skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clearly not the case?

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/07/tesla-says-it-is-now-pr...

Real world mechanical/electrical innovation is hard, and there's a lot of investment up front.

Where would we be if people called ARPAnet a waste of money 8 years into its existence? I bet it was bleeding money for EIGHT STRAIGHT YEARS as well?
I do atomic transactions on pure file systems using the "update" routine in my Loom::File module here:

http://github.com/chkoreff/Loom/blob/master/code/Loom/File.p...

The stress test for that module is:

http://github.com/chkoreff/Loom/blob/master/code/Loom/Test/F...

(For example I can run 1000 processes all banging away on some files with the command "test_file 1000". See the "bin" directory for the one-liner executable.)

You will note that Loom::Test::File uses Loom::DB::Trans_File, which wraps a simple (get/put/commit/cancel) layer around the core Loom::File::update routine. The real meat of that layer is Loom::DB::Trans.

http://github.com/chkoreff/Loom/blob/master/code/Loom/DB/Tra...
Not sure if you are looking for this kind of feedback, but UI critique: I kept trying to click the light blue text, thinking it was a link. In fact, my assumption was finally validated, but only at the very bottom 'sign in with your Twitter' link.

I also agree, you should just stick the public stream (or an abbreviated version of it) on the front page, there should be no steps required to get a taste of how things works. At the very least, a screenshot of how it looks on the front page...need something to entice me to log in.

Once I logged in though, yes I dig it. I like that you can retweet from within the interface. The UI is simple and works quite well, push that out to the front page!
If they choose to locate the factory in high-cost California, I have to wonder what's going on. It makes no business sense unless CA has some outstanding tax benefits for green industries.
Try Bochs. It will be more than fast enough for something like this.
I would. They have an app for the iPad that will be used if you want to access the NY Times.
10-20GB depending on the traffic level. node.js uses around 10x less than that - even if it's a much more sophisticated solution.
> Here's research from the Kauffman Foundation that qualifies that it isn't small businesses that create jobs, it's new small businesses

Right, at some point, if a small business adds enough jobs, it's no longer a small business is it?
This is yet another rehash of Imperva's press release.

http://www.imperva.com/news/press/2010/01_21_Imperva_Release...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1067323
Apples and oranges. Amazon put profits back into their company. They had a business model that worked. Tesla doesn't.
Depends what you're doing. Netboot, receive compute tasks from the network, complete them and send them back, you don't even need a disk :-)
Well, to be fair there are millions of embedded devices that read from ROM and never write to disk. So this would be an excellent study for those type of systems.
Ask HN: Is there an app that creates network graphics...
... like this one http://magazine.wsj.com/features/the-big-interview/desiree-rogers/tab/interactive/ but with live links, e.g., hovering on lines should highlight the line; clicking on names should link to more info and so on.
The protesters are trusting that the process by which the pills are prepared doesn't introduce some other substance which is toxic when consumed in relatively large quantities.
I personally wouldn't have the warnings plastered up, I understand why someone would but personally it's not my style.

I'm generally a nice person, however I typically follow a one-strike and you're out rule. I don't expect second chances, and I've typically worked in industries where second chances are rare to come by when you make a mistake personally or professionally. I choose not to work store-front or public relation jobs. I can handle a person, I can't handle a hundred. I know if I owned a store or food place, I'd likely have rather draconian rules even if they're not on the walls.

It sounds like the diner owner in question may be of a rather anti-social disposition, but he chose the wrong job for it. I had the luck of being in jobs where my attitude rather helped, I remember having to tell one person that what they wanted was illegal (against the building code), that I wouldn't touch it and if they found another guy to do it that he'd be liable and the customer would, at best, have to pay out thousands to have the job redone when they went to sell the house, and at worst could be prosecuted too. Telling that to someone got me their respect, if I'd basically said the same Go F Yourself to a customer in a store, I'd have likely lost their service.
yes, probably. Though they do discuss the fact that current plans will put the building within the USA's territorial waters.
http://magazine.wsj.com/features/the-big-interview/desiree-r...
What gets me is that this BBC article portrays this as an even debate with two reasoned sides where it's obvious that they're just bloody sugar pills. Shame on you BBC.

Pseudoscience like this can cause people to delay seeking real treatment until their ailments are severe. This increases the risk to the patient, the cost of treatment and even some deaths where treatment is not sought until too late.
Are you guys kidding me? I detail my losses on my blog all the time...and of course I can teach and my students can replicate my success, which they have as evidenced by the dozens of daily testimonials and the fact that many are in the top 100 out of 40,000+ traders on covestor...I have many personal failings which I go over and over in my products, problem is my haters don't have my products so they judge based on assumptions, yawn
That mostly varies by area. Humanities are super tough to get. Most sciences, especially physics, will have a pdf that scholar will point you to.

Of course, if you are at a university you can basically get anything.
My thought is that I'd rather not pull my iPad out on the bus and try to answer a call. Seriously, now people are going to carry around a huge, heavy phone that only works with headphones? I don't see it.
What hardware are you using behind it? eg how much resources are needed to support N users?
node.js is surely cutting-edge. But I am more interested to see any implementations of Google's Go for COMET in large website practice.
...which does not make them less relevant, does it?
Hulu and similar sites use advertisements that can't be skipped. Can't do that with HTML5.
Do you anticipate that the use of WebSockets will improve performance? If so, can you estimate to what degree?
> First of all, the job of the entrepreneur and the cronies he takes with him from the source of the innovation are a job loss to the source and a job gain to small business. This on its own does not represent a net gain in jobs for the economy.

Wait, if someone quits a research job, and makes a new job for themselves, that leaves the original position vacant. So a new job is created.

On the other hand, it is probably impossible to get funding for doing research as a business. So the initial steps in innovation most likely do happen at universities and big companies. Some actual numbers on this would be nice.
how do you access data storage backend (redis, memcached, your lightcloud and mysql) wth node.js? any suggestions?

Edit: plus, I am confused about the presentation on comparison with Tornado slide. It seems Tornado has higher transfer rate. And after all, they just do a thin layer on top of epoll, what's the penalty here?
It might work with a bluetooth headset. But Apple agrees, and sees the iPad as something in addition to your iPhone. It's not intended to replace it.
I'm running 7 on a Intel Centrino2 laptop, running the chrome dev channel; I had zero problems running it. Even full screen was stunning.
Medical Billing and Coding Services
You cannot tell me that you're comparing ARPAnet to a for-profit company. If Tesla were a government-owned institute, then your argument would hold.
I didn't get that either. Over here it's quite normal to order 'one coffee with nothing' or 'one coffee, no milk or sugar'.
Was that Jason's approach when he flamed Squidoo publicly over and over again in the media until he got their site penalized by Google? Guess not, eh.

And keep in mind Squidoo was not automating and scraping on the scale that Mahalo is today. So Mahalo is far worse.
Guides:

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/

http://asciicasts.com/ (text versions of the railscasts mentioned below)

Screencasts:

http://rubyonrails.org/screencasts

http://railscasts.com/

Books:

http://www.pragprog.com/titles/rails3/agile-web-development-...

http://www.pragprog.com/titles/fr_arr/advanced-rails-recipes

And others in the Ruby and Ruby on Rails sections at prag progammers: http://www.pragprog.com/categories

The "pickaxe book" (http://www.pragprog.com/titles/ruby/programming-ruby) is often considered the standard Ruby reference, and there is a version for 1.9.

API:

http://railsapi.com/

http://api.rubyonrails.org/

http://www.gotapi.com/rubyrails

Conference presentations:

http://www.confreaks.com/events

IRC:

irc://irc.freenode.net/#ruby-lang

irc://irc.freenode.net/#rubyonrails

Google Group:

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk

Ruby and Rails projects are abundant on github, providing lots of example code.
I'm a native English speaker and lived in the US my whole life and this makes no sense to me either. I think it means that coffee automatically comes with one unit of cream and one unit sugar and that saying "no cream no sugar" is insufficient to remove them; instead you have to know the magic phrase "black coffee". My guess that the parent poster is only familiar with their local (NYC?) coffee culture where a regular coffee always comes with cream and sugar and thinks it applies everywhere else too.

In any rate, it doesn't matter at the vast majority of places where I order coffee because they won't even add cream and sugar for me if I ask for them-- I have to add them myself from a side counter.
Prag prog's book on rails is good. So is Rails Way. Prag prog's book is more tutorialish, and rails way is a good reference. I'd suggest starting with the prag prog's book and then go to rails way.
Beef Bowl Economics
And Apple apparently edited out the missing plugin icons when it demoed the NY Times in their promo video. They're playing the same [dirty] game.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088318
Connecting The Opportunistic Dots
The last of those books opens with "Objective Caml (OCaml) is a popular, expressive, high-perfomance dialect of ML...". This must be some hitherto unknown usage of the word "popular"...
The complaint is in reply to the promo video, not the keynote (though the video was played at the keynote). You saw the missing plugin icons while Steve Jobs went to the NYTimes, not during the video.
Whoops! Sorry for posting a duplicate story.
Ask HN: 5th Grade Science Fair Project Ideas
Last week someone asked about good college science fair ideas so I thought this might be a good place to ask about 5th grade science fair ideas. The neighbor boy has asked me (being the neighborhood geek) for a good science fair idea. He's a bright kid and could tackle a somewhat complex project. The complication: it's due Wednesday, he asked his mother to call me about it two weeks ago and she didn't - until one hour ago. So, any good ideas that can be done on such short notice?
Reaching Holden Caulfield’s Grandchildren
Given how young node.js is it has a lot of modules including:

Redis http://github.com/fictorial/redis-node-client

memcache: http://github.com/elbart/node-memcache

MySQL support using DBSlayer

And it's fairly easy to implement other stuff using node.js's TCP module. This said, it could definitely use more modules, but it's a young project and I am sure they will come.
When I was a student I used CiteSeer all the time, but I guess it depends on the area of your research.

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/
A Python app? Surely there are like ten different liquidation models in Excel floating around the web. If there aren't any, let me know. I'll make one and post it.
What do you mean by copying disks? I think the police would like to check all servers for traces of illegal material. I find it shocking that it's possible, but then, we are always at the mercy of our governments.
It will since you don't need to open and close connections all the time. I can't estimate at what degree, but I think the communication will be much faster since currently some time is used to re-create connections.
Sorry, but this is really unimpressive. "was told" means "was asked an unspecified question about, by a journalist". I'm guessing that Pachauri gets a lot of questions from journalists that, for one reason or another, don't merit close investigation.
1 server (32GB of RAM, quad core). I don't know how much 1 server can scale to, but it's a lot, since a lot of the connections are idle a lot of the time.
First off - Tesla is profitable or approaching profitability as of this year, per my link earlier. I figured maybe you didn't see that since you didn't address it.

Second, the money that they get from the government is a loan, just like the government, particularly the Dept of Energy, gives to thousands of companies who's research/products have a chance of generating extremely positive externalities for the country. (Last I knew, the whole dependent on foreign oil thing is sort of a big deal)

So what are you against here? What differentiates Tesla from the rest of those companies? If a company had a promising approach towards cold fusion, would you be against a government loan to them as well?
Freenode sucks
This has actually been done -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Minerva

Unfortunately, Tonga claimed the island and kicked them out.
Everyone who wants a black coffee says "Black Coffee" or "Coffee, Black", the word 'black' is the keyword here for how you get your coffee. When a worker hears "Coffee, no cream, no sugar" what they're actually hearing is 'Coffee' 'Cream' and 'Sugar', the no isn't a keyword to them and you'll get a coffee with one cream and one sugar just because you said the words. Without those words, you'd have gotten what you wanted.

When you can say in 2 words exactly what you want, you shouldn't be using 5.
This is not 'unspecified':

Mr Bagla said he had informed Dr Pachauri that Graham Cogley, a professor at Ontario Trent University and a leading glaciologist, had dismissed the 2035 date as being wrong by at least 300 years. Professor Cogley believed the IPCC had misread the date in a 1996 report which said the glaciers could melt significantly by 2350.

It is, however, from a journalist.
Not to pedal my own wares, but... ;)

http://axod.blogspot.com/2009/12/websocket-some-numbers.html

Also a caveat followup - websocket don't play nice with some proxies/nat/firewall setups. Either need https, or fallback on comet.
I'm tempted to try the replacement, especially if it will work with a bluetooth headset. I predict we'll see satchels and backpacks with a purpose-built port to let your corded headset out while your iPad is nestled in a custom sized pocket. There are already tons of backpacks with such a generic feature.

If Apple will tweak the notification feature so that you can let certain apps play a tone over the headset when you get a notice, then you can just pull out your iPad, see who called or IM'ed and call them the next time you have WiFi. If it's really important, just go ahead and call them back over 3G.
I don't see how this "discredits" homeopathy. From the homeopathy viewpoint, the remedies themselves are not considered (i.e. by homeopaths) to be drugs, or even equivalent to drugs, and taking large doses wouldn't be expected to have any particular effect. It's a bit of a straw man argument like saying "Your cheese isn't really chalk because I can't write on the blackboard." But I never said it was chalk or that it's purpose was to write on blackboards. What have you really proved except that it's not a drug, which was never in question.
I think most customers don't expect a diner to be a boot camp :)
Add filetype:pdf to your query.
You're right about the link colors, already changed it! About the frontpage, we'll see. We will probably do some A/B testing on this one.
What I mean is make disk image copies. That would be impractical for a big enough outfit, but I didn't gather something like this was needed, "Just Dial alleged that Infomedia 18 had copied its extensive database and was displaying the same on its website askme.in".

That's relatively easy to prove or disprove, they're alleged to be basing their business (or a part of it) on the stolen database. And the harm to Just Dial can be ended without shutting down all of Infomedia 18.

"[W]e are always at the mercy of our governments", but some governments are less arbitrary than others, and this does seem to correlate with healthy business climates.
Yeah, there are definitely Excel models, but personally I find it easier to think Python than Excel. Over time I think there's an interesting opportunity to simulate more what-if scenarios as well and again personal preference is to code in python vs Excel.
You missed the point. Learning how one particular widget for settings in one particular app is neither very general nor fundamental. Playing around with Morphic and discovering that every UI widget is a little code browser, and using the unified environment to discover robotics, math, and physics on your own is very fundamental.
Ok, I'll try and put something together.

One main thing we've learned in the past couple months: Social media marketing may be the talk of the town these days, but you just can't beat basic SEO for bootstrapping yourself to some sales.
Won't = "won't one day." Adding one for a bluetooth mouse would be very easy. They will probably hold off on that to firmly establish the new multitouch UI conventions, though.
Check out prefuse.org and processing.org. Both are excellent libraries to create such visualizations. Not sure if you are looking for something else.
Oops. Rule #1 of client-server computing: never trust the client. Kids these days have forgotten what we knew in the 90s.
Ruby on Rails/JavaScript/CSS

- JQuery

- VIM

- git

- Gimp

- Xara Extreme
FOSS advocates should thank some deity that Adobe is as marketdroid infested and incompetent as it is. There's nothing so good to shore up your case as your enemy making a hash of his.
I think if everyone who upvoted this comment also flagged the article, it would be dead by now.* Everyone please remember that flagging is just as important as up/down votes for the health of a community.

* PG, please feel free to correct me if I'm drastically off base on the number of flag it takes to kill a story with 13 upvotes. Assuming that upvotes ~= number of flags kills an article seems to be a safe assumption to me (with some sort of minimum time protection).
I'm going the opposite way! Python/Django dev moving to PHP from small and/or CMS type projects. I'm really liking Kohana (a fork of codeigniter) as a Rails/Django etc type RAD framework for PHP.
Free Under Water Wallpaper Pack #2
Yep. Network18 is practically the Google of businesses in India :)
If the 60’s had Twitter………| Technology
The WE.177 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WE.177 -- note corrected designation) was a free-fall H-bomb, carried on Vulcan and then Tornado bombers, and retired by 1998; you can see details of the 'bike lock' security on that wikipedia page. As such, it was stored on RAF bases and there are extensive procedures in place to ensure that a rogue officer can't order a deployment without it coming down the chain of command. (See also "Dr Strangelove".)

The WE.177 was not a sub-launched missile. The Royal Navy's Trident D5s (which come from the same maintenance pool as the US Navy's missiles) are; they do not, as far as I know, use bike locks: if they do, so do the USN's D5s.
My point was Jailbreaking is a final, last ditch step that young aspiring software nerds will probably have if they want to spend their time dicking around with the low level guts of the pad. My bigger point was, they won't bother. Because the capabilities of the device make it so there's not really that much joy to be had in rooting the thing or tinkering with it the way we were "brought up" in the computing world.

If I am an aspiring young hacker I would probably spend more of my time writing apps for the app store or building apps on the web for my friends' iPhones. If I really want to learn about the guts of the thing, I can jailbreak or simply learn about the guts of non-iPad computers.
what are they actually doing to make so many people say this?

A lot of it is left over from the days of Beta/VHS. They really made those formats work.
Hiding knowledge and information is terrible
Well, it is sold as a drug, in the sense that on the package it says that it cures a sickness, which is the point of a drug. I'm not saying that it doesn't work (sometimes the placebo effect is everything you want, for example when a child hurts himself, he'll be happy as soon as he has taken a pill, no matter which one), but I think it's a bit strange to sell a bit of sugar with a very small quantity of active substance for 1000 times the production cost.
You should e-mail the corresponding author and ask them to send you a .pdf. It helps if you claim to be at a university from a poor, developing country and your library doesn't have any subscriptions. Some authors will also have the .pdf uploaded on their website.
"<bramm> and I hope you realize that you just completely pissed off one of the most well known and respected people in the whole open source community"

Funny thing about respect, is it takes a while to build up and can be lost in a heartbeat.

edit: what's interesting is how respectful the freenode admin was throughout this whole transcript. If anything, kudos to freenode.
Tesla Motors Plans I.P.O. to Raise $100 Million
Only as an interim step. I'd see if the island of Nauru would lend them their sovereignty in exchange for their continued existence as sea levels rise. The island would only become a mooring point, but as long as they could build up just one spot above sea level, they'd still exist.
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A lot of different stuff, but the things I depend on the most for actual work and direct OSS offshoots:

Snow Leopard, Ubuntu server & VMs, XP VM (using VirtualBox)

Ruby, Haskell, Python, Javascript

TextMate, vim

git, gitx, git gui, vcprompt

bash

homebrew

postgresql, pgadmin

rvm

jquery

sass, compass

gemcutter, github

linode

chef

google apps

photoshop, illustrator

Firefox w/ firebug, firecookie, firequery, firerainbow, the web developer toolbar, cookie culler, user agent switcher, live http headers; webkit nightly dev tools; iPhone simulator from the iPhone SDK
I've been following this one for years. They are very well thought out. (I learned about Vanadium Redox batteries from them, actually!) And no, I'm not involved with them. Just have them in my interesting bookmarks.
Third verse of this song tells all about the homeopathy that is to know:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBUc_kATGgg
Battling the Information Barbarians
This is terrible advice. Kind and decent people are usually boring to talk to, and it's especially bad if you have no interests in common with them.
Agreed, advanced search is your friend when looking for solid research. In addition to looking for pdf's I often get better results filtering by .edu sites as well.
How does this work? As far as I knew, it was the src attribute you set on source tags.

<source title='http://d31j8lt3uybmqs.cloudfront.net/sublimevideo/dartmoor.m... type='video/mp4' />
I think the point is that if you want black coffee, there's no reason to say "cream" or "sugar" in the first place. "Coffee, one cream, one sugar" is a common phrase, and it's pretty to see how someone would think they heard that from the original phrase.
That's amazing. I've got the same combination on my luggage.
What is more: More expensive placebo works better than cheaper one so price of homeopathic remedies is in some way justified.