skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Enough people upvoted it for it to make the front page. If you don't think it's appropriate, flag it and move on.
Once the news hit, there was a demand for a discount on the stock, for obvious reasons, with nobody willing to sell at more than a 5% discount, so there you go, an instant 5% move to where a buyer finally found a seller.

If you're asking why sellers were willing to sell at that price, well, there were plenty of people willing to sell at a 4% discount instead of a 5% discount, but no buyers. All market participants have different opinions on the effect the news had on future cash flows, but the 5% magic number was the place where there was a consensus between bulls and bears on a fair price. The price of the stock only shows you where a consensus between a buyer and seller was reached, and doesn't tell you much about the structure of the order book or option chain for a stock, which indicates a lot more about what all market participants think about a stock.
Very cool!

Side comment: one problem with modern web apps is JavaScript bloat. And one pressure on libraries is to keep growing. These two things seem to be at odds. It would be nice if someone created some kind of { CSS, js, HTML } build system that allows components to be built and packages separately.
FOIAMachine dev here. There are a few projects operating in the space and it seems the more help being offered to get people asking their government for data and documents the better off we'll all be. There's gonna be some overlap, nothing is totally novel and I like to think FOIAMachine builds on some of the great ideas that came before it, including those generated by MuckRock. I see FOIAMachine different in a few ways. It has tighter controls for sharing requests with specific people (or keeping them private). We're building controls so you can make requests more social. What that means is sharing a request with others to build support publicly. And of course, we'll share what users make available via an API. Also, while we're asking for funding now the service will be totally free. It's built so users can help each other. It's built so you have the tools to stay organized. Once the code is done the hosting costs are minimal and it won't need much to keep the lights on and help people create their requests. MuckRock and Alaveteli are great and their creators have done yeoman's work. FOIAMachine approaches the problem from a different angle and I think it'll be a useful tool for a lot of people.
Woaaaah, easy there sarcasmo!

That sorta sounds like Sony.
Hey lets make our platform an entirely new platform, different from x86 and as hard as possible to get quality game developers.

Sounds familiar?
One exception to that rule would be students. It's not exactly "office productivity", but OneNote with a stylus is heavenly for taking notes in-class. It's a shame the RT didn't have stylus support, or I'd be all over it.
If they ever were actually ashamed, in the first place.
sure I learn a lot from people sharing as well - and try to share too - but I do see a difference in charging people a few bucks for telling them things they will find in blogs and trumpetting my "success" story - and reading a blog post from someone sharing a good insight. Sorry if I'm being harsh here - but we do have a bit of a pat on the back community here - however I realize that might not have been the most constructive comment. So heres some more constructive advice - its great that you got a bunch of beta signups. Build your product - that will be worth a lot more than an ebook about how to build a landing page that will get you more signups. There are plenty of people out there with significant experience in this space who publish tonnes of great free content weekly about these things - a lot of it backed up by research too (ref: copyhackers.com). Same thing with marketing related advice - check out the blogs of hubspot and kissmetrics for example. If I were you - rather than spending time writing an ebook and trying to sell that - I would use that content - publish it on my products blog - and use that to drive traffic to my product. Ref: content marketing. Just my 2 bits - the industry doesnt work that way - people buy content from those who have had considerably larger successes - but prove me wrong on this and I'm the happiest guy around :D - it would be an indication for me to go publish a whole lot of ebooks that I didnt think would ever sell!
I'm surprised the author didn't mention battery life. My dumb phone can go several days without needed a recharge, it isn't unusual for the battery to last one week or more if I'm in an area with good reception.
Issuing FOIA requests to screw over a competitor seems a bit much, right?

Then again, there may well be some aspect of this I'm missing.
The british are cute.

that test rig looked like something the North Koreans would put together.

this is no where near being a "real program"
A Great Selection of Data-Visualization Tools
Why the fsck are all of you people commenting running OSX? We were fighting for a free, open OS, remember?

No, I don't remember that. Because I never was.

I strongly dislike Microsoft. But I was just as happy on Solaris as Debian.

I really can't understand why hackers, coders, etc are happy to sign up to the shit Apple are doing. I do understand that "normal" people love Apple, but I just can not understand why coder people, who grew up learning to code in a GNU world (like me) can succumb to go Apple.

I learned to code from Perl. Which was never so dogmatic about the whole GNU thing.
It is in fact density, although in my defense I meant molecular weight. But was still wrong ;-)

However, there are many suspensions which will never settle under standard gravity, but which will rapidly settle in a centrifuge. We call these colloids.
Currently popular ideas are not the result of a historical meme ratchet, whereby ideas have only been replaced by better ideas. A cursory knowledge of history provides ample evidence that bad ideas have often reemerged and become the orthodoxy of the time, supplanting earlier hard-earned wisdom.

With that history in mind, the common notion that today's popular ideas are all wiser than any of the past can be seen as absurdly unlikely. Does that imply that all old ideas are better than new replacements? Of course not. It implies that some of them are.

It implies that if you are more interested in wisdom than in popularity, you should look beyond what is taken for granted as the orthodoxy of your own generation.
Like Windows 7 was "touch optimized".

In other words, it isn't.
My experience in Silicon Valley is that economic opportunity outweighs cultural liberalism.

BTW, which are are you referring to when you mention budget deficits and crime?
I use Ubuntu 13.04 on my work iMac (mid 2011, as I recall, i7 / 16GB RAM) as my OS, with LXDE.

Previous to 13.04 Ubuntu acted very strange and had a multitude of problems. Since 13.04, and with ATI finally having proper drivers it works really well.
it's not transhobic its what the url used to be:

expertsexchange.com
Wow, so we could now truly have "off-the-shelf" objects, which was going to be the future of software development in the '90s but never materialized?
The surface was always destined to fail. People tolerate Microsoft because it's been the de-facto standard for so long, Apple hardware and Google services are what people enjoy.

For higher end tablets the iPad is the winner, for the lower end the Nexus 7. For open-source junkies the only real choice is Google, regular consumers can use either (based on the popularity of Android).

Where does MS fit in? From their lousy image, to their WTF? commercials, their archaic business model and poor services, no one wants an MS product.
Strictly speaking, does the ipad have stylus support either? I'm under the impression all styluses there are 3rd party ones designed to work on capacitive screens in general.
What Would the 'Exercise Pill' Mean?
First off, let me state that I am not supporting this action. I do not view it as an effective means of protest.

That said, I'm not sure I agree with your sentiment. I think one could argue in the bureaucracy, the staff are fair game. The staff (generally speaking) are the ones that implement, aren't they? To not target them assumes implementation is not subject to ethics. I think the machine is flawed, not just the "deciders".

I don't know... ugly situation unfolding. I think it'll get worse before it gets better.
Not only is the bootloader locked, it has no recovery mode. It's dangerous to even update the system, let alone install custom OS-level software.
I think you may have it back to front. To avoid crazy drag losses you cruise the lower atmosphere, then kick to high speed once into much thinner air.
ReactOS is great, but the project seems to have died in the last few years.
As of a couple days ago, and you're choosing to ignore the true entry level device in the iPad line, the iPad mini which can't match on specs but does beat it on price, portability and form factor.

I can't think of a single person I've talked to about purchasing a tablet that considers specs except for myself so that's hardly the motivator some would make it out to be.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean? Things like bower and component already fulfil these roles.
I don't see you pointing out anything that is wrong?!

I also disagree that all that stuff should be obvious to everybody. Certainly wasnt to me, although it makes sense, which is why it's interesting. Rather than saying "hell, anybody can get cancer and we have no idea why" these guys seem to think about its role in evolution. They are thinking about it not as a random mutation but as an intentional genetic program which just makes much more sense.

Like in any criminal investigation, answering the cui bono question is imperative. I agree with the people in the paper actually: A deeper understanding is necessary. We dont know whether that will lead to a cure but as a software engineer its my experience that you can't fix a bug you don't understand. (And it amazes me so many of my fellow engineer try....)
Eyeo2013 Ignite #12 - Kevin Slavin [video]
I've seen multiple threads where the original submission received 100+ upvotes and 100+ comments, and the repost also received 100+ upvotes and 100+ comments. Sometimes the repost comments went in an entirely different direction from the original post comments.
Maybe I'm being unfair, but my immediate response to that headline was the traditional response to the statement "size doesn't matter":

"Oh." [Pat, pat.] "Did somebody tell you that, dear?"
I still use a dumb phone. The front screen doesn't work, and I just added a piece of duct tape to keep the battery cover on. One of the biggest reasons that I haven't switched is that when I'm walking across campus at work 95% of the people have their face buried in a screen. There is zero eye contact.

A desperate plea to phone manufacturers, even though I realize I'm in the extreme minority. I would snap-purchase a dumb phone that had the following feature list and a $200 price tag:

1. Crystal clear voice quality.

2. There is no 2.

I don't want a camera. I don't want a voice recorder. I don't want an mp3 player. I don't want a web browser. I don't want a flashlight. I don't want text messaging or email. This might sound insane, but I actually just want a phone.
Indeed. I bought a "dumb" GSM Nokia before flying to Sri Lanka and * gasp * not only was I able to have 2 lines, even two different carriers on the same phone, without too much hassle (something nearly unheard of the U.S.) I just drop a bit of cash at any ol' cell shop and I'm good to go.

Furthermore, I actually own my bloody phone!
BTW Google don't pay dividends and promises to don't pay "in the foreseeable future".

http://investor.google.com/corporate/faq.html#toc-dividend
As far as I've been able to find, Hal Abelson's last statement was on May 13, when he wrote that the report would be released "this summer".

http://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/swartz/2.html

This is indeed much delayed from his initial statement on January 22 that he hoped the report would be ready "in a few weeks."

http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N63/abelson.html

It's disappointing that it's taken this long.
Android 4.3 is getting Bluetooth 4.0 LE support
There is so little information provided both on the page and in the video that I cannot form a proper judgement.

Also, the website design just looks like a scam.

What's in it for the owner?
I used to flag dumb submissions, but since that was usually half the front page, a mod disabled my flag button.
World's Biggest Virus May Have Ancient Roots 
Researchers have discovered the largest virus ever, and they've given it a terrifying name: Pandoravirus.
http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html
Acer just doesn't get tablets. I can't think of a single Acer tab worth owning, the entire Iconia series is a joke, cranked out to be $20 cheaper than the next guy at the expense of everything that matters. Screen quality, network connectivity, build quality, all complete crap.

Letting them launch the first diminutive Surface tablet and allowing that thing past Microsoft QA is a huge mistake on the part of Microsoft. I can't believe they allow their hardware partners to screw them that badly when they have facilities in place to stop it

They can't do much about some terrible laptop that shouldn't exist, but the licensing for RT is far stricter. How about using that ability and keep crap like this off the market.
A whole 64MB?!?
Oh really? The reviews seem to disagree:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/why-bo...
Contribute to Perl by completing quests on Questhub
I pretty much see anonymous as the black panthers of this generation.
Microsoft Research turns Kinect into sign language reader
submitter's mistake, it's GB in the article.
...because they are guilty as hell?
Nope. There is code in place to detect (some) dupes and turn the re-submit into an upvote for the original submission. For anything that makes it through the dupe detector, I'm satisfied to assume that it's probably worth a second discussion. Note that not all duplicates are a Bad Thing, and there are a few links that show up on HN about once a year or so anyway, and rightly so.
Yeah, no sweat. Supposedly games like FF will be Ouya optimized so I'm imagining FFIV will have better graphics. We'll see, it might turn out like the 3DS and have games come a little late.
You pretty much nailed how it's done, good show for off the cuff. Encrypt file with large symmetric key. Slice into n pieces, where n is like 5-10 or more. Distribute a few copies of each slice to reliable people unlikely to directly conspire. Distribute encrypted file widely. Give instructions on how to gather as a group based on some basic trigger. The chance of the gathered group missing every copy of one of the slices is pretty low as long as nobody gets a master list of key holders.
"the idea of an Android console sounds great"

Does it though? Really?
The thing is, most people don't use their "phones" for talking, anymore. And "phone" manufacturers realize that. They're putting their money into smartphones, which is where the market demand is. I'd be shocked to see any improvements in "dumb" phones.
Intel Linux Developer Requests More Respect From Torvalds But Linus Isn't Buying
thanks, yes his data is very useful.

figure 3 on page 11 illustrates the point I was making:

http://www.sf-planning.org/ftp/files/publications_reports/20...
wow. and the ipad doesn't?

i'm shocked. really. i'm not trolling, belive it or not, but i fell like in a straight jacket using any iOS device.
>According to the article they are simply comparing gene expression from cancer cells to ancient lifeforms, which would directly support the theory.

No it wouldn't. Cancer expresses fundamental genes critical to all multicellular organisms. That is already known so the fact that cancer expresses 'older' genes doesn't prove anything.

It is very clear from the press release and also form his own article on his 'theory' from 2011 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/25/cancer-e... that he doesn't understand evolution.

Consider this nugget of wisdom that is 100% pseudoscience: A century ago the German biologist Ernst Haekel pointed out that the stages of embryo development recapitulate the evolutionary history of the animal. Human embryos, for instance, develop, then lose, gills, webbed feet and rudimentary tails, reflecting their ancient aquatic life styles.

That is wrong, it has been know to be wrong for a hundred years at least and basing a theory on it is ridiculous.
my mistake - 64GB. Fixed it
I agree with everything you say ! I am no fanboi, I use whatever works for me best, I own an iPod touch (for the music), the galaxy s4 (running touchwhiz flavor of jelly bean v4.2.2) , own the xbox360 and a win 8 desktop PC, New Lumia phones and win 8 pro tablets have impressed me.I think the new xbox and how surface pro and rt have seen Microsoft going for those 3 segments and almost inevitably converging to a single os that runs them all !

I wouldn't be surprised if windows 9 or 10 perhaps would have you writing code once and deploy them to your new xbox, new PC, new surface, new Lumia and new smartwatch and who knows maybe even some sort of kinectified glass you wear all the time, Imagine the big win for hitting so many screen sizes with one codebase.
I wonder if such things should be evaluated in terms of the knowledge and experience they gained the company. I would say the Surface RT experience has reflected a lot on their experience and strategy developing Windows 8 and Phone. If (say) the experience is reflected in the level of success of Windows Phone 8, then may be overall it is a net success for Microsoft.

I think every company (like Microsoft, Apple, Google did) need to maintain software and hardware divisions, if only to get the feeling what are the software current needs in an evolving hardware profile.
This story was posted and deleted earlier today... assuming the same will happen now.
Looking at HTML5 and Flash - finding alternative solutions
>My issue is that they continued to tell people that they could be trusted. If you are being forced to do something, fine, but don't keep on telling others that you can be trusted.

Trusted...how? I guess we need to define trusted.

Google isn't selling your email history to the highest 3rd party bidder for extra money. They are complying with the law, handing over specific info for specific legal requests from the US government.
Advice on registering a hackathon as a company
I'm organizing a hackathon this summer and my team and I have had a lot of fun bootstrapping the whole process. In fact, we enjoyed it so much that we tossed around the idea of making the organization "official". We're all new to this, so naturally we had some concerns:

- We would be accepting money from sponsors to use towards prizes for the event.
- We wouldn't be making money or taking a salary. The most that we can benefit from is personal advertisement (getting our name known) and possibly free accounts from sponsors for us to use individually.

Does this mean we need to register the organization as a business? I live in Canada and was thinking I should register it as a sole proprietorship -- but is that even necessary (given the requirements outlined above)? We also need to trademark our name.

What worries me is handling and accepting money from sponsors. Do you need to be a business to do that? I'd appreciate any advice the community here could give me.
You can always install a different windows manager and stay with a Gnome-like interface (Cinnamon). I don't see what is the big issue with that. There are tons of options on Linux, that's the whole point of the system, it gives you choice.
The blog post is a type of hipster humble-brag about the non-disadvantages of old tech. It's like posting about how physical books are superior because they don't require power sources and are easy to trade between friends without DRM.

My phone is nearly indestructible.

I've had my HTC Incredible for at least 3 years. I have an ugly case on the back and the same scratch guard over the screen as almost everyone else. And I built a cardholder on the back of it, so the phone is also my wallet.

I will drop it from waist height onto concrete at will, as a demonstration. I'm clumsy and I've dropped it at least 30 times, but it's still 100% functional. No screen cracks or case issues.

(Except for the LED melting the back a bit because I had the flashlight on High Intensity and it turned on in my pocket)

(ps: Why are there icons and a login box covering part of the text of the blog post? The blog was difficult to read because UI elements were in the way.)
Ironically, the call quality over LTE is actually far, far, far superior to anything over the generation of "dumb phones". People are quite confused when I make them do phone-to-phone Google Hangout calls and are shocked when my voice actually sounds like my own voice. Digital, FTW. (And yes, sadly, I'm aware no one's really rolled out VoLTE yet, but it's coming)
> I use ubuntu on thinkpads, and it just works

What sort of battery life do you get? Any heat issues? Hibernate/suspend?

(These are all areas where I've had issues with recent versions of Ubuntu, but on an older model Macbook Pro rather than a Thinkpad)
The Rules of In-Store Surveillance
Do you want an address book? Once you have a screen capable of displaying a couple lines of text it's basically zero cost or effort to implement mp3 playing and text messaging, so you're probably stuck with those features. Oh, and a clock too.

Also, I completely understand you not wanting most features, but why would you not want a flashlight? Flashlight mode is very convenient 1% of the time, trivially ignored the other 99%.
Oh I think R http://www.r-project.org/ would be more suitable for you, because learning C++, esp. Qt isn't easy.
R can be learned by everyday business people, so you can surely do that quite fast too.

Qt is an awesome C++ Framework that comes with full-blown IDE (Integrated Development Environment) not just a simple Editor and works across all platforms.

Processing is a Visual Programming Language: you find it here: http://Processing.org and here for the web http://Processingjs.org

You could also use a a dynamic and programmable charting library like D3 http://d3js.org/ but that would be more useable for the Web or a Desktop that Shows a Single page only or your own Browser in Kiosk-Mode (Fullscreen).
You will make Microsoft angry if you do this. They have various versions of Windows 8, and some are more crippled than others.

It enables PAE which is 36bit addressing Microsoft brought in for their server product line. You still only have 4GB per process, though.

I've been using this one for Windows 7. Gives me 64GB
http://www.adminsehow.com/2011/03/windows-7-32-bit-pae-patch...
No camera?! But how do you get arrested for taping a cop?!

Serious note: I have the dumbest phone possible with a camera for purpose of emergency documentation. Think car accidents, property damage, lost kid, etc.
Speaking the language: Strength in numbers with HTML5
I used linux exclusively for ~7 or 8 years on both laptop and desktop, I'm now a Mac user. I could write a long winded post with all the reasoning, but it really comes down to this: There are a number of things open source software does incredibly well, building user experiences is not one of them.
Or have a look at my recent submission:

ThreeAudio.js it allows you to access the HTML5 Web Audio API

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6067369
I'd go even further and claim that there are no "smartphones" anymore either, just pocket-sized tablets: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/no-smartphones/
Yep, especially when the unborn who are footing the generational robbery don't vote.
The actual case docket is here:

http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/case.html?id=2489830