skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was looking here: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-statuses...

Any suggestions on a good format? xml/json/rss/atom and does this imply out of date (not current) information?
There's some secret practicality in there: select and start typing, and it will write over.
* Negotiated with their hosting company to get free hosting for a year in return for endorsement of their scaling capabilities.

* Many large companies fail in a bad economy while lean, agile businesses have opportunity to thrive and gain market share.

* Make the site fast and leverage the press thereby using the funnel model; more users at the top of the funnel means more customers at the bottom.

* They added a phrasal template to allow unpaid users to send "canned messages" to each other. Only paying members can send custom messages.
It seems Django supports a simple CMS ability using its builtin "Admin" framework. However, I believe ActiveScaffold offers similar ability, but I've not used it because I haven't seen a need.
I'd imagine the Army would still require its soldiers to do physical training without the suit. Commercial applications would start where atrophy is a moot point--like for the elderly and disabled, in Japan.
Ask HN: Please comment on my new project infully.com
I discovered slinkset.com today and really liked it. So I decided to give it a try and created: infully.com.
A social news site dedicated to web related topics: design, javascript, HTML/CSS, etc ...
It's just a little new pet project/experiment (I don't intend to quit my job for this) and I'm open to your suggestions: What other categories would be interesting? do you have a better tagline or name? and so on ...
And no: I do not intend to copy or cannibalise HN, I think 90% of the links I posted to infully so far, wouldn't make the HN Frontpage. If you browse around a bit you'll see the difference I think.
My text alert is Charmander's self-proclaiming blart as it appears. I expect to live to 20.
Having ways to embedd tables, images, fonts in emails is useful. Let's do it.
http://infully.com/
that should be clickable
> I didn't know that about kids who learn weapons training are less likely to use it for violence.

It's not "learn weapons training" that's important. It's from whom they learn.

Various people have observed that the secret to civil society is dangerous old men who are civil.
Should comply, doesn't _need_ to.

They are neither a healthcare provider, clearinghouse, or other covered entity.
Android gets Flash support
"How does it do this, and when, and where? Are you sure it's not just some fiction from a demo video?"

I saw it in the demo videos, but I thought I should also give real world examples. Quoted from Wikipedia.

"Partner companies use the Surface in their hotels, restaurants, and retail stores. The Surface is used to choose meals at restaurants, plan vacations and spots to visit from the hotel room. Starwood Hotels plan to allow users to drop a credit card on the table to pay for music, books, and other amenities offered at the resort. In AT&T stores, use of the Surface include interactive presentations of plans, coverage, and phone features, in addition to dropping two different phones on the table and having the customer be able to view and compare prices, features, and plans"

From what I saw in the demo video when it first came out, you were able to place the phone down on the screen and do things like access the phone's memory and upload/download media/images by using a simple drag/drop interface with your fingers.

"What is it actually capable of now? If there's no useful concrete application for that feature now, does it even matter?"

"I've seen a "demo" video from Microsoft with graphical illustrations and animations of things that would be exciting if they were real."

Well, it's already in use - in retail stores, doing actual interesting things like I mentioned above.

"I keep getting surprised by the Microsoft-Love that's present even here on HN. It should be painfully obvious to everyone, especially here, that they really don't deserve any admiration as a company."

Actually my position isn't Microsoft love - it's far from it. I'm just trying to provide a counter point to all of the apple-linux fanboyism (for the sake of fanboyism) and MS-hate that's prevalent... especially when MS are are making actual attempts at real innovation coughoperaunitecough, yet people seem to just want to ignore those facts and instead provide biased opinions.

It's all well and good to dislike something, but at least have a good, up to date reason for disliking something. Holding grudges for past slights is never cool.

Disclosure: I'm an Ubuntu Jaunty user.
I think this is worth a shot. He could sell the binaries and support. Additionally, he could actually market it and use various sales techniques. Perhaps he could bundle it with some other third party service and say you get 10% off on said service with a purchase or whatever. There are also other techniques those better at this sort of thing could think of. It's worth a shot. The alternative is not to try and not making any money off the venture.
Also, your main headline 'Welcome on Pinkdy' is grammatically incorrect, I'm guessing you mean 'Welcome to Pinkdy'?
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A call to arms: IT must prepare for datacenter regulation
The author does not have to rewrite anything because he owns the copyright of the work. The GPL is a license granted to other parties.
Congrats to both the companies, the future is bright for both kind of services as stand alone's or as an integrated service.
Do Fakes on eBay Save Antiquities?
One can tell just from reading the headings that the page was not written by a first-language English speaker.

This gives a low expectation of quality in the technical aspects of the site. All that text to read, then I have to log-in (no doubt waiting for an email) just to see visually what it does ... next!
You just have to insert your first and last manstrual days.

That's a spelling mistake right on your frontpage.
I probably use it daily or just about daily. Usually to do some basic physics calculations, just for fun. I also use it to check my answers to homework.
So, as my question also gets downvoted I can only guess I touched a sore point anyhow. Too bad none of the downvoters feels obliged to explain how such salaries are justified. Especially in a company that is currently writing off in the billions.
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Yes, it does. Microsoft call it IRM (Information Rights Management) and you need to install/enable it on your domain and Office 2007 hooks into it.

You can then put limits on who can copy, print, fax the email, who can cut/paste from it, to whom you can forward it and force expiry of it.

It includes fun bits such as "The first time that you try to open an e-mail message that uses restricted permission, you must connect to a licensing server to verify your credentials and to download a use license".
"PC on which I'm running the beta version of Windows 7"

I'm sorry, but it is people like him who give Apple fans a bad name.
The page uses jsMath to render TeX like expressions. There seems to be a short startup latency, then the expressions are replaced with the formatted versions.
jasonkester, that was my first thought also. Instead, show a sample calendar and have the first form or clicks generate an account with a random-character string that can be bookmarked (long enough so as to be difficult to guess). From there, tie all data to that unique string.

The info, save for personal commentary, is of a private nature but unexciting enough that you can possibly escape login-based security.

Alternatively, you could offer password protection as an optional thing.

IMO, if it's possible to avoid a login wall, I think it's worth considering.
Harvard cuts 275 jobs, cites drop in endowment
I'd like to switch to the iPhone 3gs from my Blackberry 8830, but I currently use Verizon, and it's not a big enough reason to switch to AT&T. I think I will be picking up the new Blackberry Tour when it comes out.
1. cool idea - especially for people planning kids this can point out the best days for...

2. the site is not so appealing visually. Take a look at www.23andme.com

3. mobile access will prove superb for this site - access anywhere and also privacy.
This is like Power Armor in Fallout 3!
Hm. I seem to have substantial troubles with obvious things.
If you just need a toothpick you don't need to buy a swiss army knife. Though it could come in handy if you ever want to do more than pick your teeth.
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Apple kool-aid at its best.
No freedom please, someone else might abuse it.

No HTML email abuse, I agree with.

Not giving me the option to put a proper table in an email instead of a hand-drawn ASCII bodge because you're afraid of junk mail, I don't agree with.
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antirez: You need to add more timezones. For example, you forgot India (GMT +0530).
HTC Hero - Full Flash, Skype over 3G, custom Android UI, multitouch.
No doubt.

I saw "Daniel Lyons" under the title and the first thing that came to mind after seeing that and the title was "Why's that? So you can start writing FSJ blog posts again?"

... I then read the article and I suspect I wasn't far off the mark.
Should You Stay At Your Cushy Job?
> they simply won't get people to be as candid.

I believe pg has explicitly given this reason before when saying 'no'.
You could also avoid atrophy by forcing the person to a base level of work. Basically, you do all the work to start and then the machine takes over once you are lifting 10 pounds, so 50 pounds might feel like 15, and 100, like 20. Not only would this prevent atrophy, but it would also extend battery life.
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Why does it look less fishy - because it contains charts? Or strange words like "chi-squared" that signify a high level of competence?
Google publishes techtalks. They always save "delicate details" for the question break, which is not recorded.
"...not a "how to learn rails" tutorial that has nothing to do with twitter."

Nothing to do with twitter, except that IT IS TWITTER :)
If http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=654636 is true, you should answer like that.
Summer school? Reading books? Camp? Computer games might be a better choice
It's true though. I've had my Macbook for a few years and my roommate has had his for 5. I can't remember a time when it broke down. On the other hand, my sister has a Dell, my co-worker has a Dell, both of which have lost keys on the keyboard, have weird noises you can't turn off, runs slow as shit, and can't be repaired without an accompanying traumatic experience in customer service.
One of major points of the Innovator's Dilemma is that successful companies improve profitability, margins, and revenue prior to being disrupted, because they lose their smallest, least profitable customers while focusing on and extracting even higher margins from their highest value customers. Things look great right up until the rug comes out from under them.

Rather than gradually eroding, Microsoft will continue to make more and more money at higher margins until Linux becomes a viable desktop competitor that PC makers feel comfortable switching to en masse. Then the Windows franchise will lose a huge amount of value very quickly.
cycle : desktop alternative (GNU/Linux).
I certainly would stay away from a robot suit called 'HAL', knowing that it would kill me when it senses that I try to power it off.
Where the iPhone is driving Mac OS X
More like Mr. Lyons needs filler material. Now.

Dan (Can I call you Dan? Maybe you prefer faux-Steve?) Please don't come back until you can bring some actual insight to the table.

Next.
Google publishes some tech talks but there are many many more that are only internally available. Maybe in a similar way selected YC talks could be published.
Improving User Retention with Achievements
I think they have some interesting concepts implemented in their engine, but without users it will be difficult to maintain it running.
Thats why I was asking. I also ask here because the marketing campaign hit us plenty in HN.

by the way I use it at most once a week, generally when Im reading news.
Eh, they're not so perfect. I've had RAM go bad, OS's that needed reinstallation, bad hard drives, bad mobos, bad batteries, and for some reason my Late 2008 MBP refuses to sleep and wake properly (need to bring that in actually).

That said, there are definitely fewer constant maintenance tasks that I need to perform for myself and family members, which is the biggest relief.

That and Time Machine. Time Machine is a god send. Time Machine is the single best thing that was ever added to Macs.
This article is just utter trash. I usually stay away from "technology reporting" in the "traditional media," and this is a great reason why.

The author is simply a cheerleader for Apple. I was expecting an actual argument as to why Apple "needs Jobs back now." The author even uses the language used to deride Jobs (Dear Leader, etc) but nonetheless succumbs to the propaganda.

As far as this line from the article:

"I would go farther and argue that not only does Apple need Steve Jobs—the world needs him. In an age when the pace of technology innovation keeps accelerating so much that we often feel overwhelmed, we need someone who can package new technology, make it accessible to us, and deliver it to us in a way that makes it simple, useful, and reliable."

I find less cult-like propaganda in Scientology commericals than this drivel.

Also, not to defend Microsoft but to engage in a FUD campaign by stating that their latest beta OS because it supposedly crashed is totally ridiculous and bias does not begin to describe it.

I think to those not already converted (not "switchers," but those converted to the Apple/Steve Jobs cult) this article is just totally laughable.
Southwest Airlines has priority lanes at the security checkpoint in several airports for their Business Select and A-List customers. You get to move to the front of the screening line if you pay for those tickets. This is exactly what Clear was doing without the stupid background check.
Re his scenario # 2, if someone is not married to Ruby, Drupal is the obvious way to go. The modular design means that adding new functionality is generally trivial (by adding or extending an existing module) so there's no need to hack the core. Why reinvent the wheel when you get a CMS with localization, ecommerce, security, user management, query building etc etc etc all for free?
I'm not all that sure whether many people really always buy the newest and greatest Apple stuff. Those who really buy the 3GS even if they already own the 3G seem to me to be a rather crazy fringe group. I want to use my MBP for 5+ years. I feel no desire whatsoever to get the latest and greatest. Sure, that's only me, but in the article it's also only Lyons and consequently his claims are not much more than a cute little anectode.
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As I mentioned in a comment above, Southwest currently has a process in place in several airports that allows you to cut in the security line sans background check.
Disingenuous at best. Tax incentives around mortages, charitable contributions, and child health insurance are social signals: legislation saying 'this is what we value as a society, these are the things we want to help you with.' If you disagree with that kind of legislation, argue against it directly. This business about height determining earning potential is utterly irrelevant to your real complaints.

And the math is foolish to begin with: if height determines income level, and you really want to try to equalize for that factor, you should be applying credits/penalties to bring people of different height to the same level -- not taking people who are already at the same level and elevating the short one above the tall one. After all, if they make the same income despite their height difference, it stands to reason that the shorter person is more productive. Applying a credit/penalty when incomes are already equal is the wrong way to argue the (already misguided) point.
I have tried (am trying) to write a book, and find Anderson's explanation totally believable. Search and Replace is NOT your friend if you don't use it intelligently. What apparently happened is the publisher decided not to use footnotes, but instead of using the footnotes to locate the relevant cites and fixing them (citing them inline or removing them) first, deleted all footnotes, then they tried to locate all the cited text from memory. Poor planning and sloppy editing was the direct cause of the plagiarism, not intent.
This wasn't what my comment was about, but I can't resist: sorry, but EVERYBODY I know who has a Mac had problems with it at some point or other. I recently bought a MacBook because of iPhone dev, and sure enough, I'll have to let it serviced because the line out connector is broken. Even though it is within warranty, it will cost me several days without the MacBook just because of a crappy headphone jack. They won't even order the replacement part in advance, so it costs me another day to bring in the MacBook, wait for them to check if it is really broken, then come back a couple of days later when the part has arrived. If that isn't bad service, what is?

I never had problems with any other non-Apple notebook or PC - seriously, not even a crashed hard disk. (Edit: to clarify, I agree that this is all anecdotal evidence, I just wanted to counterpoint the "all non-Macs fail" story)

Also I don't know what Dell customer trauma you are talking about - maybe they should have paid for the next day on location service then? Would still have been cheaper than a Mac Notebook, and more efficient. To be cheap and then complain is idiotic.

Of course they probably bought shitty consumer notebooks from Dell. Rule: always buy from the business line (this goes for all companies). (Note: I despise this practice of offering trashy consumer devices, Apple really scores against the competition in that respect).
I don't know how interesting the article is, but I have to admit the headline made me laugh.
Ask HN: Thoughts about qui.tw (geolocation shortener)
Pick a point on the map and get a short url. Started as late night project to learn about couchdb and ended up doing the extra bit of work to release it.
Had small but positive feedback and now wondering.
Should I spend more time on it to take it further/improve it?
Steve Jobs Recovering Well From Liver Transplant
Or maybe 4: That the conclusion is misguided. The effect of height on income is already taxed... by income taxes. This proposal would entail double-taxing this effect. Surely we don't want an additional tax on (say) doctors simply because doctors are likely to earn more. The regular income tax handles that effect.
It's an internal memo, not a Microsoft HOWTO - it's not trying to explain to you what the jargon means.

You can't take competing technologies and tell me they have any fewer awkward acronyms, buzzwords, competing technologies, license limitations, interconnectivity and so on.
No real content.

Solely designed to inflame it's audience.

Lists out amazing statistics but doesn't give details or cite the study.

No real news, or details of interest.

Please don't post content like this in future.
Hmm, that could probably only work if you had enough heat to make steam to turn a turbine to power a compressor at which point you wouldn't harvest much cooling I would guess. Changing state from hot to steam takes a lot of energy.
Yet more cheap shots at people trying to do an impossible job. Lots of technical people make completely unrealistic proposals for alternatives, but in truth, you need to get some feel for a person's attitudes, goals and intentions.

Agreed that these aren't ideal questions, and that the whole exercise makes hackers ticked off, but as someone who has on occasion gone for the technical hire and been proven wrong, I can see the intent in some of these, and it's not of zero value.

If you think you can do it better, fine, do it. become a manager, hire and fire, and see how your methods work.
Occasionally, pg will transcribe one of his talks into an essay. Read his essays. Same with Joel.
I thought Dell's customer service was excellent:

http://journal.dedasys.com/2007/11/20/and-were-back-in-actio...

For the same price as an Apple, I got an equivalent Dell with the extra service coverage.
Do a system that could work in "reverse", like the whole body workout gear Bork used at his sister's house in "Brother Death".
Seriously, they dawdled around so long it became irrelevant before they actually launched.
If they had sold them to anyone who wanted one they would have been making money to further their development as well as exposing the hardware to thousands of potential developers.
Then Microsoft got in on them and netbooks appeared and that was all she wrote.
This is not a MS bash, but a hardware resources and price point issue.
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If you look at the numbers reported in the article, you see that about 85% of Australians aren't racist themselves, but are worried that lots of other people are racist. Bit of a paradox, isn't it? I have a feeling you'd see very similar results in any first-world country. I'd be more interested in seeing interpretations...

My own hunch is that people are externalizing their own conflicted racist sentiments. Racism is like "evil," if you'll permit the term -- almost all of us have some, of one sort or another; a nagging and distrusted primitive voice warning of "those other people," a fear as old as caveman tribes, which many of us have learned to despise and overcome, but which still speaks in whispers.

In this, Australia's treatment of aborigines is no different from America's treatment of Africans, West Indians, and more recently Mexicans and Central and South Americans. They're different, with different languages or dialects and different customs; naturally, that innate human distrust of out-groups starts to bleat.
This does seem like a totally biased opinion. An Indian paper quoting studies regarding racial discrimination when apparently Indians are getting abused is bound to be partial.