skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And here's a screenshot of what 1920x1200 looks like on a non-Retina 15" MBP (Running 10.8.2 under Parallels): http://i.imgur.com/RKaiZ.jpg?1
My gamish iPad app to make the flute cooler
Don't know for you but the only instrument i learned at school was that same old flute....
That's why i decided to build a game where the gamepad is a music instrument and the first try is for the flute. Flootsh is still a project, it's free, try it and tell me what you think
This submission got a sudden drop in ranking.
http://hnrankings.info/4754269/
The technical paper linked from the article[0] explains how this is done. The electrolysis of urea does compete with the electrolysis of water, but it happens at a lower voltage.

[0] http://www.suttonfruit.com/pics/urea_electrolysis.pdf

edit: grammer
Now I got kicked out of the group as well.
How much time do you spend on side projects?
Very cool. I'm currently going through O'Reilly's "Python for Data analysis", and can speak to it's quality as well.
3 things learned at Startup Weekend the first time around
Very neat, I like the general feel, including simplicity and colours, the minimal permissions from twitter and the list of documents, though I don't know why saving changes quits to the list. It also forces a pretty narrow column for text (~20 characters).

It's hard to get that feeling of immersion with a webapp though. You can fullscreen, I know, but browsers tend to be easily excitable. Locally, I'm using pyRoom[1] which just covers everything and with a little configuration can show nothing except for the text you're writing.

[1] http://pyroom.org/features.html
From what I've seen some providers spin up your own EC2 instance and others share EC2 instances between customers. The first way seems more secure, but I assume there is a way to make the second secure as well. It's a great question to be asking, I'll check around.
At my last startup (TheSharedWeb) we tried to do something like this, sans the natural language processing work these guys are doing [we used a manual strategy and tried to focus on the presentation]. Anyway, we never really perfected the experience, and ended up pivoting away.

These guys are doing some sort of NLP magic and it seems to work really well. If they could get reddit in the content stream, that would really encompass all the content I'm consuming
A lot of the value of incorporating is "getting to know" your legal team. Wilson Sonsini in SV and SF will often defer or waive fees for a very small chunk of equity on ideas that they like, and other legal teams are open to similar arrangements.

The benefit of extending your network is huge here. A good legal team can be a gateway to capital, while a missfiled c-corp can scare away investors.

Aside from the oft-repeated, "don't do it until you absolutely have to", I would suggest that you to do some research on law firms that are specifically working with startups in your industry and area.

You may be surprised that many will set up your c-corp for just the cost of fees if they believe that your idea and future with them is strong.
Hmmm, I wonder how many objects are currently stored in S3? And what rate that's rowing at? Or how many documents Google has stored in bigtable?

But yeah, 160 bits is probably "enough" :-)
Thanks mrgreenfur. It's definitely something we're planning on adding in the future. We'll be sure to take a look at tutorialize.me when we get started on it.
> The long and short of it is, for purely philosophical reasons you don't like the notion of the state vector collapse.

That's not the long and the short of it. I didn't say anything of the sort.

You ramble on apparently oblivious that to the fact that different interpretations of QM can and do make different predictions about what causes wave-function collapse. E.g., GRW makes different predictions from Penrose's interpretation. Why you are oblivious to this fact, I cannot fathom, as I've mentioned this fact several times now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghirardi-Rimini-Weber_theory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_interpretation

In theory, someday we'll be able to design experiments that determine which one of these interpretations, if either, is correct.

So, as you should be able to see, this is in no way comparable to different forms for equations that make identical predictions.

As to the measurement problem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measurement_problem

Newtonian mechanics has no such measurement problem, so it is you who are grasping at straws. If a QM Interpretation is going to be considered a complete theory, it has to answer certain questions. For instance, if were were to train cats to operate quantum measurement devices and to perform experiments for us, and we consequently determined that measurements performed by cats did not cause wave function collapse, would that confirm or deny the Copenhagen Interpretation?

A. Neither, because the Copenhagen Interpretation doesn't define "measurement", and so we have no idea whether or not measurement by cats counts as "measurement".

You don't like cats, substitute in nanoscale molecular robots instead.
I see you commented on a fix already, but here's some background...

This is due to TLS SNI, which allows different certs to be returned based on the hostname requested. SNI is supported by all major browsers on all major platforms, with 1 significant exception: WinXP+IE does not support SNI (WinXP+Firefox/Opera/Chrome are all fine for many versions, WinVista/7+IE are both fine). I think certain (older) Android platforms have a problem with this too.

SNI is really awesome because the web hosting company doesn't have to allocate separate IP addresses for multiple sites to have proper SSL support. It makes HTTPS hosting simpler and cheaper. The only significant downside is issues like this, where a user's browser doesn't support it... hence over time, issues like this should shrink.

If you're still on WinXP+IE, you're likely to start running into more and more problems in the next couple years (and not just due to SNI).
Funnily enough, Twitter could already sell 'early access' without any new algorithms. Just time shift the availability of results based on payment status. So for £100, see things that are guaranteed to be trending next hour, because they're technically trending now, but we're withholding it.
NEXTDC Vending Machines
Nicely done, but how is this better than using google docs?
> Isn't this sort of security something we wish we didn't have to learn?

Absolutely. Time spent on your auth scheme is time you're not spending on building your product. (And half-assing your auth scheme generally comes back to bite people.)

That said, outsourcing it to a centralized provider may not be the best idea for business, user, or security reasons. So it's a balance.

Of course, I'm biased: I work on the Persona team at Mozilla, where we're trying to build a simple, secure, fully decentralized, and open source authentication system that fits that niche rather nicely, but the points above stand: you have to figure out the opportunity cost of your chosen solution. There's no universal answer.
Valve at Ubuntu Developer Summit
"Remember me" checkboxes and form auto-fill are unrelated.

The form auto-fill behavior depends is part of the browser UI, and can be configured in its option menu.

The a "remember me" checkbox sets an identifying cookie with a late expiry date. Until that date, and unless you log out, the web site will recognize you (the server keeps a registry of what ID number correspond to which user). No need to authenticate on connection because the cookie is sent with each request.

Without the remember me option, the expiry time is short, say 30-60 minutes, but it may be renewed as long as the user is active. If you're inactive for a longer period, the cookie will be discarded, and the site will not recognize you anymore.

When you log out, the session reference is deleted on the server, and, optionally, the cookie is cleared in the browser.
One additional point that doesn't get much play in the debate about Nate Silver's numbers: political science, like economics, is a soft-science. You cannot 100% accurately predict the election based on polls, just as you cannot accurately predict market movements based on economic indicators. This is because the system is made up of self-aware human actors that respond to meta-information like Nate Silver's numbers. Even if the polls were 100% accurate in measuring voter sentiments, as soon as they are published they are picked up by political operatives and become part of the spin machine which changes those sentiments.

But if you want to use polling data, Nate Silver is demonstrating the least-bad way to do it.
The save button could be hidden for less distraction (Use SUPER + S to save) and logo + logout link on hover only.
I noticed. What do you think caused the drop?
This advisory seems to clear up Internet Explorer's reluctance: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2643584
s_client doesn't support SNI, so this is expected behavior. The client (s_client) doesn't know how to tell the server what hostname it's requesting during the handshake... so the server returns the default one. After the handshake completes, normal HTTP semantics kick in and the client/server have no problems... but by then it's too late, and the client has already negotiated based on the wrong cert.
A $50 Not-Really-Windows Tablet
I always used to wonder about the contents of the first mail when an acquisition offer is made. Sad if all read like this! I hope not.
Somehow, all of this implies that i would 100% of the time i find a post showing up on my wall being interesting like or comment it.. Which is just not true - i might skim over it, look at the attached picture and that's it...
They already have permission -- I believe Wikipedia content is licensed under the CC Attribution license.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moot_smiling_at_ROFLCon_II...

On a related note, I didn't see any attributions.
Were there any further messages or mails sent from the new "organizer"?
The welcome note is only on the bootstrap demo. You can signup from the homepage: http://easel.io , or from the 'I want an account' button on the demo. Documents you create with your own account wont have the welcome popup.
I'm not an EC2 expert, but I seem to recall there are security groups that you can define etc.

If you rely on a PaaS like Heroku or DotCloud, your consumers instances could change anytime, so there is probably no easy/reliable way (apart if they support the notion of security group in some way) to restrict the connections on the EC2 running Redis.

Just raw thoughts really - but I'd love to safely use Redis in the cloud, mixing Heroku/DotCloud or similar on one side, on RedIsGreen/RedisToGo on the other side!

Keep us posted on your findings :-)
Delicious demo
new interface for delicious.com
Sure does... thank you.
jim@kongregate.com
took a quick look, aren't those backlinks to subdomains? No idea what the product/service does but it appears subdomains are the main spam links, not the root.. So perhaps they were duped by spammers creating subdomains
I like it. It's simple and I guess it does what it says it does.

However, it's no different to other "minimal writers".

Plus, personally, I don't "just write". By that, I need formatting, I need bullet points. I need bold, italics, underlines if I want to emphasize, stress and make my point. It's great to just write things down and I guess this wouldn't be for heavily formatted documents, but I feel that it's just too minimal for my use.
Wild guess... are you on WinXP?

WinXP + any version of IE does not support TLS SNI... even though it does support TLSv1.0, it doesn't support the SNI extension. Supported in Vista and 7, though.

Chrome, Firefox, and Opera (on any platform) all support TLSv1.0, with or without SNI.
How I did it: Andrew Wilkinson from MetaLab
I'd imagine someone was dogfooding and had an 'ah hah!' moment when they hit a similar issue. Often the best way to spot anything missing.
Rap Beats Instrumental
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Do you have TLSv1.0 disabled (see briansmith's comment)?
Independent expert assessment of six strikes anti-piracy system
You should post a simple guided tour like how Yahoo does for their first time E-mail users or how google does for the new compose button. The app itself is excellent and your target audience I believe is not everyone, but specific web-designers with HTML+CSS knowledge - So you should try to make that clear. Right now, it looks as if it's meant for everyone and hence the "too complex" complaints. I'd give this a 5-star rating. I'm a designer myself and this would save me tons of time.

Keep up the good work, thanks! :)
Funny, me and a few friends have the same logic of 'if you've not slept it's the same day', thought we were just odd as I've come across no one else that had the same opinion.
Can banks disrupt themselves?
Looks great! I'd be curious to know how it compares to Divshot (http://divshot.com)?
No, just a generic "You were removed from this group" Meetup message.
That's entirely possible. In fact, I suspect that is what happened in AI in the early- to mid-'80's, judging by the number of people I know who lost jobs in the subsequent AI winter.
Heh. My Nokia from '07 does this, too :)
This is why everyone should test things... stuff like this falls out of good testing if you miss it on a first pass. :)

some people could learn from that idea - even if they already hire 1.5 testers for each programmer.

(yes i mean microsoft)
Yep, that's exactly what I was saying.
Why the fuck should I care about what is on Rick Santorum's web site??

And why the fuck should this be on Hacker News??
He should post a list of such things.
Interestingly enough, it appears they also have an A13[0] board for sale. It's a bit pricier at 45 euros.

[0] https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A13/A13-OLinuXino/
From a reasonable sized set of people I know who use Facebook Pages they saw a massive downward trend in engagement from people who liked the page at the same time Promoted Posts came in. Complete conjecture as I know a statistically small set of people in comparison to the number of people using Pages, but 30 people with the same issue is a bit of an odd situation.
> it is also an obvious shape for a tablet.

Only n the same way a coke bottle is an obvious shape for a soda bottle, and a BMW is an obvious shape for a car.

Hindsight is 20/20.
Is it by design that all notes are public?http://onword.co/100

Love the Interface.
downvote explanation? alluding to the notion that a open standards based mobile OS may be an ideal candidate for a state-funded tablet education push is bad because...why exactly?

ed: the above post is not meant to be sarcastic. dirty utopian hippie = optimistic in a good way
looks fantastic no doubt. i am hesitant to click the twitter auth button, however. maybe some sort of app preview would cure my (and possible some others') paranoia?

looks great, well done!
I would argue that the analog of "thrown together in an hour" PowerPoint presentations is not a professionally made stack of 35mm slides, but instead something more akin to an overhead projector: you could easily type them in your office and could make on-the-fly changes (albeit the result would be blatant it the slides weren't already hand-written).
That does not mean that this is a patent for a rounded rectangle, although it's a catchy thing to say such a patent would never be granted(even to apple). The whole point is that if another device managed to have the same dimensions and the exact same curvature it might be considered to infringe on this patent. That is however very unlikely unless, as the comment at the top states, the manufacturers of said device were actually trying to copy the ipad design.
One reason could be someone with downvoting rights downvoted this to oblivion.
Take a look at Clerky.
https://www.clerky.com/

From their web site:
Clerky helps startups
get the legal stuff done fast.

Incorporation, convertible notes, employee documents, NDAs - everything the typical startup needs.
Use Clerky to get your paperwork out of the way so you can get back to building your company.
Makes sense with them reducing the costs of their Windows Product. They need to make up that money somewhere.
Jetlore engineer, here. It's not magic, but we definitely agree we're onto something because this is indeed very hard.

If anyone has ideas for other content streams, including their own, you can email us and we may open up an endpoint that analyzes any text and returns its category along with unambiguous topics.

In general, we're excited to see what developers can do with our API. To try it out, be sure to check out our api demo:
http://www.jetlore.com/techdemo

By the way, some more details: we have semantic search. Try something like "indie rock" and it'll return posts about indie artists. You can also try music genres, movie genres, cuisines, and more.
>> Do you want to be the product being sold? You decide.

I wonder how many ads are for other ad supported products which in turn have ads for other ad supported products. Does the chain ever end? Sure Microsoft might make an extra few bucks, but I can't see this being a good long term strategy for their brand.
Palantir Hack Week 2012
I don't understand why so many people are taking issue with this and missing the obvious point. You don't need to know what the current date is. It's not asking you to schedule something in the past or in the distant future.

It's showing you the next two occurrences of the time you requested and asking if you want to be notified on the next occurrence of that time or the following one.
When not using parenthesis, humans speak in an unqualified (as in no special clarifications) left to right order.

Think of someone vocally (because that's often how people type --- as though they're speaking) telling you a series of arithmetic:

One plus two times three minus four plus three times two.

To vocally say that, in the above order, with proper math, it would probably be something like:
One, plus the result of two times six, minus four plus the result of four times two.
I have been looking for something like this (I´m trying to test some ideas), I think is a necessary tool.
But I find it confusing, make it more intuitive, after all this is not for an expert coder, is more for people who doesn´t know how to do it, isn´t it?.
I wonder what the increase in tourism and population is going to look like
http://kk.org/cooltools/

Also, kevin's Tool Shopping Strategies:

http://kk.org/cooltools/archives/7101

• The Best
• The Highest Common
• The Cheapest Possible
> This was sarcasm

No, it was irony.
Show HN: is this viable or just a geekout?
A social/relational buy/sell/trade marketplace interlinking supply and demand tag clouds. as well as a matching system: primary user tool is match control, which globally controls matches (buy/sell/trade) you can view in match view. go figure. match control further feeds into transaction analysis (BATNA) and fast-tracking / automation. I've had my head down writing my provisional patent, designing and coding, while meanwhile all these other social commerce sites have emerged. Is it too late?

Set your browser security settings to accept cookies from
http://androidsofmars.com

prototype url
http://androidsofmars.com/ineed

access: security pass codes (two fields): nice yams

* Facebook login is broken (so you can't experience "post my posting to facebook", etc)you can either register as a new user (some basic validation on input
requires "normal length" data such as name, address, zip, etc in addition to specified username/password length of 6 char), or, easier, you can sign
in as one of my test accounts (yinyang/yinyang) --- if you log in as yinyang, you can see what matches, transaction analysis, price recommendation, automation/ fast-tracking transactions looks like.

specific info links of interest (within the product, requires prior login above):

URL for written product overview
http://androidsofmars.com/ineed/manifesto2.php

URL for API widgets - web services api examples (there is a link to this in the match view footer as well)
http://androidsofmars.com/ineed/page_reader_test.php
This looks really cool!

I've used a lot of distraction-free writing tools in the past. First it was DarkRoom, then I tried that thingy that was/is a YC startup ... forget the name, but it had the feature of recording your editing so you could view it later. Lately I'm using iA Writer to write my book and it's the best I've used so far.

The idea behind iA Writer and Onword looks pretty much the same - take away my freedoms and force me to focus on the writing.

But I think iA Writer is better at it. Because it's native, it can take over my whole screen, very important because it then feels like I'm writing paper where the "screen" also doesn't have any other features. I also prefer iA's colour scheme ... but this is just a preference.

I will give Onword a try, but for any serious writing I would need files on a hard drive.
My friends do something similar, so you're not alone. I think it's just something that night-owls do.
That's true, the more careful version of the argument is that it's in such minute quantities that it could not possibly swing elections. In addition, to the extent any voter fraud does happen, it's extremely rare for it to be of the kind where voter ID would solve the problem, i.e. people voting under false identities. The most common kinds of voter fraud are people with perfectly legitimate documents, e.g. voting in both your old and new residence in the same election, under your real name with a real ID in both cases. Or, registering in a jurisdiction that isn't actually your primary residence.

Some numbers I can find for Texas: they convict about 5 people/year for voter fraud, of which 0.3/year are of the false-identity variety. (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/voter-fraud-real-rare/st...)
The problem is that "the best" is different for everyone. I can post some of the things that are the best to me, but it's also about the journey of finding out what really matters to you.
It's not crazy expensive compared to the value of the labor you're automating; but yes, it's steep for an individual if you're not yet producing revenue.

For something similar (and priced differently), we use software from http://emsoftware.com/ to import data into InDesign to automate some of the production of Kirkus Reviews' print magazine.
Imagine the rage from Amazon search results in Unity. Then this? Ouch. I was in disbelief that they would do this in shipping RT apps.
I was interpreting your stance as a verdict on the Romney campaign's behavior over the last couple months, rather than just last night. And a month or two ago, they were behind according to the polls but they definitely could have still won.

Pennsylvania and Wisconsin I think are evidence of exactly the opposite: they knew they were going to lose Ohio and they had money to burn, so they threw a hail mary. Because why not?
I love the idea of having very few things, but getting rid of the stuff I already have feels daunting.

I'd be happy to donate most of it, but I'd have to sort through everything, figuring out if each thing is worth selling, donating, or throwing away, then figuring out where to sell, donate, or throw it away, then actually doing it.

Anyone who has gone through the process, do you have any suggestions?
It's a rounded rectangle.

Let's take our time machine back to 1981:

http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...

"""
Steve suddenly got more intense. "Rectangles with rounded corners are everywhere! Just look around this room!". And sure enough, there were lots of them, like the whiteboard and some of the desks and tables. Then he pointed out the window. "And look outside, there's even more, practically everywhere you look!". He even persuaded Bill to take a quick walk around the block with him, pointing out every rectangle with rounded corners that he could find.
"""