skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, because $50,000 sounds like a reasonable number to come up with when somebody tells their friends that you expect them to sleep in a moldy apartment.

These people need to lighten up a bit, it's a tempest in a teacup and a total waste of time and energy.
It's important to keep in mind that this doesn't prevent you from using Google Voice. You can call your Google Voice number, or you can issue an HTTP request and Google Voice will call you. As long as you can make phone calls, you can use GV. As long as you can use the web, you can have all the advanced features.

So really, Apple and AT&T aren't stopping anyone. (I am happily using the Android GV app on my AT&T phone. Turns out you can reboot their locked Windows Mobile devices into Android. Hah!)
See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=532003 where there is already much discussion. Discussion there is now closed because it's four months ago.
Amazing magic with 142857
Can Agile work for a team of experts?
I love baseball - because of its unique start and stop nature of relatively isolated events, it's one of the easiest sports to do lots of interesting analysis in.

As for Moneyball - first, high onbase is now getting much more recognition and payment, and he's a bit of a victim of his own fame. His type of star he could get undermarket, he now has a lot more competition for.

Second, the A's were thought to be able to contend this year - they even traded for a top player (Matt Holiday) to try to put them over the top. They'll probably contend next year in a weak Western division.

Most interesting - defense is probably the new onbase percentage. It's pretty easy to track offense in baseball, and separate good and bad offense. Also easy to track pitching. Defense? Not so much. There's not as many numbers kept, and all the major defensive systems have serious flaws. For years, good offense/bad defense players did really well financially and cost a lot. It's changing a bit now, and better GM's are looking for average offense/great defense as the new kind of bargain.
"We actually got this working in J2ME back in 2005" - RahulVohra, a few comments up this page.
Inside the Opensim Asset Server
Has the growth rate been fairly steady or has it increased as of late?
Yeah, lots of the popular criticism is of low quality. I don't really know if there is any high quality criticism of evolutionary psychology.

I have read up a bit on the subject, but the really interesting thing for me is the question: "why is the attacks both so ferocious and dishonest?".

Evolutionary psychology breaks some ideological basis for marxism and for religion. After seeing a few similar debates in other areas, one of my few certain opinions is:

idealists lie.

I've seen some other theory about blonde hair. :-) It is probably some sexual selection (if there were something with snow reflection or heating, it ought to be known by now.)

A good overview of evol psychology was posted by someone else: http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/primer.html
If you call it trickery to install a older version of the G1 firmware via a raw system image (.nbh), and from there move to a more "enlightened" firmware. It's really not that hard.

Not sure if anyone has achieved this on the HTC Hero or Magic, however, and from what I have seen, there is much to like in the Hero.
Google Voice is not a VoIP client, so I'm not sure what there is to limit.
I'm in the exact same situation right now.

I have two projects that are actually making money(!) but not enough for my wife and I to live off of. I would really like to find a programmer to work with, but I can't afford that either. Or rather, I'm not sure what other options I have so I can afford somebody.

I know there needs be a leap of faith somewhere, but I don't how high or even where to jump.
It was too hard to use. I never knew how to phrase anything properly, so I just gave up on it.
This was a really well written and thought-out piece.

I've had many of the same frustrations with my iPhone, the only reason that it's not more annoying is because I don't use my iPhone much as a phone.

The multi-account email switching also seems to be much more hassle than it really should need to be.

I'd also to be able to see some sort of missed calls/voicemails/emails status on the main screen, even before unlocking the phone. It seems trivial, but having to slide/unlock the phone just to get some basic status info gets tiresome after a while.
I'm not sure where to start

There's an app for that!

(you could Google for some resistor pictures and play around in your favourite photoshop clone, then get an image processing library for your favourite language).
Venture Frogs (VC) sounds like it did well. My bet is that Mr. Lin knows how to pick them. Perhaps by asking himself if an opportunity "needs a CFO?"
Your Moment of Zen: World’s Second Largest Aquarium, the Music Video
I see a lot of articles gushing praise for the parallelism and concurrency benefits of the new breed of functional languages (Scalohaskojuremlang), but too few of them include code. Can anyone share links that include simple tutorials on how to actually use these vaunted abilities to "be ready for the multicore era?"
The purpose of my test was to determine, for our specific workload,

Define "specific workload". The workload depends on how many users are using the system, what parts of the website they're hitting (some may require more backend processing than others), etc.

By not telling us the specifics and by killing the repeatability of this benchmark, you can only say with a minimal amount of certainty that the dedicated hardware improved performance.

I love how the industry functions on magic, whether it's on the software or hardware side.
With NoScript, I had to allow kruisit.nl before http://vldtr.com/?key=HN would do anything besides list the urls.
It's not a big problem (just makes me a little nervous), but since you seem to control both servers you might want to move whatever is getting called from kruisit.nl over to vldtr.com.
I have been unfortunate enough to have been the General Manager of the Company when this happened. I had no equity. I tried my best to keep everyone motivated and paid myself last to the detriment of my own family. I thought the Captain is supposed to be the last to leave.

I believed that the Company could have turned around, but needed the capital. However an under capitalized Company has a very slim chance of being successful. Even if you stay and work, you become an observer as everything you build starts to crumble and your hands are tied.

My recommendation still stands. Get out as fast as possible and remember, when one doors closes another opens.
Well, since it's an option that might not be completely clear it might (almost) be considered a hack ;)
That's always good to know. I was considering removing safari and mail altogether. Thanks. :)
"...Massa also hit a wall of tires at 200+ kph. I know they were there to absorb the shock, still, try doing that in a regular car..."

Is a Formula 1 car any better in an impact than a modern car with, say, 5 Euro NCAP stars[1]? I had a quick Google and it seems that the most important safety feature in this situation is the head and neck support system:

"The leading causes of death in auto racing accidents are skull and neck fractures resulting from rapid deceleration during accidents. The Head and Neck Support system (HANS) was designed to reduce these whiplash effects. The system consists of a collar that is attached to the safety belt and strapped to the helmet to hold the helmet in place during an accident. HANS usage became mandatory in Formula One racing in 2003." [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_NCAP

[2] http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_three_main_safety_fea...
I used it a lot during the first week, but I'll admit that I'm down to using it maybe once a week. It's just a cumbersome interface that doesn't really make much sense. I'm sure they'll spiffy it up soon.
Jinja2 custom template tags are, to quote their website "non-trivial" to implement, and so poorly documented that you are stuck trying to figure out how the tags work from source.

Poorly documented?

http://jinja.pocoo.org/2/documentation/extensions#module-jin...

I agree that the parser API is not exactly pretty - but creating your own tag starting from that example is pretty straightforward. I have created many tags myself (mostly the standard case of mutating the enclosed content in one way or another) and can't complain. It took me literally minutes to get my first tag working - perhaps you are referring to an older version of jinja?
@lionhearted where do you get your raw basedball data? it's certainly a fun way to learn/teach data mining but the folks at the top certainly are not going to be publishing their formulas. ;)
It would probably be easier and cheaper to make hardware for any given person to wear. It's not like they'd have a shortage of volunteers.
I highly recommend interviewing at whatever company he ends up at next.
It’s likely to be a big winner.

What a sad statement. Going to work for another company because they employ someone? You'd think TechCrunch would rather say something like, "go start a company good enough to attract people like him"
While this is not exactly a tutorial, the http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=sp... shows threaded multicore programs in a good number of languages.
Business cards printing
This is great for the Google Maps walking feature. Assuming they are gather gps data for these bicycle paths. This should enhance the walking feature to give it more specific and direct directions for being on foot or bike. The visual data is useful for cyclists to check road conditions. (I use street view to ensure that roads aren't dirt roads.)
I like the discussion at sonsofsamhorn.net - a Red Sox forum, but a hell of a lot of smart people there. They get their data from the regular sources, there's lots of citing in threads. I don't datamine it out myself - nowhere near enough free time.
I've been in 2 startups that didn't have cash for payroll.

Startup #1: The CEO took payroll out of his own personal credit cards and paid us all anyway. That startup went public and grew to be very successful.

Startup #2: The CEO was already a millionaire, but wouldn't put in a cent of his own money. That startup failed.

In short, if the CEO cannot find a way to pay you, then he isn't cut out to be the CEO. Don't leave because payroll was missed -- Leave because the leadership isn't there. But by all means, LEAVE.
I knows it's fun and all to hate on managers, but they do perform a valuable function within an organization. If you're successful enough as an entrepreneur, it's almost guaranteed that you'll end up as one. Just because most people here identify more with the maker does not mean manager types should be disparaged.
I thought all high-level languages were complete garbage, until I had to write serious concurrent code in C/CUDA. After a year doing that kind of crap, first-class functions and easy to write transactions were like heaven on Earth.

And clojure-dev makes it pretty straightforward to use all those parens, but I wish it was more emacs-y in its tabbing.

Just to show how impressed I am, I used vim exclusively for two years, then went out of my way to learn emacs to use clojure. Combine some of the most helpful emacs features with the clojure-dev plugin for Eclipse and this thing will take off, IMHO.
One of the reasons why caving is an interesting sport is just that - no easy way to capture all the imagery.
"His leverage is his mystique and his charisma."

I haven't read his biographies, but I'd posit this is how it went (since this is the order it usually goes in):

1. RB takes on a few small projects and ships. Develops a reputation for delivering on his promises.

2. Uses this reputation to get money and resources for bigger projects. Meets lots and lots of people while doing these projects.

3. Is now seen as a leader, which makes him charismatic.

4. Spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to employ full-time voice acting and body language coaches, and further develops his personal brand and mystique.

Now that all this is done, what Richard Branson does for a living is to play Richard Branson. Do you think he actually wants to fly to Fiji and go rock climbing every weekend? Of course not. Most weekends he'd much rather curl up with a pot of tea and read the paper. But he can't; he has to go to Fiji, because that's what Richard Branson would do.
Better for us entrepreneurs that they are suing the Twitter user as opposed to Twitter itself.
I do not conclude that everything is perfect. My point is that Apple has more than just "good looks" which has convinced people to buy their products.

But, alas, I fear we argue the same point. ;)
You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with twitter clients and those who dig. You dig.

(You are right. Doesn't work at all.)
i still love it, but it isn't useful for me on on a daily basis.
What is a Technology Startup?
Since you and I don't build LCD panels in our spare time, I suppose that may be just as well.
couldn't you theoretically attain ramen profitable with minimal fire fighting and NOT create new features - case in point - 37Signals - assuming they didn't have that big base to start with - they could just have been cruising at ramen profitable and not have added a new feature (which I think they've still refused to do so ...)
Americans, at 12 hours per week online, are goofing off smarter not harder
Well to be honest, I think it was just said at the wrong time. I could picture apple doing the same thing and everyone saying "I saw that one coming". The thing is that the company is making a bid deal over nothing, it's kind of like a fly bumping into me and I declare war on the species by launching flaming balls of deet into the public. -> Basically it's a huge overkill. It seems like the company is making the mistake of applying the perfectly acceptable business model to something that would not damage the company. Like in my ridiculous example, the fly bumping into me does not harm me, but my "counter-attack" is just ridiculous for the situation.
Learning C from Java: Differences
Do I have to use the command line to use it at stores?
Thanks for the helpful response.

If it is a mere opinion, it would not constitute libel. For something to be libelous, it must be an assertion of fact - it must also be false and tend to injure the reputation of the party within the community.

Isn't every opinion an assertion of fact? If I say "American cars suck" or "Apple mistreats its developer community", I'm expressing what I believe to be the truth, not just my opinion.

What's the distinction between opinions and assertions of fact?
How about edit an XML file?
US Movie Companies Go After The Pirate Bay - Again
... and also that the spring was not motionless at the time of impact. If you can find the video, it turns out that the car that lost the spring isn't even in sight, so the spring has had some time to decelerate. Still, it is clearly still moving (bouncing). To calculate the impact energy, you need to know the relative velocity between the spring and Massa. Also, once the back of his helmet hit the headrest, the helmet would absorb energy until it cracked, which it appeared it did not.

My guess is that more damage was done by the head-on collision with the wall than by the errant spring. These cars have cockpits specifically designed for safety, but without an airbag there isn't much to help the driver in a head on collision with no deflection. The tire wall seems to have absorbed a lot of the energy, but as the car actually penetrated the wall it may have defeated the primary head on collision safety feature, the crumple zone.
However true this is, I think there are bigger issues at hand, like how horrible AT&T has been recently.
If Apple announced it was a "sue first" company after filing against someone who complained about one of their products there would be even more outrage. Smart companies don't sue their frustrated customers, they improve their products.
Are Machines Really About To Outsmart Man?
These calculation are correct, but the wrong ones to use.

It's not energy that causes injuries, it's force. But force is much much more difficult to calculate. You need to know the area of the impact, and even harder is calculating how long the deceleration takes.

The helmet spreads out the area so that it's basically half of the entire head (instead of a small area). The foam inside spreads out the deceleration time. The nature of a spring would also slow down (i.e. increase) the deceleration time.

If he body moved backward as it got hit, that too would spread out the deceleration (i.e. move it from his head/brain, into his entire body).
Developer Evangelist Handbook
I was confused for about 3 minutes because I kept reading "Monkeyball".
Agreed. Any disparagement of managers was unintended.

I come here to mingle with fellow makers when I need a break from manager types. That's all.
Before an owner asks anyone to take even a temporary pay cut, he should cut his own pay to the bone. Before he misses a payroll for other people, he should have already skipped a paycheck or two.

How can you tell for sure if the owner/CEO has in fact taken a pay-cut or missed a pay period or two? I am sure they all say they've have gone without pay for 3 months already. I am asking this in all seriousness.
Do you ever have that many ingredients in the kitchen?

That's a valid desire, but I find that 'stuff in the kitchen' amounts to spices, flour, sugar, and leftovers from previous meals...

So you'd be stuck with baking mountains and mountains of bread related products, or making soup.
Umm, I can:

Record expires on 01-Sep-2011.
Record created on 02-Sep-1997.
Database last updated on 28-Jul-2009 15:44:50 EDT.

A domain with no host records is not an open domain.
Mixing the voicemails in with the entire call history is a terrible idea for a few reasons:
1. If you've made/received enough phone calls to fill the page before checking your voicemails, you have to scroll or filter to find the new voicemail.
2. If you're trying to find an old voicemail, you have to filter or MEGA scroll to find it.
3. Voicemail is virtually hidden from new users. I can imagine many people tapping the icon with the little red 1 and then not having any idea what to do.

Counting voicemails and missed calls separately is a little annoying, but this is definitely not the way to solve the problem. If this were ever implemented I would throw my phone in the garbage.
I think the design of the apple UI in this case is more a product of the way missed calls and voice mails actually work.

I can't think of a reliable way to associate voice mails with the appropriate missed calls since multiple calls from the same number could and probably often do come in before the voice mail is even registered as existing by the phone.
Well, I was talking about a more large scale situation, not a "tweeter" who has 22 followers. I was also referring to an insult to the company, slander, not just to one of their products. I simply don't see a company like Apply handling the "lies" by doing nothing. However, I could be wrong, It's quite possible that Apple would just wink at the person and walk away.
Dear Mr. Jobs, please fix the AppStore approval process before you do anything else.

I can live with the extra dot for missed calls, I actually like being reminded to call them back after listening to a voice mail.
Is this any different from
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=723573
??

Seems like multiple journalists jumping on the same content-free bandwagon.
Sell it first. Read books later.

The only difference between salesman and programmer is the first gets NO more often.
SFGate inserts a link to the story when you copy text on their site. Try it
I'll concede his point, but... not everyone has visual voicemail. Like me, simply because I can't get it on my network in South Africa. So I never see little red dots over the voicemail tab.

Clicking on voicemail simply makes a phone call to my voicemail box.
So they thought that internet use would go up if they cut out all the waiting?
On JRuby's importance for the future of Ruby
With this redesign, I gain the convenience of not having to clear the red dot. To me, that seems like a trivial pain point.

With this redesign, I -lose- information and functionality on voicemails. My home screen no longer indicates if I have unread voicemails, only missed calls. I can't separately manage my call history (which I never clear) and my voicemail inbox (which I always clear). I don't know with one glance how many missed calls vs voicemails I have.

That seems like a LOT of functionality loss for VERY LITTLE pain relieved.
Yes, I took 50 because that's the least I could take.

Truth be told, I've constructed a plan I shouldn't have been sold. I should have had to buck up more than the combined $45 plan that I'm on.

Rogers and Fido offer slight variations on the same theme: $60 and $75 plans containing 250 minutes and up to 6GB of data . . . plus other overpriced amenities like visual voicemail, texting, and caller ID.

I was able to purchase what I have because their systems don't actually enforce their business rules. The iPhone is just another phone to the guy at the kiosk in the mall. This may have changed since December 08, but I've kept my paper copy of the contract :)
There's more to agile than pair programming. One person can be agile. Things like compressing the requirements and design phases. Do things in small steps to get them in customers' hands. Release often. Iterate.
Completely different in that it is a totally original piece. The same in the sense that they focus on the same topic, but in fact this one is a response to the other.
Thanks for the rec. I just noticed Sean Layman's Baseball Archive which looks to have individual plate appearances from 1973-2008 and is available in a SQL-ready format:

http://baseball1.com/content/view/57/82/

This looks like it might be the same DB:

http://sn.im/baseball-sql
I have the firefox plugin, but other than that I just use it for math I'm too lazy to figure out myself - or to check my math.
My current team is facing the exact same problem. We're doing Scrum, but our team isn't nearly as interchangeable as the Scrum dogma would like. Example: some of us are better at UI, some of us are better at IA, and so on. So while we're all supposed to take what's next on the list, it never really works out that way, and we actually end up picking what we're most comfortable with.

I'm curious as to how other people deal with this.
Funny answer: when I go out to grab a $6 burrito with some of my coworkers, I have to borrow ... um ... $6.

Serious answer: I think that my people would say that I conduct myself in ways small and large such that they don't wonder for a second if I'm telling the truth or not.
Stupid. Just because traffic is going down doesn't mean the technology or the company doesn't deserve some serious attention:

http://singularityhub.com/2009/07/27/wolfram-alpha-a-force-t...
What's up with this recipe? http://www.nibbledish.com/people/websolutions/recipes/find-a...
> This list is awesome. I would love to work for someone like you.

Thank you. I appreciate that.
The communities around the old 8 bit platform are alive and well, much to my surprise!

I think it has something to do with the retro-gaming movement, away from the 3d realistic games back to simpler 2 dimensional games that are great because of their inventiveness and playability rather than their realism.

On a side note, I wonder how many people upon seeing 'load' hear the sound of some fsk sounds :)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't two missed calls without voicemail display identically as a single missed call with voicemail? I don't think you have that information in the first place.

Once you get into the app, of course, things are conflated, but if anything, you're gaining information on the home screen: You can be sure that the number on the icon is the actual number of missed calls.
Isn't this supposed to have (Video) in the subject?