skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but how does it arrive at the number it reports?
It's all full proof I tell ya.
Show HN - Know why your customers are calling
We are still determining pricing, thanks for the input.
The New Web Experience — Firing up your web inspector and adding "visibility: hidden" to half a dozen things before you can read the damn article.
Dell’s Profit Declines 72% on Sluggish Sales of PCs
It's full proof brothers and sisters and bothers and soysters.
There's a new Indiegogo project funding a giant statue of Steve Jobs
It's just one single feature of one of the projects. If that's the poster child of 20% projects then that's good enough reason to ditch them.
From my experience, this gets worse and worse with the new versions...
New Carnivore Revealed: Photos of the Olinguito and its Kin
Designers See Bright Future For Solar
All that lambda and operator overloading magic makes the development of new drivers a lot more complicated than it has to be. And i wouldn't be surprised if some languages end up feeling like second class citizens in the RethinkDB eco system because of it.
I wonder how many Google developers were pulled into this project or is this mostly done by Moto developers. If it's the Google developers that gave this phone the software edge, it could mean that Android becomes a half open half close platform. If you deem the OS running on Moto X as a whole system, part of it is open to all manufacturers, while the other part of UX was implemented in a way with liberty of controlling both software and hardware design, the same kind of liberty Apple has with iPhone.

This is something new. and I can see that Moto wants this boundary between the open part of this OS and the closed part shifting towards the close end while the rest of the industry wants the opposite - demanding Android project include all the cool features MotoX provides.
The biggest problem with these tabs is that there is a very clear tab missing: Content/Editorial/News/

These are newsletters I've subscribed to that aren't promotional. Some are educational, some are local news and stories, some are curated content lists. I read them for the content. I want them to show up in my primary inbox by default or at least in a "Content" tab.

It's pure and simple mislabeling to wholesale throw them in the promotions bucket and cover them up with additional paid ads.
Pro cras tin at ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
When they say "scanning the whole Internet in 45 min" they mean scanning only one port of every IP address (for example sending a short GET request to port 80/tcp) over a Gigabit link:

2^32 (IP addresses) * 1 (port per IP) * 80 (bytes per packet) * 8 (bits per byte) / 1e9 (throughput in bit/sec) / 60 (sec per min) = 46 minutes (note: excluding multicast space, RFC 1918 space, etc, scanning time would be reduced down to ~35 min)

That's equivalent to "scanning all 65,535 ports of a /16 subnet in 45 min" which does sound less impressive...
Problem is FAT32 can't handle anything beyond 4GiB (or 32 with some trickery) and we've reached that limit.

Would you rather use a journaling FS on a flash drive?
In some European countries panic buttons for the elderly are provided by public health organisations.

Perhaps Amulyte could target those organisations, aside from marketing to individuals.
The True Size of Africa - Misleading Maps
Beyond that, most people just don't have what it takes to do anything else.

We romanticism entrepreneurship often, and for good reason. It takes a lot more than wanting to be free of 9-5 bondage in order to be successful, and that's just to get to the point where luck can play a part.

I try to share my enthusiasm with others but often meet responses like:

'Must be nice to be so:'

talented/lucky/smart/blessed with understanding wife/motivated/etc

So in the end, I grew tired of talking and just tried to lead with actions. Most got bored and stopped paying attention.
Your startup's site design matters, but not for conversions
I love it too. I actually just installed the gmail app on my iPhone so I could get email sorted into those promotions and social tabs on my phone.
Youtube TV interface
I wonder what would be good professional management that is as close to general purpose as the old MBAs.
The British system is an interesting twist on it, government loans pay for the majority of people to go to university, then the loans are subject to interest at the rate of inflation, and are repaid at 9% of your pre-tax earnings over £15000 per year. So, if you earn £25000 a year, you repay £900 a year.
The eye’s weakness can make calls to action stronger
The Social Network isn't a grandiose documentary. If you just look at it as an entertaining story based loosely on people you know written by a talented guy (Aaron Sorkin), it's pretty enjoyable. You might actually like it. And the tech angle must be somewhat attractive if you're drawn to HN.
Please pay here; dot dot dot: WH.gov dot dot com. ;)
gonna try it over university network
I think that there is so little legitimate news content in email and the offer emails masquerade as content, so it's impossible for a machine to tell them apart.

I'd rather go in there once a day and pull out the things I care about than have yet another tab or have offers in my primary inbox.

This inbox change has been my favorite gmail feature since using the service back when it was invite only.
Hi, thanks for the comment! Trust me, we asked ourselves the same question when we first launched our MVP. Do people really need flowers in 90 minutes? The answer has been surprising - YES!

On multiple occasions we've delivered flowers to people in places and at times we never would have imagined. In June we delivered flowers to a person studying for the bar exam in a coffee shop. On Mother's Day we delivered several bouquets right to the brunch table.

It's very rewarding for us to see people use the service in ways never thought possible.
How Twitter is supercharging jihadist recruitment
Android Malware Exploiting Google Cloud Messaging Service
This one for the secret is a classic.
http://www.amazon.com/review/R2X2TB3S4O5I60
That would be fine and dandy, except employers discriminate against lower-tuition schools and even those are getting more expensive each year.
Thank you for the link ... I'll research some of these options.
Does anyone know how the different storage systems are utilized, and why each system is utilized for that purpose? The presenter mentions using memcached, Cassandra, and PostgreSQL, and mentions the same type of data when discussing each (votes, for instance). I would definitely benefit from a more in-depth understanding of how each system is utilized, and why.
I believe you are correct on the "cycling the battery", which I believe you want to avoid, so that you battery will be able to charge fully for longer.

"A charge cycle means using all of the battery’s power, but that doesn’t necessarily mean a single charge. For instance, you could listen to your iPod for a few hours one day, using half its power, and then recharge it fully. If you did the same thing the next day, it would count as one charge cycle, not two, so you may take several days to complete a cycle. Each time you complete a charge cycle, it diminishes battery capacity slightly, but you can put notebook, iPod, and iPhone batteries through many charge cycles before they will only hold 80% of original battery capacity." - http://www.apple.com/batteries/

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1519
There's an extension for that. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/remove-it-per...
Al Qaeda "legion of doom" conference call? Not so much.
The article says:

"In addition to the core of remaining engineers, Woodside brought in Googlers eager to sign up for the reclamation product, pitching Motorola’s revival as an underdog, startup-style enterprise. Seventy made the move."

Although it doesn't specify if the 70 googlers were developers or not.
Wouldn't all modern power management ICs operate the laptop directly from the power supply while float-charging the battery resulting in negligent amounts of heat?
Yes but we found that the calendar owner want's to restrict the length of appointment, rather than let the contact select an arbitrary length.
"How to get dropped by your ISP in under an hour."

There has been a very positive trend recently in the quality of documentation, a move away from dry, man-style listing of options to more operational descriptions, tutorial, examples, a bit of hand-holding. Here's a Docker tutorial[1], still on the front page.

[1] https://www.docker.io/gettingstarted/
Stories like this always remind me that large groups of people can work on unknown projects without the public finding out.

'Project Oxcart' known as the A-12 was the first stealth plane built in Burbank, CA by thousands at Locheed and kept in secrecy - then later transported to A51/Groom Lake. It was the predecessor to the Blackbird.
is it possible the better batteries don't (generally) exist because the manufacturers are not motivated to invest the r&d in the first place? i certainly have had too many laptops that don't provide optimum cooling (and they could, at more expense) when we know heat is a limiter of battery life.
Pipelight: using Silverlight in Linux browsers
Then the Dilbert strip is completelly accurate:

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-12-19/
Ask HN: Good place for Legal Help on Startup
I'm working on a startup that'll help freelancers collect unpaid invoices. I have a feeling that this is treading into murky legal waters and i'm not sure of the first place to look for how to be protected & cover my bases. Any good places to look or consult for legal advice? Or, are there blanket ToS that will cover any startup from a good range of possible pitfalls?
Grasshopper Divert | Single Cam (Grasshopper vs. Cows)
I have added a smooth scroll effect that should fix this, thank you.
One of the wires broke inside of the magsafe. So with some pliers I opened it up, then cut the broken part, strip the tip to expose the connection, reconnected it (tested it and put some electric tape around it to be sure), and assembled it back together with tiny amounts of hot glue on the edges. I wish they designed things so they can be taken apart easier. I'm not sure if this is really "fixing the charger" but some people decided to solder off the tips connection to the board, cutting the bad part, and soldering it back (I didn't want to do that much work).

I think for most users, they shouldn't have to worry about it, but I feel like there should be the ability in the hardware/software for users to have the ability to maintain/mod their own systems if they please.
The original title for Missile Command was "Armageddon". Here's a cool piece of concept art for the Armageddon cabinet from the Atari artwork archive that recently surfaced:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fWR8DhqQ9lw/R72zO6Q2oEI/AAAAAAAAAK...

More available here: http://metacab.blogspot.com/2006/03/atari-concept-art.html
Technically no, you can't have two things happening concurrently and but not finishing in the same time period.

But what a "thing" and how long a period is are up for grabs. If we choose period to be anything longer than 1 millisecond, then this library will finish executing both things in that time period.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1050222/concurrency-vs-pa...
It premieres in the US tomorrow, but there have been some advance screenings for the media.
agree, this is not specific to macbooks. bottom line is today's batteries only achieve (relatively) limited charge/discharge cycles and i don't believe (could certainly be wrong) there is much business motivation to improve that.
The anonymously published whole Internet survey scanned 100 ports on every address as well as a few other things. It took something like 30,000 devices and months of work though so I guess this is pretty impressive.

http://internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org/paper.html
It's unusual to say this, but reading it on an iPhone is nice...
Well thanks I plan on using docker to deploy a jvm app soon, this should help.
> Every argument is ad hominem nowadays.

Careful... http://plover.net/~bonds/adhominem.html
Let's just say: as long as he was alive, Apple wasn't in the Prism program. I don't know of many people in this business with such a clear vision.
Hi, thanks for your comment! What you see online now is the MVP we used to validate demand. We're working on some pretty cool tech too.

In fact, technology is what allows this to be possible today. Our API routes orders by zip code to guarantee quick and efficient delivery. Our vendor dashboard displays orders in real time to our floral and delivery partners. We'll also be releasing a mobile app soon that I hope you're able to checkout and provide feedback.
Funny they couldn't tell them Iraq did not have WMD when it mattered.
Not surprised...I am hearing rumors that the "do no evil" policy is next to go. What then?

It's the JDs and MBAs, IMO.
How did you come up with the name Pineapple? it gives off such a nice aura.
Does that really matter?

From my perspective, Google recruited me aggressively away from a long-term gig where I had an absolutely stellar reputation. I uprooted my career with the mistaken belief that they wouldn't do this unless they had a reasonably clear idea what to do with me. Apparently they didn't and I'm not the only one who had an experience like that.

Sure, I could have said no and I take full responsibility for saying yes and for everything that happened as a result of doing so. And once I realized that Google was going to be of zero help in fixing what I think was a minor allocation error, I once again took responsibility to do what it took to fix the problem myself: I left.

So here's why I think they wouldn't help: the team onto which I was placed was losing an engineer a month. Every time they got a noogler to say yes (3 times during my short stay), another team would intercept them before they got to their first day on the job. The work was dreadful and tedious and the manager even seemed to hate running the team. And the only reason I said yes was because I had this naive faith that Google wouldn't do something as seemingly daft as blind allocation unless they had a pretty good idea how to make it work. My bad. But not my problem. High level people should have been fixing the root cause here instead of continually throwing nooglers into the pit and expecting a miracle.
I think we could help you with that, there is nothing preventing you from embedding your booking page in an iframe.
Did anyone see Newegg's email begging customers to take their promotion emails out of the promotions tab?

Amusingly you can read the email at promotions.newegg.com

http://promotions.newegg.com/NEemail/Aug-0-2013/GoogleTab14/...
Fish is a great interactive shell. I've been using it for some time now.

A few things I occasionally run into: You can't just paste somebodies setup instructions into your shell anymore (you can temporarily invoke bash for that though). And when writing setup instructions yourself, sh is still pretty much the standard. VirtualEnv generates an activate.fish out of the box - nice! I still occasionally type !grep by accident. And I do miss &&.
There is a lot of good, introductory material (slideshow, white paper, summary) here: https://www.docker.io/about/
A few minor things, which might be worth considering.

1. Changing from standard view to compact view clears the search.

2. Some sorting when doing 'text-based search' would also be nice.

3. What does 'All time'-sorting do? Is think it's the top rated entries, but I am not sure.
There is a ton of legitimate content being regularly sent through e-mail. Most of it isn't targeted it at you and much of it is local in nature.

If it's difficult for Google to ascertain who's promotional and who's not, create a system of evaluation for publishers to be certified and re-added to the primary list. Seems simple enough.
CasperJS in your browser
Just installed the thing. Really impressed.
What about NTFS?
>>quick access to the camera

There's An app for that :

ibtimes.com/moto-x-how-get-its-features-android-prior-google-phones-release-date-1378597
Bletchley Park. www.bletchleypark.org.uk
Hi Kyro, thanks for the comment! These are great ideas. Expanding our offering to include gifts is a great idea and we'll definitely consider as we continue to grow. Thanks!
A lot of sleepless nights... :)

It took me 3 months to pick a name, then it hit me and I said yes, that is so perfect.
So the end result would be the same, no? I buy the wrong brand due to the bottle being the same shape and I get damages. But that's still contingent on Coke "owning" that bottle shape. Whether it happens before the purchase or after it, Coke still owns that shape.

I'd frankly like to avoid the headache of pursuing damages and just have that dealt with between the companies who want to go to the trouble of trademarking something so I can just buy what I want.
Or Instapaper, Readibility etc.
Sarcasm? I turned off images to read it.
Yep, absolutely correct. Well, save for Nike, which was founded by an MBA. Oh yeah, and Apple, whose CEO has an MBA and was personally selected by Steve Jobs. Well, now that I think about it, Meg Whitman, the current CEO of HP and former CEO of eBay has an MBA. And wasn't Bonobos founded by a Stanford MBA? I think Birchbox was born by a group of MBA's as well.

Except for those and probably thousands of other exceptions, your logic is water-tight and well-reasoned. Kudos, sir.
Early stage startup investors expect most investments to fail. Those investing in mature companies expect their investments to do well over many years.
I'm sure MBAs have plenty of stories of incredibly inefficient companies that have squandered opportunities. MBAs aren't about growing startups, they're about taking the now $1bn Instagram and doing more with it.
It exists as both an external program, and as a builtin

$ type [
[ is a shell builtin
These seem to be very low resolution (~500px). Are there high resolutions available? I tried finding one for Van Gogh's 'Irises' and couldn't.
> someone noticed the source was a derivation of one of the existing Linux FAT filesystem drivers

Can you cite a source for this fact? It's not in the linked article.
> It was the successor to the Blackbird.

Predecessor actually. It came first.
Flagging does seem very powerful and I've seen quite a few 'Show HN' and similar posts flagged off of the front page for seemingly no reason.

I assume bitter/jealous people are doing the flagging but who knows.
Yeah, problem with that is that you would only hear what the other people are playing 1 loop in the future- the whole point about jamming (for me) is to adapt real time to what others are doing, so you couldn't do that

I started thinking about these problems and the best solution I could come up with is what we are building now: http://getbandhub.com which is not live - but async

We have an alpha now (video/demo in the link) an will be releasing a beta in a few weeks

Would love to hear some feedback
Protectionism has never worked well.
"Many who try to climb it fail, and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb, but refuse. They cling to the realm, or love, or the gods…illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is. But they’ll never know this. Not until it’s too late."
Yes to the former, but (hopefully a real battery expert can chime in here) my understanding is that lithium-ion batteries cannot be float/trickle charged safely. Their internal resistance is too non-linear and it's too easy even with a "full" battery to provide a voltage that will sink dangerous amounts of current and overheat.

All lithium ion technologies I'm aware of require active current and temperature monitoring.
One assumes by the mAh.
I think that's a fair trade off.
The only reason I was able to start with Vim was these videos by Derek Wyatt:

http://www.derekwyatt.org/vim/vim-tutorial-videos/
The 1975 Buffett memo that saved the Washington Post's pension
Hi evmar, we really appreciate your feedback. We rotate our arranged bouquets seasonally and we're big proponents of supporting local flower growers and local brick and mortar florists.

At any time, about 80% of our flowers come from California, and the majority of those are grown within a couple hundred miles of their final destination. Thanks for your comment!
Blink(1) mk2, the USB RGB LED, improved
> public consciousness

HN is not the "public consciousness".
Martin Manley Life and Death (Committed Suicide 8/15/13)
I tried to delete a Skype account
The Wind Rises:Miyazaki's take on Jet Design & Experimental Painting
spoiler: Jiro Horikoshi's life during the war has some parallels with another famous weapon developer.
A move away from having man pages isn't necessarily a thing to be celebrated - a well-written man page is an extremely useful thing.

In the ideal case, you might have a quality man page that provides usage information and links to more detailed documentation (that would include tutorials, implementation info, etc.) on the web somewhere.
Well as long as there continue to be long, drawn-out, rambling meetings, we're good to go! Although in that case, a short battery life is a feature: "Oops, I'm at 5%! Be right back while I fetch my charger!"
That is Zed (not Jed) Shaw.

And the idea that a gratuitous license is revocable by notice alone at any time is decidedly not new (its fairly well established law.)

The effect of that revocation on the position of the licensor vis-a-vis those who had relied upon the license prior to the revocation, given the doctrine of promissory estoppel, is a little more complicated.
I think by default it should sort by "all time" instead of "what's hot". But that's just me.
There are mixed meanings in the definition of "cycle", but both make sense, just depends on the context. Thanks for the blurb!

He does state "letting the battery" cycle, so I'm assuming he is implying the battery is being allowed to be discharged near fully.
I sort of like the idea of Blend, especially since I'm a Live and Maschine user primarily, but I'm not sure how I feel about Yet Another Social Network tacked on to the rest of the product. I get that it helps with discovery of potential collaborators, but if you already know people you want to work with and simply need a solution to keep everyone's files up to date, the whole "cred" thing seems it would just be a distraction.

Bitwig (http://www.bitwig.com) was founded by a team of former Ableton developers who aim to offer network collaboration (both local and remote) natively in their DAW, though that product is still in private beta at the moment.
The really dumb thing is that, as far as I can tell, a battery's controller generally counts a "cycle" as "started discharging, started charging", regardless of time in between. At least, that's how it was with my MacBook a few years ago. Unplug, plug in, cycle count increases.

The crappy thing about that is warranties. Apple, for example (at least last I checked; I don't use a Mac anymore) , would replace a battery if it had under some number of charge cycles (and presumably was less than a year old), but not if it had more than that number.

That means that if you treat your battery really nicely by always keeping its charge between 40% and 60%, and it turns out to be defective, they probably won't replace it because of how many "cycles" it has gone through.

Of course, those kinds of cycles have very little to do with the longevity of a Li+ or LiPo battery anyway. A better metric would be total energy output over time, which would be far simpler to calculate anyway.
Make sure to do a write-up when you regain internet access what it was like to be expelled for 'running just a script'.
#1 is flat out wrong. THERE IS NO SECURITY! Is mcdonalds right? paying people so little that they need another job to not be out on the street? How is that TAKING CARE of employees? Before you say mcdonalds is an exception, theres so many others so dont give me the bullshit about wealth exists because blah.