skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most likely, the best time to submit is between the hours of 9am and 5pm. Most people are at work surfing the Internet. Usually after 5, traffic slowly starts tapering off.
Yes and no. The ipod wouldn't be particularly hard to reverse engineer. Should a third party be able to simply copy the ipod in order to cash in on Apple's brand equity?

Granted that's not really a patent issue either, more like trademark, but in any case, I think the GP's point is a good one: copyright and patent law have their place, just not the way they are currently used.
The point about Open Source contributions not meshing well. It is HARD to write any open source contribution that meshes well. Especially when you are on deadlines and your mods aren't quite what is needed but is a good starting point/proof of concept.

People that have never tried to get patches committed just don't get this.
Given the vast differences in reading speeds though there's no way to be sure that someone read all the way through a page if it's one page and they spent half an hour there - they might have been looking out the window. Whilst if they clicked through 1-2-3-4 then you can be pretty sure they at least skimmed each page.
I sincerely doubt porting that to other platforms would be very easy, but perhaps you and I have different definitions of "pain." :)

Plus, you'd have to worry about minor-yet-annoying namespace issues (e.g., a Python package and a non-Python package sharing a name).

Am I the only one not offended by the idea of package managers for each programming language? They always work better when they're tailored to the language.
Audio time stretching and pitch shifting written in ActionScript
On Slashdot that would qualify as a 4 "Funny"
The Zen of Comprehensive Archive Networks
そですね、僕も
App Store “Released Date” Lists Now Omitting Updates
The first one I looked at gave Laplace functions and said "this list is not inclusive" instead of "exhaustive". Doesn't inspire confidence that the equations are transcribed well. We all make mistakes, just saying.

Or, perhaps it's another example of the "could care less" nonsense?
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Interesting ... that ties in with what I was just reading about the erosion of The Sphinx being caused by rain, not by sand. (Which would make it much older than 2500BC.)

http://www.catchpenny.org/sphinx.html

http://www.robertschoch.com/
I have been going to a local Panera in Atlanta at least once a week for the last 3 or so years. I’m the type that gets a big meal, coffee and plugs in for a few hours of work. I’d consider myself a pretty loyal customer. But now this? (okay im just being sensationalist.. a simple bit.ly block isn't the end of the world. if anything it'll give me the excuse i've been looking for to get a 4G CLEAR wimax usb dongle for my laptop)

Their social media efforts are gonna get put to the test to see how they can deal with all this negative (and rightly so) publicity.

Sure let them have filters for porn.. but that doesn’t mean you have to kill all bit.ly links. Let the redirects work and if it goes to a malicious site well then you can block that with whatever blacklist you want.

That being said, you might be able to get around this if you nudge their provider, Wandering Wi-Fi. I might have been able to get them to stop asking me (based on my laptop’s MAC address) to login…
Targeted Copyright Enforcement: Deterring Many Users with a Few Lawsuits
"In principle, a solar sail can do anything a regular sail can do, like tacking."

No it can't. Can it?

So far as I understand, tacking requires the water of the ocean to redirect your momentum. There is nothing that would do this in space.
Joining the military- bad career choice with well paying job offer on the table?
I have an offer to work on a trading desk (I know, I know - it's corporate, but that doesn't change the situation) at a Wall Street firm, but I've always wanted to join the military and serve. Is it a poor career choice for me to do so? Any advice is welcome..
Have you ever consider creating your own way, as in, researching a path for yourself, away from formal education?

Won't earn you a degree, but it is a path that perhaps would be more enjoyable. It certainly was/is for me.
This is really fascinating technology, and it'll be awesome to see it actually take shape, but I'm not sure I agree with this:

“Sailing on light is the only technology that can someday take us to the stars,” said Louis Friedman, director of the Planetary Society, the worldwide organization of space enthusiasts.

It may be the only available technology today, but there are many theoretical technologies that are probably more practical for interstellar journeys.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_travel#Proposed_me...
Just like Facebook doesn't like the platform ben used for games. That's the beauty of a market economy though - the consumer always wins.
There are cases when they don't work better. It happens when your non-python program requires something from python for scripting, or when a python module requires a 'classic' library. A global system is quite good in those cases.

I'm not sure what you mean by the namespace issues. Everything that's installed as a python package in debian is prefixed with "python-"...
As a former member of the math team (among many other nerdy pursuits), I have to ask the question that nobody ever wants to answer: is an academically prepared girl with the ability to compete at the highest levels on math team better served by competing on the math team (or the debate team, or the scholastic bowl team)?

I mean, one could plausibly look at the statistics and say "Hmm, it seems like the girls who are getting high scores on our math SATs are not bothering to go for the geek cred and are, instead, merely maximizing their credentials via easier routes such as making sure they get the A in English. This gets them into marginally better colleges. There, they avoid geek cred paths like going for a PhD in math and instead choose easier majors like business, where they work less, earn more, and have more work/life balance. Confound all this sexism! All genders should share equally in the underpaid, overworked, unsung triumph that is being a graduate student in a field not one person in ten thousand can even understand!"
Thanks. I did land there too. I was hoping to see couple of more and a comparison. Have you used spreecommerce or any other?
Not entirely. The point of the article is that, big VCs have strong name recognition, and should they invest in you in the seed stage, they can refuse to give you further funding and no other VC will step in to help you because they will wonder why your initial investor, who knows you best, didn't step in and keep investing. So the big VC has de facto monopoly "dips" in your company.
"it turns your regular JavaScript code into compact, high-performance JavaScript code."

It won't actually make your JavaScript much faster, if it does at all. The major benefits are the exclusion of unused code, and code in-lining where possible. This helps a lot in terms of cutting down loading times, but your code is still only really going to be about as efficient as it was before.
so what do they want it to be, if not a gaming machine?

from their ads and the dev conferences, it seems like they actually do want it to be a gaming platform.
> using its leverage

What leverage would they be using to get a content deal?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_the_Leisure_Class
I like this very much.

You should add an export feature - it would make it even cooler.
So, would you argue in favor of a constitutional amendment? Because as far as the US Constitution is concerned, the innovation is the only thing that matters.

Since an amendment is clearly not what's under debate here, what do you think would be the most appropriate resolution for this case, within the constraints of the current constitution?
I've always to join the military and serve. Is it a poor career choice for me to do so?

Aside from the obvious answer that the first sentence no verb, I'd say this: Wall Street jobs will always be there (or if not Wall Street, similarly well-paying jobs for highly-skilled people) but you won't always be fit enough / young enough / single enough to join the miliary.

In short: Screw your career -- live your life the way you want to live it.
This might work if Murdoch wasn't saying that he's not at all interested in being indexed, but in serving paying subscribers. Calacanis missed Murdoch's motive for opting out of Google: Not because Google's specifically a bad place to get traffic, but because Murdoch doesn't understand the benefits of search traffic enough to find a more appropriate solution.
On the placebo effect and decaffeinated coffee
Er, TheRealURL welcomes our new Panera Bread users.. :P http://therealurl.appspot.com/

(Seriously though, it would interesting to see if Panera will face any issues because of this - might be a measure of Twitter's real world significance)
Show HN: How ShoveBox is Handling MacHeist Traffic
Interesting graph. What you need to remember is that while gold appears to have infalted rapidly, the quantity of gold is very limited - the great increase in gold has a lot to do with inflation of the USD, rather than inflation of gold.

Gold has been good for the past 6000, and I expect it will be good for at least the next 200, which is good enough for me, my grandchildren and their children.
I don't think you could sail "upwind" using just a solar sail, but you could use the sail to reduce your angular momentum about the star and then let gravity pull you back toward the sun.
Please god no.

Apt itself is barely good enough to handle libraries written in C, much less a dynamic language with multiple potentially-incompatible runtimes, and Debian's policies are dead set against making anything remotely wholesome:

* As an author, affected middlemen have a stranglehold on easy distribution
* License wankery (fuck debian-legal)
* Teenagers randomly patching upstream software without review
* Shipping non-standard configurations, often with features randomly disabled
* Rearranging everything to fit their naive 'filesystem hierarchy'
(this completely fucks up a decent packager like Ruby Gems)
* Breaking off features into separate packages whenever possible
* Shipping ancient versions of software with a selection of patches picked
specifically to introduce no features, just cherry-pick 'bug-fixes'
* Shipping multiple versions of a runtime with mutually-exclusive depgraphs
* FUCKING RELEASE FREEZES
There's no goddamn reason for any non-system software to be frozen ever

Ubuntu is making a decent stab at unfucking all this (at least on their turf) with PPAs: https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA
I noticed the quality of the uploaded file isn't as good as the original as well.
Gravity, the spacecraft's own mass, and the angle of incidence of light on the sail. The definition of tacking for solar sails is that your vector is at an angle to that of the incident sunlight. In other words you are able to generate some sideways motion rather than just getting pushed.
I suspect they're savvy enough to understand that just 'cause Steve doesn't want it to be a gaming machine doesn't mean that he can't make a ton of money by having games on it.
gold can be stored in a band vault, under your bed or buried in the garden.

Cell phone minutes and uranium futures cannot.

By "copper rounds" do you mean ammunition? If so, then yes, they hold value and will last as least 20 years, or longer (corrosive ammunition from WWII is still usable).
A wind-driven land vehicle can tack just as well as a sailboat can, and possibly better.

If memory serves me, in the fully general case, all that's required is an exploitable difference in velocity at the interface of two media (ground/air, water/air, etc.) to extract energy and move in arbitrary directions (or even do counterintuitive things, like go faster than either medium as a sailboat tacking downwind does).

In space, a solar sailcraft is embedded in a single medium. So, no, no tacking.
This is a followup to this post: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=925592

- The site got almost 100K uniques this weekend.

- I upgraded the server from 256MB to a 2GB slice and it's been handling okay. I also used this as an opportunity to deploy the fancy Django version of the site, at which point it began using a much bigger chunk of the 2GB. I'm gonna try screwing with the settings, caching more, and switching from mod_python to mod_wsgi.

- The iPhone app has risen to the #9th most popular paid productivity app on the US App Store.

- The Mac app buzzed ahead of some competitors on Wakoopa (like Alexa for desktop apps):

http://files.dangrover.com/sbvsyojimbo.png

http://files.dangrover.com/sbvsevernote.png
Can Startups Save the World? Startups vs. GDP/Capita
Businessweek's Best Entrepreneurs 25 and Under, 2009
The author fails to recognize that gold, unlike paper money, can't be hyperinflated into oblivion.

And this isn't just a theoretical point. Roughly one paper currency per year expires from hyperinflation.
That's pretty dramatic. Can we see some graphs?
This isn't necessarily as dramatic as it sounds. EA has an interesting "job ecosystem": They buy smaller companies, keep them alive for 1-2 games, then tend to close said companies' offices and either fire the staff they "inherited" or offer them positions at EA's main offices.

I've heard that EA Canada is only losing about 3% of their people, and that other large offices are being similarly lightly hit; so this sounds to me more like EA deciding that now is a good time to get rid of some underperforming employees and several inherited offices rather than any sort of major internal shake-up.
Right, the powerful graphics technology and the multi-touch ability makes it ideal for interesting games. It only makes sense to play up the gaming aspects.

But I can understand how Apple might be interested in getting more powerful "real" applications on the iPhone. I heard the Android ad on the radio for the first time yesterday and was slightly fascinated by the way Google is advertising the Android as a "powerful" robot tool that gets things done.

In contrast the iPhone feels more like a fun tool for geeks, perhaps not so much a business oriented device as an entertainment device.
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dont hate.
"It could be so much more"

Really? It's a 3" screen without a keyboard. It's good for web browsing and pinball. I am not sure what anyone else would want it for; netbooks are much better for anything that involves more than 10 minutes of concentration.
The night of 1000 (FreeBSD) jails
All brains are created equal. Reminds me of something.

Very upbeat article; always good to hear about any teachers listening to neuroscientists; even better to see recognition that children are born learning machines (they all have to bootstrap into the intricacies of language without help).

I hadn't seen the phrase "Possible Schools" before, must be the title by Ann Lewin-Benham,

http://www.amazon.com/Possible-Schools-Approach-Education-Ch...
Ask PG: Startup survey postings?
During your talk at Startup School 2009, you mentioned that you'd be posting results of the survey you had sent to all of the YC-funded startups. Will they be online any time soon?
That's good. I know lots of developers that are under pressure to release updates for no good reason other than getting on that list.
Most of 1.9 is indeed "better", but getting to "better" breaks a lot of code.
Google Takes Over AdMob for $750 million
"""when the device is truly capable of so much more"""

Like what?

(some) Games are some of the most demanding things computers do.

Besides, I'd be more inclined to go with that if they hadn't hobbled the dock connector, bluetooth and SDK to severely limit what it can do for the first two years or more.
I was under the impression that Apple stopped doing this last year. Release dates are fixed to essentially the date you set or the day the app get's approved, whichever comes first. I haven't seen them to be any different for a while. It makes it really hard to actually be on top of the release date list.
While a nice idea, it would be worth finding out why github abandoned this very concept in favor of gemcutter.org before diving in head first. I trust the github guys as being far more competent than most in all matters of distributed source control especially when it comes to package management.
One of the advantages that startups have over big companies, is that they know that they're searching for what the market wants. Once you're successful, you can lose sight of that. ON the other hand, PG says again and again, that you may well end up with something different than your original idea.

"All in one device?" Heck yes, that's going to include games! My iPhone has as high a fun quotient as my Nintendo DS, and it's smaller and much more convenient for me to put media on.
There are two forces in play: the propulsion of the sail due to the Sun's light, and gravity. By directing the thrust of the sail against the orbital momentum of the spacecraft it will be pushed initially slightly farther from the Sun but also slowed down in its orbit, causing gravity to pull it closer to the Sun.
I'd just say be very careful. Use them to your advantage, but don't expect a dime. So def. don't overwhelm the user. Just fill a little space if you must.
It's interesting that you chose that phrase since both Facebook and the iPhone are tightly controlled "markets".
good stuff.

No seriously, the long narrative is dying. I just finished "Anna Karenina" and am seriously thinking about "War and Peace" for the holidays (perhaps all the holidays to come, based on it's length) and I can say it was more of a struggle for me to engage the long-form narrative now than it was 10 years ago. And being a techie, one of my key competitive advantages is being able to consume big, sometimes really boring, books.

After all, what's the first reply to any technical question on the web? Have you RTFM? Or on a aggregator like here? Have you RTFA?

Most of the time the answer is "no"

Too bad we Ashton Kutchner can't teach us physics via tweets. We've have a freaking nation of rocket scientists.

(Having said all of that, I understand we have a large contingent of people going through college. Hopefully since you're supposed to be working those reading muscles out a lot this won't apply as much to you guys as it does to the rest of us)
Thoughts so far:

The templating system is interesting. It does something I have not seen before: You can define one template, then execute it server-side (in Java only) and/or client-side (compiled into Javascript).

To achieve this, the template language is quite restricted. It seems that we could write interpreters for this language in Ruby, Python, etc.

Also, we could write a compiler back-end which generates C to run inside nginx or Apache; this could yield a high-performance templating system.

Here's an example template I made. Note that the "javadoc" portion is mandatory and is parsed by the compiler.

/**
* show a table
*
* @param data array of values
* @param ncols num columns
*/
{template .vvtable}
<table cellspacing=10><tr>
{foreach $d in $data}
<td><div style="background-color:#f00;padding:5px">{$d}</div></td>
{if not isFirst($d) and index($d) % $ncols == 0}
</tr><tr>
{/if}
{/foreach}
</tr></table>
{/template}
Coming Out of the Programming Language Designer Closet
I vote for #3

mostly due to feeling that if you are asking these questions instead of just jumping in and learning it, it is probably not for you. And from the limited information you have provided, I would be wary of going forward with your 'other developer' with the platform he is comfortable with. I would think a great developer would not even put you in this kind of position. Perhaps I'm being unfair, but is there anything preventing him from making the case for a different platform or learning rails? and plus it's rails, not like he needs to crack open some COBOL.
It is technically correct English though, just not used as often.

An inclusive list could be described as an exhaustive list.
There's no goddamn reason for any non-system software to be frozen ever

What about, I don't know, developers who release early and often without good test coverage? If you're putting your seal of approval on a bunch of software, you probably want to make sure that it works. This cannot be done instantaneously.
Touch & motion input works really well for some types of games. More traditional games have adopted on-screen buttons with mixed success. There's a pretty wide variety of games out there for the iPhone that seem to be very popular.
Interesting game, I went to download it, but have to rant about app store shit.

I hate all the LITE and VERSIONED games. Fucking BS for the customer. So I veto. Sorry man, don't charge for version 2, version 3... so lame.
Imagine all the satellite engineers, dismayed that people use GPS to geocache junk in tupperware around the world.

Imagine all the thousands of man-millenia of research in CCDs and computer networking and systems engineering and UI design just so that some people can upload cat videos from their phone onto Youtube.

There's no reason not to celebrate when something gives others joy, even when it's not Serious Business.
These are all problems with Debian's use of synaptic; the program itself is a very good package manager.
If you honestly believe that there were no shortened URLs prior to Twitter, or that they've never been used for any other purpose, well... honestly, what rock have you been hiding under the past six years?
I wonder what kind of kit one would need to turn a 32GB iPhone into some large fraction of an OQO? What would that do to netbooks? What would it do to laptops and Macbooks? And should Apple care?

How about something with about the same form factor as the Macbook Air, but convertible to a Tablet, which is really just a sort of "Thin client" accessory to the iPhone or some smartphone? Price it low enough so that it plus an iPhone will add up to mid-tier laptop in price. (Read: cheaper than the cheapest Macbook. Parity with Mac Mini?)

I suspect that a lot of people would just get one of those instead of a laptop.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/ppsc/2006/00000001...

"For example, in the SMPY cohorts, although more mathematically precocious males than females entered math-science careers, this does not necessarily imply a loss of talent because the women secured similar proportions of advanced degrees and high-level careers in areas more correspondent with the multidimensionality of their ability-preference pattern (e.g., administration, law, medicine, and the social sciences). By their mid-30s, the men and women appeared to be happy with their life choices and viewed themselves as equally successful (and objective measures support these subjective impressions). Given the ever-increasing importance of quantitative and scientific reasoning skills in modern cultures, when mathematically gifted individuals choose to pursue careers outside engineering and the physical sciences, it should be seen as a contribution to society, not a loss of talent."
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Shit My Dad Says Gets a TV Deal after 72 tweets
This is a smart move. If news starts disappearing from Google, why would people use it at all! And, the fact that Google supports "opt-out", makes this all the more easy!
And how are you to go about verifying purity? This is an honest question.
His talk on this subject, for those who haven't seen it:

http://vodpod.com/watch/2078103-art-code-symposium-hackety-h...
It's too bad he didn't supply a bit of context with his opinion. Apple has spent a considerable amount of time in public events over the last 2 years promoting the iPhone as a gaming platform. The run run ads on TV spotlighting iPhone games. They buy ads on gaming sites. The iPhone as a gaming device doesn't limit it's functionality in other ways so there would be no rationale reason to blame gaming as holding back the platform's potential as this article suggests.
"Haskell's Cabal is the technical model to steal."

I can't upvote this enough. CABAL is extremely well done.