skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're looking for a long term investment, then I don't think anyone's missed the boat. In the long run, buying in a few months late won't affect you much right now. IMO Apple is pretty much guaranteed to double in value when the economy returns to normal, so if I had a spare $20,000 I wouldn't mind putting it into the company, if they pulled off another iPod effect on their stock then all the better.
This is the way I use dropbox. I even created a script to install all of my packages and create the proper symlinks. Makes setting up a new computer (frequent occurrence with VM's) super simple.

Dropbox rocks!
You make it sound like man's progression towards interdependence doesn't warrant some degree of socialized changed in areas that are clearly underperforming in the reign of "private enterprise". No one said change was going to be easy... or cheap. We brought this upon ourselves when we realized farming and gathering was easier than hunting and gathering.
I find that if I can stay physically active I don't miss caffeine. For example, when I go on vacation I typically don't drink coffee. But I'm usually at the beach, or have a lot of other stuff going on and I really don't miss it. If I stop coffee during a normal work week, I get the headaches, fatigue, etc.
Wow, putting up Google Analytics would have been a great idea. Our preview was left utterly unmonitored.

Oh, well. Only a few hours to go.
The top marginal tax rate was far higher under Reagan than it is now. If Reagan was around today, he'd probably think it should be raised.
True, but unfortunately adobe is stuck using AS3 on their VM; silverlight gets to leverage all the .net work.

Hopefully they'll add threads to flash sometime in the future, that is the most limiting factor facing it today.
It's a good analogy, but most places I walk into the iPods have a separate kiosk set up. So I don't think the result will really be all that different from how retail stores work.
Ride shotgun in the Tesla Model S with Elon
There wasn't any hits with our analytics, since JS can be disabled. Look at your apache log instead, then find out the location using reverse IP.
For the longest time BRL was "open source". But you had to
be an american citizen and in the inner circle of govt contractors/employee's. A lot of paperwork was involved.
Nice to see it's really real open source now.

Downloading now. Wonder if it still has the horrid text based interface.
Except for the fact that transmission/distribution costs are almost zero and 'news' is a broadly consumed information resource. It doesn't matter that there would have been usage costs in the past -- they would be silly now.
I find the title, which is original, a bit misleading. Google did not lose on appeal, instead a case was re-instated. An earlier judgment was vacated by the Second Circuit US Court of Appeals due to a misapplied precedent by a lower court. A trial will now proceed.
check out the map on the right side of http://www.buzzillions.com/

real-time view of customer reviews at a couple hundred retailers.
Might want to stick "Ask HN: " in front of the title. I thought this was an article at first, hesitated to click.

http://paulgraham.com/start.html

What it means specifically depends on the job: a salesperson who just won't take no for an answer; a hacker who will stay up till 4:00 AM rather than go to bed leaving code with a bug in it; a PR person who will cold-call New York Times reporters on their cell phones; a graphic designer who feels physical pain when something is two millimeters out of place.
Is this what normal people read all the time? I mean, they make statements like this with no clarification at all:

"Our emissions are boiling the planet, and most of our energy use is unnecessary."

What's "unnecessary"? Energy drives modern technology, from your desk to your home to your doctor's office. Sure, if you don't care about quality of life, then energy use is unnecessary.

And while most scientists think our emissions are going to cause an increase in mean global temperatures over the next few centuries, "boiling the planet" is a long way off.

That's just one example out of a dozen. Is Time an editorial magazine, or is it supposed to be some sort of objective journalism?

That's not entirely a rhetorical question, I honestly don't follow dead tree media and never got into it much as a kid.
Very nice; but upon zooming into the leaf in MA, zooming once more and then panning around caused it to get very jerky, as though constantly reloading. Browser history rapidly filled with trailbehind pages. Possibly the same problem Sutto saw above.

Safari 4 Beta on OS X 10.5.6.
It doesn't handle zooming in and out very well - it should remap already displayed products - but, yes, pretty cool.
>"Sort of fitting that a man who taught at the University of Chicago and who has Larry Summers for an advisor would use economics for more than just balancing a national budget."

I wish he would start with that.
Mine was a bit closer, about 15 miles in the next city over. Ironically, this is actually where my wifes dentist is (as hers moved).

All the geolocation always seems to bring up your ISP's location. We recently switched ISP so all the geolocation data went from the city south-west of us to the city north-east of us. Hopefully next I'll get an ISP with the same location as me so the geolocation works.
Researchers develop new way to see single RNA molecules inside living cells
When All You Have Left Is Your Pride
On a similar note, I find it amusing that he seems to be hitting every single secret area on the maps.
It's official: Twitter is the new IRC.

edit: except Twitter is currently down. I guess that's the equivalent to a netsplit.
Good explanation. But how does blocking google help them make more money?
Cool. A press interview with Richard Rusczyk about his work before he founded the Art of Problem Solving website.

http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Forum/index.php

Rusczyk always has something interesting to say.
You must not read much mainstream media. Nearly every piece contains little nuggets like the one(s) you mention. It isn't just Time; they all do it. Not surprisingly, newspapers are struggling with their readers now leaving in droves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimization_(mathematics)#Mult...
Why are his motives more important to us than the accuracy of the statement?
They don't always look at demos.

I'm guessing they watched every video though.
Ok, thanks for the heads up. I was able to reproduce this bug in Safari 3.0.2, and I'll fix it.

I think the root of the problem is ReallySimpleHistory. I'm using RSH for hash links, and I think the library is busted in Safari 3.x and past :(
I like how it prompted me to add more items to the filter which updated the search results which seem to come from all over the culinary web. I can see how this is already a useful service. Forgive my ignorance, Are you the first mover in this space or are others already doing recipe search by ingredients? I was a little frustrated with the search result display: I had to scroll down a page or two of whitespace but I assume you'll work on that in good time. I'm also feeling unloved by the way each search result appears because the list of external links makes me feel like I'm on a parked site. My frustration was that for every recipe I still needed to visit the grocery store to get more ingredients - that said it may be because my cupboard is too bare. I wonder if for the paid service it might work a bit better if you approached the whole site from an ad-free perspective. What if the search results didn't drive away traffic to the source sites but revealed the full recipes on your site? Only your paying customers would get to see the entire recipe while freeloaders could see just the list of ingredients? Or you could give away some recipes in their entirety for free while making a percentage of the search results opaque to all but your customers. If you're wanting to flip this maybe you could sell or license to a foodie site. I don't know what restrictions the sites you're getting these recipes from place on their APIs (which is I assume how you're getting the data) but these are my initial thoughts based on a cursory visit. Good v1, I think you should keep working on it. And don't listen to me too much, you might well have an ad model that works.
Decorating For the Dogs
It is impressively more readable than some legacy Perl code I've had the misfortune of working with. That being said, just on a quick once-over for aesthetics I'm not left thinking "Ahh, modern Perl sure looks less painful than modern Ruby or modern Python."

I don't even write Python, but looking at it has never given me a seizure. Not that your code is seizure-inducing, mind you.
One in 10 Americans on food stamps
When I enter "123 bank street" it hits Ottawa, not New York. If I'm even remotely zoomed into my area, it suggests Bank Street in Toronto.
So you are asking if there is a correlation between mental health and worries about bugs in your code? Given the fact that coding leads to watching the sun rise from your desk chair, the hope that this particular algorithm saves the world, and a disturbing reliance on Totino's pizza rolls as sustenance, I would say yes, the connection between mental health and code is not a coincidence.
I think that's correct. The current draft specifies that an implementation (browser) may support any video codec or no codec at all (e.g. lynx). There's a lot going into the determination of which codec to use if more than one might be appropriate. As wmf mentioned about - DRM and dynamic streaming, I'm wondering the same but I think that can be handled by appropriate codecs. (Which may be just moving the plug-in issue to be one involving codecs, but let's hope popular browsers will ship with sufficiently useful ones.)

The whatwg draft is really quite interesting...

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#video-and...
This is only tangentially on topic, but for any of you who bought an OLPC XO and found it rapidly started gathering dust, it turns out it makes a great ebook reader for O'Reilly's Safari Books Online: http://tlrobinson.net/blog/2009/04/06/using-olpc-xo-as-an-eb...
The Growing Complexity Of Facebook Is Confusing Your Mom
Scientists 'discover' source of wisdom in the human brain
Isn't worrying about bugs just a more narrow version of worrying about making mistakes?
But in code, the smallest of mistakes can introduce major flaws into your product.
No, caffeine is physically addictive. Your brain starts to develop more adenosine receptors (since you keep plugging existing ones with caffeine). When you stop drinking coffee (or the side effects get to be too much to keep up, etc.), you get hit by an avalanche of adenosine, and, suddenly you're without protection. Physical withdrawl symptoms ensue.

It's not just a behavioral thing. The brain physically adapts to maintain equilibrium in the recurring presence of caffeine. I don't think there are permanent changes, but the adjustment cycle lasts days. The half-life of caffeine is 6-8 hours (on average), meaning, at that point, half of it has been metabolized.

Anecdotally, a reasonably small amount daily is stable. Something like two cups of coffee (one in the morning, one after lunch) is fine for most people. Different drinks have different amounts of caffeine, of course. (Also, tea seems less likely to make me jittery than coffee.)
If every other API charges for usage, why shouldn't news sites?

If you want to index their stories, you can do 500 queries per day for free. After that, you pay, just like any other API.
Microsoft unveils Windows Mobile App store details
Its interesting to see that most of the customers seem to be women(or men buying for women). Might be worth taking a look to see some consumer buying choices.

ps: I only waited for few minutes though.
The Good Old Days Are Back: Twitter Succumbs To A Day Of Glitches
edit: the interface isn't as bad as I thought at first. Do need to spend time getting used to it though. It's not as sexy out-of-the-box as AutoCAD, but the underlying geometric method gives me hope for long term performance. I hope the Google Summer of Code project makes some headway on interface. I definitely don't want to see more "GUIs are for the weak", a la the R project.
I agree completely. Doom and Quake(world) are the only two games to make my jaw drop. Nothing has rivaled it since and I still remember it distinctly.

I ran it on my 386 with 4MB of RAM (had to use QEMM just to free up enough conventional RAM) and in multiplayer I had to set it to postage stamp size on low quality to keep it fast enough for everyone on the game.

Playing 4 player over modem (with proprietary ACPi software/hardware) was amazing! I paid long distance to call the BBS's that supported it!

I do remember Descent via Kali over modem was also the first truly large scale multiplayer game I played over the modem (with the exception of Air Warrior, which was amazing even over 2400 baud) -- where as Kali required 14.4k at least.

Man, old times!
I'm a DB Pro user, but I'm still waiting for selective sync (ignorelist / watch any folder). Originally slated for Jan, but things have fallen behind a few months.

DB guys need any help with that? Looking for an internship, e-mail in profile...
I've never done a trade in my life and it took all of about 12 seconds to get the right answers on the first two. They didn't list the third. Seriously, 5.4 MM for that?...http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a4iG...
It's hard to explain the appeal of Zappos, but one of my friends told me that she can buy ten pairs of shoes for an upcoming event, try them all on at home, keep the one or two she likes and return the rest. Basically, it's like online shopping mashed up with real window browsing.
I must have misread, sorry.
Have you run a content site of your own?

What you say is the standard line of thought on the AP that lots of hackers and new media folks take, but it's not based on reality.

If you link to an AP article instead of publishing the whole thing, you lose out on Google hits from both organic search and Google News. Even if 100 other people run the same article on their sites, Google's algorithm will reward you more for publishing it for the 101st time than it will if you just link to it on someone else's site.

Sending people away is great if it's the only thing you do. But if your strategy includes racking up pageviews with ads on them, then you MUST keep them on your site. So you rewrite other people's stories (Gawker), you quote/steal big chunks of other people's copy (Business Insider) and you make attribution links as small as posisble (Gothamist).

As long as you get more hits from running a full article over just linking to someone else's article, there's no incentive for publishers to do the sorts of things that seem so intuitive to us geeks.
People are irrational and do make stupid decisions, there's a ton of good science saying so, and there are good scientific explanations. We can't run 50mph and we can't not like high-flavor calories. No blame attaches - human nature is what it is. Equally, we are vulnerable to peer group norms and asymmetric treatment of opt-out versus opt-in. Again, science.

Connect those, and you get a way to manipulate humans into doing nonstupid things.

Should you do that? That's a question ethics, and maybe politics.

Can you? That's a question for science, and the answer seems to be yes.
I stopped reading Time, Newsweek, USNWR, etc whan I was in High School. Later I read that these magazines were written for 8-9th grade level. That was in the late '70s so I'm sure they are dumbing-down to the 5th grade level by now. Bad strategy. Also, and I'm going out on a limb here, but the internet really changes everything. The reporters have not been objective for decades but they are learning that they cannot get away with slop now that the internet exists. Exciting times!
And that's what it did. As the article said, an assertion failed and the application died (instead of silently corrupting your data).
Of those 90 percent, there is probably a much smaller percentage that consumes more than, say, 300 mgs caffeine daily.

That also doesn't say much about the severity of the withdrawl symptoms. (Slightly drowsy? Persistent, intense headache?)
I'm curious. Did you ever try hiring someone who was an occasional gamer (the Wii and Bejeweled gamer) and they didn't work out or did you just assume that they wouldn't be a valuable addition to your team and automatically exclude them? The reason I ask is because I wonder if having some diversity in the level of gameplay ability in your staff might actually produce better games (i.e. ones that mere mortals can play). Of course, I have no idea what your target market is, but its pretty clear to me that occasional gamers are a largely untapped market that the large game companies are mostly ignoring. There's no doubt that Halo, Call of Duty, WoW, etc. sell a lot of units, but there are also a lot of people (I am one of them) who have absolutely no interest in playing those kinds of games for the very simple reason that we have other things to do with our lives. We still play games, but we avoid games that require a significant time investment in order to achieve competency at gameplay. For example, I do not play first-person shooter games at all - the user interfaces are too complex to learn when you're the sort of person who only plays games for a couple of hours on Saturdays and may go for a month or more between sessions of playing any particular game. Battle for Middle Earth II is at the upper limit of interface complexity that I am willing to tolerate before I give up on a game because it seems like I'm spending more time trying to remember the mechanics of the controls than I am just having fun playing. I tend to gravitate towards simple turn-based or mouse-click slash & hack RPGs (Pool of Radiance, Dungeon Siege, Diablo II), sim games (Sid Meier's Civilization, Masters of Orion II, The Sims), and simple arcade or puzzle games (Dig Dug, Arkanoid, Minesweeper). If it takes more than a minute to relearn the controls of a game when a month has passed since the last time I played it, odds are that I'll get frustrated and stop playing that game and avoid others like it. Similarly, if the default game AI is tuned to perform at the level of a hardcore gamer and there's no way to turn it down to a level that a perpetual n00b like me can compete with, I'll ditch the game and never buy another one like it (many real-time strategy games are guilty of this offense).
FriendFeed Is In Danger Of Becoming The Coolest App No One Uses
Where the iTunes Store Fails: Community
Cydia opens an unofficial App Store for iPhones
Introducing the Boxee API
Or, FriendFeed Is In Danger Of Becoming The Coolest App Michael Arrington Doesn't Use.
It would be more useful if you didn't have to pay to read the actual note.
"Our emissions are boiling the planet, and most of our energy use is unnecessary."

What's "unnecessary"? Energy drives modern technology, from your desk to your home to your doctor's office. Sure, if you don't care about quality of life, then energy use is unnecessary.

Really? This is your complaint? By 'unnecessary,' we can reasonably presume that the author means 'needlessly inefficient.' That much is evident to any sincere reader of the article who cares enough about the pursuit of knowledge to abide by the principle of charity: Put the best face on the argument before you refute it, otherwise you are not contributing.

The straw-man argument, "Sure, if you don't care about quality of life, then energy use is unnecessary," is wholly beside the point.

And while most scientists think our emissions are going to cause an increase in mean global temperatures over the next few centuries, "boiling the planet" is a long way off.

Again, this cannot be a serious complaint. The phrase 'boiling the planet' is clearly a metaphor. A surface reading would be that we're just raising the temperature of the planet to an unhealthy extreme. A more nuanced reading reveals that the author means that we are raising the temperature of the planet to such a high temperature that we are going to cause irreversible change, such as when one boils food and finds that no amount of refrigeration will bring it back to it's former state. More simply, we are doing something analogous to sterilizing the planet, though to a lesser degree, in that many species may ultimately be made extinct.

That's not entirely a rhetorical question, I honestly don't follow dead tree media and never got into it much as a kid.

This is evident from the shallowness of your misguided critique. More practice at reading, dead-tree media or otherwise, might have made you a skillful enough reader to have been able to follow the plot here.
Anyone knows what the Android install base is?
not bad..
So some of the GPS markers seem to be off:
http://www.trailbehind.com/#get_quad/146.34166717529297/-39....

The Mt Oberon is in the middle of the swamp (it should be on the peak with the track running up to it at the top of the screen) - and the Growlers Creek point is in the bay.

Also - The login/register popup looked broken (FF3 on Ubuntu)

How do I create my own waypoints? Or do I need GPS data to do that?
If the US Army developed it with our tax dollars, isn't it in the public domain?
No, I think its a fair critique.

I'm a friendfeed member, but I dont find it all that useful. And yet I do find it well designed, so it isnt a usability issue. I use facebook, and I use twitter. For me, these are separate bases of people. I like to send more updates to twitter than I do facebook, and I dont want to link to pictures etc via twitter, etc.

In addition, while I use many of the other connection services friendfeed offers, not in any real way that makes sense to connect them together.

In the end, I think friendfeed is useful for those who use a large number of the services and want to get it all together -- but trying to explain friendfeed to people who are just starting to use twitter is very difficult, and its going to be a long time before they see any usefulness out of it. Twitter and Facebook do not have this problem, at all.
it's also a Slate article vs. HN. i'd expect them to post questions that dazzle the least common denominator, while still allowing them to understand what's going on after a brief explanation. i'd be worried if HN _couldn't_ solve problems understandable by Slate's target audience.
As you said, it's too soon to tell. I think a lot of consumers (me included) aren't tapped out - they've been furiously saving money since September or October, and are feeling the urge to spend. Admittedly I live in a government town so we're somewhat sheltered but the lineups I see in stores (which have cut back on staff) are getting pretty long and annoying.
I used to be up to around 2 2-liters of mountain dew a day... stopping from that was terrible. I was tired all the time and kept getting headaches. The solution to this was to drink a ton of water.

The last time I even attempted to have any soda I was utterly disgusted by the taste. I dunno, seems like a good choice I made
There's no need to be so aggressive. And I think I made it clear that the example I excerpted was only one of many offending sentences. I could easily pull others, if I were motivated to use my time in such a way. The piece in question made a quantity of assumptions that I normally only associate with activist literature, and not supposedly objective journalism. I don't consider that to be a hallmark of quality news.