skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This whole conversation is kind of strange, but let's play along anyway.

If you deal shop, you can get the price down:.

[1] $40 Raspberry Pi - Model B, because that's all that's available (includes $5 shipping)
[2] $10 Enclosure (some DIY required)
[3] $116 WD 2TB Hard Drive (selected WD because that is [apparently] what Apple uses)
Total: $166

That's an aggressive HD price, and remember, you need an external HDD. A lot of the pricing being thrown around here is for internal drives. Regular price on the drive I spec'd was $180. There are always deals to be had though. The price may be more depending on your timing.

The case I spec'd is extremely DIY as well. If you went with something nicer, you'd spend more as well. It's kind of hard to justify a crappy case when you're comparing to a Time Capsule.

So if you add in $20 for a HDD price not-so-on-sale and $10 for a nicer case (Adafruit is decent), you're looking at $196, which is edging up toward the cost of a Time Capsule, and that's not factoring in time for configuration.

The whole point here is that you don't do projects like this to save money. You do projects like this for the fun and learning experience, or to have greater control/flexibility. If you go in to this project to save money, then I think you're barking up the wrong tree.

1 - Pick a vendor any vendor (pricing is standard)

2 - http://blujay.com/item/Black-Electronic-Project-Box-100-x-60...

3 - http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-3-5-Inch-Internal-Desk...
jailbreaking _phones_ is _possibly temporarily_ legal, as an exception to DMCA by the Librarian of Congress which has to be explicitly renewed every few years.

Jailbreaking tablets is not legal.

Providing or distributing software intended to help you jailbreak is also illegal, even though jailbreaking may be legal.

See the EFF on this (and donate some money to them!): https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/11/2012-dmca-rulemaking-w...
One thing I really like about this is the Python snippets alongside the chart, right there on the front page. It's unobtrusive but gives me an immediate feel for how script x could produce chart y.

If these aren't just stylized and you could make them live editable somehow you'd really be onto something.
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My take on iTunes 11
They actually aren't even in the US yet. They're only located in Southern Ontario.
Is this really an "induction-style" algorithm? (I haven't actually heard that term before.) I usually associate induction with taking some large input and shrinking it at each step until you hit some base case. This is really the opposite of induction--it starts with a base case (1) and grows the output, which makes this sound a bit more like co-induction.

Another way to think about it would be that he defined a little finite-state automaton to compute the answer. You just run the automaton for as many steps as you want, noting down what it outputs each time. I think this is actually very much like what a programmer would write if tasked with solving FizzBuzz in an online streaming fashion (rather than for some bounded n).

Maybe it's just my bias towards functional programming showing, but I actually think this approach is fairly intuitive. In fact, I would have probably come up with something structurally similar (differing only in details).
I've personally noticed a huge productivity boost by switching to coffeescript. It's anecdotal, but there's something to it I'm sure.
Then the phone company should be charged for the same content that went through their wires.
Great timing on this post! It reminded me to check on the status of OpenWRT 12.09, and I see that the first release candidate came out a week ago ago. 12.09 includes a netatalk 3 package. If like me you have a wireless router with USB ports, OpenWRT should provide a great platform for building your own "time capsule".
Either way. I imagine silicon hardware that we intelligently designed would be easier to backup than messy biology we hardly understand.
Since git is a distributed version control system, why not create replicas of your important repos so in the event of an outage you have alternatives? Anything with a working ssh can be used as a host, it doesn't have to be fancy. GitHub's hooks make it easy to write things that can react to push notifications.

BitBucket has made strides in improving their front-end app, but it's still far, far behind GitHub in terms of features and integration.
The thread is deeper than two posts.
"The problem is this: somehow we mutated universities into a place where everyone goes in order to get a job."... That is indeed fair. The parent I assume is talking about the current general perception about universities in US.
> with one exit under my belt and a good deal of financial security, I will be in an even better position to succeed the next time around

Why is an exit defined as success? Success should be building and maintaining a business that can annually bring you in a ton of cash, keep you relatively sane, keep loads of people from your country's economy in employment and above all provide goods or services that will make someone else's life/work a little easier.

You want to make a business of selling businesses, fair enough but I disagree that that is what we should all be doing.
If you just want to sell leads there are some basic lead distribution platforms out there like boberdoo.com. We built our own in-house. If you have a lot of custom stuff you want to do, find a CTO.
I remember in the early 2000's when I told my friend, "I got a RIM-job." He laughed. I didn't get it. I got it.

I really do hope that RIM regains some of the ground they've lost. The playing field is starting to level off. In the next 18 months, I predict (crystal ball is out) that a handful of manufacturers will have nearly equal (buzzword)ecosystems. For RIM to be successful again, they MUST shock the market; do something to competitors aren't doing. It will no longer be about hardware specs, software features & functions nor ecosystem. They need to revisit Mike L's vision for innovation.
Slightly offtopic tangent:

So by now we're all aware that these are already ubiquitous in Europe.

The question I have is why it took so long to reach the US? Why didn't the main shipping companies there like FedEx and UPS step up and use their existing infrastructure to build something like this, much more easily than a startup could do.
ABC: Always be contributing.
Surface Pro to Have Half the Battery Life of Surface RT
multivariate or multivariant?

Full disclosure: I help with this project and it's quite awesome.
in japan, it is even more prevalent to some extend than in germany. e.g., amazon will ship to any convenience store for you to pick your parcel up. raktuen etc. as well!
and there are way, way more convenience stores in japan than anything else (apart from vendin machines :))!
It's rather unfortunate that tab is also used for keyboard navigation between fields, since this would be the default behavior of text areas I would like.
Sammy 2
If you need a quick TLDR on the conference, Warmgun is a 1 day conference on measurable design. Great for startups, growth hackers, you name it.
You are confusing "valid email address" with "a valid email address, functioning mail server and user with appropriate credentials to access the system that processes email for the supplied email address."
"Trustworthy" and "Trusted" Computing are different.
>I think his point is that real top-tier developers are going to despite working with such a grotty language as PHP

Actual top-tier developers don't fret much about it. Complaining about some language's warts is mostly for bike-shedding and blogging types. PG, that writes about blub languages and who-cool-is-list, used Perl in ViaWeb too (which is as inelegant a mess as PHP is, but at the time was good for web work).

Top tier developers get shit done in whatever language. And most of them rarely ever comment or blog.
Yes, so much easier to use your own machine for development just because you have control over everything. I'm sure some people need specialized machines, but for most... sticking to one laptop or ssh server really simplifies everything.
Well yeah, unless you own *.wordpress.com, the certificate and domain belongs to wordpress.com, not you. You're in their hands.
Thing is, it still is cmd+space away. Launchpad would make sense if it was easier to "configure", but I simply ignore it... my parents however, really like it.
Amazon delivers to 7-11.

And FedEx Store (what used to be Kinko's) is pitching their network to retailers as well, I picked up a bunch of Walmart.com there.

Not sure it's going to be that big of a game changer.
Requests: Simple Way to make HTTP Requests in PHP
Will "Merry Christmas" really double the conversion rate over "Happy Holidays"?
Have a look at http://www.imperialviolet.org/2012/07/19/hope9talk.html for a glimpse of the future:)
Why HTTP/2.0 does not seem interesting (July 2012)
Are you just looking for git repository hosting or also issue tracking plus wiki? The former is much cheaper than the latter.
how the entire internet is twisted and malformed because of copyright laws

I'm even more confused now than I was before. Thanks for trying.
>The edge matters for investors. Yes, Apple can continue to trundle along making about what it does now for a good long while, but their stock is generally priced for growth

That's true, but I don't care much for investors. I was happy with Apple in 2002-3, when it was 1/50 today's size, because it had the product I wanted: a bloody usable Unix that can run proprietary apps, and good hi-end laptops.

I wish companies were less relied in investors and the stock market and more on their actual production and revenues. Then you wouldn't have some social BS selling for several billion dollars only to die out a couple of years later...
Yes, it's distributed

I use mr to keep my multiple repositories in sync (And they all laugh at me!) across hosts in places where git submodule seems inappropriate and there's no android 'repo' manifest.

If you're paying, "but it's distributed" does not ease the pain. You didn't buy a GitHub account because of the 'Git' -- you can get that for free! You bought it because of the 'Hub' and if you made it your hub, now you're dead in the water, scrambling to find another place to coordinate.

At least I guess that's the point of this article. Not sure. Doesn't look down to me, and I'm not a paying user.

*EDIT: I see it's only some users/repositories that are down, and it's not a general outage. I wonder if it's only paying users.
it also has TONS of players in it.. my first job out of college was at a small lead gen company that had about 5 people working there. the key i think that company had was a crazy good( or just persistent) salesman that looped in the big players in the various niches, ADT, Brinks, Wheaton, etc..
Do you mean that you can't bypass the certificate warning anymore in Firefox? (or will not in the near future)

If that is so, what is your reasoning behind it?
It's not the worst way, but it's far from being the best way.

Sometimes you don't want the user to stop what they are doing, wait for an email to arrive, hope it doesn't land in spam, read it, click then link, and then continue. This is usually the case if you want them to buy something.

Secondly, what happens when they don't get the email? We had lots of problems where people where signing up from the following domains: gmail.cm, gmail.co, gmail.con, tmail.com, gmail.oom, gamil.com, hotamail.com, homtail.com, etc.

You want to firstly do some simple checks to see if it looks roughly like an email address. I like to see if it matches \S+@\S+\.\S+ (and ignore the few people with a top-level domain). Then you want to validate the actual domain to see if it's a misspelling of a popular address.
Wow. About every three years I find out that zombo.com still exists, and am surprised and delighted all over again.
And you can ignore Launchpad in Lion and Mountain Lion as if it were Snow Leopard.

Honestly, I don't notice most of the changes. And full screen mode for apps is much better than expanding a window to fit the screen.

Granted all I really use is chrome/firefox/emacs/terminal but really I don't see why everyone continues to whine about the changes. They're minimal to non-existent to users like us.
"Showdead: "noprocrast", "maxvisit", and "minaway" are not new.

Showdead shows killed threads and hellbanned comments.

Noprocrast locks you out of HN for minaway minutes once you have been logged in for maxvisit minutes.

See: http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Notifo is new to me. Maybe a public email address?

Delay is new to me as well.
This should be the definition of a modern society.
And select private locations in Mountain View (ex: YC, Google).
I wonder what would happen if we replace "Happy Hannukkah" or "Eid Mubarak" with 'Happy Holidays'
Hey Ross, thanks for sharing that. I went through a similar experience with my first company in Chicago back in the late 90's.

Will you be getting out to Denver often? Drop me a note next time you're in town. (I'm in Boulder.)
> "...the way to getting people to stop pirating content is to provide an alternative method of distribution... Steam, iTunes, Netflix..."

I agree with your point to an extent. The thing is that they're not exactly viable alternatives yet. Each service you mentioned operates off the same distribution model, each with their own custom DRM that sandboxes the user from leaving that platform.
Because inspiration is not continuous but sudden.

Don't ask. Just do it.
Get crazy with your colors too, random and fashionable vim/emacs/textmate themes here:
http://sweyla.com/themes/
Dashboards and performance: driving a 50% increase in social referrals
Why not use git, gitolite, and gitweb on your internal network?
HTML5 form tags plz
Wish we can get input type="email" required instead
This guy came up with a similar idea 2 years ago.

http://txchnologist.com/post/33432483866/txchnical-improveme...
If you want more control I recommend the open source gitlabhq (http://gitlabhq.com/) - we run it for our repos, plus you can be in control of number of repos allowed per user. I consistently create repos for proof of concept or side projects that I wouldn't normally be able to do in github unless I wanted them all public. I don't particularly want people seeing unfinished or unpolished code

Gitlabhq has worked well for us, and it's open source.
Nicely done. A couple of things I noticed...

- When panning the UI to show the left menu, it doesn't always open when the touch ends, even if it's mostly open.

- If there are no comments tapping on the "no comments" cell selects it blue and there is no deselect.

- Comments 'meta data' is displayed as "on (null) :username"

Overall it's a nice app, and a really good job for a "learning" project.

(iOS 6.0.1 iPhone 5)
Someone should update this McSweeney's list: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/e-mail-addresses-it-would...
Picture this: BufferBox driverless cars - Automated mailmen. They can meet you at your house (notify your phone), or they can intercept with your driverless car while you're in transit to work.
bird in the hand is better then two in the bush.
oDesk.com is spying after you.
BitBucket is an Atlassian product, I believe in Atlassian quality and recommend BitBucket will all my heart, its super realiable and also very cheap.
Until HTML5 gets into core, just use django-floppyforms.
Thanks @seats. I was a Rackspace customer with via a previous company a few years ago and wasn't happy with their reliability and pricing. I'm leaning towards Linode because they offer the most similar Slicehost experience and have excellent pricing. I don't have personal experience with their reliability yet, but from my research its top notch.
There's also `acpi -b`, which I think is available on most linux distros.
Direct uploading like this has been possible for at least two years. However, in our tests it turned out that Amazon was silently losing some files >100MB (and almost all files ~1GB).

On the AWS forums it was clear that AWS was aware of this consistent problem, but was not able to fix it, and not willing to document it.

They eventually released "multipart upload", which remains the only reliable way to get large files to S3. Unfortunately, multipart upload is nearly impossible to implement as a web app (short of resorting to e.g. Java).
The only reason that's necessary is because the game advances you regardless of finding the keys. This is because there is much reduced expectation of commitment from the gamer, and if they can't find the key and get stuck, there's greater chance they'll leave before the advertising message is satisfactorily conveyed.
Spectagram Rolls Out Instagrams Embeddable Strategy for Them
But, SPOILER ALERT... If you don't break all the locks in time, you don't rescue the princess (though she does drop her flute)
Time Capsule for $25
Currently, if you're applying for an H1-B visa for someone from the UK (don't remember 100% if it is the same for all countries, though I believe it is), you're applying for them to arrive late in 2013 (IIRC - we may even be onto the next cycle now).

For a lot of companies, this is just an intolerable delay. Needs might change too much in that time.
Every movie ever published by a MPAA affiliate company has lost money, went in the hole and whatnot. Even that lowly named mass loser called Star Wars.

Or that's what they tell the IRS.

This isn't a battle over who's more morally right. Save that crap argument for church sermons. This is Hollywood politics: the kind when you jump state lines to get away from camera patents.
Should be there in Jan/Feb. Tweet me @tallross with your info and we'll connect. Thanks!
The thing is, on a trackpad it makes more sense now after getting used to our phones touch.

Also its a quick defaults away to change back to the old way.

defaults write -g com.apple.swipescrolldirection -bool false

I find it amusing that on a site like Hacker News people are complaining about vastly simple things to change. If they remove the choice maybe then complain, but this is a vast non-issue compared to the tweaking I have to do on linux.
So many Europeans surprised they do something better than America.
Open Windows Store Applications in Desktop Mode
Thanks skylarsch, I will take a look at those issues you've mentioned.
as a journalist... his job is the very OPPOSITE of "fighting for any excuse for his action." REALLY weak
Minimalicious testing in Ruby 1.9 with MiniTest
As of August, they think they are on their way to a solution: http://www.quora.com/Facebook-Engineering/Has-Facebook-solve...
Can you still save and reload until the Death Hand actually hits something useful?
Any dev who can write Java can write Objective-C, and there would be real benefit in switching.

> for all but a handful of companies like Google and Facebook

I think this is a mischaracterization. A lot of companies need something at Java's strength or above on the backend. It is a common problem. And organizations with those needs will account for the majority of web traffic.

> heavy number crunching

Also a mischaracterization. Even simple tasks become computationally challenging when you're doing them for a large audience.
As far as I can tell from their wiki, OpenDUNE was created by disassembling the original game and recoding the assembly in C. I wouldn't say the copyright issue is clear-cut, here.
A majority of the features described in the article are standard on all platforms. The first paragraph in the article didn't inspire me to think these were features the Blackberry alone could do. Like the different alerts? Pretty sure that's been a standard on all phones since about 2001.
An exit is not universally defined as success. Success is defined by the person who builds the company.

>Success should be building and maintaining a business that can annually bring you in a ton of cash, keep you relatively sane, keep loads of people from your country's economy in employment and above all provide goods or services that will make someone else's life/work a little easier.

Selling my company allows me to do all those things (although my cash is coming in up-front, for the most part, which means I can likely grow that money a lot faster than I could have if I got it over many years).

To each his own...
> And you have no right to expect a web form will let you enter your address with nested comments.

While nested comments are a bit extreme, I'm not a fan of the attitude that a user has "no right" to use features that are a documented part of the spec. Just because a feature is uncommon or doesn't seem important to you doesn't mean it's not important to some small subset of your users.

For example, that's not far from saying that a user has "no right" to put +tag in their email address (after all barely anyone uses that), but some people find this extremely valuable.
There are still a number of types of dialogs that are not tab-modal. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=616843 and the bugs it depends on. alert() should be tab-modal content, though, and is for me.
Qt? BB10 offers support for frameworks like PhoneGap.
yeah they recently got all the requirements.txt stuff right - approved!
Medically this is untrue. You need to understand the actual definition of "addiction" before making statements like this.
I felt that it was a silly and a sarcastic reply and I sure hope its not hell-ban worthy of tptacek or anyone for that matter. Especially on Friday.
Everyone just needs to take it a bit easier (c)
Model brain with 2.5 million neurons configures itself to solve problems
I use and can recommend bitbucket. I can recall one outage in the last couple of months (and that was website only, ssh push and pull were working just fine).

Also, have in mind that bitbucket is much smaller than github so they might not have their scaling/stability issues yet.
Their status page is http://status.bitbucket.org/
Congrats! BufferBox has an awesome intro video.
Oh, I totally agree: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4236351

But I wanted to read about it more in-depth and gain an understanding beyond my and your speculation. For whatever reason, I have a macabre pet interest in Groupon.
Turn Weakness into Strength
even the backward Poland had such boxes for at least several years now: http://inpost.pl. I'm really surprised Google picked them.
Good app, pretty useful when following HN.
Would be nice to have a STAR feature. You can star stories and quickly access them to follow the comments feed or get notifications when new comments arrive
Behind the Picture: The Photo That Changed the Face of AIDS
As tongue in check as this post seems to me I actually think this is one possible way that things could go. I see massive disruption in the next 10 years in regards to the amounts of jobs that could easily become irrelevant once this sort of tech matures. It will be a very interesting space to watch. A Google + Uber partnership could be very kewl as well. We could get our goods, our transportation, internet and knowledge all from the an advertising company. Frightening and exciting at the same time. I think we live in very interesting times.
With Windows 8, the same thing is happening to Windows, leaving Linux as the only real "desktop" OS. Even there, you have stuff like Unity, but Linux's flexibility lets you choose not to use it. This is what my Xubuntu desktop looks like, and I don't intend to change it any time soon: http://i.imgur.com/mVAey.png
Interesting, I had always thought that since the album was dedicated to him, that Eulogy was also related. It works either way, really.
But like I explained in detail above, using Mercurial bookmarks it is tedious to avoid pushing your throw-away branch to the main repository, and you can't simply delete the branch when you're done with it. Git is much superior in this regard.
http://rainbowstalin5.ytmnd.com/
Multipart is not at all impossible from a webapp (depending on your browser requirements). FileReader API is available across all browsers (except IE < version 10, which I admit is a big problem). For IE, you can resort to some other solution (perhaps Silverlight, or Flash?)