skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whatever, Kobe and LeBron get a lot of people interested in the game.

Oh... 'M'. Nevermind.
HoN if you like games, currently in beta.I have a few invites left if you want one.
Arrington seems to suggest that NYT's unprofitability is due to its size, and that when the executives salaries will be slashed, the much smaller company can fare better. But he fails to realize, that the most significant expenses are due to the reporting itself.

For example, when NYT sends a reporter and a photographer to Iran to cover elections, it is of course much more expensive than one Arrington's blogger, who just sits home, drink coffee and muses about whether Twitter is better than Friendfeed or Friendfeed is better than Twitter.

I think, that while a bunch of agile bloggers like Arrington, Scoble, people in Gizmodo or Engadget are able to compete with MSM in Tech coverage, they would hardly compete with general news coverage, since that requires much more.
How To Live (Comfortably) on $36 A Month For Food
Why bother with the complicated stuff when you can walk right in the front door?
1) War doesn't have a monopoly on killing people.

2) We've forcefully relocated (and killed!) people for their land several times in the past few hundred years.

3) How much violence in this country is sparked over money? Michael Mann's made some pretty good movies dramatizing bank robberies that result in gunfights.
I'm confused as to why someone would use this over, say, the xulrunner platform. Perhaps this is somehow different that I don't currently understand? I mean, xulrunner provides this exact functionality (see things like Songbird, an outside the browser music player). I guess having competing platforms is good for all but they have a lot of years of catch-up.
Go back. You'll make the debt up.
It's also part of this. Groupthink is a danger regardless. Either you're all trying to appease each other so no one tries to have different ideas or stand out, or you're all friends so no one with different ideas lasts.
I am a computer hacker.
I just ordered mine. I can't wait to try it out.
Every time this story comes around I'm struck by one thing: it's no wonder that kids tend to dream more of becoming professional athletes than they do of careers in the sciences. If they do they do something great in the former, no one will deny their accomplishment. If they do something great in the latter, the response will be "Meh".
Sorry, but this post is guilty of misleading the reader. The "proofs" offered are bogus, which completely destroys the credibility of the accuser.

If anything, the author of this post shows less ethics than TC.
I had no idea what your comment meant and when they weren't quotes from the people you mentioned, I had no idea what your point was.

Just a sentence like "Here are their various positions" (or anything more) at the top of your comment would have been a way to communicate that without making people feel confused by what point you were making or why they should click around deep in slashdot comments.

I didn't downvote you because you were already below 0, but I would have downvoted from 1 to 0 if I was first to read it. I would have also added a comment like what you received (though less tinged with rudeness).

I think -4 is unfair, but with more viewers, getting a few votes below 0 is easier than it once was even if only a tenth of a percent of voters are slightly more jumpy about downvoting.
They must not have looked very hard: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=23...
That's not the point - the point of this scope is to emulate the scope Galileo had.

Anyway, the problem with tiny little reflecting scopes is that you need a table to set them up on. When you're out in a dark field looking at the stars, there's rarely a table handy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ6It6z05rg

also, the t-mobile "mytouch"/g2 that just came out looks to be a nice update to the g1. http://www.t-mobilemytouch.com/
I'm going to prove ... that TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington was romantically involved with a woman whose younger sister worked at the same cleanse product company.

...

The icing on the cake here is, Megan (who’s sister works for the cleanse company) is, according to Valleywag, the on-and-off girlfriend of Michael Arrington

Not that Valleywag is never right, but "I'm going to prove" shouldn't rely on them for evidence.
CEO of Broadersheet. Broadersheet is a personalised newspaper.
"Does anybody with more time or understanding of this document know how those boxes were exploited"

./lolz

"What lessons, if any can we learn from other peoples mistakes?"

That nobody is safe, that everyone, everywhere is owned; these guys are gonna take your balls. Their gonna send one to the LA Times, one to the New York Times, press release style. Look, the people you are after are the people you depend on: we cook your meals, we haul your trash, we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances, we guard you while you sleep. Do not fuck with us.

~ skalar <skalar@autistici.org>
For sure. There's actually a pic on their web page (https://www.galileoscope.org/gs/content/frequently-asked-que...) made by just holding one up to the lens. Your biggest difficulty would be make a plate to mount both the scope and the camea. But I was thinking of something involving plastic tubing, glue, and one of those little USB microscope cameras.
What's happening now is the commoditization of the tech that started gaining traction in the early 90's. Speaking from a macroeconomic standpoint this is where all the fun is.
Cool! About Collage: "... totally custom film strip interface and sliding, animating panels is some of the finest UI work you'll find in the App Store."

Collage was my first official SDK app. :) It evolved from an app I did during my iApp-a-Day project in the pre-SDK days. Nice to see someone notice it. Collage came from an era when no one was quite sure what kind of apps people would like on their iPhones. :) My latest iPhone project is http://www.rampchamp.com which is submitted and coming soon, hopefully.
Are you trying to be sarcastic or funny or serious?

From what I recall, he sold all interests he had in startups in order to be more objective.
I am a student who is 1 year away from a BS in computer engineering. I'm also working on a startup.
This reminds me of a ted talk by Ray Anderson on "the business logic of sustainability".
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/547

He founded and is CEO of a world wide carpet company. He figured out how to effectively recycle his carpets and how to reduce the amount of petroleum in the production. He now controls almost the entire life cycle of his carpets and manages to keep a tremendous amount of waste out of the landfill. Which is good, mainly because his business was responsible for a lot of that landfill.

As a nice side note, it was his attention to waste and his drive for seeing his company achieve sustainability (he defines it as not taking anything from the earth that cannot be easily replenished) that saved his business from probable collapse during the crash of 2001/2002.
"Fatbrain.com," I thought, hurt Computer Literacy Books when it decided to broaden its brand and go public.

The name was professionally chosen and got favorable write-ups at the time (2000 era). Though memorable, it somehow had a wrong feel for the nature of the company's business (selling tech-related books in Silicon Valley).
I have had three or four discussions about this in the last couple days because of the event (swagapalooza.com) I'm hosting this September. The whole purpose of the event is to bribe bloggers with new and interesting products; I am trying to be as blatantly transparent as possible to avoid these ethical issues. There really does need to be an above-ground ethical way that marketers and bloggers can interact, but it's been a huge pain because of the long history of astroturfing.

I have been taking a really hardline approach by just not allowing people back to the event next year if they violate the ethics guidelines, but even still it's not very black and white. For example, you never see a NYT book review saying "disclaimer: I got this book for free at the library." In fact it's standard industry practice not to disclose even when you've done you're review based on a free promo book, because it's understood that you're paying for the product with your time. Same with DVDs. But should we go above and beyond the standard practice and make people disclose these things anyway? Then you have people feeling embarrassed by implying that their six hours or whatever it took to read the book could possibly be worth less than the 20 bucks it cost. Either way, it's kind of a tricky situation.

The problem is for the last ten years we've had all these CEOs working 90 hours a week who pretend to be potheads who just sit around playing fooseball whenever the journalists show up. Journalists love these masturbatory stories because they get tons of traffic so they are happy to go along with them. But the issue is that idolizing these actor-CEOs just creates all these myths like "people will find your product and buy it if it's good, so marketing is only for bad products." This leads to all these distorted ideas about what's ethical and what's not ethical.

There's nothing wrong with giving away free products, it's how every single business gets started. No web designer can charge 30k per site without a portfolio, because no one will buy a website unless they trust that the designer can deliver on their promises. And the only way to create these portfolio sites is by doing them for cheap or free. It's the same for products, no one will buy it unless they trust it will deliver on its promises, and you just can't create that without giving away a lot of stuff to create a 'portfolio' of people who trust you.

/rant
Getting a sample product and sponsored posts are two separate things. The product is consumable, you can't have a loaner copy like you can for a gadget. Similarly, if TechCrunch gets free access to a web app and writes about it they aren't breaking any rules about sponsored posts and Google shouldn't penalize them.

I think TC is terrible and don't visit or care what they have to say, but sample products are not sponsored posts. Paying for posts is sponsored posts.
Plastic is easy enough to recycle/burn/bury and that's what happens most of the time. A lot of plastic pollution is from micro particles that escape during the process of manufacture, shipping, etc. China banned plastic bags because: They were sick of them, alternatives are easily available and some times authoritarian governments can do the right a lot faster then democratic ones. The rest of the world continues as before, except that this story keeps making the rounds.
"Do not fuck with us."

So that's why you guys are still virgins. ;) Flaming a legitimate question does not make you friends.
We also could blow the CO2 into urban greenhouses, which could make growing plants in the city more economic.
Is it ironic that after going on and on about Google Guidelines on SEO, his largest ad is for TextLinkAds, the largest paid link brokers?

I don't have a problem with TLA, but you cant have your cake and eat it too.
Here are the first things I install:

aptitude install firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu 9.04 shipped with Firefox 3.0 by default).

Nightly builds of Chromium: https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa

miro (simple "internet TV" video podcast player)

thunderbird, gnumeric, abiword (my preferred lighter-weight alternatives to the default Evolution and OpenOffice apps)

gnome-do (like the OS X app Quicksilver)

inkscape (vector drawing)

git, git-svn, mercurial, darcs, bzr, subversion, cvs

irb, rubygems
Since torrent traffic doesn't pass through the Pirate Bay site, is it even possible for them to block traffic to the Netherlands?

It would seem far more plausible to put the onus on the ISPs in the Netherlands to block the traffic, though it would be blocking a lot of legal torrents as well.
I stopped reading when he suggested dumpster diving.
Ubuntu managed to largely bring together the desktop Linux community.

In my preparation to respond to your comment, I tried to find some statistics - any statistics - on Ubuntu's marketshare among Linux distributions. Maybe my google-fu is having an off day, but I just can't find anything empirical (searches for Ubuntu in Google Trends don't count, since they don't necessarily correlate with installs).

Does anyone know of any research into this?
I don't, but my neighbor does, and brings back an amazing amount of food. Not my cup of tea, but if you are really bootstrapping...
Functional Sieve of Eratosthenes [pdf]
I agree. Desktop Linux is a great source of hope for struggling platforms. Even if it isn't for Aunt Millie, it has gone from being embarrassingly bad to being [a couple of] my favorite desktop environment[s]. Here's hoping Android follows the same trajectory. (It's certainly starting in the same place.)
The problem is that what keeps bloggers ethical is their permission asset. If they violate the trust of their readers then it's over.

The issue is that for companies with high-margin products they can afford to buy a list of the top 1000 bloggers covering a given industry and then send a sample to every single blogger. What ends up happening is that 99% of the bloggers have no real traffic, but when they link back to the parent company it helps their SEO. Google shouldn't necessarily be penalizing these blogs, but they absolutely should be penalizing the companies, because the entire point of their campaigns is to cheat Google.
If you "sudo apt-get grammar" you can get an app that will teach you how to properly use hyphens so you don't say things like "Ubuntu must have apps" which implies that Ubuntu doesn't have applications but you think it must.
CTO of massify.com.

Lover.

Fighter.
Behind the iPhone SMS Exploit: Fuzzing The Phone In Your Phone [pdf]
When I was in Western Africa, I got a plastic bag for practically every single purchase I made, even in rural markets.
How to find a job in the game industry
Right, but while he still had money in Seesmic, there was a huge Seesmic widget on every page on TechCrunch.
IPhone Virus?  Turn Your Phone Off
Actually, this is not supposed to be a replica or simulation of Galileo's telescope. The scope in its default configurations has around 50% to 200% greater magnification than Galileo did, and it also uses newer optical techniques (achromatic doublets, internal baffles) to provide greater clarity than 17th-century instruments.

It is possible to assemble the Galileoscope in an alternate configuration that has the same magnification as the scope that Galileo used.

The real purpose of the Galileoscope is not to build a replica, but to build a cheap but high-quality telescope so that anyone (including children in schools that receive donated scopes) can see what Galileo saw: Saturn's rings, Jupiter's moons, and detailed views of our own moon.
You know what, you can go watch the whole video in one piece here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6939286120674554766 , and not have to suffer that Personal Enegery Mandala Aura Third Eye Chakra nonsense!
OP here. This is from the talk today being given at Black Hat 2009 by the guys presenting their "hijack any iPhone" exploit discussed here yesterday.

While this document doesn't discuss the iPhone takeover explicitly, it does illustrate how instructions can be sent to iPhone, Android, and Windows Mobile phones via an SMS exploit that does not require the carrier to be involved. Interesting stuff.
"I hope I am not the first person to tell you this, but nobody reads design documents. In fact, when working at larger studios, I made a habit of inserting the line “I will pay $5 to anyone who reads this sentence” into the center of any document over 50 pages. In 10 years of development nobody ever asked for their money."

I knew it!
A slight inaccuracy, 4chan is moderated, even the "unmoderated" parts. Linky: http://www.4chan.org/rules
Well if you want to save big on energy costs and you don't mind your house being quirky an underground home is for you. When you're below the frost line, the underground temperature is 55-57 degrees F, in winter or summer. Plus you get great noise insulation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_sheltering
During the late-90s bubble, a group of British radio stations chose the name koko.com for their internet presence.

Think about it - could you have found a worse name for something that's going to be read out on the radio repeatedly through the day? "Check out koko.com, that's kay-oh-kay-oh-dot-com."

Koko.com is long gone, but the practice remains. At present, I'm on a radio station with a hyphen in its domain name. I sound like I'm going dotty when I read out the email address. Infuriating. Don't do it!
It's not hard to take photos through any telescope. See the Galileoscope pool on Flickr for some examples:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/galileoscope/pool/
I agree overall. I do think there are some exceptions though. xpertsite.com is horrid, but I might suffer the problems if I could get XPert.com or xprt.com even. Maybe. They're so short that spelling or typing them is very easy.

Same with AskMe.com. It might be annoying, but that's a good domain, and a good name. I think IMSafer just sucks. IMSafe.com is way better.
Well, it's not - that's why they include an achromatic lens element to reduce color fringing as well as an (optional) rectifying eyepiece. Microscope eyepiece cams aren't too pricey on eBay and might deliver better results than a consumer cam.

I can see a lot of cool little science fair projects with something like this, not all for astronomy either, eg mount 2 of them in parallel and build a stereoscopic analysis tool.
xulrunner is more than just javascript, it is also XUL and XPCOM, and is meant for apps with a GUI. This appears to let you run just JavaScript as if it were in a "virtual machine"-ish environment.
I have ordered mine on March 11th and got them July 11th.
There's hobo dumpster diving, and then there's grabbing a loaf of bread that was on a store shelf 5 minutes ago.
Take Back the Beep Campaign
15 LVL is approx 27$

Speed - 100Mbit up and down local traffic. Speed depends on location. Europe - almost same as local traffic. USA, Asia - much worse. Download speed from USA - shared line, usually from 1Mbit - 20Mbit (depending on line usage). Speedtest.net currently showing 2.62 mbit download and 0.75 mbit upload from NY.

Location: Riga, Latvia
You Too Can Be Like Bing
It comes with a standard-size tripod mount as part of the kit. Old tripods are cheap.
Fair enough. It looks like you aren't advocating vitamin deficiency so I can approve.

I knew someone in college who ate nothing but mac and cheese. After a few months his hairline started to recede. When this happened he started eating cheeseburgers every now and then and it grew back.
Which one? You're implying that all things are best the way they are because everything trends toward perfection. Having tried quite a lot of office furniture recently I can report that humans have not figured out what's best for human proportions :)
$36 a month is a nice number. It peaked my curiosity but he goes through a lot of work and his food suggestions basically mean you're going to miss out on a lot of delicious flavours.

I understand the premise but .. meh :)
looks like a good way to get to work
Too many carbs, not enough protein and fat.
Do you mean EBay? I'm confused how Google is involved in this.
Damn straight about this. Last week I went through hell talking to Acer about the battery on my A1 netbook. Their script-driven customer service had no flexibility and has cost Acer a customer for life -- and any recommendations that I'd ever have for their products. They simply told me "no one in the company can do [what I asked, which was quite reasonable]".

Later, after I got someone who wasn't based in India (or somewhere like that), I learned that they couldn't do what I wanted because they had eliminated the positions that would have enabled it. If the humandroids in the first customer service had demonstrated any creativity or flexibility to find out why, I wouldn't be as angry at Acer as I am. As it is, they've demonstrated that as a company they care nothing about customer service.
Wouldn't exactly call it 'Comfortably'
That is totally awesome, thank you for bringing this to my attention.

Maybe someday when I'm rich I will build my house like this - less for the energy efficiency and more because it looks totally badass.
A Better Way to Shoot Down Spam
Wordpress: ‘publish_post’ is also triggered on subsequent post editions
Going to a technical school instead. I can afford it in the long run.
The article is interesting, but this is a really terrible title. The title contains zero relevant info, not even any irrelevant info, and it barely even sense as a sentence. The sentence doesn't appear in the article. I am at a loss as to what the titler was thinking.
It's aimed at both. The people he was talking to shouldn't have said "I just work here"; they should have said "I'm sorry about that; I can't fix it, but I'll try to make sure that the people who should be able to fix it hear that you're not happy about it." Even if they dropped it from that point, it would have left a better impression of the brand on Seth than the "I just work here" did.

Me? I suspect that the brand is Real. I never get unsubscribed from their "game" spam despite having submitted about 20 unsubscribe requests.
"piqued"

...sorry...
I just came across this: Scribes - Textmate for Ubuntu and it made we wonder if there was any other hidden Gems.
As a poor college student I'm currently on a food budget of < $40 per month. I rarely buy anything but bread, bacon, peanut butter, cheese, bananas, eggs, yogurt, and butter. It's a bit monotonous, but I was surprised how quickly I got used to it.
The technique of doing packet level inspection is very interesting. I don't agree that "ham tends to come from computers that have a lot of channels, or ports, open for communication". The ips could have easily been allocated to a new customer by the time they were able to check for open ports. I believe ham comes from legitimate edge mail servers.
Where I live you die from eating deeply discounted ground beef a month after buying it :)
Oh man, it has got to suck being rejected from a company that makes Frogs in Love, where you set foot on a romantic adventure and bathe in the enchanting waters of distant lands, meet and befriend other characters who will guide you on this quest and prepare you for the ultimate romance by challenging you with exciting and fun mini games.
I'm a design UI/UX freelancer and entrepreneur - currently getting my feet wet w/ ruby and ROR
American drivers should learn to love the roundabout.
Well written. It shows well how difficult it can get to respond to user feedback: some suggestions sound super simple but the implications, the "what if"'s and the special cases add up very fast.

We had this exact issue this week and I'm not sure we found the best solution still.
Oh, you changed it just to spite me! :-)

Except "Ubuntu-must-have-apps" is just as bad! The hyphen goes between "must" and "have" to signal that "must" is part of an adjective and not a verb!
From software developer to software business owner
Combine the telescope with this: http://www.google.com/search?q=eyebolt+camera+stabilizer

To stabilize it very cheap.
Why do you care about HN Karma? It has no impact on the value you derive from being part of this community.
Something that always amazes me is how people are willing to sacrifice quite a bit when it comes to monthly food costs, when in reality these costs are incredibly low compared to the benefits you get (nutrition and health). Why don't people reconsider getting trashed on Friday and Saturday nights, where bar bills can run up to $20/night or find less convenient housing and save themselves $50/month. Or how about getting rid of the non-essentials like cable, internet, or a car. IMHO food is the one monthly cost that you should not cut corners, because the long term effects have actual measurable detriments to your personal well-being.