skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A company called Sphero already does this (without the cameras), and it's controllable with an iPhone:
http://www.gosphero.com/

A combination of the two technologies would be very cool.
It's aimed at SEOs and online marketers - have a list of blogs you want to contact to review your startup? Just paste them in and start following :)
Track (Django) Site Emails with SendGrid
I've been using prepaid smartphones in the US for the past two years, and have been paying $30 or less a month the whole time. Previously the best prepaid phones on cheap carriers have been pretty low-end and carrier-locked, but the unlocked Nexuses have changed that, and barely cost more than new carrier-locked phones.

The Galaxy Nexus first was $400 unlocked, then went down to $350, and the new phone is $300; this being the computer industry, prices will only get better from here.
> What is the scientifically untenable position about abortion?

The argument that can be summed up as 'life starts at conception'.
iPhone cedes its crown, outsold by Samsung Galaxy S3
Did you set out with the goal to be a programmer when you started? I have a particular project I want to build, but I struggle with the build vs buy dilemma. It will probably take me 5x as long and be 10x worse than if found a good programmer.

But, I also want to learn because I know that I need to understand what is being built and if it's being built in the best way to accomplish the goal - getting the job done for the customer.

Is it realistic to focus on being a generalist with an understanding of various languages or do I just need to learn one language first like Python and go from there? I noticed the MIT Python videos are free also. Thanks
Let's accept that rational; but that does leave one question: when does this end? If we have no way to measure the damage then how do we measure the resolution of the damage? Do we continue this for 5, 10, 50, 100, 500 years? Or do we simply never end it?

Do we try to "correct" it so there are literally no poor people of a particular ethnicity? How realistic is that?
It is a lot. A percentage drop in a metric like that, IMO, is huge.
Alice is reasonably cool.

www.alice.org

Touchdevelop in the browser is a more recent option:

https://www.touchdevelop.com/app/
5 Reasons to Hire an Agency
Thanks for the feedback - updated the article with a link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product

Startup myopia, I'm afraid.
self-buttering chicken makes me drool at my desk. Would that make it a cow-chicken hybrid though (assuming it's butter from cow's milk anyway)
Just recognize that (I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume) that, because you are a middle class white man, probably 90% of the reason you oppose "affirmative action" is because it negatively impacts your own demographic group.

Arguments for or against AA aside, this line of reasoning, where you invalidate somebody's argument based on what demographic group they belong to (white middle class males in this case), really seems like a simple ad hominem argument. You're no longer addressing what is said - only who is saying it.
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Noisy, staticy, lossy EM fields do provide electromotive force. This is why data and power cables are often separated.
Well, you can rel="prefetch" it just won't do anything unless you're using Firefox (AFAIK).
You know that they might just be detecting onfocus/onblur instead, right? They aren't necessarily using the Page Visiblity API.
Or 100 minutes, unlimited text, and 5GB HSPA+ data with unlimited EDGE for $30, with minutes $.10 each afterward.

I mostly make my long calls via Google Voice on my laptop anyway, so 100 minutes is usually plenty, and going over some months doesn't break the bank.
Partly. It's what I imagine would be the wildly self-important reply of Harvard graduates to the wildly self-important tone of the article.

But at the same time, "how much money graduates make" has a special relevance in a country where we determine how worthy you are of health care based on how much money you make.
That sounds awesome. Have you done a Reddit IAMA or described your travels (and how you packed so efficiently and minimally) anywhere? I would be interested to read it if so.
It will only find it if the account is mentioned on the page as well. What's your URL? I've only tested this on a handful of sites so there's no doubt tons of ways to improve it's accuracy :)
Well there was that whole Todd Akin saying that women's bodies have a way to shut down conception in the event of a "legitimate" rape thing. That's a case that was so extreme that Akin got punished in the polls for it. But it was actually not a rare point of view among a certain kind of evangelical Christian before Akin made the mistake of saying it on the radio. I suspect more people realize it is simply not true now, but it was accepted as fact by more than just Akin.
To be clear, my goal is not to sway your decision, but to provide an informed discussion for those making the evaluation. Whether we want it to be, it is an rbenv vs RVM debate, because those are the tools we're evaluating.

My observation is that rbenv users often tack on additional ad hoc solutions to arrive at the same convenience provided by RVM. The primary objection I hear to RVM is the `cd` override, which is optional.
I think I'm missing something. Wouldn't the alternative be to keep playing the video ad even when you're not looking at it? Why is that better? I don't want my browser wasting cycles to render a video it knows I can't see.

At the risk of stating the obvious, it sounds like you have a problem with ads, not a problem with the visibility API.
It's based on history. It's a tangential detail that that history victimized people of certain skin colors.
Twitter Responds About Implementing Two-Factor Authentication
> AA doesn't correct for immediate need, it corrects for the fact that people growing up in unpriviledged environments lack advantages.

So poor white folks never grow up in unpriviledged environments?

You're providing no justification for why AA is race based instead of socio-economic based.
In order to learn Django and web development, I'm trying to build a simple website for tracking weightlifting workouts.
Why only Samsung builds phones that can outsell an iPhone
This reminds me of that throwable sensor from one of the Call of Duty games
Reminds me of "Connections" TV show.
First thing I did was to save the members list. :) I've already reached out to 99% percent of the members but we still need everybody's help getting the word out: http://hncgn.org
In defense of GTK, there is really only one person working on it, plus the occasional patch submission.
So I'm not being snarky in the least bit. Seriously. I'm just sharing.

I got graphite going on an Ubuntu installed on my macbook while in the air between SFO and ATL.

Literally, discovered it, downloaded it, and graphing metrics before we landed.

Now, that was, I think, in 2010. The last time I installed Graphite was a few months ago, and it seems like they have split the project up a bit. It took a bit longer.

NB: I'm neither a Python or Django 'guy'
[video] WPX Store: a preview of the first WordPress app store
How can we map the POS terminal IDs at retail outlets with their location?
You say that as though Turions and the Core series were bad. I'm currently running a Phenom 2 x6 3.3GHz.. and guess what? For the majority of tasks, it is no better than my previous Core 2 Quad 2.5GHz. And the Turion processor is no slouch; I know this from experience.

Can these chips power a supercomputer? No. Do 99% of people need them to? Not at all.
In the first 10 minutes of the day there are 800,000 attempted transactions on a system with the capacity to process 20,000.

Seams reasonable that there would be problems :-)
Building 'From Holden', an apparel manufacturer, from the ground up
The artcile offers zero evidence that Reddit or HN had anything to do with the alteration. It is equally as likely that the change was motivated by continued evaluation by Apple's legal team.
After 20 minutes of reading, I'm even more convinced of what my intuition said earlier this morning: the civil rights situation throughout large portions of Europe is much worse than it is in the US. Compare the first N articles of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic to the Bill of Rights. Then read about the "sect filters" the German government(!) drafted to enable employers to deny jobs to people in a disfavored religion.
I think that what many people forget is that Nexus line has always been targeted at developers. Not general public. At least that's what I've taken for granted since the first Nexus device. Yes, there are glaring deficiencies. However, it's still a very powerful device without carrier lock-in or locked bootloader. And cheap. Excellent choice for someone who develops Android apps.

Don't forget: average consumer has no clue about nexus devices. But they do know about Samsung or Htc phones.
As Apple has taught us so well, details matter.
> First, you are implying that affirmative action is unjust, which it is not. Affirmative action does not mean that an unqualified worker replaces a qualified worker because of race. Affirmative action means that equally qualified workers are then selected to be as representative of the population as possible.

I've never heard of that idea (which means it's interesting, not wrong). But, I also think it's wrong. For example, at my university, where a pretty small proportion of applicants actually get in (it's highly competitive), you can't get a sizeable proportion of blacks using the method you suggest. You have to use the method that you don't suggest, which is what they do.

I appreciate your referencing actual reasearch. I think there are tangible but non-quantifiable effects that are not measured by that kind of thing, though.

For example, people know that affirmative action (as I have seen it practiced) is ubiquitous and unfair, and that in itself makes it harder for prejudices to be dissolved.

This even applies to the people who are supposed to directly benefit from affirmative action.
"the actual budget of the Dutch government will look nothing like any of the proposals submitted by the parties"

Understatement of the century.
Keep in mind I gave it as an example that is conceptually simple to demonstrate that scaling it with pretty much any technology is possible. It is still a lot of work, and expensive, and likely far from optimal.

The approach I suggested would create massive message spikes, and there's undoubtably optimizations. E.g. 30 million followers for the top users is a lot, but most of them don't tweet all that often. Perhaps it's better to keep the recent tweet of the top 1000 (or 100,000) users in memory in memcached's and "weave" them into the timelines of their followers instead of trying to immediately stored the in timelines for each user.

The point is scaling is pretty much never a language problem once your needs are large enough that they'll exceed a server or even a rack no matter how efficient the language implementation is.

At that point the language choice is an operational cost vs. productivity issue down to whether or not the CPU usage differences are sufficiently high to cost you enough to offset any productivity advantages you might get from the slower language implementation.

That is a valid concern. It's perfectly possible that Twitter is right in switching in their case. E.g. even a 10% reduction in servers could pay for a lot of developer hours when your server park gets large enough.

If you're on the tipping point where switching to a faster language implementation can keep you from having to scale past a single machine, then it's slightly different. But arguably if you're in that position, you should still plan for growth.
A similar lawsuit helped to kill ReplayTV 10 years ago, however, they didn't have the same clout Dish does. The latter versions of ReplayTV had the Commercial Advance feature disabled as a result.
Looking for answers from Hacker News people as well.
Science agrees with that assertion. The argument is over the more vague concept of "personhood".
Speaking as a biologist, sperm and eggs are alive even before they fuse. There's no scientifically meaningful way to specify when 'life starts'. So the question of when a developing foetus should be given the rights of a person is primarily philosophical.
Try some lightweight terminal like sakura (my current preference) :)
Does it hurt to support it? As in, why did you stop supporting it if the infrastructure was already there?
wrote my own scraper for stock prices, now im writing my own chart analysis app in ROR and jqPlot

also going to pull Twitter and FB updates to see if i can determine the influence social media has on stock price movements
Bad memory.

Now that you tell it I actually reverse engineered a page (script compiled with GWT, strings mangled, most of the script being one or two letter variables, often the same ones), to find out how they were doing it, and in that case, they were using document or window.onblur.

I tried to overwrite the event handlers without success.
Despite all the problems other users are running into I've already found this immensely useful. Thanks for sharing James.
We use StatsD and Graphite a ton at lonelyplanet.com: http://bit.ly/lp-perf-and-metrics
I just use a single laptop with a dock. Saves all the hassle of synchronisation.
I looked at it, and was completely confused at first. After reading the comments here, I realized it will save me a bunch of time. I'm working on launching a new product, and have compiled a list of 50 relevant blogs, and wasn't looking forward to going through them one-by-one to get twitter names.

Thanks!
94% of software developers betting on HTML5 winning
I've been using StumbleUpon's OpenTSDB (http://opentsdb.net) with much success, and it looks like StatsD could easily be modified to work with it. The biggest pain with OpenTSDB I've had is that it requires an HBase/Hadoop backend, but a standalone, single-node install isn't terrible to setup.
I'm still on the election. It took me a while to realize the title if referring to the university and not the presidential candidate.
I'm sorry. I don't think the GNex vs. Nexus 4 decision is as cut and dried as this reviewer makes it.

Storage:
The Nexus 4 has only 16GB of storage, with no way to expand (GNex had 32GB). That's a step backward IMO.

Screen:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. AMOLED has fewer sub-pixels. So what. The blacks are blacker, and the screen is more vibrant. I know the color gamut is different, but the contrast is better. The Nexus 4 looks washed out next to the GNex.

Network:
Sorry, lack of LTE is a deal breaker for me. Verizon LTE is solid where I live, and very, very fast. That may not be the case for everyone, but I'm sure as heck not going back to 3Gesque speeds. And for what features? A slightly faster processor? More RAM? and a breakable glass case?

Fahgetabahtit.
So, why does the Dutch media care about the US presidential election to this extent? It would barely effect them, and the population (I'm guessing) is already firmly convinced of the evils of the Republican party, so...what's the point?
It would be cool if everybody who posted the URL to the previous Hacker News Cologne meetup.com group on their blogs or profiles would update it to http://hncgn.org and help reach out to everybody informing them of the change. Thanks!
Meanwhile you can do useful/less annoying stuff in other tabs.

And I have a problem with ads that are forced on me, true, my case may be extreme, but I'm sure that it annoys other people too.
Evernote has one of the least-intuitive, most-bloated UIs I've ever seen.

I was a fan of Wunderlist, but it seems that the product is no longer updated.
Circumstantial evidence is a kind of evidence.
Thanks. This is useful. It got me thinking.

If I had just not put the parenthetical, it would make it look like I was "really asking" the question. That would treat the derivation in question as potentially legitimate (it's really not), and also invite serious but non-useful responses.

So that leads me to conclude that I just shouldn't have phrased my point as a question in the first place. I could have just stated my point as a statement, not a question.
It came about when the disparity was more substantial. That it's less obvious now is a sign that it's working. Institutional underrepresentation of poor white people is already dealt with separately by the lack of historical institutional discrimination against them.
While I'm just a layperson on the subject, to me, there is far more to the question of affirmative action than giving opportunities to the "poor or disadvantaged." It's a way for our system to actively acknowledge and combat any (possibly subliminal) biases towards the previously privileged group of white males. As they say, old habits die hard, and it's naive to think that hiring and admissions processes are now completely blind to everything but parental income. Surely, strict quotas are an overreaction to this, but there is some middle ground between quotas and complete deregulation.
Odd that you didn't mention the systematic oppression of Chinese in the USA. However, that's beside the point.

My point is that whatever the far-reaching effects of slavery, it's not clear that this specific geographic distribution is one of them - many cultures tend to clump together naturally even without systematic oppression (see: american expat communities around the world). Slavery may have chosen the original location, but isn't necessarily what's keeping people there.
> Could you design a brainless chicken or one with just enough brains to eat, breathe and lay eggs?

Yes, it's called a chicken.
In a single quarter, which is also historically the lowest sales period for iPhones.
Tethering. If you're travelling a lot, tethering to your LTE phone would give you a relatively consistent, fast internet connection.

Aside from that, it's just another way for carriers to charge you $$$ for a feature that is only marginally useful.
As someone who has known Carsten (Raster) for well over a dozen years, and has given him a never-ending stream of invective for being slower than George W. Bush doing calculus...its about bloody time.
It's better because the user doesn't have to sit on that tab waiting for the ad to play out. How it currently is one can go check Facebook or HN (or even do some work!) while waiting for the ad to finish.
> Isn't the idea equality?

You weren't asking me, but the idea should be equality under the law, not equality.
By your logic we'd still all be reading books as they were typeset hundreds years ago (hint: they're pretty dense and definitely not convenient to read) and we'd all be driving while trying to decipher poorly typeset roadsigns (which is very, very dangerous).

All it takes is a few researchers to actually care, research, blog, write papers about the subject and then we all benefit from that research.

Regarding the goold old "eat your own dog food" logical fallacy... By your logic, an engineer should not be allowed to do research, say, on electrical cars if he isn't himself driving an electric car. Sounds pretty extreme to me ; )
As for eggs, for baking they can easily be replaced.

It's more difficult if you want to replace scrambled eggs or similar. I have tried the vegg [1], but have not been very impressed.

And I just googled and found out that apparently in China there is a food scandal where they produce fake eggs [2]. Obviously they design them for profit and not as a replacement for vegans or even a healthy, cheaper alternative. But it seems that it could be done.

[1] http://www.thevegg.com/
[2] http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/06/how-to-make-a-rotten-egg...
And then, for bonus karma, leave a comment to the effect of "The answer to any headline ending in a question mark is no. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines ", as if you're the first and only person to have ever heard of it.
How do you define & measure disadvantage?

You suggest income, but then that ignores:

(a) debt

(b) medical costs (Joe & Jim have the same income, but Joe has cancer and has to pay $LOTS per month, has less energy etc. Who's more disadvantaged?)

(c) where one lives (Joe & Jim have same income, but Joe lives near where possible jobs are, Jim needs a 2 hour bus journey)

(d) existing assets (Jim has a new car and partner has a second hand car, Joe has a crappy car that could break, who is more advantaged)

(e) family support/obligations, both financial & emotional (Joe has to care for his mother, Jim's mother can pay for her own nursing home. Joe knows he can rely on his parents to bail him out, Joe can't). etc.

All systems have flaws. This stuff is hard and complicated, and you'll have mistakes, false positives and false negatives with all methods (yes including race/ethnicity). There'll also be costs to each method: Cost for the applicant to have to find & submit paperwork, cost for staff to process and review it, opportunities for fraud (e.g. asset-based-measurement means you can fake it by moving assets to a family member/close friend for a year).

Race/ethnicity has several advantages as a "disadvantage metric":

(a) easy to apply (hard to fake), yes there are problems with people of many ethnicities

(b) cheap and quick to decide, no calculations or hours of staff time checking that the payslip from 2007 is legit, or try to figure out if the person really is a single parent or is the partner still living there, etc.

(c) applicants don't have to find old information & forms & letters

(d) strongly statistically correlated with disadvantage

However some people just react negatively about race being mentioned at all, thinking that "racism = any reference to race" and "racism = bad" ergo "any reference to race = bad". Sometimes conversations about this can be like talking about evolution to a creationist, ask yourself if there is any evidence you'd accept that would convince you that it's OK to have affirmative action, if not, you might be being dogmatic.
Glad you've found a use for it! drop me any feedback at james [at] jetrank.com if you find any issues or ways to improve it and I'll get on it.
Some other suggestions to get you on the frontpage:

1. Posting anything by Marco/Gruber/Atwood/37Signals/Stripe.

2. Posting anything making fun of PHP.
Could someone explain to me a use case for the battery API? I can't think of a single situation where it would be beneficial. The article states that you can detect if a user's battery is low to avoid battery-intensive processes, but do you think developers are going to spend their time inflating their scripts to deliver a poorer web experience to their users just because they have a low battery?
I'm not so sure that people in the US are "writing off the Galaxy Nexus". Especially when combined with a prepaid plan (such as Straight Talk, Simple Mobile, or TMobile Monthly4G), this phone is a really good deal. $300 is similar to the starting prices for some phone ON contract.

A lot of people really don't need the extra space from an SD card, and LTE is just a more costly option with slightly higher speeds. The lack of a removable battery is somewhat of a let down, but be honest, when is the last time you replaced your phone's battery? I never have. People also seem to indicate that you can still replace the battery by removing a few screws, it is just a little more difficult.

I think the US market is moving towards prepaid, non-contract plans, and this is the PERFECT phone for it. On top of that, most of the rest of the world uses prepaid phone plans, which this is perfect for.
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If these balls are reusable and/or cheap enough, throwing or shooting several of them in and making them and head unit communicate to produce 3D panoramas seems like next logical step. But I'm not sure 3D panoramas are worth it. What is the benefit of having one 3D image instead of just several 2D images of the rapidly changing scene? This technology is not meant to be used in museums.