skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a big with Firefox on Mountain Lion that did not have flash installed. We've fixed it, so you should feel free to view the videos now. Thanks!
As I recall, the reason that Apple chose not to include turn by turn in the official maps app was because they early on had high-profile partnerships with GPS makers who had expensive apps on the app store.
Body contact is indeed important, but you are mistaken that it must always be with the mother. Parents can share every childraising activity except breastfeeding -- and it's not necessary that children be strictly breastfed.

It seems you have grown up believing that family is about sacrifice. I think this is sad. Having a family takes work, certainly, but it should be a joy, not a burden.
Just on the G4 Cube, I wouldn't say there was a particular problem with heat there. If there was, there's a cage in the bottom and provisions for a fan to be retrofitted. I still use one of mine as a main server, and heat isn't an issue with them unless you upgrade the CPU. I'm more worried about their cost-cut power supply really.
Barcode co-inventor dies aged 91
> Basically, I want to consult with my teenage self and use that advice to invest time/money!

You and me both. As the eldest child, it was my job to walk the dog three times a day during school holidays. Most of the time I'd go alone. During those endless walks along riverbanks, through fields and down twisty country lanes I'd think and invent and create in my head. It was wonderful.

I remember dreaming up a multi-player game set in space, where every character would be played by another real person. You'd join a ship's crew and go exploring a gigantic galaxy. I was inspired, of course, by Elite on the school BBC and Star Trek; by the 9600 baud modem my Dad 'borrowed' from work and the bulletin boards it gave me access to; and by a dreamy child's desire for complete and total escape. A good fifteen years later Eve Online came out and I got my wish, just as I was settling into a busy career and saving for my first house. I've never even downloaded it.

Then there's the sketches I made in the mid '80s for a handheld computer with a touch-screen interface that would communicate, via radio, with transceivers in public buildings to give people directions and information. There was even messaging, with a kind of dead-letter-drop store-and-forward system that carried data between the transceivers on devices themselves, like a weird cross between bittorrent and the Royal Mail. I don't think I'd even heard of email at that point.

I came up with so much on those long walks. Nearly all of it has been developed in some form or other, never exactly as I imagined but always better in some ways and worse in others.

For me it's one of the most heartbreaking things about growing up: there's no time to indulge in exploration for its own sake. I can't focus my entire brain on a single thing for any length of time at all. If I could, if only I could.
Ask HN: What can I do with 2 spare iPhone 3GS 
We got two iPhone 3GS' in Aug 2009. Both phones work fine just that they are slow. I would like to get new phones but hate the fact that I have to throw these away. What have other people done ?
Python  FOSDEM 2013 - Call For Papers 
Hi all,

This is the official call for sessions for the FOSDEM 2013 [1] python devroom.

This year, Python will be represented by its Community. If you want to discuss
with a lot of Python Users, it's the place to be in February !

Like every year, FOSDEM [1] will take place the first week-end of February in
Brussels (Belgium).

We will have a room in the K building (80 seats). This dev room will be open all
day Sunday, February 3rd.

If you want to hold a session in the Python devroom, please fill this survey [2]

Call for Papers is open until December 21st

This year, the submissions will be reviewed by a committee:

* Tarek Ziade - https://twitter.com/tarek_ziade (Mozilla)
* Ludovic Gasc - https://twitter.com/GMLudo (Eyepea)
* Christophe Simonis - https://twitter.com/KangOl (OpenERP)
* Stephane Wirtel - https://twitter.com/matrixise (OpenERP)

Thank you for submitting your sessions and see you soon in Brussels to talk
Python and/or have some nice Belgian Beers.

[1] http://fosdem.org/2013/
[2] http://python-fosdem.org

Here is the official site for the devroom: http://python-fosdem.org
And a link to this announce: http://wirtel.be/posts/en/2012/11/20/call_of_papers_fosdem_2013/

Please, could you share this information, thank you

Best regards,

Stephane Wirtel (@matrixise)
Even though I think drugs should be decriminalized or legalized, it's clear there needs to be a lot of effort put into helping people who have problems with them (including alcohol).

If you add up all the years of life destroyed by drug addiction, and all the external harms, spending all the money we currently spend on prohibition on treatment would be a bargain.
I agree the second "pivot" doesn't sound like a pivot,

However w/r/t The first pivot doesn't sound like a pivot; they built a new business with the same venture money.

That sounds like a pivot, the way I define it. I agree most pivots do have some tangential relationship from the previous goal thats because you learn where the market is from what you've done. Thats not to say its the only way to find a new market opportunity. I'm not sure why you define Twitter as a pivot and not Fab. Twitter was Odeo which was a podcasting company which was sinking. Evan Williams had blogging experience but Jack Dorsey (as I understand it) was the original idea guy behind Twitter.

A lot of pivots aren't related to the original idea that founded the company. For the VCs doing something else with that money is almost more important then just continuing to chase an idea without legs, since once the money is invested they can't reinvest in new ventures.
«The Backbone object now extends Events so that you can use it as a global event bus, if you like.»

This is great, up until now I've extended the app with Backbone.Event like:

App = {
view = {},
model = {},
collection = {},
events = {},
_.extend(App.events, Backbone.events)

Congrats on the soon-to-be 1.0 release :)
Is there a program available like this?
Is there such a program where as soon as a page loads, it automatically fills out all the shipping and payment info and checksout itself?

thanks
One cynical way to look at it: it's free market research from a high-spending demographic that's completely impenetrable to outsiders. I'm grateful for it, although I share your wary distaste of age-declaring youths. (Shades of those irritating, high-achieving 21 year olds who declare with no sense of irony that they've done more than people twice their age.)
That might make it different than a plumber but how is that different than a lawyer or accountant. The result of their work is often just data. That data can be duplicated for free. By your argument I should therefore not have to pay them?

I'm not saying they are the same but I have yet to see someone clearly make the distinction on why one person's duplicate able work needed to be paid for and another's is not.
Read some Lifehacker. I've gotten a surprising amount of inspiration from them. But for now, just focus on getting on with your life and apply again next term. Or pull a Robert Zemeckis and call and give an "impassioned plea". (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Zemeckis#USC_education_...)
I am seriously debating why I recently moved from Seattle to SF/Bay... I can't go a week without seeing or hearing something that just rubs it in.
Same here. Seeing the Facebook comments was such a surprising twist to end an otherwise well argued article.
Every report I've filed has ended up added within 2 weeks.

I'm guessing it varies by city/state/country, no idea how apple is actually vetting the reports but I've had no issues.
Not like it was difficult to implement one before:

EventBus = _.extend({}, Backbone.Events);
Massive bank cyberattack planned
I suspect if you asked a lot of users what they thought about Instagram's income, they wouldn't have a clue what you're talking about. I'm not sure that a lot of people even realise why they pay for mobile applications (they paid for the phone so why are they paying more now?), and just attribute it to corporate greed.

I asked the question of some of my peers recently, and their justification was that Instagram didn't new income, as it was providing fun. I'll leave you to figure out how that works.
Thanks, good to hear it.

Alas, we'll probably land in the burbs for all the usual uninteresting reasons. But it won't hurt to have the right people seeing Gb internet across the lake.
Sweet. I was just having problem while updating collections. collection.update(models) now merges new changes perfectly. Really useful.
Yeah we're much stronger on Android. This is before my time at Heyzap, but my understanding is that Heyzap on Android was initially more popular and more profitable to sell Cost-Per-Install ads for. Thus, there was a major focus on improving the Android app and the sales team was focused on selling CPI (and SDK integrations) for Android. Since we get alot of users from people who integrate our SDKs, that further boosted the Android app.

So basically, this created a feedback loop where Android had many more users than the iPhone app. Indeed, the iPhone app didn't get alot of attention until recently, but in the last couple of months it (and the iOS SDKs) reached feature/design parity with the Android app. We also recently added a sales team member whose focus is on iOS developers, so if things go well we'll add many more users to iOS.
I don't agree with this article. It's best that you are just practicing and coding every day. The language choice doesn't so much matter as long as you are getting that practice. The problem with limiting yourself is that it's not always feasible. You need to use different tools for different types of tasks. I use a lot of PHP for web development, but I prefer Ruby for server utilities (and looking into Go.) On the front-end I use Javascript along with the CSS and HTML. So, as a web developer for example, there is a lot you have to learn.No way around it.
Nothing prevents you from representing yourself. Maybe this is an easy way to disrupt patent trolling: a "how to" guide for taking an obviously stupid claim out in summary judgment.
It may not be unique, but it does show how teenager have grown up with social networking.

Jared Erondu had an opposite viewpoint on revealing age[1] where he couldn't talk about his age (18) because of the discrimination that followed.

[1] http://theindustry.cc/2012/09/14/youre-young-im-18-so-what/
Lower personal income tax, all other things equal, is better. I wasn't trying to directly compare sales tax vs. personal income tax vs. payroll tax vs. corp income tax vs. capital gains vs. property tax. Just that B&O/gross receipts is worse than corp income tax.

I'm personally pro something like a broad VAT with a $20k credit or $50k exemption, including property. In general, consumption taxes seem preferable to income or investment taxes, in that they deter consumption vs. deterring investment. Consumption has fewer inherent positive externalities than investment or income. And then add additional taxes for the purpose of capturing and offsetting externalities like pollution, traffic, etc., rather than strictly as revenue.

And I'd really like to see experiments on taxing status goods. Create or find things like they have in game economies, which are not really necessary or important, and which are purely purchased for signaling value, and tax those. Raising the taxes on those things, thus raising cost, is beneficial to the buyers and to society. (I think Scott Adams from Dilbert has proposed this.)
Traffic and public transport in Seattle is not as bad as Atlanta.
Incredibly touching post.
> Get over it; there is no difference between this and CDNs.

except the part where you track people across sites

what I am saying is not speculative. this has been proposed previously, and shot down. there is a reason why it hasn't happen.
Safe Deletion in Amazon S3
Not sure about checking out by itself, but Chrome has autofill options built in.
Seattle has fantastic transit, as long as you pick the right neighborhoods to live in. Basically, any neighborhood surrounding downtown has fantastic transit, as well as the U. District. Transit to the major job centers in the suburbs is also quite good.
This sounds a lot like RapLeaf, what are the pros and cons of each service?
WA also has relatively permissive firearms laws, especially compared to California and NYC. For me, that's a good thing; I guess for some people it's a bad thing.

They're not quite as good as NV or some other states (SBR, automatic, etc. require a business engaged in that as a business, or a trust, vs. personal ownership), but essentially fine. I'd probably have an FFL07 side business if I were up there all the time anyway.
Why Your Startup Needs More Than Nice
Nothing Happens At The UN Over Internet Regulation
Can I send you an email? Or can you contact me neil at reelsurfer.com
[citation needed] re: Belltown crime.

SLU is a former industrial neighborhood now filled with Amazon offices and cookie-cutter apartments. Basically the positive there is that you're close to work, the neighborhood itself is severely lacking in culture.
Building numeracy one day at a time
Well if you must live in the suburbs (Microsoft has a private bus fleet that ferries people from the city out there), they at least have some FiOS out there. I've heard Frontier stopped deploying it, but that existing deployments are maintained.
It's not like you had to renounce your citizenship or anything :) I'm sure you could move back. I know I am seriously considering NV or WA 10+ mo/yr as soon as it makes sense for my business (I've also lived in Seattle).
OTOH, grey skies make photography easier and better.
I live in the heart of "tornado alley" and it's really not a noticeably big deal. Our local sirens haven't gone off in years.

On the other hand, living in N. Central FL, there were several times where my life was disrupted for days by hurricanes.
I ended up going to my fourth choice. I actually got into my second choice program but I'd have had to wait a year.

I had a great time, learned a lot and made tons of friends. If you're like me, your second, third or fourth choice will still be an incredibly good school so education and reputation won't be that big of a loss. Complete your other applications.

It's a big blow the first time you realize the path you'd set out for yourself won't, or in your case might not, happen. Get over it and it makes you a stronger, better, more humble person. Believe me, it's not the greatest disappointment you'll ever face.

As a side note, Harvard sent me the nicest rejection letter of any school.
Do you think Fab's time as a gay social network was important to getting a critical mass on-board for the Fab design site? Meaning, if you launched day one as a cool place to shop do you think you would have found the same success, at least as easily?
its interesting you mentioned this because i recently read a "book" online about this very topic (albeit in the form of fiction - its called Manna).

Both distopia and utopia is possible, but the distopia is much more likely due to the capitalist system we have, and the rich/poor gap is only going to grow.
Ya, I would like a program where I enter in all the info, and based on that info, it fills out all the shipping and payment info, and checkout itself.

Chrome, you have to manually click on the dropbox. I would like it to be automatically filled out when the program encounters such forms to be filled out.
> I'm still often shocked that Youtube can afford all the bandwidth required for streaming video; he barely remembers the world where unlimited streaming video wasn't the norm.

You know, looking back it's silly, but when Youtube came out and started getting attention (I was still in school, so this must've been 2004 or so), I remember thinking to myself "so what?" -- the idea that it was novel just never occurred to me.

Back in 2002-2003, I ran a little startup (at 14-15) that did online music streaming. Built around a little PHP (later C++) daemon, you could set up playlists on the site and then connect to an icecast stream to play that playlist from any device you wanted. The music was ripped from CDs that my friends and I had, and we even added advertisements every X songs or N minutes. It eventually failed due to not being able to raise money to get licensing rights (my dad was running the business side and simply had no clue, but neither did I at the time), but it was just... no big deal to me. I had no idea that it was supposed to be a hard thing to do until a few years later, when I ended up working for MP3tunes trying to build the first online music locker.

I always just assumed that the trend towards storage and bandwidth being "free" was going to move fast enough that anything I could come up with would Just Work (TM).
PAAS under the hood, AUFS at dotCloud
Comma splice

Don't feel bad. Many adults don't even use commas properly.
As a fellow 16 Year old I too have noticed a trend, especially in the popular iOS games. Last spring it was Temple Run then Draw Something. The game going through the school now is Bike Race. If you guys have any questions about what trends kids at my school are following feel free to ask but it's pretty much on par with the original article.
Ugh, that's still protection money. It just went to a different lawyer.
Global report: Obesity bigger health crisis than hunger
What it is like to work at Github
There being a TOS or Privacy Policy doesn't actually mean a company won't sell your emails. It just means they're going to say they're not going to sell your emails. Harsh, but true.
Pro Gaming Documentary "Die Noobs"
I've noticed that in the past few years so many different services built around sharing, liking, and commenting on images from another person have evolved (and maintained momentum). They don't seem to be doing anything special are technologically exciting, but they just keep proliferating.
Ah! But you had the time to view the updated site, read hacker news, and reply to the thread...

I believe you do have time.
Thank you. I've actually thought of that one before. Since it is noticeable, maybe I'll try fixing it tonight.
Does anyone know when/if the Parse SDK for JS plans to incorporate these features?
Data Science Starter Kit
because people like to say, "Salsa!"
I'm just not sure who, if anyone, to downvote in this thread.
Would be awesome, but smells risky.
What's your financial situation? Harvard costs about $58,000 a year. If you're not absolutely sure you'll get a significant scholarship, you should finish those other applications just to ensure you also get in somewhere you can afford.

Right now, the unemployment plus underemployment rate for recent college graduates is 53%. Quite a bit higher than the national unemployment rate. $100-200k in student loans (which will cost closer to $300-400k to pay off with interest) doesn't make it easy to get by even if you landed a great job. A low-paying, risky startup job might not even be a realistic option once you're saddled with debt.

This is the time to think about things like that -- what you can afford, how you'll repay it, what kind of job you want when you get out, where you want to work, whether the name recognition of an ivy league school matters to those companies (and whether that's worth as much money as a small house versus going somewhere cheaper), etc.
Flutter (YC W12) Gesture App featured as one of the Best Apps of 2012 by Apple
The one status I'd love to see is the iTunes connect report generation status.

Many days it comes in late and I'd like to know how late.
You said

I have to actually want to work on the thing to really get going

Couldn't agree more. If I have to put down what I'd rather work on and force myself to a different project or some uninteresting code, all self-motivation crumbles.
So you're talking about a premium experience. Nice concept
to clear up any remaining confusion, it is "authentic" in the sense that it was a real package, that was actually sent in the mail. it is "not authentic" in the sense that Indiana Jones is a fictional character.

Its kinda cool seeing that sort of ambiguity in English. Reminds me why I want to learn Lojban - so I can spot ambiguity easier. And this is a useful practical skill too. Nothing can sabotage a relationship quite as effectively as a simple misunderstanding.
Do you mean like a desktop program? Maybe but a web browser I doubt it, imagine if you could do all those steps without authorization from the user. Then you would be in big trouble from those that don't understand the system.
Public Buses Quietly Adding Microphones to Record Passenger Conversations
Substitute in the internet itself , Nokia 3310 , ICQ , IRC and MSN messenger and that could basically describe my own late school years.
Interesting but this screams white upper class. If I went back to my middle or high school, (Madison WI, which is hardly as diverse as other areas) I don't think it would be the case that every 8th grader has an iPhone or iPod touch.
Bah. I refuse to allow language to advance beyond that which I learned in the sixth grade!
And when I said it is not a joy?

Yes, it is sacrifice and hard work.

But it is rewarding.

Also, the contact with the mother is really important, later if I get access to a pc with keyboard I dump some data.

( how I hate virtual keyboard, even more on this tiny phone screen )
I am sorry to hear you had to go through that Notch. My heart and prayers go to you and your family.
Call ATT and unlock them, then sell them or give them away to charity. I think there is some place where you can donate your smart phones for the soldiers overseas.
Focus, Branding, WWIC, Non-Profits, and the New UC Identity
Indeed, the first thought I had upon reading Dash's article was, "Kottke was right".

http://kottke.org/07/06/facebook-is-the-new-aol
I find myself disagreeing with my cofounder on things like giving the user more and more control. It adds too much complexity. Providing the basic, minimum requirements will be sufficient for 99% of our customers. I'd rather focus on them than the small sliver of folks who'd want that extra control.
Welcome to Britain's future: The nightmare before Christmas
Stalled Crowdfunding Rules Leave Business Plans on Ice
> Nothing prevents you from representing yourself.

...other than good sense.
The five elements of fast fundraising
I lived in Seattle for 7.5 years, moved to San Francisco September 2011.

My only regret is not doing so sooner.

Seattle is a wonderful town (and it really is a big town more than a city) full of wonderful, if slightly insular, people. It's beautiful, there's great food, you can hike and kayak if that's your thing.

If you're a developer that doesn't work for Microsoft or Amazon, though, the geek community is definitely lacking. There are plenty of professional nerds but much fewer people working on exciting side projects.

I found it much harder to meet people, nerds or civilians. It's the sort of place where people settle in, where people have grown up, where people aren't necessarily looking for new friends. All of which is fine, I just found it a bit off-putting.

Seattle doesn't really do urban density (granted, SF has plenty of room to grow, literally, here). Some of that is intentional, mostly it's just aggravating. It doesn't seem to want to be a city. Portland, which is smaller, manages to do many of the "city" things (like public transportation and urban planning) much better.

And, man. Don't forget the weather. Those months without the sun age you.

I loved my time and life in Seattle. SF feels more like home, even if I have to wait another year for Sonic.net to roll out fiber.
No it doesn't. Seattle has some of the best summers anywhere; it's one of the city's best-kept secrets. July and August are gorgeous.

The relentless gray of which you speak is true of months like December and January.
A worthwhile idea. If you want a nice concise grammar & style reference, Strunk & White's The Elements of Style is a classic.