skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that's what's interesting me - looks quite easy to create tools/apps for. We have a few remote workers which this might work well for.
not writing things down that will get you put in prison.

Well, that's just unreasonable. Everyone has to write things down that would get them thrown in prison, right?

Right?

:(
Virtualization rocks - but who cares beyond consolidation?
Hey, I'm your stereotypical thin and tall, nerdy hacker. However, when my bi-monthly stipend allows me, I will indulge a whiskey on the rocks and build my tolerance :)
Excluding the humanities, I agree with you. On a more personal level, learning CS skills is often a fallback for people who get a PHD and can't find work in their field.
Shadow.net - Perl$hop e-commerce script Remote Exploits
The key with these is to be able to get to a good browser experience ASAP. http://eyeos.info ..... you have to open the "Applications" folder and then look for "eyeNav" ... (drag that to the desktop) Personally I'd want to see a Firefox icon but I guess someone needs to build a XUL parser in there.
plenty o ideas along with easy cheap dev just make for mass experimentation, eventually you'll hit something that really sticks

we do far more time manifesting stuff then really working from a core need in the first place
Definitely not hacker news. If we were on reddit, I would also mention that the percentage of GDP captured by the top 1% is also at a high not matched since right before the Great Depression: http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2007/04/04/nytimes-incom...

...and that the increase in tax paid by the top 1% tracks almost perfectly the increase in their percentage of the total income: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/top-1-paid-more...
Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part II: Line Numbering
There's also a lot of software which (for now) licenses by the core or physical socket and will not run (technically and/or legally) in a cloud or virtualized environment.
Modern biology is so specialized that learning the tools for some area is often far simpler than the track people take getting a PHD.
Hyperbolic? I don't really see where. The only thing I might call it is derivative, since Steven Frank of Panic said much of the same things yesterday about his reasons for leaving the iPhone/AT&T world.

I've been torn lately as well about staying in the AT&T ecosystem (mostly over the dropped call rate in New York City). It's embarrassing to be talking to a client only to have your phone call drop (three times in a 15 minute conversation on one occasion).
This is an interesting idea, and it looks like it's pretty well executed so far too.

Bug:

I tried entering a youtube video url and the video loaded on the right, but I got a message about it not being found on the left. I refreshed the page since I saw that the video Id was in the query string, and it worked when I did that.
Firefox to hit 1 billion downloads Friday
The reason I did it was because I'd been asked by an Amsterdam cultural center (the meervaart) to show the people living near it during a presentation how the situation would change upon expanding the meervaart.

The director (Han Hogeland) had asked me to do the presentation in exchange for - no laughing please - an old French car that I'd wanted to buy of him (Citroen DS).

This made me very motivated to make it work, only my 16 Mhz 386/387 combo really wasn't fast enough to make it work and I didn't have enough dough for a weitek.

So, from desperation this little hack was born. After I found out that it worked (much to my surprise, actually, testing on 20 MHz) I went to a friend who had a computer store and went through several trays of 387's before finding one that would still run at 40 Mhz, and with a large cooling element attached it even stayed reasonably cool (no fan).

The hardest part really was to cut the line on the mb without damage to other lines (this was a multi layer board), eventually I traced the line to a so called 'via' where I could scratch out the connection topside and use the remains of the via to connect the xtal oscillator (in a socket so I could try various frequencies).

The whole thing worked pretty good even if it looked absolutely terrible (imagine an ic socket piggy backed on top of a ttl IC for power and ground, then a wire running to a via next to a severed trace).

It's a pity I didn't make any pictures of the whole thing, I do still have the aerial photographs we bought of the cartographic institution that were digitized to get the layout in to the software, then extrusion by estimated building height created a fairly realistic view of the area.

The shading was quite primitive, framerate about 2-3 frames / second depending on the amount of stuff in the field of view. The graphics board was a 3x5 bits 512x512 pixels affair whose name escapes me atm.

And I got the car :)
He's an independent developer of Macintosh (but not iPhone) software.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Frank_(developer)

(I didn't recognize the name, either, but I remembered his startup -- Panic -- from an earlier story about how they almost got bought by Apple: http://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/)
"I can't help but feel that if you consider your phone just a phone [...]"

... then you will not buy an iPhone in the first place.
> I hate Finder with a passion. Finder and iTunes. It's clear that both these apps were built carefully so that your average PC user wouldn't get confused. Problem is, most Apple users are not what you'd call average.

The aggressive "switch" campaign is fairly new, Apple-wise. iTunes was available for Mac OS 9 and Finder was designed so that average Mac users would not be confused -- remember, it was a battle to get people to ditch Classic mode...In any case, neither have much of anything to do with Windows.

I miss window shading...is Unsanity officially dead? I wouldn't mind buying this if only it worked for Leopard...

http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/wsx
Tool of the Day: Keep Tabs on Your Websites with "Are My Sites Up?"
When eBay agreed to license (not buy) the key piece of technology, I wonder why the license wasn't made irrevocable.
Use Google Docs & Google Checkout to Sell Online
One USB port? Dude...

You're only ever one lap-month away from wiggling any given USB port into uselessness if anything is plugged into it. Relying on a single one for the whole thing is a recipe for disaster.

Case in point, by my old Latitude C400. With no optical drive and a single dying USB port, it's one failed hard drive away from being toast. Right now I can get files onto it over the network, but I don't look forward to reinstalling those network drivers without any input device other than the keyboard.
Apple and Google working on a deal doesn't fit. If that were the case, why would Apple spit in Google's eye by rejecting their app? If that were the case, why would Google develop and submit their app in the first place?
Listen to Cory Doctorow give a summary of Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody.
The Stasi documents are probably the biggest project in this category:

"The Stasi files are something else entirely. In 2000, the BStU collected them and sent them to Magdeburg, a decaying East German industrial city 90 miles west of Berlin. In hand-numbered brown paper sacks, neatly stacked on row after row of steel shelves, they fill a three-story, 60,000-square-foot warehouse on the northern edge of town. Each sack contains about 40,000 fragments, for a total of 600 million pieces of paper (give or take a hundred million). And each fragment has two sides. That's more than a billion images."

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/16-02/ff_sta...
Absolutely amazing... thank you! Bobby McFerrin has some unique abilities, I didn't know that 'crowdhacking' was one of them.

He turns a crowd of unrelated people into a musical instrument in less than 60 seconds, most impressive.
Wow! I just installed it on my ultra cheap shared hosting space. Edit: If you're wondering, the only requirements for the server are Apache (1.3.x or 2.x) & PHP 5.

It also has a (still limited) iPhone front end.
How about having biologists work side-by-side with experts in data analysis and statistics, rather than requiring the scientists be be experts in all fields?
More accurate, to my layman's interpretation, would be to say that light was converted to information, encoded in existing matter, then converted back to light. Saying it was converted to matter seems to imply that new matter was created in the process which doesn't appear to be the case.
Valid point? It looks like you played mad libs, I don't see your argument.
Gosh, I'm sorry to post a contentless comment, but watching this just made me so happy.
From the 10,000 foot level I think it is related, and will become more and more related as time goes by. DNA seems to be a pretty robust information encoding and executing system. There's a lot we could learn from it.
Twenty years ago I was reading about how networked workstations made mainframes obsolete, this is just more of the same. Network latency effects, if nothing else, is going to ensure the continued need for at least some centralized computing resources.
Ok, I'll take a stab at this. I know basically nothing about Arrington. I don't know what he's invested in or who he's friends with, nor do I care.

What I do know is that TechCrunch publishes utter trash. It's a tabloid that caters to the geek crowd. The articles are poorly written and even more poorly researched. Some of them are based on sources as flimsy as a single sentence fragment of a tweet if not a complete fabrication or speculation.

What is purported to be news is heavily editorialized. What is purported to be analysis is the kind of tin foil hat stuff one could expect to see in the typical Slashdot comment. Simply put, the TechCrunch writers are lousy journalists- if you can even use the word "journalist" at all.

In my opinion, some of the people at TechCrunch have questionable ethics. Revealing a company's internal documents in piecemeal over the course of a week to give readers some little voyeuristic thrill while raking in the advertising dollars is wrong. It would be one thing if they were blowing the whistle on something illegal or immoral that was going on there, but those documents revealed nothing of real value. It was simply a peek behind the curtains.

TechCrunch is not in the business of information and certainly is not the "paper of record" for startups and entrepreneurs. They are in the business of selling controversy where it doesn't necessarily exist. It is for this exact reason that they often have a headline designed to stoke the nerd rage fire on top of an article that is little more than some asshole's opinion or wild guess about how something is going to play out. When TechCrunch actually does publish something newsworthy there are usually several other sources with better coverage and better writing.

I will continue to flag TechCrunch submissions.
It appears that music is a preinstalled program in humans.
Yes and no. I mean, if your argument is to hold water than you'd have to buy homegrown or local produce. A loaf of bread marked down 50% isn't any different than the one at full price other than the fact that it will go bad sooner. It isn't as if stores sell recalled items or anything.
Posted this over on the blog, but interested to hear views:

Having read Outliers, what struck me about it was that - despite being a very interesting read - you could only really define the path and circumstances leading to Outlier success with the benefit of hindsight.

Whilst you can argue it is a good time to start up, it is hard to see until years down the line if a particular skill set and particular market conditions did actually lead to the success seen by the people mentioned in the book.
As described in the article linked the speed of the teleportation is limited by the speed of the signal beam which is necessarily capped at c.
Don't worry, be happy ;)
Those all look like vanity sites to me. What are you selling? The site or the product?
Seeing snarky comments like this voted up to near the top of the page really illustrates the decline that HN has seen over the past week or so...

I wish that there was a way for HN to meta-moderate. That is, give specific moderators a heavier influence over things (and new users almost none at all). I think his would help curtail the reddit culture migrating onto HN.
But by diamond shredding you are only increasing N the same method of reconstruction by edge analysis still works. Like nuking from orbit, burning, pulping, or other method of complete destruction is the only way to be safe.
Google News , Gmail
Why not jailbreak it? Because I have better things to do then crack successive software updates for something I paid for
Boohoo! Cry me a river Arrington...
Services To Get Feedback For Your Design Works
It's pretty good for recognizing telemarketers and wrong-number collections calls at a glance, and then banning their numbers.
This comment wasn't meant to be derogatory. That is effectively their diet and they are some of the best savers in the world.
Photon number isn't conserved.
What's amazing about this case is that all of the quantum states were maintained as well. The light maintained entanglement with other photons. This is not something that could happen by simply storing information and retrieving it later.

Currently, quantum encryption setups require a fiber optic cable to reach all the way from the sender to the recipient, because repeaters would destroy the entanglement. But with this device, you could store the data in a Bose-Einstein condensate, ship it to the destination, then read the data back out.
Some years ago, doing high performance dense matrix code in C, I replaced a bunch of modulo calls with a bunch of bit operations. You had to work with matrices that were a power of 2 in rows and columns, but you could pad it out and stuff worked.

A year later I looked at the code and couldn't figure out how it ever worked in the first place . . .
Wow! There is a pretty strong reaction against Apple.
OSNews released an editorial yesterday that promises to publish news for the next 1984 days that works against Apple's PR.
http://www.osnews.com/story/21918/The_Camel_s_Back_Broke_198...
What would you expect? It's a story about Arrington's opinion. I think it's valid to question whether or not we should even care.

There's not much else to say. The AT&T/Apple/Google issue has already been the subject of several submissions here, and I don't think this post adds anything to it.
Absolutely.

The first time I read what a ribosome does my immediate thought was CPU/Turing machine. There are so many analogies it is scary.

Nano technology is here to stay, it's called life.
who do you write for?
No, the way price discrimination works is that you set up hurdles that are expensive for someone who makes $80/hour and cheap for someone who makes $8/hour, so you get business from both. If this site reduces the cost of getting a discount, it weakens their price discrimination power.
It's pretty easy to eat healthy at McDonalds, get a grilled chicken sandwhich with no mayo, skip the fries and soda and get a bottle of water for dinner or lunch.

For breakfast get an egg mcmuffin, no hashbrown and grab a coffee or orange juice.

If you just stick to those two meals when you have to have fast food it does basically no harm.

Fast food gives you the rope to hang yourself with, you don't have to do use it.
In other words, you harm the employees who aren't cheating you, and and then you approve of the ones who are?
Web designers are selling their ability to create sites... that is their product.
Speaking personally, beyond crashing, the UI itself still needs quite a lot more shaping and thinking through. It's very busy, and somewhat complex. It's not yet something that feels elegant in purpose.

One challenge is how you blend realtime and non-realtime in the same conversation -- it's actually quite tricky a UI conundrum. The technical aspect is one thing and they have that solved architecturally, but the UI part is intriguing. For example, realtime will tend to make people communicate in small bursts back and forth which will often dampen -- when in the same conversation -- the impulse for non-realtime, more thought out responses (like you have in a threaded forum such as this).

The underlying vision of the platform is huge, and with great potential. Over time I think wave will be vital. But I think the big challenge for Google and platform developers is beyond bugs, but to hone the clients that utilize it.
Though it has dark side: I heard rumours that the reconstructions is deliberately slowed down by low-tech. The Stasi (east German secret police) amassed documents that could embarrass powerful people.
Has anyone elses 3G Iphone SLOWWWWWED down like 10 fold?
The article is about computers as "part of biological research". I wish it had been about the real place I want biologists: designing the computer systems themselves.

Biological systems have scaling and reliability that we computer scientists only dream about. (Can you name a self-repairing computer system that runs for 80 years?) I want computers with the kind of systems thinking that biological systems have, not just more x86 cores on a single chip.

The only biologist I know who switched to designing computer systems is Alan Kay. I think we could do with a few more like him.
iPhone security flaw
There is no "cloud." There are only other people's hard drives.
EVERYONE should study Computer Science. The questions are, how much and what parts?
So raise your kids in Esperanto?

I hope not.

http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/

A Nobel laureate in physics who grew up in a non-English-speaking country recommends learning English as a key to physics research.

http://www.phys.uu.nl/~thooft/theorist.html
Time Marches On: Mozilla Sunbird Finally Approaches 1.0
Most of those sites are not for web designers.

The one I clicked on to view was a retail outlet in the northeast. The site was all flash and took over 2 minutes to load with no options to skip. That stands out in a bad way.
It is typically not feasible to burn a large amount of paper inside of an office without anyone noticing. You could turn the paper into mash in an office. You could not do the same by burning it.
Much cheaper and more entertaining than the giant floor piano from "Big."

I don't want to say the word "crowdsourced," and yet, I just did.
Memphis, open source in-car entertainment demoed
I'm not actually hinting at anything. I simply don't know what the solution will look like. What I do know is that micropayments from readers do not work and will not work.

That means either:

1) the corporate newsmedia will come up with some new revenue stream by discovering or developing some new source of value from their assets, or

2) they will fail.

Look at Google. They started out as a search company. With no real idea how to generate revenue, they came up with a way to aggregate hyperlinks across websites to produce surprisingly helpful page results for keyword searches.

It was the gargantuan data set they managed to accumulate over the course of indexing the internet and generating search results that finally gave them the revenue stream they needed.

Google is now an advertising company. They generate revenue by selling contextual advertising embedded in web pages (they get website owners to agree to this advertising by sharing some of their revenue).

That's a profoundly creative way of leveraging assets to generate revenue by providing a scarce, valuable service: scarce because only Google has the infrastructure, data, analytical expertise and market reach to provide it; and valuable because advertisers gain more revenue from increased sales than it costs them to buy Google ads.

The newsmedia, until now, have been mainly in the advertising business, in which the exercise of gathering, reporting and distributing the news served as a mechanism for attracting advertising revenue (in much the same way that indexing the internet and providing search results is Google's mechanism for attracting advertising revenue).

The media were never particularly in the business of selling the news to their readers. Their customers were advertisers, not readers; and what they sold was not news but the eyeballs of their readers.

That business model is now dying. Some media firms - either existing firms that can change their stripes or some new firm that discovers and exploits an opportunity - will find a new business model in which they sell something scarce and valuable to someone willing to pay for it.

Again, those media firms that fail to do this will fail.

If you've got an hour or so, there's a really entertaining lecture by Cory Doctorow on the HN front page right now:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=734138
Some context about Esperanto:

http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/
I think that's too strict. The problem is you can't really draft any criteria to separate "this is a cool name, I'll hang on to it till I get the time to work out this idea" from "criminal" squatting.
Not sure why everyone is so shocked. Breaking into military computers = you deal with the consequences.
This would be a compelling idea for surfing the web securely from work, IF IT PROXIED TRAFFIC.

It doesn't, and I'm afraid folks will be mislead by the way it seems it does. All internet browsing still uses your local connection and a tcpdump proves it. Beware...you're not protected.
How timely! At lunch today a couple of colleagues were talking about the ability to play a note just by feel and intuition, on whatever musical instrument you are proficient in.

And here we have a man who can play a crowd!
I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to address here...

This is a three word comment with absolutely no substance at all, poking fun at the headline. It adds absolutely nothing to the discussion about the iphone, and isn't really appropriate for HN. About a week and a half ago, this comment would almost immediately be moved to the bottom of the page, and made nearly invisible.
> A year later I looked at the code and couldn't figure out how it ever worked in the first place . . .

Isn't that the norm ?
Take a Cell-Phone Swig
C# is now a better language than Java
This is precisely the problem. My suspicion is that you should be flagging individual articles, not sources. That's no better than my grandfather ignoring any hard news reporting that comes from the New York Times because it has a "liberal bias".

In the case of Twitter's internal documents, the reason you saw nothing of "real value" is precisely because Tech Crunch drew a line between releasing information that could be damaging to individuals and the company and things they could report that were relatively benign. They received much more information than they ended up publishing. Tech Crunch could have made more in ad dollars had they just published everything. They painstakingly satisfied an obligation to share information with the public and protect companies and individuals who they saw as having done nothing wrong. Whatever side they ended up on, they certainly tried to be transparent about it.

As for the opinion part of reviewing startups and their software, I don't see any other way to go about it. Most small startup companies that are covered in Tech Crunch are based on a few facts (company name, founders, employees, location, backers) and then a review of their product or service. This is inherently an opinion. There just aren't that many "facts" about startups at the beginning. There are beliefs and perceptions. You can disagree with the opinion or analysis, but I don't see how you could avoid having one.
I'm pretty sure Klingon is still a failure, but for different reasons.
I am the only one who thinks that if you think you're smart enough to do something you know is illegal, then you should be big enough to handle what comes your way when you get caught? Bollocks to his mental state and his frailty and the other excuses being trotted out on his behalf. He knew he was doing wrong when he committed the hack, and he should grow the necessaries to deal with the consequences now. Too late to cry about.