skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I usually find Treehugger to be a bit soft on scientific rigor, but this is an intriguing idea. Make this a folding bike, where the wheels have the same axis when folded so it can easily be rolled around when folded. Also give it an internal hub shifter. Such a bike would be perfect!
I think this is only reliable if you have a perfect conscience or one so little consulted that you only notice your misgivings when you try to do something really rotten.
The idea of shoving everything into an encrypted cookie --- it seems like it should work well, and I really like not storing session state server-side. Wouldn't the cookie run afoul of some security problem or other, though? I'm having a hard time thinking up scenarios, but I am not a security expert.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=639647

[EDIT] Also interesting that the talk did not mention nginx as either a proxy or a software load balancer.
Looks like you taking your opinion and extrapolating it into "... the fact that people ...", then implying that hence it is immoral ("But perhaps that was a white lie") to ask a non-local 'Ask HN'! Or may be you are just being witty. If anything, local 'Ask HN' is discouraged here by displaying it as gray on gray text.
Not a bad idea... let's say they make, for example, 20 coupon codes for the 20 most useful reviews...
The live api was around for a while and I'm pretty sure it's just a name change.
Person A: Invest 10 borrow 90, sell for 120, profit 10.

Person B: Invest 10, borrow 90, sell...oops market has turned, default on borrowed money.

Bank folds, CDOs lose their AAA credit rating, investors lose their saving investing in CDOs.

Total profit 10, total loses due to leverage: far far greater then 10.
Or maybe have a lower section on HN's frontpage with the latest 10 startups.
I would say that crime is most often a negative sum game.

For example, a person pays tens of thousands of dollars getting a lead roof installed. Another person comes along and steals the lead from the roof and sells it as scrap for a few hudred dollars. Value has been destroyed, both because the lead was more valuable as a roof than as scrap, and also because of the damage to the building which happened because it was no longer protected from the weather.
I'm sure you like to believe that, but I doubt you have any data to back that up. You probably just think it obvious from everything you hear and read, but the slightest chauvinist tendency is enough to tilt the amount of perceived evidence strongly into the direction that confirms your bias.
Communication and China - Retarding Creativity
This is exactly what I thought: "Uh, what if the reason Twitter developers aren't using Twitter much is because they are developing Twitter?"
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Thanks
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At least I can speak for myself. I'm a pirate. I download most of my music and movies, buy the rest in 3rd party stores and pawn shops. I dont buy games any more after all the crapware on them. My biggest things I download are books. In fact, I even have most of my collection duplicated digitally (using free formats) along with nice bound books. Even that e-paper stuff sucks. I just like nicely bound, hopefully acid-free paper bound books. And yes, I usually buy what books I download... most anyways.

I even downloaded that Wolverine workprint. Not a great movie, but OK.

I can also remember the times I've been burnt in actually buying media. I remember the C64 games we bought that used disk drive_destroying calls for anti piracy. I can recall movies that didnt play and the money we lost cause we couldnt return them. I remember being screwed around with on DVD region garbage cause we _bought_ legit dvds.

I've been burned by countless types of media and "policies" regarding them, but never books. Even the bookstores have cafes in which they're cool for you to take a book that you havent purchased to peruse. They're like for-profit libraries. The only thing I wish is that book dealers would get their act together and publish easily searchable text with each book... Oh, and these days, vinyl is another thing I dont mind buying. Now, much vinyl comes with a scratch-off card that the publisher provides all MP3s of what's on the album. Cool and retro, and vinyl sounds good.

It's a really a "What Provides Value?" game. Books and vinyl+mp3s provide perceived value. Badly done DVDs and CDs and crippled games do not. The pirates provide better quality product with no hassle in opposition to the DVD/CD/game sellers.
I think it's OK to have some ads on there to defray your costs. No annoying ads, of course, but I'm sure a Valley law firm would be happy to sponsor it.

And I think people would be happy to use it as long as it's well-moderated. The only problem may be building up a user base that is qualified.
I'll bet. good article, and your product continues to look interesting. I'm browsing the SDK documentation and would like you congratulate you on its accessibility. (for context, he's talking about: http://www.pittpatt.com/)
So that's it? I propose a straight-forward plan to revolutionize software development and all anybody has for me are a few lame objections?

How disappointing.
I live very near to RTP, NC, and only one home has sold in the past six months, so good luck.
Top richest models in the World:Forbe’s Magazine
Anyone know how sales like this are facilitated? I've always wondered how anonymous parties can securely trade.
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This just doesn't sound like NYT.
Exactly, that's why I wanted to start with people from the HN community, where most are qualified, and the reviews here are mostly very constructive.
But nor would you get any benefit if the value of the property you were renting had appreciated, though obviously this is balanced out by not having a millstone around your neck when property values crash during a recession. Having both bought and rented, I don't think there is an unambiguous financial benefit either way. Renting gives you more temporal freedom (as in being able to just walk away and move to a better place or another country), a sensible buy can give you more financial freedom (as in a large chunk of collateral).
51.com statistics is always fake as hell.
thanks. will do. also you can check out the two previous posts on valuation and liquidation preferences at http://www.ansanelli.com/blog/?p=880 and http://www.ansanelli.com/blog/?p=1003
And the person that you bought it from in step B made money, and you lost money. I still see a perfect symmetry.
No, as it's signed and also will have a timeout long before someone can brute it.
It's not a solved problem.

The real problem, the one the Pirate Party is trying to solve, is that the worlds culture is being trapped behind private paywalls in which high costs and penalties are extracted. For thousands of years, our culture was free, as everybody told stories, and people sang songs they created and performed.

However, for the last 100 years, copyright has really taken off. The "consensus" is that thoughts: stories, songs, plays, diatribes, you name it, can be owned and money extracted like the old troll under the rotating bridge.

However, once the "Gutenberg Press for Everybody" got out, suddenly these people want money from everybody. And now, everybody is a potential criminal because of this. Hence DRM and high governemnt-sanctioned blackmails.

The question has never been "Can you trade copyrighted media if you use heavy encryption with everything and get your friends the same?", but instead "Can I share this to people I know would like without fear?" or "Can I sing Happy Birthday in public?". There's always going to be nutters who will apply the most obtuse, obfuscated encryptions they can because they can.

The real question is "Who's culture is this, but why do select few gain?".
Myths about JavaFX, Android, and J2ME
The real question is what did they get?
A very insightful examination. A lot of things I didn't know.
That might work, though of course the reviews would have to be constructive and useful. This is where having a small community is a problem, if you use a vote system even a few votes will be enough to game the system.
> But nor would you get any benefit if the value of the property you were renting had appreciated

If you want to invest in real estate you can. You don't have to live there.
Money, knowledge, and economic opportunity
Or uh, you could use Java or an easily installed desktop client.
I see that your only defense is that I am exhibiting a bias. And I agree its a bias, but do you have any data to say that I am wrong?
Seems a little bit slower, but things are working as they should here.
Total number of queries for a day doesn't really matter much if your peak traffic is above a per-second usage quota. That being said, I think the quota is pretty generous.
As a guy who works at an enterprise vendor that works very, very hard to never lie in the sales cycle . . . in the long run, having a reputation as a vendor that delivers on their promises is a huge asset. Most enterprise software vendors have terrible reputations, and 100% customer referencability is an asset that's much, much harder to copy (or fake) than your product is. Protect it at all costs. That might cost you sales in the short run, and it means you have to walk away from deals if the customer isn't a fit, but your reputation is probably the single most valuable asset that you have in that space.
But who could you switch to? Your only other GSM option would be AT&T, which was also compromised [1].

[1]: http://www.eff.org/nsa/faq#8
Many times it seems culture or taboos or tradition seem to keep us from doing what's best. I've seen it in corporate culture in seemingly making the right decision for the company and I've seen it in life, too. People tend to resist change.
Jokob Nielsen: Guesses vs. Data as Basis for Design Recommendations
Google has a JSON-based API: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/#fonje

Its misleadingly named, hard to find, etc etc, but it exists. :/
If you want to actually do some searching, these links might be of interest:

http://mufin.fi.muni.cz/imgsearch/

http://multimatch01.isti.cnr.it:8765/CophirSearch/

http://mipai.esuli.it/
Have you checked out PubSubHubbub project?

http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/

It looks like there's a lot of overlap with the feature set you need, as well as the advantage of some extra documentation + testing. It's a Python WSGI app, instead of Sinatra/Rack, and the data over the wire is encoded as Atom, but there could be some useful lessons to work from at least.
The poster of the pitch decides which comments he likes the best, maybe?
The addition of an SD slot is awesome. Much more useful than the current expansion flap thing which I don't even know what you plug in there :/
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One had plans to move to north dakota, play guitar and learn to shoot. One planned to follow his job to wherever. Overall, the plans of renters were simply more interesting than those of owners.

Orthogonality is good. If your investments are tightly coupled to your lifestyle, you will have less freedom.
I just thought about a karma system similar to HN. The next step would be what to do with those numbers. Free incentives from startups to users with good karma who vote/comment/review on their ventures?
What we mean by "intelligence," must also be considered. As they are, computers are most useful for solving problems where a solution is known, theoretically, to exist.

For example, you know there are articles on the internet concerning Javascript, and when you ask google to point you towards them, the relevance of the returned results is often viewed as a measure of the algorithm's "intelligence." But behind this intelligent response lies complex but defined probability calculations that are provably correct given a known algorithm. On the other hand, can you ever imagine asking the questions, "Computer, does this shirt look good on me?" or, "Computer, what is the most ethical course of action in this situation?" How a human responds to these questions helps indicate that human's level of intelligence. But different people could also disagree on the above questions and still be considered intelligent.

To me, it doesn't seem to make much sense to invest in computers that are modeled after humans, as there are certain types of situations where even the most intelligent of these machines could be wrong as a matter of opinion. Rather, the more powerful computers become, the more sense it makes to have them tackle finite problem spaces more efficiently. Because of this, I don't really see the case where human intelligence and computer intelligence would or should converge. Put simply, it would NEVER make sense to give Skynet control of our nukes.
If copyright was abolished tomorrow, it would still be possible for writers to getr paid to write. For example, they could write a book and only release it when donations to them have reached a certain level.
Insightful but it seems that there's a lot of speculation about this. Theres an article from timesonline that tied some pieces together and answered some questions for me (like: "How do they know this much detail of the flight without the black box?" A: ACARS).

I hope this is helpful to someone else: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/...
Apple should make MobileMe the Apple mobile phone service and just front all of the wireless carriers around the world. That's what users really want in terms of one-stop shopping and service.
Of course the SD slot is not a very welcome change to people who have stuff that plugs in that "flap thing", because now the MacBook Pro apparently doesn't have any means of internal expansion. (Why is it called Pro again?)
This is already happening here and there. The DOE made a policy decision to use open source on their supercomputers so that they would be vendor-indpendent; this has resulted in open source software like Lustre and SLURM. The E community was funded by DARPA. I'm sure there are others.

I don't know of any umbrella initiatives to fund open source in general. Given the ridiculous amounts of "stimulus" money being given out, go for it.
Thank you -- that makes sense.

Do you know how many founders there were in addition to the 200 employees in that survey?
Somehow I doubt the statistics for Germany. Maybe 10 out of my 160 contacts on StudiVZ are using Facebook.
It costs only $25 to add an SD card reader into your express card slot: http://www.xpcgear.com/proexp7.html Apple probably did it so save costs and save space for the bigger battery.

These look like fine machines for someone who is buying a new mac, but offer hardly a reason to upgrade from any recent model.
"When bugs become features": the Ruby double-inclusion problem
Asus eee pc 900 notebook with 1.6ghz atom processor
> I don't see how limiting the number of artists benefits society.

I don't see how DRM or 3-strikes laws benefit society.

The Internet exists. Its purpose is to copy enormous amounts of data and sent it around the world quickly and cheaply; that's not a side-effect, it's what the net was designed to do. This spells death to business models based on selling copies of digital data. Society must therefore either accept that a good deal of unauthorised copying will take place, or it must castrate the Internet.

It may harm society if artists earn less money; but it will harm socierty a lot more if we castrate the Internet.
The Value of Education in a Recession
This is a very well-written introduction.

Having read through my share of textbooks on the subject, it is very refreshing to read this blog entry.

It is nice to see the fundamentals of computation theory presented in a lucid and engaging manner.
Proving that someone is committing anti-trust violation against Google's search business is a very uphill task.

That the party you accuse is Microsoft makes only a little difference.
The weather was never considered "horrible" and still isn't. [edit:] At least 12 planes took the same route that night without any incident.

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/12-planes-shared-sky-with-af-447-...
The Apple site hasn't been updated with these and the online store is down. Doesn't Apple usually make sure the site has all of the new products right when they're announced?
Reports seem to indicate that they almost made it through the stormcell.

Very unfortunate. Whatever it was probably happened extremely fast. Perhaps a (ridiculously unlikely) wing snapped off? Or they stalled and spinned violently?
New iPhone 3GS -- really fast!
Better battery, video camera, compass, more memory, etc.

And $99 iPhone 3G!
I suspect the PP would neither classify themselves as "left" or "right".
No I haven't, but I am now, thanks. (This is a particularly hard problem domain to google for)
Android kept the Java language, and pitched out the JVM.

Does this seem backwards to anyone else?
Alright, I think we're on the same page. I don't really know anything about Swedish history, so thanks for the information.
rails comes with cookie sessions by default.
Except that the MobileMe/dotMac part of Apple is one of the only ones that has trouble executing cleanly. They are currently one of Apple's weak links.
I think you need to prove that you are right first.
IMHO, this is the future of transportation. 20 miles one way should be sufficient for a HUGE proportion of workers (you'll recharge the battery at work).

Have any of you converted a regular bicycle to electric DIY-style? I see articles about that on the net. I'm wondering if it's worth it to do that. Would appreciate pointers.
Why wouldn't you charge the companies to post, and then allow your select membership to make a buck with their reviews?

You could limit participation in the site to those that can "prove" their credentials in some way.

If the service that you provide is accurate and needed, start-ups would tumble over themselves to get their product in front of your crowd. It's like techcrunch with an added value beyond publicity.
It wasn't unexpected. :)

What matters is the nature of those differences. For example, in one place it's considered acceptable for a government to regularly collect money for a church. In the other, this would look very suspicious.
IPhone 3GS Feature Guide
I actually find this the best part of HN.
Most of these high-profile phones do not have Java out of the box, and getting a Java runtime can even be challenging. For example, there is no JavaVM out of the box on iPhone, Android G2/HTC-Magic, and Treo 750 WinMobile (I could not find one on my old Treo 750 WinMobile). And for the rest—well, the J2ME market is very fragmented.

Loopt seems to get it done in J2ME quite well. I don't buy it.
This appears to be slightly cheaper than EC2; someone will have to do benchmarks to confirm.
Slightly OT, but new iPhone (as mentioned in the OP article) as well.

For those who feel like following the liveblog, http://live.gizmodo.com/
You can effectively live in the world you want, by choosing how you do business and who you do business with.
No. This is Apple's standard operating procedure; the site goes down for a few hours while the presentation is being done. (So that the site doesn't "scoop" the presenters.) The site should be back up soon after the show's over.
The top of the line 17" still has the ExpressCard slot. Apparently, SD's the new floppy after all, instead of USB thumb drives.
I agree - the point I was making was about damage to the long term franchise, which I guess an individual salesperson wouldn't care about.
Africa is doomed.

After Mandela dies there will be a Rwanda style massacre of the remaining whites and no one will care.

The Chinese will then move in and build a pitiless slave empire and no one will care about that either.

All worse case scenarios will come true, a massive die off of blacks, pollution, strip-mining and extinction of many African wild species.

I'm sure the anti apartheid movement will be very proud.
I'm not sure the point about patents is right. The whole purpose of patents is to get new ideas published, by giving inventors some of the same protections they would have if they kept ideas secret. Removing patents would increase secrecy, not decrease it.
Voted down for having too few show girl photos ;)
Wouldn't an electric scooter or motorcycle be more attractive?

I suppose the bike riding crowd is already keen to the cons of bike travel (lack of comfort, exposure to weather, etc), but I'd be game to exchanging my car to a powerful electric motorcycle, at least in the summer. Although my wife wouldn't be too keen on the idea.
Looks great... anyone want to buy my 3G?
Some of it does apply to the US, too. But even individuals are different, not just countries. The generalization certainly does have exceptions.
How fast does this bike go with engine+pedaling? I don't mind cycling 20 miles, but sometimes you have to be fast.
It then becomes way too complicated. Plus, the more the reviews on a post, the less money each commenter would make, because the profits would have to be redistributed.
I will always say it was a bomb, and the more they try to make it look like it wasn't, the more I believe they are just trying to hide it from the public not to scare them to fly like in 2001.

It was a bomb.
"Summary:
Even the tiniest amount of empirical facts (say, observing 2 users) vastly improves the probability of making correct UI design decisions."

Yes if you are a complete newbie or academic without any experience about webdesign. Otherwise not in a million years.
Don't underestimate the value of being in the "in group" though. You could also have the company (or the community) designate the top X reviews that would get money.
I'm not a big fan of the name either. But it's our opponents who call us "pirates" so maybe it's about reclaiming the label (like the gay community has done with "queer").

I think, as the PP gains vote share in Sweden and elsewhere, many of the other parties are going to steal their policies. Which is good.
I think that the browser sandbox and SuperPreview serve different purposes. The sandbox will allow you to do the js checking, but SuperPreview allows you to look more at design elements through overlay and rulers. This is the same feature provided in Adobe browserlab (mentioned in another comment), but browserlab is currently closed to new users.
This is like eight years old.
It's hardly a controversial statement to say the U.S. spends more on technology research and development than other countries. It's all part of military spending and there's not even a comparison - but here's some nice little bar chart if you want: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_federatio...
For a hundred years we've been flying planes thru storms, lightnings, adverse conditions of every kind, so fuck the coffin corner.

The pilot and copilots had thousands of flight hours under their belt.

Not a single mayday call.
Meh, I walk 1 block to work. I think the real solution to commuting problems is the reolization that it's ok to live near office buildings.

Then again I am single, and don't own a place, but it's a great tradeoff when possible IMO. The issue with all city's being dirty, smelly, dangerus places to live is mostly a solved problem. I also have a lower enviermental impact than most american's living in "eco frendly" housing.

PS: Granted, I also make far more money than most people so I can afford to living in a nice highrise, but I think it's a great option which can quickly scale.
I thought the same thing. It's probably because the rankings come from Alexa and Google Trends: the former is useless, and the second is unrelated to number of users.