skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple ship by air at least some of the time - http://www.businessinsider.com/air-freight-rates-from-china-...
503. Here's the Google cache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
"Facebook buys marriage in space", "Tim Cook wants jQuery on the freeway"... I cannot stop laughing!

Sorry HN, but I think I'm addicted to that other site now. goes there and keeps hitting f5
Makes perfect sense. In the empire of lies, truth is the enemy.
Ask HN: Is a demo in addition to a free trial useful?
I'm working on a sales tracking mobile/web app and I was wondering if it would be helpful to have a demo account setup so users can test it before signing up.

Does anyone have any experience with this increasing sign up rates?
I hadn't seen anything about pg_stat_statements before. That will be extremely helpful to have around.
HN µMeetup: Catan + Pizza + Pints (12/13/12)
I'm putting together a small Settlers of Catan night at the ZeroCater office (Downtown SF) next Thursday (12/13) and wanted to invite the HN community.

In typical ZeroCater fashion, there will be lots of delicious food. Pizza, to be precise.

We also have a kegerator stocked with a new keg of Ommegang Abbey Ale.

Email me if you're interested: (my first name)@zerocater.com

Everyone is invited, but I am going to try to keep it small, so the sooner you contact me the better. :)

-- Daniel Piers
They listed San Francisco stores for the price comparisons, so that sounds right. Buying at non-urban grocery stores would be much cheaper.
Rewording of http://gigaom.com/europe/samsung-lg-and-others-hit-with-reco... submitted by an undisclosed geek.com employee.
Quicktime was a crime. Don't try to rationalize that one.
Best architecture for building a web service
Startup flash mobs Wall Street with 100 piggy banks
IIRC because they didn't want to store your username/passwords on the cloud on their servers. The password you gave them was only used on the device, and to have push notification they had to have a server pinging Google every few second and if there was a new mail, send a notification to the device. Needless to say, it's a costly business when you have a few million users.

They wanted Apple to allow then to run a daemon process that checks for new mail on the device, which Apple was reluctant to do (in general, I really like Apple's implementation of background services, but in this case I think they should've relented).
This doesn't make any sense to me... You think that the problem with Bing is that it's too focused on revenue for Windows? I suspect the problem is that it's really hard to build a better search engine than Google (and that even if it were slightly better, people are resistant to change).

Microsoft's overall profit numbers still look pretty strong to me, and their product portfolio is as diverse as ever. They've got 6 different products in their server and tools division alone that generate more than a billion dollars each year! [1] That's not to mention Office, Windows, Xbox, etc.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/microsofts-server-and-tools-unit-now-in...
Most iPhone apps UIs are a mess because they include multitudes of interactions (tap to open a panel, slide up to open a panel, slide to the side to open a menu), and layers upon layers of panels without an easy to navigate back and forth. It's hell.

One UI that solved navigation in a satisfactory way is Windows Phone. Sliding sideways to navigate back and forth, and expanding details in place on tap just makes sense.
I didn't listen much in high school English; is linking to a Google cache of this blog post ironic?
Cyber Criminals phishing with smart subdomains to earn millions
I predict 2 front facing cameras or 2 rear facing cameras and 3d imaging software builtin to the iPhone 6 or iPhone 7
I get CO2 for a kegerator for approximately the same prices OP lists above from a beer distributor; party supply stores also stock it. Available all over the place.
There isn't one, or at least there wasn't when I went looking (almost PhD quantitative psychologist now working in web analytics). I was thinking of starting a blog series, possibly a book called Web Analytics for Nerds or something.

That's at least a month or two (95 int 1-12 months) off though.
>Content is a $100Bn industry. Technology is 5-6x bigger

Hello! Where do these numbers come from? Thanks.
he he....RASCAL...he he
all you sem to be saying is that "Apple can do it" though. Juat because they can doesn't mean they should. Given that they're a for-profit corporation, I'm betting on some kind of financial incentive.
Why you should decide what customers should buy
They don't suck, they just don't taste like Diet Coke. My kids (who NEVER get real soda) beg me on a daily basis for sips of my SodaStream diet soda. They would drink my entire glass if I let them.

For that matter, if you are dead-set on real Coke, you can buy bag-in-box syrups from your local distributor (or convince a neighborhood restauarant owner to sell one to you) and have real Coke products for less than SodaStream charges -- but you have to be willing to store the larger box and decant from it into something you can keep in your kitchen.
A bit of an explanation.. I wrote this and I'm a Canadian (living in the US). Hence the tongue-in-cheek footnote.
Cloudant sits under the Apache CouchDB API, so the easiest path for migration in/out of Cloudant is to use replication to/from another CouchDB-speaking service like Cloudant, Apache CouchDB, TouchDB (mobile), PouchDB (browser). For most databases, you can also get a JSON dump of the document bodies by doing: curl 'https://username.cloudant.com/dbname/_changes | gzip > dbname.json.gz.

The tricker part of course is understanding how to best model data as you move between different database systems. There are some nice tools emerging in the no/new-sql ecosystem to help with that. Here's one that some of our mysql/postgres converted customers seem to like: http://www.foxweave.com/moving-on-premise-data-to-the-cloud-.... My understanding is that it works in both directions.
False Equivalencies (or How Hipsters Are Ruining Coffee)
Responsive Img - a jQuery Plugin for Responsive Images
What a user will do at their computer will often be different than what they do on a mobile application for the same application. It can be hard to predict even if you do ask your users what they think they would use on a mobile application.
One important thing that they neglect is that liquid is big, and heavy!

As a city dweller who doesn't usually take a car to the grocery store, I don't usually buy more than a few liters of liquid at a time. I like drinking carbonated water, but I don't want to lug it home, and I don't want to have to store it in my small-ish kitchen.

I wonder what percent of consumers I'm in. 3? 5? Maybe not enough to matter, but I bet even many car-driving consumers don't like carrying a big case of soda.
We (my GF and I), during warmer weather, used to go through perhaps 1.5 litres of sparkling water a day, in the form of 500ml bottles bought as a 6-pack. Buying sparkling water in bulk doesn't work; big bottles lose fizz every time you open them, especially since you can't help agitating them putting them in and out of the fridge. With small bottles, you only open them once or twice.

6-packs of sparkling water bottles make our SodaStream look much cheaper than the analysis in the article. The SodaStream device itself was reasonably cheap too, I don't remember how much, but no more than 40 GBP. Overpriced for the simple mechanism it is, but kept our hands clean.

We do not generally use the SodaStream flavours. They're almost all horrible. The cola tastes like cola-flavoured penny sweets, and of course to achieve the concentrations required they need to use artificial sweeteners even for non-diet versions. They're all too sweet. The one product they sell that's any good - MyWater, and specifically the lemon-lime essence bottle in the three-pack - has been out of stock for the past 6 months in the UK.

We use the sparkling water for the things that we used to use store-bought for - watering down fruit juices, which are almost invariably 10% sugar in the UK from grape or apple juice filler, and for use with other commercially bought fruit and fruit squash concentrates.
https://class.coursera.org/compdata-2012-001/class/index
Chris from Postmark here. We definitely had some trouble over the last few weeks. I am hoping we are beyond that in terms of architecture. So far everything looks great.

Regarding lock-in, this was pretty important to us when we decided to migrate. We prefer to control everything in our data center, so if it came down to it, we wanted that option. Since the Cloudant API is compatible with CouchDB, the migration path is not that hard. Although, considering our impression so far and their expertise, I don't expect it will come to that point.
As this site is nearly down, I add my thoughts as a comment here as well:

Well, some media (FAZ) did a pretty good job, letting Frank Rieger explain the "Leistungsschutzrecht". OK, even there, it was one article of many. And only one.

And what is new, when it comes to the press not publishing anything, that goes against their own agenda. Even across a lot of publishing-houses. Well nothing new under the sun.

What is really, really bad, is the fact, that the law is so fuzzy, that everyone quoting from another source might be potentially liable. This law is so bad, because it just might kill the independent voices. And I think there might be a reason for this.

Because the press oftentimes has no incentive to dig deeper, to ask critical questions, when it comes to the really important questions, this job is left for the independent voices, that do this out of a feeling of necessity. But if these voices are silenced through fear...

... well, I think you get the drift. And I know, this sounds a lot like conspiracy - and I am not saying, my thoughts come anywhere near the truth, but I just wanted to share the thought.

Just one example: The so called "Netzsperren" (blocking sites, because of content with filter-lists - aka censorship) were reported by the big media as being bad, after a lot of independent bloggers had written about it and the discussion just could not be "ignored" any longer.
Point is that there is no much room to inovate at hardware level. Both Apple and Samsung are doing great devices now. Which is actually good.
Software is where we might see some exciting stuff coming.
Yes I'm bored with gaming consoles as well. Only innovation comes from games it selves. Kinnect is an exception.
Soda is sold in 1-liter bottles, and it's usually the same price or even slightly more expensive than 2-liter bottles. Convenience stores and gas stations sell 1-liter bottles in higher volumes than 2-liter bottles because people will accept 1-liter as a single serving (1 kilogram or 2.2 pounds), while 2-liters is too heavy to easily carry in the hand (2 kilograms or 4.4 pounds).
Maybe the fact the Google knows what my friends search for and email each other about means they know more about me than I'm comfortable with them knowing.
10 graphs that show how high-tech jobs are transforming the US economy
Changemakrs - dream big and do great things
I was pointing out perspective might be why decisions are made.

Perhaps you're internalizing and projecting too much.
The Fragility of Culture
This is fun. I think a mix of the terminal and graphic side would be nice though. The capacity to click on link results, et al.
Users are not the buyers
Drone crashes near the UC Center for Drone Policy and Ethics
T-Mobile finally gets aggressive: 'You love your iPhone, but you hate AT&T'
megaupload.

He was stupid, but a friend lost a load of legitimate, original work; he'd been using it as an external hard drive and sharing mechanism for his large project files.
Twitter To Give You 2 Less Characters When Tweeting Links
Yes, I understood "notes" to be those kinds of notes. I think notes are a great thing to use if they help you, but I find I don't need them. When I present, it's technical material that I know backwards-and-forwards, so I've never felt the need for notes. In particular, my slides tend to be mostly diagrams and performance graphs. I have found that when looking at and explaining figures, I can't help but remember all of the important things related to it.
My bad and apologies, not being a native English speaker does tricks at times. :(
Show HN: San Francisco NYE 2013 Guide (Feedback Please)
Just pushed out one of our first guides. Let me know what you guys think.

http://www.UpOut.com/sf/san-francisco-new-years-2013-event-guide

We also moved our service's search engine. Try it out!

I'll be on and would love some feedback
Populaire games voor kerst en nieuwjaar
What does it take to separate the CO2 in the air from other gases? A centrifuge of some sort -- basically blowing air in a cyclone?

I wonder how difficult it would be to reduce a CO2 collection device to the size of a coffeemaker.
In real world the statistics is usually the most useful part of math. Analysing data without some basic statistics lead often to erroneous conclusions.

What surprise me, that it doesn't get attention it deserves at pre-university education. A lot of lessons in math are about geometry, algebra, etc. which are a great way to learn logical and abstract thinking, but aren't as useful as statistics.
Clickable --> http://www.UpOut.com/sf/san-francisco-new-years-2013-event-g...
Customer (not Competitor) Focused
Bias:

"""
The “Diet Coke” was a bit of a disaster. Not only was the “fake” easily identifiable, but it tasted pretty bad. No one on the team would be happy to have the homemade version replace our real Diet Coke, no matter how much money we saved.
"""

Non-sugary flavors are an acquired taste, since we aren't evolved to drink them. Diet Coke tastes bad, at first. (As does coffee, beer, etc). Your brain rejects the unusual flavor, as a poison-prevention reflex. If you don't die, you get accustomed to the flavor (and maybe develop a flavor->caffeine-buzz associaton that makes the taste feel perkier)

If you have been drinking Diet Coke for a long time, you just don't remember how bad the first one tasted.
Google grant will help computers detect gender balance & stereotyping
Facebook rumored to be interested in purchasing Microsoft's ad platform
My journey to a cochlear implant
TorrentReactor Launches Proxy to Circumvent Torrent Site Censorship
Eddy Cue: "I believe there will be a seven-inch market and we should do one." "I expressed this to Steve several times since Thanksgiving and he seemed very receptive the last time."
Is there no such thing as Fair Use in German copyright law?
And when I was working at Apple the very first thing Steve did upon coming back was giving away everything old on campus then said going forward was the only way to make Apple better.

To think a speech made to sell dreams to a group of idealistic and aspirational youths is relevant to what we're discussing right now is just plain inexperience on your part.

And that said, indeed there is nothing wrong with Apple thinking more short term. It's probably exactly why Tim Cook was chosen as CEO.
No. When a site is down, it is customary on Hacker News for someone to go to Google and get the last cached (saved) version of the web-page from them to post it those that can't access it to read, as a sort of convenience. It's also common for the plaintext of the article to be posted here.
Thank you Nate.
It does if you read the whole thing. Here's one reason listed:

Why is this hoodie so amazing? First, it’s made of heavyweight cotton. Most other sweatshirts on the market today are made of some kind of blend, usually cotton and polyester.
We'll do the voice-over directly on the video. No video production skills needed.
I largely agree with you that Redditors go over the top with things without thinking them through but have to point out a couple of lines that I disagree with.

>really? spend political capital to modify regulations on a $100bn industry for... DJs?

The point should be whether it's for the overall public good, not just for some industry. Lets assume the $100bn industry just rolls over and dies tomorrow, ignore the losses of art and entertainment for a second. What would consumers do with a $100bn extra in their pockets? Would they spend it on buying electric cars thus jumpstarting them? Would they invest it thus making new companies easy to start? Would it kickstart alternative business models that would employ some of the unemployed? Perhaps not. But the fact that it hurts a particular $100bn industry by itself should not be a veto against such a measure, or else we would still be riding horse buggies.

>Ask instead, "was this a politically effective policy memo?" Were its goals in the 113th congress realistic? Were its arguments persuasive? Something like 35% of all congresspeople are lawyers, and this memo starts out with a highly dubious argument about the meaning of the copyright clause.

Just like in courtcases, even in Congress you need to push for the extremes in order to get something done. If you push for realistic measures, it is sure to get watered down to essentially nothing. It's like a salary negotiation, if you start with a reasonable number, HR will never agree to that and will themselves offer a very low offer which you will have trouble in getting it where you want. You need to shoot for 10 to 20% more than what is "reasonable" in order to have any hope of getting a reasonable offer. Same with the bill here. Have you not been keeping up with how bills are negotiated in Congress? If anything reasonable is suggested, the Hollywood lobbyists with bags of cash in their hand will water it down. Hollywood spends a ton of money on lobbying, and legislators are cash strapped at election time with candidates raising millions.
Metallica now on Spotify. Who would've thought.
I really with the log4j people would just call it quits. They spent 5 years not delivering anything. Then the tragedy of commons logging happened, which only seems to survive because Spring Source uses it.

Please. Fucking. Stop. Just delete the damned project. End the ridiculousness and JUST USE SLF4J.
Sure sounds good to me. Email me (email in profile)
> In a TV interview with Brian Williams, Apple CEO Tim Cook has said "we will do one of our existing Mac lines in the United States," vaguely confirming that production of either iMacs, Mac Minis or Mac Laptops will make a wholesale move to the US in 2013.

Doesn't the Mac Pro line make the most sense considering their low volumes and (I imagine) relatively high margins?
Ask HN:Health and the tech industry?
I was curious if anyone here has any health issues that limits their ability to work in any way and how do you combat that?
Yfrog has turned into a Social Network
Deciphering the Tools of Nature’s Zombies
TL;DR - Software and infrastructure is more important than hardware.

Not a new observation but one that is worth thinking about now and again.

One of the interesting things I observe about mobile devices is their use as a function of their connectivity. Which is to say tablet with no network connectivity isn't as useful as a tablet with network connectivity. The networks are growing, but outside of major metro areas they still aren't great. The previous generation of laptops carried enough along to be useful during long periods of no connectivity [1]. So things like maps that aren't maps unless you're connected are less useful. (Google finally caved on that slightly which I applauded)

Perhaps the next thing is better reference tools. As a search company I get to see a lot of things people search for and reference searches are still a big chunk of search. That is however a place that could easily be disrupted by localized data. All of Wikipedia, maps, phone books, dictionaries, etc etc etc are actually small enough to carry around now. Sure you want updates to come from the web but the main corpus? Doesn't change that much. Who is going to build the Encyclopedia Galactica?

[1] I remind people sometimes that 'networking' was an add-on feature for the first laptops.
From the first comment on that:

"What’s wrong with newspapers being paid for the content that they produce? No one has to use their headlines if they don’t want to pay for it."

What about fair use? Does that exist in Germany? I'm a quote geek for example. I love collecting "favourite quotes", giving a source (link if possible). I started out with the general quotes everybody knows, but of course I also copy and paste from the web in general, and sometimes I actually type what I read in a book, and translate it to English. Man, I even love talking about it. I love quotes.

Now, I consider that "fair use", and since I do it mostly in English the noobs left me alone so far. But I don't even know if there is such a thing as fair use in Germany... any ideas?
Thoughts on logo design pricing
Why would having a fix width be a problem? In my mind the alternative is the canvas automatically expanding to the right and thereby requiring horizontal scrolling through the browser. Flot.js supports panning if you need to stretch out your xaxis which seems cleaner to me than horizontal scrolling in the browser.
Of course the quality and quantity of German news on Google would worsen, but the point would be to see if it is Google benefiting more from the newspapers, or the other way around.
Great service, absolutely useful; not just for startups, but for many industries.
"We are what we think. All that we are, arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." Good read.
Only if it was a blog post lobbying in favor of the law.
Formula for Entrepreneurial Success
In order to draw some boxes it (and many like it) require upwards of 10 heap allocations along with gobs of animation and sugar per 4 straight lines rendered on a 2D canvas, the result being they're useless for rendering actually large data sets – the very kind that benefit most from summary visual representation.
my grass is already as green as I had always wanted it.

Which becomes its own struggle. Once you've hit an optimal shade of green, there is nothing left to do. Half of the enjoyment comes from actively working to make your proverbial lawn grow to be so green. Do you rip it up and start over to relive that enjoyment, or sit back and watch it grow?
Even more astoundingly, even people who've run headlong into this attitude from others still don't realise when they're doing it themselves. For instance, a lot of feminists have trouble grasping that racism does actually exist, anti-racism activists can't understand why sexism is a big deal, etc...
Also, code that controls hardware is very hard to test.

Consider writing tests for the the Linux kernel's device drivers. It would be very difficult because most of the problems have to do with hardware being buggy/underspecified, not with the software being wrong in a testable way.

In order to test a UART driver you have to to simulate the way the UART worked, which means that you wouldn't catch bugs if your understanding of the hardware was wrong. Most of the time spent would be recreating the internal logic of the UART and it wouldn't actually benefit you unless you got it right.

The other option to test the UART is to have a rig set up that where you can run the code on the device and have the serial port looped back or go into another computer that checks the result. But that (by definition) means special hardware is required to run that test, which makes it way less useful as an automated test.

Neither of those situations is amenable to TDD.
Data (wired and mobile) seems like the obvious one in the US at least.