skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an excellent example of what is wrong with "UI Design" on the modern web. To many people are interested in the flash and rarely think through the actual user benefit imparted.

Animation in interfaces is best when used as an education tool: showing where things are moving to, directing attention at important events, &c. Not slowing down obvious processes.
This is probably a better link (actual page instead of newspaper article): http://www.perfectbusiness.com/theperfectpitch/twitter.cfm
I might have meant "real good", that is GM strength and up (2500+).
However, if we define "any good" as 2000, then, as you said, even that level is hard to reach at a later age.

My point is as follows: almost anyone can reach good strength in chess if they put a lot of deliberate practice at the early age(case in point, Polgar sisters). Conversely, at a later age, it is much, much harder to progress.

Put a 25 year old on an island for 20 years with only a chess computer and chess literature, and they are unlikely to make more progress that a 12 year old would make in 2 years.

Chess is not unique in this regard, in fact, many passtimes/sports/hobbies have the same limitation. However, I think chessplayers often prefer to ignore this facet of chess.
Poll: Cloudcomputing, do you use it ?
Are you a user of a cloud computing service ? Are you happy about it ?

If you are using cloud services right now you can vote twice, also once for which service you are using.
never used it, don't intend to
never used it, but intend to
used it, won't use it again
using it right now, trying to get out, won't use it again
using it right now, happy about it, will use it again
- using GAE
- using EC2
- using other cloud services
Plus a shift to a plant-based diet that will enable most of us to live for 90 or even 100 years, which will mean that we won't have to worry about health care all that much anyway.

Imagine that. Instead of isolating which effect to treat, we raise the discourse to another level to examine causes. Now we have a whole different set of problems to solve.

We do the same thing in tech all the time, rendering common technologies obsolete in the blink of an eye. But with one critical difference: you have to make it easier for people.

Depending on people to make sacrifices for a paradigm shift is a recipe for failure. They'd rather just keep slugging it out in the quicksand.
In bind and most dns servers the ip reverse registers are saved in different zones than the domains. There are times when you get an ip address that was previously used and still has the reverse dns configured (usually ISPs cancel the domain or server but don't delete the reverse ip info).

It's possible but not too likely to happen.
I loved my D30 and we made some very nice photographs together. Only for speed and focus points did I switch to a 10D. All the extra MPs do is eat up disk space.
If I recall correctly, the movie Children of Men had several scenes with animated newsstands in the background. I highly recommend seeing the film, if only for the background environment.

Here's a short of video of some of the advertisements and interfaces created for the film: http://www.foreignoffice.com/projekts/movies/movie_com.htm
> I decided not even to attempt it (product looks like hell if I do it)

You should try reading on the subject though.

Design is not only about how the site looks, it's also about the user's workflow, and if you don't have some good sense on that, your app is going to feel like an ass, no matter how shiny it is. It often happens that the design drives implementation changes.

I also have problems in that area, but I know a good design when I see one, so what I do ... I draw the general layout, and then I search for a design that looks good enough and that fits the layout, and then I steal from that design (only the minimal to make it look decent, while adding elements of my own). Sometimes the result is crappy, sometimes it's decent. Overall it's better than nothing, because you're not too ashamed of giving a link to your friends to get early feedback.
It's probably just a business decision. (assumption)They can provide cell phone service for 1000 people for the same cost as Mitnick since he is a target.

It's the same thing Sprint did a couple years ago when they dumped people that called customer service too much.
Am I missing something here? If a microgram is 10^-6 gram and a kilogram is 10^3 grams...
One step closer into the world of Harry Potter. Well, almost
10 times BIGGER Tweets than Twitter. But a 1400 character limit? Maybe they should change this to a maximum. It sounds good. But actually it doesn't help us any. First we couldn't type more than 140 characters. Now we cant type less than 1400. So basically you are still screwed if you want to type 141-1399 characters. Big gap=even bigger opportunity. We have the microblog, now the macro blog. We need the "mid-croblog".
Living on the Edge of Rails, Part 1
Never caught on doesn't mean it failed.
Ask HN: Rate my Start-up webticketing.net
I've been slowly working on http://www.webticketing.net in between projects for the past 6 months. And its now at the point I'm ready to get feedback and open up the site.

We launched our first event today, a charity hack event for paypal.

http://www.webticketing.net/charityhack/

The idea is a simple cheap ticketing solution, with a low flat rate fee.

Any and all feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Linux Needs Open Multimedia on the Web
The real shame is that Whole Foods doesn't just sell whole foods anymore. Its full of candy and junk food. Since I have to read all the packages to figure out whats healthy and what not, I might as well go to the local grocery story and buy it for half the price.
But if he would contribute back, then -everyone- would have something better than the (current) django. That is how it works. I agree with grandparent poster that more people should take the time to contribute and/or make their changes available.

That said, at least he documented things and presented his issues cogently so that the dev team can see where issues are, and possibly address them in the future.
Most businesses are not zero-games. You're missing out, if you think it is.
Looks really slick, great idea too.
I like Bump, but I have a feeling FlightCaster is going to be BIG.
I wish there were more merge extensions in git. For instance, I would very much like an extension that merged bitmap images in a fine-grained manner, such that I could specify if it's okay to merge two sets of changes or just select the latest one on a consistent basis. This would allow multiple devs to do touch-up work on a single large image instead of having to cut it up into pieces.
Plan 9 was intended as a "research operating system". Unix actually fulfilled a need at the time - a better multi-user "mini" OS.
Upvoted because its so damn funny.
Yeah, you're right, I shouldn't have said that _why contributed more, just that _why's contributions reached wider audiences, at least in a direct way.

It's nice to see that there are some art hackers, or informed members, on hacker news, though!
Peter Seibel's Coders at Work goes to press today
blargh paypal.

just kidding, thats a really good landing page.
cool, i like the design and the idea as well very much needed
Does anyone have a copy of the Shoes dependencies tarball for OS X?

deps-osx-intel-1.6.4-1.20.2.tar.gz
Presumably, this was something that was visible on the demoer's website anyway, so the thief could have taken it from there anyway, no?

If he went and demoed his private, unreleased product to a bunch of potential competitors, then I'd say that's taking trust a bit too far.
What feels least sufficient to me are systems for learning Scrum, or XP, or any blend of practices/patterns/principles well enough to do more good than damage. We therefore generalize from poor data. We draw conclusions from poor execution during the learning curve.

Another big issue for me, in SW Dev, is the opacity of "code asset" deterioration as we start to iterate features through it quickly. Scrum can exacerbate that. Once we start cranking the Sprint crank, poorly disciplined programmers can hack the code to bits even faster than before, without stakeholders noticing.

Hence agile wags once called Scrum "XP without the P".
great app using new Beta PayPalX API's and has allowed us to put together a hack weekend and site in a few days.
While I agree with that, it's not just the megapixels that allow you to do that. In my experience the lens matters more if you want to magnify the detail in the picture, or crop it really tight. The sensor just gives you an upper bound, it cannot create optical information that is not there.

As someone who has done old-school film photography, I've often seen the stark difference in detail within a single roll of film based on the lens quality.

Chances are you have a decent enough lens that most of your megapixels are not going to waste, but most >10MP cameras I've seen in the market don't sport the kind of lenses that justify the additional MP. It's really a marketing gimmick.
That's not video.
Did Canon actually state that they are "dropping out of the megapixel race", or did they just release a new camera with a lower-than-expected megapixel count and the author is inferring their intent?

(Not that I object, as 10MP is plenty for most uses....)
forcing you to explain a business idea in 111 characters really could reveal the megastar ideas

Finally, a reason to tweet.

[EDIT: This is hard! Words like technology, proprietary, and customizable consume too much of a limited resource. I guess I'll have to speak English to convey my idea.]
The true story of audion
Don't the Japanese have those special barcodes everywhere? I'm sure something like that will eventually make it here, and an iPhone app would be a very quick, easy way to get it out there.
Some people are morning people and some people are creatures of the night. My mind is much sharper in the mornings. Most of my co-workers are better at night.
I'm sure it is, but it doesn't seem like a bright business decision. He claims he spends up to $20K a year - sure, maybe this still isn't worth it to AT&T. But more importantly, you'd think they would see this as an opportunity to make their system more robust for all their clients, save money that way (more than $20K/year? likely), AND turn it into a good PR piece.
How about those AT-ATs the empire used on Hoth? All you need is some rope and they fall over?
Great design and good, fast registration.
A story of the rise and fall of a serious attempt at a proof that P!=NP
I would need to see screenshots, demo, or video; before I would sign up. Other than that I like the design.
To all of you caring so, so much:

Man, you're really waaaay to virtual already...

Go get some life contact!!

P.S. This english computer culture really is able to fool us too badly, making us aliens on our very own planet...
I'm sure you could measure the physical object either discreetly or discretely, or even both at once if the situation was dire.
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=iphone+dead+reckoning&l=1

decent answer in the second comment of the first google result.

Basically: There are 6 degrees of freedom: 3 translational, 3 rotational. To do dead reckoning you don't have enough information.

If you can get over that issue (fix the phone or something), then the main issue is gravity, if you misalign by 1 degree even after 30s you will be way off.
I guess that's true... I have bought some budget priced glass.
Well most folks don't know they are using a computing cloud. Even as basic as using something email from Google or Yahoo is based on a cloud computing infrastructure.
Within the next 5 to 7 years most folks would have migrated to cloud computing completely without even realizing that they have transitioned into it. That is why folks at MSFT should seriously read Jim Collins new book "How the Mighty Fall" cuz they are stuck in time and unable to make the necessary changes.
Cloud Computing will mean the focus will all be driven through the browser and the Operating System could pretty much be anything and thereby undermine vendors who rely on selling Operating Systems for their main source of revenue.
It may seem unrealistic but Google and Apple may merge as equals as the realization of Cloud Computing comes to fruition.
From the article: With his earnest hope that we can all live to 90 by eating better and his toe-curling philosophizing about rights, Mackey manages to bracket some of the most extreme views on health care, and show both sides just how unappealing and impractical they are.

Many studies with good controls have failed to show that variations in medical care have any effect on health. On the other hand, lifestyle factors (food, exercise, smoking) have very large measurable effects. You might not like Mackey's philosophy, but his facts are solid.

See Robin Hanson's review (and cited sources) for some hard numbers:

http://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/09/10/robin-hanson/cut-medi...
That's the kind of password an idiot would have on his luggage!
Hmmm, IPSec. I've always found IPSec to have a nice feature list, but to be implemented in a painful way when it comes to working with NATs!

A nice feature of n2n is that, when you want to send to a node that's behind NAT, the supernode can be asked to relay the packet in for you over the existing session from that node to the supernode.

I run an edge node on my laptop, and whenever I come online, its attempts to send keepalives to the supernode suddenly get through, and the supernode re-registers me in my new location; and if I move from behind NAT to out in the open or back, everything adjusts correctly and automatically.

IPSec handles the encryption side, at the cost of tripping over firewalls and NATs more than n2n's straight UDP, but it doesn't really cover the IP mobility side...
Why don’t you just send an email to YC directly?
clickable link: http://www.webticketing.net
If true, they haven't done a very good job of it:

http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=obama+joker&m=...
is this at all related to this: http://www.localhookupz.com/memberpage/phace2phace

because if it is... extra hilarious
No, i missed the that they were talking about kilograms not grams. Once again my "no posting on the internet before coffee" rule shows its wisdom... and me my foolishness for ignoring it. Good spot.
Maybe this would be served as an email...
Bomb detectors are designed to pick up traces of nitrates, the theory being that if you are making a DIY bomb, you're going to go the ammonia-nitrate route.

Nitrates exist in fertilizer - and thats what folks make bombs out of.

Weed is often fertilized with nitrates, and trace amounts of these elements are present in your sweat, in your pee, and so on. When you go through a bomb detector after a heavy weed weekend or so, you're going to be flagged for closer inspection.

This was explained to me by a security agent at an airport I was travelling through after a heavy week in Amsterdam.
So how do you find a great unknown developer(or a lawyer, accountant, business guy...)? By referrals and knowing people.

Would you consider finding a great developer(one that could afford!), from some hotscripts-site(couldn't think anything similar to 99designs), elance, google and message boards?

Great designers are just as hard to find that great developers or great people in general. And usually they don't work for cents.
What do you think of this startup in comparison to Angie's List or Servicemagic?
Having a well-known client list is more a function of "knowing people" (ie great sales) vs. merely doing great design.
Window Manager Written Entirely in Perl
This will become another example of the Streisand effect most probably - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
UK Arrests in Carbon Credit Trading Scam
I think the trick is to define the kg in terms of something that is not only a universal constant but can also be practically measured.

If I redefine the gram as the mass of 6e23 atoms of carbon-12, and you give me a big pile of carbon-12 and say "what's the mass?" and I can't count exactly how many atoms are in the pile, then my definition isn't very useful.
There is a quick video interview here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GhAicc3iCE

Need to do a screen cast and put it on the frontpage still though, hadn't thought of that :)
Is this frickin China?
Hi, we're AT&T. The company that is SO secure we can even protect legendary hacker Kevin Mitnick!!

Cue mass attempts to break into AT&T from every angle (which is sure to end badly) :)
Tech Circus- Job Classifieds For Ringmasters
Hm, link? I thought eink would be prohibitively expensive?

Edit - found one: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/09/video-esquire-e/

I don't think it is that bad, probably Wired only bashes it because they are envious.
To add to that:

"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galls_law
Yup, that is it, it makes it seem easier. Furthermore, it exploits the sunken cost fallacy ('Oh I have already filled so much can't give up now').

Seems a bit sleazy to me. But I would really like to see some A/B testing between this and a classic form, to know if it really has an influence.
To be honest, I haven't used branching yet. But from what I hear it's much easier to do in Git, and developers love it.

Branching is in fact one of the best features of git, but it's so powerful and loaded with features that the documentation has become a trial to use.

I think we're in need of some really simple documentation for git, created specifically for visual learners. Even coming from the svn world, it's a bit hard to understand what "decentralized" really means, in terms of usage.
Can we keep liberal-orthodoxy conformance-enforcing screeds off of HN, please? Seeing the people who pride themselves on tolerance turning on one of their own for putting a toe out of line is vaguely amusing, but doesn't belong here.
Glad you like it, had some feedback suggesting the create event isn't obvious enough as a sign-up on the front page, so may change the wording.

Mat
Moon landings faked
I like the integration with HN comments. Seems like the level of the discussion found here is growing in reputation. Wonder what will happen when more blogs begin doing this.

I don't think the quality of comments will drop because people avoid saying something stupid. What do you think PG?
Eh, no worse than the Russian Mi-24 which had a heavily armored cockpit, but the tail could be easily damaged by small arms.

People will find a way, intentionally or not, around your defensive design. True for code and military engineering alike.
Oh, it will be hacked for sure.
This post seems primed for a political flame war. Can someone flag it?
It's wise to invest in good quality lens than higher mega pixels. Finally, how many of us are going to make those huge prints?
As the editor of Ruby Inside, I can confirm we (or me, as author of the piece) were not involved in any conspiracy or malicious intent against Hpricot. Heck, Why even wrote the foreword for my book :)

Further, the benchmarks we republished were not by us, but just a screenshot of benchmarks shared by the creator of Nokogiri.
Unix - Keep It Simple and Scalable (KISS)
According to a friend of mine who works at EW, this will only be available in NY and LA, and only to _some_ subscribers in those markets.
A lower megapixel count than the previous version of the same camera, so it's a pretty explicit signal.
> No, people are saying that a remarkably unique artist/hacker is a creative visionary, which he is.

That's very subjective.

And I was claiming to be an outsider to the Ruby community, which this entire thread appears to be centred around.
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Humbling ... Didn't you hear? Twitter is the preferred venue for mindless babble.
And you've never had fun poking holes in movies?
"Outing" is when you publish private information about someone. In this case the e-mail headers were both in public space. Highlighting something that's already public is not the same as breaking someone's confidentiality.
I posted this link because I think it covers a breadth of issues - the most interesting of which [for me] was how much control should we put on what we say/do and how much this reflects on our companies (assuming many of us are founders / managers / leaders).

On one hand the CEO of Whole Foods believes sincerely and quite passionately in a number of issues - and while I don't think his comments are particularly radical, they're issues that are clearly important to him (and practically everyone else) while others respond with views that he should be destroyed/boycotted because of those views. Is this just a sad reflection of his customer base/the state of civil debate? [Though I confess it would be funny if some of these boycotters ended up shopping Walmart, which supports the current health bill]
Publish at least some of them, so others can at least evaluate whether you have _good_ ideas.

You are never going to find anyone who will "buy" business ideas. All the people saying that execution is what matters are right. But the _ability_ to generate good ideas and plans is not unrelated to ability to execute! If your work impresses, you might find a co-founder or an opportunity that will put you on the path to being able to do what you want.
He gave out a lot of information. If I was in this scene, I would certainly say: too much information. WAY too much information.

The researcher now knows a forum which contains up-to-date exploits of this scene, transactions of this scene. That is a boatload of knowledge, especially if one finds currently unknown exploits in there, or starts tracking the money by the transactions made on this forum.

Furthermore, the botmaster gave out a lot of information about his illegal activities, so he pretty surely was very, very confident (I'd go as far as calling this overconfident) about his security.

Sorry, but coming from this, this guy does not look like a real serious botmaster to me. I mean, if you make lots of money with bots, why whould you give out information about your exploits and your trades, making it easy for the government and security firms to stop you? That's just dumb.
I don't think the actual post contains much that is flammable, but judging by other comments here, just the context is enough to make people react as if it was.
doesn't belong here

I disagree. This can be a very interesting case study of what happens "for putting a toe out of line".

Don't forget, we hackers aspire to be business people too. If you think your paradigm shifting, world changing idea is only about the technology, think again. Be prepared for the reaction of other people, whether you agree with them or not.
Okay, let's give this a go:

Dropbox: Share files instantly and easily across mac, pc and web. For teams. Has file versioning. Freemium. (108 chars)

Grooveshark: database with millions of songs. Visit site to play music for free. (80 chars)

Amazon: sell books online. Cut out middle man (bookstore). Share profit with customers. (88 chars)

I haven't put much effort into this, but it looks like 110 characters is plenty.
I recommend you swing by MeatballWiki (http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl). Nine and a half years ongoing, that's where I express my artistic side, including the article linked above coincidentally.

Here I'm mostly representing my day job.
hm, you are right but that was not the use I had in mind, I was wondering about technical usage, in other words use to base some project on these technologies. Not some offering by the same companies that offer the cloud services as an end user.