its tools. The goal is in fact "perfect sound reproduction". The problem here is that between the original source (microphone, usually) and the listener's brain is all of this stuff that distorts the sound. Removing it completely is really hard, and replicating that quality repeatedly is even harder.

The experience side has experts, rituals, and demos. The goal there is to reach the limit of audio experience, literally to hear what wouldn't otherwise be heard with lesser systems. The problem on this end is that "near-perfect" systems deliver less exciting and engaging experiences than what the experience experts deem to be better. They don't enjoy the systems calibrated to perfection as much as their own custom systems with tweaks and rituals applied.

These two sides really are in a bit of opposition, but it's nice to have both to drive the high-end market of audio equipment.
I Hate Tech Startups. I Just Like Mine.
FYI - "Video not available"
Ask HN: Whats the future of node?
hi,
planning our big project for commercial purpose..
Whole team (yes we're all pretty same, since we worked together b4 too :); has background in .NET, php and some java + low-level embedded development in C...
During our research we figured out that Node is really popular, and we did give it a try with some test BLOG application, showing some great things while learning...
output of our project is SaaS with a lots of database querying with some mathematics within backend code.
Wondering is it good idea to start with Node, and is it not 'just another language' outthere?

cheers
Yes, I visited the link. And I saw twitters web design. Like I said. I already get styles by adding classes, or even better, without having to spam up my markup with pointless classes. That is how CSS works. You seem to be suggesting that my choices are use twitter's CSS, or don't use CSS at all. The benefit you describe comes from CSS, not bootstrap. Responsive design is the norm, not a "huge perk" of boostrap.

Basically, if I were to use bootstrap the process appears to be the following:

1. Destroy my templates by filling them with tons of garbage containers and pointless class attributes.
2. Our mockups now look like twitter.
3. The actual design gets done, and we have to go back and remove all crap we had to put in for boostrap to begin with.

Which part of that is supposed to appeal to me? Or is the intent to actually ship sites to customers looking like twitter and having horrible markup?
Besides the scrolling problem, the pinned header also pins down a low-value use for the easiest-to-read part of the page. That is, reading on a laptop you have a narrow screen set low, making you bend your neck to read the lower parts of the page, where all these jokers force the actual text you're trying to read.
Additional data point: PayPal credit card processing (not PayPal payments) offers 2.2% + 0.30 now, with even more discounted rates if you're a trusted seller.
If people are denied health insurance then they are treated as second class in hospitals that know they wont be able to pay for their care and people die. No matter who you are your right to free business practice is second to people's rights to live.
Wait, don't you work at Hipmunk?

http://companies.thedailymuse.com/companies/hipmunk/people/d...
Apple's Reorganization Goes Deeper Than Just Who's In Charge
One thing I've never understood about interpretation of quantum entanglement experiments:

Based on what I've learned of these experiments, it seems to me that the least mind-bending interpretation is that the entanglement event results in two particles that have some complementary property k (i.e. one particle has k and the other has ~k) and which one of the two, k or ~k, is had by one of the particles is unknowable without collapsing the quantum state. However, both particles have the property from their inception, and so no faster-than-light or non-local interpretation should be needed. When the particles are separated to great distance and one is observed to collapse to k, the other must be observed to collapse to ~k because it was always a ~k particle.

Clearly, there's some aspect of the experiments that I don't understand that invalidates this simple interpretation, but I do not know what it is.
The bs2b crossfeed plugin is pretty good for that purpose:
http://bs2b.sourceforge.net/

I'm using it on Linux (alsa) for my in-ear-phones.

From /etc/asound.conf:

pcm.crossfeed {
type plug
slave.pcm "ladspa"
}

pcm.ladspa {
type ladspa
slave.pcm "plughw:0,1";
path "/usr/lib/ladspa";
plugins [
{
label bs2b
input {
controls [ 700 4 ]
}
}
]
}
You may be more risk-adverse when using a foreign language
As I said:

>I guess the answer really is "if you don't want to or can't design your site, just use twitters design"

That is what you are describing, so go right ahead and use boostrap. I was just trying to figure out if there was something more to it, given that it calls itself a "framework" and minor releases of it get posted here for some reason. Those things made me think perhaps I was missing something, and it wasn't just "here's a copy of our design you can use".
Why are you assuming the API would change between instant and non-instant?

The only difference should be in terms of signing up. The API shouldn't change, nor should the integration process the GP was referring to change, no?
I know that some of haberman's libraries (like upb) include JIT compilers. In those cases you can't just rely on the compiler to take care of instruction set differences. (I'm on the mobile Firefox team, and we run into similar issues targeting our JavaScript engine to different ARM flavors.)
I'm one of Webscript's founders, and I was pleasantly surprised to see this here. We just launched this morning, and I'm happy to answer any questions.
It's not black and white like that, and the marketplace means that there is a meeting in the middle when assertions are presented scientifically enough for a layperson to ascribe authority to them.
> I read it had to do with the corporate raider buyouts of the 80's. Companies discovered that they could shed liabilities to employees this way.

I was around for the LBO bubble and the days of Michael Milken, and I'd probably argue even that was a consequence of the neutering of unions: If the unions had still been powerful (and perhaps less corrupt), they would have struck at the first company they could. By making an example of one company, perhaps bankrupting it, they could have scared off future LBO attempts.

Of course, greasing the palms of a few union leaders likely occurred during some of those LBOs. Perhaps the union model requires having saints for leaders, so add it to the list of why unions failed.
Advancing? Most 'scripting is taking a pound of flesh from the user experience, in return for little to no actual gain.
I tried 15% of 51 and also queries like what is the population of Tokyo similar to the demo. It does not seem to want to speak the results back.
It's not a very compelling argument against DNSSEC no. The solution is for the World to close down open DNS servers in the same way it did with open SMTP servers. Granted, it was a lot easier to do with SMTP.
Ugh. Gmail continues to roll out new features and arbitrary tweaks, yet the bugs impeding normal tasks continues to grow. I've said it before: can I just have gmail beta back?

(The main ones for me are the compose window never actually loading, or new messages in a thread not displaying (both requiring a refresh). Meanwhile, the chat hover has changed layout twice. Seriously?)
All about Linux Swap space
I just tried it, and it's much faster than Siri. I wish I could have it replace Siri, but alas, iOS would never allow that. I much prefer the Google Now style voice over's Siri's as well.

Google originally announced this app back in August, and said it'd be in the App Store "shortly"... It's pretty obvious why Apple held this back in the approval process since it definitely competes with Siri's functionality.
Embedded Linux/Microcontroller Project
Lol reminds me of Google Plus - always talking about how many users they have but it's a ghost town.
Right, and what percent of the population do you think cares about some rules, some suits from Google made up?
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Grids are fundamentally the exact opposite of good design. They are a cludge to make it easier to lay things out the way you want, but do so by tightly coupling content and presentation. I see it advocated too, but not by design gurus, by people who want to just have it work and don't care about doing things correctly or having reusable, modular components.