skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ok, I didnt make myself clear. By "everyone" I meant everyone that knew what Internet is.

In terms of penetration and reach-wise, there is no difference between MySpace and Facebook. While there may be 100MM on MySpace and 800MM on Faceook, the difference is that back then much fewer people were aware that internet exists.

If anything, I dont find "facebook killer" to be harder to achieve just because FB reach is so great. Things go viral nowadays; if something cooler comes along, then it will be spread across FB. I rather find it hard to find something that users would value more than hanging out with friends online.
Yes, I'm just trying to work out who at Virgin to contact to find out the details of said Court Order
Runs about 6-7 fps on my iPhone 5.
Exactly. Reddit could fit real life profiles and anon pseudonyms equally and powerfully.
Please don't call Samsung gimmicks "Android". Nothing Samsung has ever shoehorned into Android has been useful.

And efficient multi-tasking _can_ be very nice. For example, Android has a dedicated app-switching button. One tap shows you a list of your last-used apps, about 5 visible without scrolling. It makes it insanely fast to swap between apps. On iOS you have to double tap a physical button. If not that, then you can tap it once and select your next app from the home screen. The problem now is that because that one button has been overloaded, it always has to wait and make sure there's no second tap coming before it can take you to the springboard. That small delay is pretty annoying once you get used to Android, which isn't limited to one button.
Signed up, also we use to have a lunch meetup (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=541044). Going to post to that list as well about the new meetup group.
Over what frequency range can the dongle be tuned? What is its useful bandwidth, and is it limited by the radio/sampler or the USB interface? Also, what sort of sensitivity/noise figure do you get? Any comments on inter-modulation performance?

Lots of questions, but I'm curious as to how these receivers compare to a more traditional rig, and where the limits of performance lie.
It doesn't work for Youtube. Only videos on the device. It's a joke.
Exactly, and the OP is getting good feedback.
I second this sentiment, I run http://www.schoolnotez.com/ and it uses localStorage...the ease of using simple key/value pairs for storage is nice, however it comes with some maintenance challenges.
While this is cool, isn't this exactly what WebGL is for? I know drivers/support is an issue, but Chrome also ships with a multicore software renderer (SwiftShader) which can probably get a lot further than a JS putImageData engine.
I agree with your sentiments. It's actually completely broken for my uses now. The only use it has for me is looking at things my friends have been up to - photos, updates, that sort of thing.

But now the weird algorithm they have gets it completely wrong. I get treated to an endless feed list of stupid cat photos from someone I haven't spoken to since high school, and yet a close friend posts a picture of them with the kids at the beach and it never shows up, probably because they only post once per month.

I try and click 'most recent' for my feed and then the dates get inverted and I end up seeing something posted a month ago.

Notwithstanding all the inserted sponsored stories (whatever, I get that they need to pay the bills), the fact that the newsfeed isn't any longer a newsfeed, but an algorithmically curated list of what it thinks I might like means that it has become useless and unreliable. Sure I can probably tweak settings to get it to work again, but why not just have it the way it was?

I check it less and less and I will probably drop off altogether in the next year or so. The network effect can work in reverse - if none of your friends are using it any longer, there is less incentive to use it yourself.

I much prefer Twitter as it is right now - it just shows your feed and it's up to you to add/remove people who contribute to your feed. Add some simple innovations to Twitter like an easy way to make a group of followers private for tweets, and the ability to load albums rather than single photos for tweets, and it would completely replace Facebook for my personal use.

The other problem Facebook faces is like that of any fashion label, movie franchise or performer - becoming old hat. There will become a point where Facebook is something that your parents use, and therefore to be avoided at all costs. But when the parents feel like using it less, and the kids won't go there, I can see lots of trouble heading down the pike.
Understood, but the point here is that promobay.org doesn't actually link to copyright material or anything else of such a nature.

Promobay.org was just banned because it has a weak affiliation to a method of desceminating content, some of which could in certain circumstances be copyright material - but ultimately that is up to the USER and not the website to which promobay is related.

Edit: grammar.
Nice :) Shows you how fast ARM is progressing...
Who do you think was responsible for implementing the filter in the first place? The courts may have been responsible for extending it, but there should never have been a filter introduced in the first place to be extended. Filtering has been proven to be very ineffective, expensive and detrimental to an open society. The Internet might have it's grey areas, but filtering doesn't benefit anyone other than the lobbyists acting on behalf of the entertainment industry averse to change.
How to Use Twitter Friends As Sensors to Detect Disease Outbreaks
How script kiddies can hijack your browser to steal your password
Not sure why you didn't link to the original post? http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2012/11/triple-rainbow.html
Huh, so it's not. Thanks for the interesting read!
Hmm, the majority of this is about implementation, not semantics. I like looking at choices made in the Kyoto family of lisps versus most other CL implementations as good examples of tradeoffs when embedding.
and be sure to check out rachelbythebay's awesome projects about logging emergency communications, very impressive.
"China where 99.9% people steal."

That's a pretty sweeping statement not to be backed by a source with a figure even remotely resembling 99.9%.
Jacque, interesting concept. I'm curious, is this a simple arbitrage opportunity competing physical shipping rates to bandwidth costs?

What happens when bandwidth costs decrease over time?
When I tried to connect it to my G+ account, I found the app apparently owned by some random [name][birthyear]@gmail.com account which I honestly find a bit suspicious..

And while it seems like a credible product with plenty of Google-like branding, I can't seem to find anywhere it actually states explicitly that it's in fact a Google product.
Am I missing something?
I think the point is democratic states should (need) not have intelligence agencies with unlimited powers. They corrupt the state as they establish themselves as a central pillar of power (next to the military and the government).

They don't even have any historical roots in western political systems. The country with the claim to that is Russia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okhrana), where they were commonly used to quell internal unrest and combat opposition.
Joining groups could be a solution.
With existing tech? Probably not a whole lot. I think that once more people have faster connections we'll start seeing new tech to take advantage of it.
Obligatory flash port: http://wonderfl.net/c/sqL5
Were the choices announced?
Well, yes and no. I remember reading, when I was in my teens, about a star guard in Louisiana who spent 8 or 10 hours a day playing basketball during his summers. I realized then that "adequate driveway player" was about where I was and would remain; I didn't have the drive to put in that kind of work. I realized also, though, that a) my body probably wouldn't stand up to that kind of intense work, and b) even if it did, I would be a much better but not much more than high-school JV quality.

That said, the best do work damned hard.
They don't mean to grab particular information about every individual. They want to ensure completeness of their data mining results.
What is stopping you from making purchases with Bitcoin?
Kubrick // One-Point Perspective (Video)
Thanks for remembering Bada :-)

I totally agree there's still a sort of draw for who the third one will be, but I think it's quickly converging towards WP8 due mainly to Nokia's bet on it...
> I'd like to understand why this Quartz guy is jizzing all over this company

Probably been promised a free phone: wait until he gets an old N9 as demo phone without DIY flash instructions.
You know that there exists a manual override -- see less/more/no updates from a certain user, right?
That minviable concept looks familiar....I wonder where I have seen that before cough 5KMVP cough :)
The move to MTP was because Android now uses a virtual file system that unifies the SD card and internal storage, making it unsafe to allow a foreign OS to munge the content of the filesystem at the block level.

This is why it uses MTP for storage, as explained by Android engineer Dan Morrill: http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/mg14z/whoa_whoa_ics...
What's the point of talking about salaries at startups?

I don't understand why you would give priority to a salary figure at a startup. It's largely illusory. The startup could shutdown 2 weeks from now and nobody will pay you anything.

If you're just after a high salary, join an established corporation. If you're after equity, or working on cutting edge stuff, join a startup.
Tarantino // From Below (Video)
In your defense, after the first few rounds of YC I remember VCs and bloggers squawking about all YC companies being features and not products, and that you were deliberately mass producing acqui-hires.

To me, it's clear that the quality of the average YC company has gone up.
Forget about the Constitution. Rather, they should respect basic human rights and the principles of the Enlightenment. All this focus Americans put on their Constitution makes it easier for their government to become oppressive, because it encourages complacency. As though you could write the perfect set of laws, that you could define the perfect set of operating principles for your government, and in that way free yourself of tyranny forever and guarantee a free and open society for you and all your descendants. No, the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
Yes, it makes me question the legitimacy of the whole project. In addition to the surprising smoothness, the picture of the bridge is in (washed out) color, although they said color wouldn't be available until 2014. And how is the case drawing power? I would expect there to be a bulge at the base of the case. Also, they showed touch-sensitivity in the video. Is that real?

According to his LinkedIn profile, Gregory Moon is an MD. I couldn't see Yashar Behzadi's LinkedIn profile, but he's listed under "Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing," which is a bit reassuring. Still, I want to see evidence of a real prototype.
I like this idea, but like some of the others are saying, this raises too many questions.

Where does my drive go? What is a "secure location"? Who will have access to all my data? Who are you? Why should I trust you?

This definitely looks MVPish, and the idea is VERY intriguing....but I need more peace of mind before I dump all my data on a hard drive that arrived in the mail.
I too have been teaching Git for many years now.

I find it easy to teach, thanks the concepts being simple and clear. I don't have to transfer a lot of information before people can start reasoning about things themselves and independently finding out more.

I always try to make sure people understand two things:

1) The history tree (==how to read the metro-map that is gitk)

2) Distribution, that you are responsible for syncing with others, not the other way round

Almost everything else I prefer the students at least try to figure out themselves.
Some day, we'll look back on the days of a mobile OS being announced every few months and chuckle.

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-01-13/
Agreed. The turnaround time sounds nice, but I'm wondering what the feedback will be.

If it's just a poll system then I'm a bit leery, as that could easily be feigned.
Yes, Android is the first mover in the market and also iOS is quite dominant in the rich areas (BeiShangGuangShen). It is the toughest market to deal with, even with the help of D.Phone... why? They would have to compete with local brands like Meizu and Xiaomi (Android) which release good quality for an affordable price. I expect Jolla wants to aim for the richer group of people, like Vertu does(/did)... but these does not shop at D.Phone...
Really good advice there. The summary is: 1.) get 10 hours of sleep a night when working on new concepts; this is the key to being able to focus. 2.) Instead of thinking you're stupid, be at peace and accept the fact that the subject matter is hard.

Looks like a great book.
Cocoa Controls now supports CocoaPods
Making a Sporting Bet: Machine Learning in Sports
Sounds like a VPN will completely and invisibly bypass the block. So the filtering will only inconvenience the least sophisticated (and from the point of view of the "content industry," the least scary) violators.

It's a plan that might have been drafted by the highest levels of organized piracy, to keep the hoi polloi in their thrall.
For context: this group just presented at the AngelHack SF Hackathon (I'm one of the judges).

It's funny, but Twitter will clearly drop the hammer on this. It's bad for the ecosystem overall.
Sigh. Routers are an interception technology.
I'm not disagreeing with the sentiment of this petition, but it strikes me as mostly preaching to the choir given the driving issues here. Governments want the right to cut off Internet in a crisis...and the countries who think that's a good idea do so no matter what established democracies think. It's like signing a petition for peace...the right thing to do, maybe, but it's not really a debate.
I'm not seeing details on whether the Lightning port is still available for docking & data. The 'specs' say that it uses the lightning port for power, but not if you can still plug in your own device.

I don't think you can because of this (from the site FAQ):
How do I charge my phone with popSLATE?

There is a micro-USB charging port on your popSLATE that passes charge through to your phone so you don't have to take the cover off.
This shows how far the browser has to go....was it just me, or did your browser start to choke while rendering this?

It rendered it fine, but I could tell that the DOM was being abused heavily. I don't mean that in a bad way, but it just felt very 'heavy'.

On the flip side, this is awesome that the browser can do this - and it's awesome that browsers can do this.
Yep, HN is one of the few places to get honest (read: harsh!) feedback from smart people to help improve a very early stage product.

Thanks again to everyone!
Email is broken
Id say your math is on par from a purely financial perspective.

While you touched on it, if you additionally factor in your pay from a per hour cost perspective the equation can get even more extremely lopsided. Many employees who frequent the startup world won't like to admit it or may not realize it, but the majority of employees who stick with startups incur a decent sized opportunity cost from a financial perspective and the hope is that that can be squashed at some point down the line with a home run exit (these are indeed rare). Your median (note the word median not average) big corp engineer is going to be financially better off than your median startup engineer employee.

So why do people do it? Some people find the environment to be fun and exciting - it usually involves more creativity and quick thinking than a big corp. Some people find that they can get a fancier title easier at a startup (ex. not too unusual to find a startup with a CTO who is few years out of college). Some people have to live in SF/NY and want to be apart of the scene. Some people want to have a big impact in their company and find it easier to do in a startup. Some people want to always have the chance to make millions no matter the odds.

If you're just looking at it primarily financially and you are level headed enough to not be woo-ed by Aaron Sorkin movies, the truth is that the math for the average outcome will never work out for startups (as an employee). Id say the best options are work for big-corp, start your own startup, or have a strong non-financial reason to join a startup as an employee.
Ouch, that's a spicy meatball. Awesome monitor, but such a hefty price tag. I think I'll stick with my two modest and cheap 27" LG monitors instead.
For a place that exists because of an engineer field, the Valley seem pretty prone to cargo cult thinking, fads, and superstition.
You know, it's just so hard to argue with people who are being condescending. Your post here is just dripping with superiority, whereas I've done my utmost to stay polite. Even if I believe that my point of view is valid, it just isn't worth the stress of talking about it here. This isn't "you've managed to convince me", it's "I no longer care to be abused".
This group presented at the Angelhack SF hackathon (I'm a judge).

It's simple and only works in certain use cases where you need more immediate feedback, esp. the polling stuff. However, it definitely has its uses.

Good job, guys!
JSON not having comments is a deliberate design decision (a feature if you want). The reason is if it supported comments, they would have ended up being used to for meta languages and parse directives that would have created JSON documents that could not be parsed or processed by all JSON parsers -- it would have fragmented the JSON ecosystem quite a bit. So it might seem like an accidental bug or omission but it is not it is on purpose and I agree with it.
Wait...so your two options are buy from Amazon or pirate? Amazon is basically the worst corporation on the face of the earth. Supporting a small publisher -- especially a small publisher willing to publish Julian Assange, books about Bradley Manning, and books about Wikileaks, is basically a decent thing to do.
Attackers at U.S.-Afghan Base Wore Coalition Uniforms (Jalalabad)
Pardon the tangent, but what is the name of the steakhouse? (In case I find myself in Tokyo.)
The endless tiny bars, restaurants, shops in Japanese cities made me realise how vibrant huge cities can be. I wish my city Melbourne was more like that. For sure in the case of Japan it is to do with limited space and dense population, but zoning rules, cost of rent, cost of liquor licensing etc. surely all influence the viability of such tiny businesses...

Melbourne does alright but could be better. The way liquor licenses are designed skews the market towards fewer, much larger bars.

EDIT: I wasn't really thinking about your larger point when I wrote this - but I agree with my sibling - the tradeoff is a feature, not a bug. I think Tokyo and Kyoto are remarkable cities because they are not winner-take-all markets: the amount of niches the cities support is incredible.
At any one moment, the price of lots of things might be rising. Sometimes corn, sometimes orange juice, sometimes gold, others palladium. How am I to know when I should put all my money in a commodity or tradable instrument? There are reasons we don't use soybean oils as our currency, and one of them is "unpredictable drastic spikes in the value of a currency aren't a good thing".
Just think about this: every time you are on a bar, most of the people (if not all except yourself (maybe)) is on Facebook. Try to make that generalization about anything else.
This is HN-relevant because Jalalabad hosted the "Jalalabad Guest House" which had the MIT Fab Lab -- a project to let Afghans have access to Internet, a makerbot, etc. I stayed there a few times (it also had a bar...), and it was one of the very few bright points about the US occupation.

Jalalabad used to be safe enough to walk around without a weapon (although, in local dress, but not seriously hidden), shop downtown, visit the local hospital (we set up a wifi node on top of a water tower), etc.

Now, it's not. That's not really progress. The US should GTFO Afghanistan now.
Make sure you get namespaces right, right now.

This is one of the biggest problems in Matlab, and 20+ years later, they still can't fix them, and the namespace problem is still huge.
I just don't get it. First, the ideology behind the service seems to be predicated on a straw man: few people think that cloud backup services are insecure, untrustworthy or otherwise worrisome. Moreover, the physical aspect seems to be a gimmick intended to demonstrate the philosophy of the service: this will be an exact replica of what you put on the drive. The results are the same, though, as the ultimate goal is to expose the data via a web service (with the option to receive a physical copy as well).

Moreover, there is a greater requisite time investment to use a service like this, insofar as one has to perpetually move the data to the drive, then take it to the post office. There is also the added cost of supplying a physical entity, which clearly translates to an inordinately high monthly charge that will be indefensible for most. It's a lot of work and a lot of money for a utility of debatable value.
The court has ordered that they block access. Different ISPs have chosen to block this in different ways. Some drop the DNS, some redirect to their own blocking site.

Presumably the Pirate Party will add another option to their TPB proxy to show those who are already convinced how stupid this is (https://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/).
Life: Seeking help for depression, seeing a psychologist after years of trying to battle it alone.

Programming: Building stuff and learning by doing rather than reading text books.
I find it amusing that the likes of Anonymous are going on about protecting people from abuse and whatnot when they've done some pretty questionable things themselves, especially some of their 4Chan members who have victimised completely innocent people all because they either got annoyed by someone or just didn't like them. I'm not sure if it was Anonymous that was involved in the whole 2009 Boxxy scandal, but it wouldn't surprise me.

While I think Hunter Moore is a sick twisted dude, I hardly see what publishing an already public address achieves here.
While the title is tantalizingly interesting, can someone describe exactly what is happening here? I see a mention of Hamming codes, but the rest is pretty complicated.
To quote Mark Zuckerberg 'what we found is that users hate making lists'.

The problem is not that one person posts too much spam - it's that I don't ever get to see other peoples posts at all. I don't want to have to make a list of my 'important friends'. I want to see it all, I can easily work the scroll bar to get past the bits I don't want to see.
steve,will you be teaching this time?
He was a longtime goon. The name "deadmau5" actually came from the SA IRC chatrooms, where he posted pictures of a dead mouse he found in his computer and was referred to as "that dead mouse guy". The chatroom had an 8 character max for nicks, so "dead mouse" became "deadmau5".

I brought it up because I'd have an easier time seeing a label run by an ex-goon engaging in this kind of marketing, as opposed to one like Atlantic.
Uber: A Feisty Start-Up Is Met With Regulatory Snarl
"Part of Facebook’s appeal in those first days was that it was clean, protected space very different from the all-too-public hurly-burly of MySpace [10]." That's it, really. It was an elite college kid social network. Now, anything but.