skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How Apple Is Forcing Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and AT&T to Raise Their Game
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Yes, but the post you're replying to is discussing open protocols, not free software or OSS.
In my case, it was good to know mine is #13378 :).
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They look pretty nice but what if it's raining?!
Unfortunately, http://www.officepod.co.uk/blog/uk-price-announcement/

OfficePOD are pleased to announce an introductory price - for the United Kingdom - of just £14,950 plus installation and VAT.
maybe reading the first letter of each paragraph will make you feel better :).
Anyone want to guess what number pg is? I'll post the answer in 24 hours.

P.S. No cheating.
Mozilla Foundation isn't trying to protect itself, it's trying to protect the web.

You can disagree with that goal and/or with their strategy, but if you think it's just about Mozilla not wanting to pay fees then you're going to be very confused about what they do and why.
Sorry to ask, but why is it a big deal? I think its usually pretty obvious when something is being quoted...

Just my two cents.
What's the betting you just pass &acc=123456789990 in the URL to get to someone elses account...
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It took me about three minuets to get that this not a gag.
You will have to work really hard to stay warm when the temperature drops and the rain turns into snow... But maybe that's the idea? - To improve efficiency?
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I don't think it's that crazy for home offices. It could serve as a way to communicate to others that you are working, and it could help you mentally separate work and recreation.

They could also make it a tanning salon/office combo. Not only will you get your work done, but you'll get a great tan as well ;)
"the best people (no matter where they live) are hired locally, so if you aren't hiring locally, you're not hiring the best people. "

By this logic people who get paid for working on Open Source projects like the Linux Kernel or Hadoop must be bad developers? They are distributed all over the world.
Venture Capital Was Tight for Tech Start-Ups in '09
http://www.reddit.com/comments/15gkq/startup_news_ycombinato..., but I was a few days late so I'm not sure.
So you're saying that having more chars in the password or more number options in the PIN wouldn't increase security?

PIN requires you to possess a card with the account details and relevant security data. Yes they're clonable but you can't do a distributed attack on thousands of accounts that way.

Online, as many banks have leaked customer data, one can use a botnet to try common passwords against thousands of customer accounts (you may need to get account data elsewhere to do this or customer numbers may be guessable). 6 chars severely limits the passwords to try.
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Why is that a problem? It looks like it has ventilation so you'd just close the door.
A bargain at a tenth the price!

edit: Actually, looking at the gallery, it does seem very useful indeed. Not sure it's worth over the cost of a medium sized car, but still.
People were talking about this in the 80's. The government line was that it was tried by Spy agencies, but it didn't work.
#2 (most people I know do it that way. #1 is the admin account, #2 is the first user account)
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But you can't abandon PPP, our income goes a lot further than the typical European's. From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity

"[PPP] equalizes the purchasing power of different currencies in their home countries for a given basket of goods. Using a PPP basis is arguably more useful when comparing differences in living standards on the whole between nations because PPP takes into account the relative cost of living and the inflation rates of different countries, rather than just a nominal gross domestic product (GDP) comparison."

And you're cherry picking unemployment figures, from particularly small countries.

E.g. go to http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/table.do?tab=table&... and you'll see the 2009 November (September for the UK) rates for:

EU: 9.5-10%

France: 10.0%
Italy: 8.3%
Ireland: 12.9%
Germany: 7.6%
Spain: 19.4%
UK: 7.8%

The above paints a rather different picture, doesn't it?
I got myself a copy of the SAS survival handbook sometime last year. It covers this topic and many others: http://www.amazon.com/SAS-Survival-Handbook-Revised-Situatio...
> Go home, light a candle, and let go of the expectations and

> assumptions that defined Sun as a workplace

Sun as a company may be dead, but the ideas and values can live on. It's up to the people in that culture to clarify those and live them. If they manage to do that, than Sun the company was the first era of Sun the culture and the acquisition not the end.
Beat IBM. Indeed. Oracle won't nix MS or Goog, but they can walz over IBM and SAP, if they integrate Sun's assets thoughtfully.
This userid was based on when the first posting or comment of this user was made on Hacker News, it is possible that the user signed up earlier but never posted or commented, so this user id may be off because of that.

Dauntless created: 1067 days ago #65
nostrademons created: 1066 days ago #77
iamelgringo created: 1066 days ago #80
rms created: 1064 days ago #140
davidw created: 1067 days ago #195
edw519 created: 1066 days ago #739

So I guess that I must have lurked a while before my first comment.

That makes sense because I was still bashful back then. hn helped me bust out of my shell.
> The Greeks had a nationalistic loyalty to their particular city-state. This ended when the Persians showed up, who were orders of magnitude less appealing to the Greeks, and that did away with a lot of inter-Greek warfare and nationalism.

By replacing it with pan-Greek nationalism? The Greeks shared a lot of attributes (language, ideology, etc…). What you are railing against is “Geographic nationalism”. There is more to nationalism than that.

> I believe the same can be said of races and religions these days. Conflict between races is like conflict between the various Greek city-states: A damn waste.

The word “race” is a loaded word.

IMHO nationalism is not a waste. Each and every group should have the right to their own culture, religion, language and self-determination. As the UN Charter states:

> To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace

> All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development

> We've got bigger problems to solve, and can probably work on a better level than that.

To what end? Are problems really so big that the religious and cultural identities should be destroyed? Are our “problems” really bigger than a hundred years ago (when almost everyone died of Polio)?

I think that the common trend in many places is to replace culture with some Americanised version of culture and replace all native languages with English. I think this is a huge step backwards.
I prefer a coffee shop when not at home :-)
I guess this is as good a time as any to ask if people have good sources on both sides of the debate. I can search around but have trouble discerning credible sources from non-credible ones. Any links/book recommendations would be appreciated.
is tihs just a hook for gaze fixation - the eyes of many are drawn to spelling errors (this seems particularly big in the geek/programming community) and so in order to get people to notice your writing in some speling errors can be a good.

˙(sǝɯǝɯ lɐɹǝʌǝs ɟo ǝuo ɹo) odʎʇ ɐ ǝʞɐɯ oʇ ǝq oʇ sɹɐǝddɐ sʇuǝpuodsǝɹ ɟo sʇol oʇ ʎɐʍ ʇsǝq ǝɥʇ ɟo ǝuo ʇıppǝɹ uo ʎluıɐʇɹǝɔ
OffishBowl - Tiny thief friendly glass box office for your garden.
The Venture Diet Is Working
China slams U.S. "information hegemony"
Just never use GoDaddy. NameCheap is way better.

GoDaddy is the AOL of registrars.
Speed dial on Opera, pinned to the 'new tab' page in Chrome. Sometimes I start typing "news." which is autocompleted accordingly.
My ex-wife was not a native speaker, and I once asked her for the male end of an extension cord. Hilarity ensued.
Public universities are government agencies, and as such, must obey the constitution

IANAL, but I don't think this is true. For example, I imagine the second amendment is quite restricted on most campuses.
I like your site. However, I did a search on 'transactions' and it came up with nothing. Cool idea though.
Actually I've thought about something similar many times (except I'd just build it myself). Or, maybe having a small RV to work in... getting away from wife and kid during work is the main issue for me ;)
Why do fortune 500 companies spend so much on IT consultants?
It isn't so simple. There are a variety of institutions receiving money under a variety of contracts from "the government" (which, itself, encompasses a large variety of institutions). Not all impose the same restrictions.
Just shy of $25K USD for a small room with a door as a single person's computer-based workspace? This is mind-numbingly stupid. You could hardly meet with a second person in there, let alone do anything on a whiteboard or requiring much more physical space than the small desk inside.

Why do tiny, minimalist things always cost so much?
Short background gleaned from Google Group:

Mark Tarver is back from India and Qi lives ^_^!

(I'd stopped paying attention when he announced he was leaving.)
Your situation sounds strangely familiar :)... My opinion is that if I am going to design a form that is going to run in a JavaScript app, I should be able to do so in pure JavaScript. For example:

form = new UberUI.form();
form.append( new UberUI.input( {type: "text", name: "login", label: "Login:", validator: myValidatorFunction} ) );
...
form.show();

On a different note, jQueryUI is much more theme'able than ExtJS, which is great.
While you're at it, check out this PDF creator in pure javascript:

http://code.google.com/p/jspdf/
AFAIK, you can use jQuery as an ExtJS adapter, instead of the native one. This is only useful if you are adding ExtJS to an existing app that uses jQuery.
Right. I didn't mean to take away from your point at all, which I do think is fascinating.

I've just noticed that people generally do equate "energy intake" with calories that go into your mouth, and find that interesting.
SproutCore looks pretty slick. I'm going to read the docs now.
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Does that have something to do with Star Trek? Google & Yahoo don't show anything.
I'm happy to add it. Do you know of any good Groovy cheatsheets?
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They are ego boosters. They are narcissism enablers. That is all.
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A straw man attack that starts with a sexual slur against the author's enemies fails to impress.

It would be a lot more productive to e.g. look at the general Tea Party theme, which is smaller government. If the Federal, state and local governments try to do less, there will be more money for the essentials and the entitlement promises (and the latter have to be adjusted, no feasible tax increases will cover their current projected expenses and the status quo will soon devour the "discretionary" budget; heck, Social Security is about to go into a deficit).
Often just select the icon from the home screen of my iPhone...
I type "news." in Chrome or firefox and select "news.ycombinator.com"
In terms of saving the links, I think it's not necessarily the wisest course for scenarios like PRNGs etc., where that may mean saving millions or billions of intermediate number results.

The TH algorithm is Floyd's algorithm, while the TT algorithm is Brent's algorithm in the Wikipedia cycle detection link.
More paywalls: Hulu monthly fees & YouTube rentals
I'd get the list by doing a password reminder and seeing if they email me my password.

That will tell you whether they send the password in clear, not whether they encrypt it. The only information you'll have is:

IF (they send you the password in clear) THEN (they don't use a one-way hash)

There is no other information to be derived from this method of checking.
That a college would prosecute a student for reading a book is shocking. However most of the article is about colleges banning thing like "using any email message to insult or embarrass". This is not "severely restricting speech". It is just protecting students from bullying and harassment.

Sending an insulting email could be at disciplinary offence at work. It is reasonable not to allow them in colleges.
>> "An independent study has shown that moving to OfficePOD reduces CO2 emissions by between 46% & 67%."

Where to start :/
Google makes almost $2B in profit in latest quarter
For business to business sales (especially the more expensive stuff), that is almost always how it's done. Call the vendor for a quote, they'll either tell you or send out a sales/marketing rep, lots of hand wringing, then maybe a deal of some sort.
The report I heard was that Google did great, but not as great as the analysts expected.

I still don't get why analysts are able to drive the price so much. If their educated guess is even wrong by $0.01/share sometimes, people freak out.
rtm is #0. naturally.
Interesting. My account is 1055 days old, but #360.
Theres actually a fairly recent (Nov 2009)case where SnapNames was found to have had an employee placing shill bids:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/181731/domain_auction_site_fa...
I use duplicity: http://www.nongnu.org/duplicity/
yeah i made it once per session, that way I don't have to track IPs. it could be better, but its not worth the trouble/storage
You don't need to middle-click the Home button, press Ctrl-T instead. :)
good point. I didn't really expect this big of a response in 24 hours, but I may bump it up to sending a message every few hundreds votes.
Yeah, ING Direct's password scheme is pretty lame. I assume the idea was to use a simple numbers-only on-screen keyboard to avoid keyloggers. Seems silly, since if malware were to target them it would obviously just track clicks instead.

Though to be fair, they ask additional security questions if you haven't previously logged in from that browser.
I'll start looking for some MongoDB cheat sheets. If you know of any, feel free to suggest them.
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> Sun as a company may be dead, but the ideas and values can live on. It's up to the people in that culture to clarify those and live them ...

(Putting on my remote hypnosis glasses): Repeat after me: "Sun is a brand, Oracle is a company".
There's a show on the Discovery Channel about people who get lost in the wilderness. One thing I've noticed is that they spend all their energy and time trying to get back to civilisation, so they very rapidly get worn down.

I think a good strategy when you are lost in the wild is to immediately start keeping an eye out for shelter, food, and water. The article gives some good tips, but they take time if you want to be reasonably sure of what you are going to eat.
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The data is specific so it must be true.
I'd only buy it if it made a cool airlock decompression noise everytime I open the door.
Damn it is good to be CEO. Drive company into ground, sell it off to someone else, Walk away with millions for your incompetence!
For $25k, you can afford a fully trained domberman, to stand at guard and keep your loved ones at bay while you work.
Do these guys have an API?
I agree and would like to add a couple more points.

I think the notion of privacy is perhaps more of an issue in the Japanese psyche. Perhaps it's a consequence of such a long experience living in such close contact with each other but there are an awful lot of "unwritten rules" about what you can and cannot do. Witness the uproar when Google Maps took photographs over people's fences - that is simple "not done" in Japan and Google were forced to reshoot a lot of photos. It's the same with personal relationships. They are not supposed to be so visible in Japanese society. The trend for westerners to accumulate as many "friends" as possible .. I cannot imagine normal Japanese behaving in such a way. The members of the group are indeed kind of private and unsolicited "friend requests" would be looked upon dimly.

I know a few Japanese on Facebook but they really are the westernised outliers. Furthermore, Japan also has a rich and highly functional range of services which fulfil all the functions they want - it's not just Mixi. They have their own little ecosystem of web apps, usually optimised for the ubiquitous web-capable mobile phones. Facebook adds little to this equation. Indeed FB's strengths, like public photo sharing, might seem like a negative to the Japanese mind.

I don't see it taking off there. Or in China, for that matter. It's just a whole different concept of how you deal with social relationships. It sounds like a cliché to say it's just an East vs West thing but seriously .. there is a big gap, and FB is affirmatively on the "West" side...

update: I'd like to add an example. One of my best friends in Japan has an auntie who is engaged in a two decade long affair with a married salaryman. Basically a mistress. This is very common. I learnt the rules very very quickly - say nothing and accept everyone at face value. Give nothing away. Everyone knows what's going on but everyone just ignores it - it's their right to do what they want.

So what the hell would these people write on FB? Taking pictures with each other? Writing blog entries about how they spent the night together? This stuff should never be written down or recorded in any way. It's hard to explain but this is a basic tenet of their society and it's kind of central to their concept of respect. You never, ever divulge anything about the people you know. Those who have been in the military may understand what I am talking about - a set of rules for people getting along for extended periods in close quarters. It is actually pretty similar. You never, ever dob. This is antithetical to FB, IMO.

Complex relationships should never be aired in public, least of all in some glib, context-free "status update" or shared picture. Living under this kind of social regime .. can you imagine suddenly being taken by the irresistible urge to let it all hang on on FB and facing? Me neither.
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Working for whom? It's probably great for Fred Wilson if he's managing a bigger slice of the total VC pie, but for everyone else, it's best if VC is a large-scale, productive way to invest money -- then it makes money for our pension funds and creates new economic opportunity.
He seemed to have done alright with Newsvine...
I'd much prefer something like the ones shown at http://www.modern-shed.com/modeloffice.html

Different locales, so it may not be fair to compare prices, but the 6'x8' option above is about one third the price for comparable square footage.
Command+3. It's the third shortcut in my Safari toolbar.
<megarant>Their model sucks. First I have to now remember (can be read as write down) a separate account number, a bunch of digits. Second I have to now create a PIN and I can't even use a keyboard to type it in.

Account creation at ING is also awful. I created my account, but did not yet "activate" it. Keep in mind that it did not tell me in any obvious way that I needed to take extra steps to activate the account. Once I tried to log in it started asking me questions like "What is your father's father's name?" and my answer was: you cannot possibly know that yet since I haven't told you. Eventually I figured that out.

Next comes the verification of my checking account. This was fun because I have a joint checking account and a joint ING account. Guess what: it made me AND my wife verify the same exact transactions. Seriously? It's just bad UX all around. Now that I've got it set up I am fine with using it, just the initial process was awful.</megarant>
Real-Time Gradient Domain Painting (2008)
Project home page: http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/projects/gradient-paint/

Bear with the video, the examples get more impressive.
The article gives the exact reason it is not being spent on public transit: Second, all those buses, trains and subways need people to operate them and maintain the infrastructure.

The stimulus is based on moral hazard. States spend federal money on projects that they don't feel are worth spending their own money on. Spending on mass transit would force states to spend more of their own money on projects they feel are not worth it.
* once this has happened, it's n steps*
Unless the turtle teleports some time during those n steps. The only way the turtle won't teleport during that time is if the rabbit has already taken at least n steps to get to the loop, in which case, it only eliminates up to 1/4 of the mammal moves.
I use both pretty regularly but I would agree that NameCheap is probably the way to go. GoDaddy, with each passing day, has more of a sleazy and cheap feel to it.

Having said that, no matter how dirty GoDaddy makes you feel it won't be nearly as bad as any interaction you'll have with Network Solutions. Stay away from that at all costs.

It's been a few years since I got into a backorder struggle but at the time it was incredibly difficult and ended up dragging out for months and months.
TELL HN: I just switched to Firefox 2.0 and it beats Firefox 3.x by far
I have been complaining about how slow and how memory-crazy Firefox has become for a while...

With just a few tabs open it is already at the 200/300M mark and using lots of CPU.

Yesterday night, I installed the old 2.0.2 Firefox version and I am impressed by how fast it is. Much less memory used and everything loads faster.

Anyone here noticing that?
The fallacy of choice (2008)
For that price, if you want to have an office out in the garden, build a gazebo and REALLY enjoy your office being outdoors.
External implementation of tags on HN
I think they meant methane. When you fart, that pod will keep it all sealed inside. You might die of course.
Looks very interesting, but not $5.99 interesting. I think I would pay, but only a dollar or two.

The real frustration for me is that this is the kind of article I would definitely send to my fiancee, as she would enjoy the style and subject. The presence of the paywall prevents me from doing this.
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I know this is a duplicate, I feel that in this case the situation merits it. The discussion over here : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1069377 : is concentrating on the idea of discovering (an approximation to) your internal HN id.

Much, much more interesting is the potential for tagging items. If just 1% of people took the time to tag things then it could become a really useful resource. It might even become my first portal to HN.

Two suggestions: Please can we have somewhere a list of used tags, and please can it not show dead items?