skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've had plain old naive-Bayesian filtering for ages - I'm surprised more feed-readers don't use it.
First hint this is total bunk: There is no prepaid $29 data plan on AT&T. The Pick Your Plan menu includes a $19.99 100MB data option, thats the maximum prepaid data option. On T-Mobile, the internet-only postpaid plan starts at $29.99 for 200MB and $39.99 for unlimited data. I doubt the prepaid plan is CHEAPER, if it even exists (and I couldn't find it) and I don't think the carriers will be creating new plans just for this phone that isn't even being sold through them (in the scenario described).
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If you re-frame the problem not as searching for "different gold" but "similar chaff" (and hiding it) then simple trainable filters look more useful.
Parts alone are probably closer to $200, but $300 is a more realistic break-even point when you add in manufacturing costs, all the shipping that has to take place, and the fixed engineering costs.
is there something specifically wrong with Android phones vs other platforms or is that another tired reference to the Schmidt quote?
Fourth paradigm: data-intensive scientific discovery
Background information from NYTimes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/15/science/15books.html
I too would recommend you use client side. For client side, you can use

http://code.google.com/p/flot/

http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/ < what google analytics uses

http://www.simile-widgets.org/

http://www.danvk.org/dygraphs/

http://highcharts.com/ < looks awesome

http://www.maani.us/

http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart/
Not really, I don't think its a stretch to say you could use todays technology to make an approximation such as age/clothed status the real problem with that kind of filter is processing power. The point is you don't know what the future will bring, we have some good ideas but there's always some uncertainty.
Incidentally, the City of Vancouver formally ranks the priority of transportation modes in its planning:

1. Walking

2. Cycling

3. Transit

4. Driving

Edit it would be nice if HN supported more than a tiny subset of markdown syntax.
The main thing that I want is for their to be a tooltip over data points so that the user doesn't have to "sight" over to the axis to try to read the graph. If Open Flash Chart supports that it would be attractive.
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Thank you for the list. I will look through the options.

Has anyone tried the jQuery chart plugin?
To my knowledge, what you're talking about is still on the table if it can be worked out in a reasonably sane manner, but it's tricky.

Not that this is an excuse not to do it, but it's not straightforward even to spec out, let alone agree on and implement: Java has some painful differences between variable and function namespaces, not the least of which is that methods are polymorphically resolved whereas member variables are looked up based on declared type.

So what should happen we try to assign a function as a variable: should it be looked up based on runtime class, or declared class? Either way, there are going to be gotchas, and what you'd think might happen is not what actually happens. There's just no way to allow Java methods to become transparently interchangeable with variables in the face of inheritance, so some of Joe Java's assumptions will probably have to be broken for it to work right.

IMO it would be best to just go back and rewrite the variable namespace rules to be a little saner (is it ever really necessary to shadow a superclass variable? Scala gets along fine without allowing var overriding...), but that's never going to happen, so...

This leads to other frictions, too: one issue that's been causing some friction is that nobody has yet fully worked out how to allow closures to be called using m(args) syntax instead of m.invoke(args), because of these same namespace issues. That one is on a lot of todo lists because using the things will be overly verbose if it's not done, but there's a lot of subtlety in the edge cases, so I'm not sure how it will all fall into place.

Everyone should keep in mind, though, the proposal linked on this page is a very rough draft, and is likely to be altered in many, many ways. Neal Gafter has been working pretty hard to try to bring his latest proposals (see http://www.javac.info/ for links) closer to where the official proposal is likely to go (i.e. a simpler and slightly less powerful compromise), so more of what was in BGGA might show up in the final Java 7 spec than Mark's strawman proposal would indicate.
So, T-Mobile is pretty bad at explaining all this, and majorly screwed up branding and markering.

T-Mobile has two related but different services, which have been called T-Mobile @Home, and T-Mobile HotSpot @Home (now called wifi calling). @home is a home-phone replacement service, which comes UMA-equipped with a POTS phone plug for you to plug a phone into. HotSpot @Home is actually the service the parent is referring to, which can be considered 'femtocell using wifi'.

The way it works is -- your phone needs to connect to T-Mobile's GSM core network one way or another. Normally it connects over the mobile network, but UMA-equipped phones can connect via a VPN (IPsec) connection to T-Mobile. Once connected it speaks the same GSM language as it would speak over the air, so everything works, voicemail, phone calls, text messages, etc.

UMA is actually pretty awesome -- it can hand-off midcall back and forth between wifi and the cell network, unlike AT&T's femtocell solution.

Another HUGE hidden feature: As long as you can connect over wifi, your phone can connect to T-Mobile's network and send/receive calls, text messages, everything, using home area rates. Anywhere in the world. Billing over UMA works just like connecting to the cell network when you're at home.. so if you have unlimited at home you get unlimited UMA, or if you have 500 minutes you get the same 500 minutes.

This works on ANY wifi network, not just T-Mobile's routers. T-Mobile's Hotspot network of Wifi routers is specially configured to let UMA-equipped phones connect to T-Mobile's GSM core without having to pay.

In summary, T-Mobile's UMA service is awesome, but T-Mobile doesn't seem to be able to tell the world how awesome it is.

Sidenote: I used to work for HTC, and I kept trying to convince everyone of how important UMA is. It's a technologically superior solution to femtocells, but for some reason femtocells seem to be 'winning'. They are slightly easier to explain (a miniature cell phone tower!), but they actually really suck in comparison to UMA. It's tragic to see it happen.
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The radical design is under the skin. OK, in and under the skin. "Its materials (by weight) are: 50% composite, 20% aluminum, 15% titanium, 10% steel, 5% other."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/787_Dreamliner#Features

The Concorde had a delta wing so it could fly supersonically with acceptable range (fuel economy vs. tankage). The trade-off for that speed was horrible fuel economy and poor takeoff and landing characteristics (extremely high drag - it had to use afterburners to get airborne).

WRT the Comet, airframers don't put engines in wings because they are a bugger to service there.
Haha, yes indeed.

I will admit that a large part of my satisfaction comes from the fact that I no longer have to be involved. I am not on the electoral roll in Australia (where voting is mandatory) and I can't vote in Canada... I guess I'm taking a 'hands-off' approach...
I only use them for Twitter, which is why I don't get the proliferation of six-character domains like bit.ly and goo.gl when bit.ly already offers j.mp. Why would anyone choose anything but the absolute shortest domain, if j.mp won't go under unless bit.ly goes under? And why wouldn't Google wait until they had a four-character domain instead of their six-char one? Is brand ID really more important here than an optimal product?
Just filling out this survey made me feel better about my job because I realized how supportive and encouraging my boss/company-president is. I can't even imagine how much it sucks when your employer discriminates against you due to gender, health, age, or any other reason.
Objective-C Tuesdays: global variables
Radical designs are in manufacturing (ie, massive use of composites) rather than aerodynamics.

And that "basic design" has had a lot of efficiencies made to it in the last 50 years. I'd be highly surprised if there were any potential design changes left that could make a visible difference. (Ignoring things like lifting bodies that would drastically change the passenger experience.)
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this article is barely legible.
People are really voting this illiterate mess of a blog post up?

A market can exist with more than one product, free doesn't instantly beat paid, and this entire conversation has been repeated nonstop for three years. Why are we all still such fuckholes?
I made an extra OPML file to follow my 5,000 favorite information overload blogs.
Consistency matters.

The iPhone 3G and 3GS are incremental improvements over the earlier models; they don't need to be revolutionary in the hardware—the software is key to most of the iPhone experience.

I hear a lot of people complain about the iPhone, but I wonder how much of those complaints are about the piss-poor U.S. carrier. I've heard no complaints from my circle in Toronto, and I've heard of few complaints in Europe.

My biggest problem is that I can't roam with it for a reasonable price when I go to Europe this summer.
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Unless I'm mistaken though, the OP's point is that if you're streaming the video directly from the network justin.tv's stream will still have the FOX, ESPN, et al, ads in place.

The real threat would be a live stream from the game or as another poster said, PPV content.
Yes you can add labels. I know as I've done it :)
I'd hope so. I love the ocean of high-quality content available to the world now, but too many people are content to jump out and drown in it. Solutions are required.
I wonder, how many thousands of mobile ads would I have to click on to generate $100 for Google?
Great reference. Chuckle every time I think of it.
After donating, I added the following paragraph to the bottom of all my Clojure-related articles. Hopefully it will encourage others to donate as well.

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If they really enjoy ties or collect them, they would probably be able to tell if their wives gave them cheap ones. If they don't, their wives probably don't really love them.

So, given their suspicion, I'd say the most likely outcome is divorce.
Apple is setting a price that millions of people are willing to pay. I wouldn't call that greed.
First, New York has become much more interesting in the tech world. I spent just two days hopping from rock to rock, and didn't land on most of them, but wow, there's something going on there.

That was an interesting bit. I'm a New York resident and have always felt the startup/entrepreneur scene here was strong, but I am of course biased. I wonder what it is he's picking up on recently? Is it just the total startup activity in New York or does he see something more fundamental happening?
Bill Buxton used to have an outstanding hour+ video called What if Leopold Didn’t Have a Piano? online. Sadly, it's gone. There is still a short PDF that outlines a few of the same ideas, though:

http://www.billbuxton.com/leopold.pdf
Dumb article. Darby Lines has a great article on x-killers that is infinitely better than this article.

http://www.theangrydrunk.com/2009/12/14/ive-seen-things-you-...

Some people will prefer iPhone; others will prefer Android. The only way to get applications that work on both is through web standards or to write them separately. Both can win without the other being a loser.
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What was the actual startup that they exited?
Especially when they are trivially easy to create. [shameless plug] I created an appengine variant ( http://symlinkd.com ) in about a day, including a simple update api and per-handle history [/shameless plug]
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"However there's clearly space in the market for both as they have different roles."

Agreed, they serve very different markets in many ways. In addition, I see the A380 and 787 as radically different approaches to the same problem: fuel economy. The A380 approach is to use a lot of fuel but to haul as many bodies as possible. By amortizing the fuel over more bodies, it gives good fuel economy per body.

The 787 uses a very efficient aerodynamic design and reduced weight to use less fuel per aircraft, thus amortizing less fuel over the (fewer) bodies it hauls.

The weakness of the A380 approach is load factor: if the plane isn't full, it will use more fuel per body.

The weakness of the 787 approach is that they must hit their weight targets to achieve all of their projected fuel savings. They are currently overweight compared to their wishes (some of the first flight delays were caused by a need to reinforce parts - that means more weight).
If you click on a link titled "Enough," you are definitely suffering from compulsive overload, unless you really have time to open every link that makes the first page of HN. How about an informative title to help us filter our reading?
How much are you willing to pay to put the brakes on your competitor and to catch up fast?

$100 per customer now to prevent them from locking into the iPhone isn't quite so ludicrous if you also have a long-term strategy to get that money back (and then some) using the advertising in the shipped google services.

Besides, you have a war chest for just such things... but instead of spending it on acquisitions you can use it to help buy customers, they become happy with you too.
I'm thinking, despite the employee's post to the thread, that Justin.tv is not very serious at all - or rather that they hope that the system they've setup isn't used much.

I know probably a dozen people who've used Justin.tv to catch an out of town game, especially during the NFL season; I don't know a single person who has ever used Justin.tv for anything else. Most of those people don't even know it's meant for something other than picking up a game.
Did anybody understand what the post is about? Are they funding new startups from the money they got from exit or they are they want to talk to startups to know if the exit was in the right range? No offense, but I couldn't understand the motivation of the post.
Rackspace, Cloud Growth and the 'Cult of Slicehost'
They only work with other people that have exited a startup.

Funny stuff.
porchlight.ca - an ISP.

I don't think a 13-year business with under $3M in revenue is a startup, sounds more like a lifestyle business. It's also not something VCs would be interested in. This falls under super-laid back, and not something most people on HN would likely be attracted either. The serial entrepreneurs I admire have done 2-4 businesses in 10 years, all with exits well over $50M.
You're playing semantic games. js code is still UI.
I don't particularly care how it's laid out. The point is that it is an instance of a class, which maintains its own local state - I don't care how that state is organized, but it's crucial to remember that it has such state.
The Placebo Effect of Biology
Maybe the potential for a simple synopsis is an indicator of a potentially excellent work, rather than the opposite. Who knew "Little fellow must dip a ring in lava to defeat an evil overlord" could last for three books?
Remember the end goal here is to deliver content to the user that they want to spend time consuming. Why use Twitter for anything but another way to find content?
I am not sure if this is sarcasm or not, but if it isn't - why would you not hire a French Canadian?
We recently sold our company. Our goal now is to try and meet up with a group of two or three founders, people in a situation similar to ours, who have have worked together and founded a successful startup in the past. It's our hope to work together on a new startup.
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You're not awesome because you allow longer comments than Twitter. Trying to define yourself as such is utterly moronic.
Note: insisting that your co-founders have "completed an exit" is not going to make you any friends here, because you're suggesting that you're better than others less experienced or less fortunate who have not.

Success is obviously preferable to failure, and we all believe that we're talented to a degree that gives us a high enough likelihood of success for startups to be worth pursuing. However, this sort of extreme personalization of results is not attractive.
Huh. I'm on my phone, so I can't view the site, but I saw a 787 go over my head at about 7:30 this morning as I left home in west Seattle, which is just northwest of Boeing field.

Strange that they're saying it's 10am. Then again, maybe I was mistaken. But full-size jets that look just like 787s don't land at boeing field every day.
I wonder if it has to do with when you posted it during the day?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=996025
You can actually stream Sunday Night Football through NBC's site: http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/26393211

It's actually a very cool setup, allowing you to choose your own camera angles or watch in HD. There are no commercials, but the main stream does default to a "stay tuned" screen during commercial breaks.

I'm not sure why exactly they offer this service (from a business perspective), but it's certainly worth taking a look at- if not at least for the bit of tech wizardry going on.
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First: you're missing all the users with less than 1000 reputation that have paid for CVs. There are actually about 1500 paid CVs in the system.

Is there critical mass? I would say, in major tech/development areas, or for national-footprint employers who relocated candidates, absolutely yes. A company like Google, Microsoft, Pixar will certainly find plenty of good candidates on Stack Overflow.

In smaller cities without big tech industries, and for people who don't want to relocate, mostly the answer is "not yet" although I expect to get there. The little startup in Tulsa that needs an embedded systems programmer but doesn't want to relocate someone... won't find them. The guy in Oklahoma City who won't move elsewhere isn't finding good tech jobs because there aren't any in Oklahoma City, not because we don't have critical mass.

As for the revenue, earning money was never the point of charging job seekers. We charge job seekers a minimal amount because it eliminates a huge number of unserious, unqualified, and other candidates who really don't stand a chance. If it's free, job seekers have an incentive to post their resume everywhere "just in case" which employers hate, because they have to filter through lots and lot of junk. We're actively looking for better ways to do this kind of pre-filtering. I'd like to lower the cost as much as possible without opening the floodgates, and I imagine we'll find creative ways to let high-rep stackoverflow users get a CV without paying very much. Nothing is set in stone.
2007 average monthly revenue per user at google was $53.
add this to the fact the the mobile phone is very important in many areas(for example: location , mobile-web , mobile-tv) , $100 subsidization don't seem like a very large investment.
I find this kind of high-level thinking about hierarchy and conflict in society to be pretty silly.

It's true that there's always some insight to be gained by bringing ideas from different times and places together, but in this case, the comparison is completely arbitrary. Conflict and oppression has been going on for all of human history, and in theory, all of that combined knowledge could be put to use in helping resolving present problems.

Why compare the Iraq war to the American civil rights movement when you could equally well bring up the French Revolution, the Tuareg Rebellion, or the War against Gallus?
How did this guy compute 24,000?
Neither approach (delta wings, in-wing-engine) worked out well.

Delta wings are great in supersonic flight, but not so in shorter distances and for takeoff and landing. The Concorde is a beautiful machine, but not a terribly practical one. I miss it, BTW.

Comet-style in-wing engines cannot use silent and efficient turbofan designs and would need fat wings to accommodate the engines, increasing drag. The position of the engine exhaust also limits the efficiency of the wing and the effectiveness of the control surfaces.

Radical designs require more engineering than any airplane manufacturer can afford right now. It's not like airlines will dump all their 747s and 380s (and all other 7x7s and A3xxs) just because there is a more efficient plane rolling out of the factory line. Airplanes are horribly expensive and have a very long service life.
Where did you get that monthly revenue figure?
Not on the desktop.

On the server is where it's kicking ass.
It is easy to show fast "growth" when you are starting from what is effectively a zero percent usage. Microsoft will ship more copies of Windows 7 this month than there are people who have ever run a non-embedded Linux over the entirety of it's existence. The first ten percent or so of growth is easy, the rest is much harder.
because those are both traditional and obvious comparisons; this one is neither - not to mention it's good to discuss given the times
As someone whose closest proximity to a successful exit was a bunch of stock options in failed dot.com Linuxcare, I don't take umbrage at the requirement. They want to use that as a filter, let them. They'll miss out on some good people, but that's their choice, and as good as any in terms of screening people.
Create a new level of user for legitimate media partners and require them to use it. If thefutureman11 is playing WWE Raw events it's a clear cut violation. (He is too, 500 people are watching.)
If you pose a general question to a startup crowd "Are you interested in joining a startup" you get everyone and their grandmother responding. The "completed an exit" requirement acts as a filter. We're hoping it will improve the signal to noise ratio.
I think this would be a useful tool to examine climate data.
UK's Teletext will go off air tomorrow, forever
That's funny - I was thinking about setting up an appengine to archive the URL shorteners, to minimize fallout when they fall over.
Non-internet-using analogue TV owners will no longer have access to flight arrival/departure information, holiday booking adverts, horoscopes, and all the other stuff they've been looking at since 1983.

No word in the article about subtitles (closed captioning). Channels 3 and 4 use Teletext p888 to broadcast them.

Ceefax on the BBC will remain, however.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceefax
You don't have to click ads, they pay by impression too.