skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Preceden, a site I launched on HackerNews two weeks ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1114834) has received a lot of traffic recently due to traffic from tech news sites. The newness factor is wearing off though and with that the number of visitors.

This teacher made my day by demonstrating its use beyond the startup scene.

That's all. I'm happy and wanted to share it with anyone who's following along from the sidelines. Should have explained right after I posted.
If you were talking about general currency i would expect to see it a lot. If you were talking about the subset of data parallel concurrency, I would expect to not see it very much at all.
[Ask HN] Please review RingThink.com - Virtual receptionist for your cellphone.
I don't think the concept of Costco is so much "bigger is better" but rather saving by buying in quantity and reducing stops at the store. If you have the space and don't actually enjoy shopping, it makes sense. (I don't shop there)
I built this in two weeks of spare time. The app is written with RoR, voice stuff is handled by Twilio, and payments are by PayPal via ActiveMerchant.

Thoughts, comments etc greatly appreciated.
LackRack 2.0 (DIY Server Rack)
Bing Maps at TED
That’s true. Just, while we’re being pedants here, I wanted to point out that PostOnce’s statement was accurate, taken literally.
The new Silverlight-based Bing Maps are absolutely incredible. This video also includes a cool demo of Photosynth running off a live video stream to the browser. Augmented reality: here we come!
Inkseine is a research project that has been in progress for years, not a shipping product. A few months? Are you joking?

This paper about it from 2007 has seven authors, guys who have spent their careers on similar technology. I can’t tell if it’s down to just one guy by now. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1240666
How the Real-Time Web Will Impact Social Change
Whence comes this wealth? Government is not a wealth-creating enterprise. It's (arguably, entirely; verifiably, primarily) in the wealth redistribution business.
I know that I, for one, never bring my laptop to cafes—instead, I pull out my phone and web-browse over 3G. Does the policy cover this (increasingly common) activity as well?
As other people have commented, when you say "anachronistic" you really are being chauvinistic. I.e. you're assuming that there's no such thing as non-EU citizens who actually want to work in Europe. Those people face similar hurdles to those wanting to work in the US.
Spencer Fry, I'm sure, has been there, given that carbonmade is a subscription model business. I don't disagree with what you're saying, but I just wanted to point out that this article isn't from someone with no experience at all on the subject. (Apologies if you were referring to yourself - the comment is a bit ambiguous in that regard)
JoelonSoftware Business of Software Forum Posting
The encryption and process surrounding accessing passwords is meaningless. Who guards the encryption key, and how is this any better than storing passwords in the clear in some password-protected database?

The point is, the person with this key can view -- and possibly lose -- your password (which you may, but shouldn't, use in other places).

And once someone goes through this process, they can take it home with them.

The choice to do this, rather than to use an SSH key, is indefensible, and their explanation shows that they haven't got a clue.
Mounting Google Docs / GDrive
I've found myself using Google Docs on a regular basis, but miss the "DropBox" experience for ease-of-access . . .

I started researching solutions for mounting Google Docs as a drive (like DropBox!) - sharing here, interested to know what I missed:

http://memeoconnect.com/ ($9 a year, great system).

http://www.gladinet.com/ ($40 one time for Pro features, "Free" version that works fine with some advertisng - aggregates other cloud storage solutions)

http://code.google.com/p/google-docs-fs/ (Free FUSE API - downside is complex install for non-techies)
Scribd (YC S06) Announces Big Mobile Push
Quick answer: no. It generates the actual HTML based on your current color scheme and font. Notepad++ is the same (I think).

Long answer: Check this link:

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

At the bottom, click on one of the provided languages. This will give you a preview of what the command actually outputs. The page itself states, "To generated these pages, I used the TOhtml command in the Vim 7.2 distribution to generate the html files inside the iframes". Just note, the font won't be as disgusting when you actually do the conversion.
Is this really a concern for more than a very small fraction of the population?

I can understand this concern for very high-end fashion but it just doesn't make any sense to me otherwise.
Sounds like Cafe Grumpy NYC
I do, partly. Especially nice in the bathroom.
If you're looking for aggregate statistics, etc, Netcraft has been doing this for a while:

http://www.netcraft.com/
David Brooks On "The Power Elite"
yes; i missed the note part and didn't understand it was meant to be restricted in that way. sorry. (it makes more sense under that restricted view)
Thanks Travis. It seems that a visual re-design will be in my near future. A ranking system is a great idea. The idea behind the posts separation is that you can search according to the city you are in. I guess that a short paragraph at the top of the homepage or an about page would be a good addition.

Quick question. From a user standpoint, is creating an account more annoying than filling out a captcha everytime you want to post? Or should I find a way to avoid both?
Accelerating SQL[ite] Database Operations on a GPU with CUDA [pdf]
A good start would be introducing requirements for pedestrian footpaths and bike lanes in new communities.

Having footpaths and cycle lanes almost everywhere hasn't helped the UK's obesity rate which is almost on a par with the US.

They built cycle crossings and a cycle lane outside my house a couple of years ago. I've seen two people using them in that time and perhaps 10-20 cyclists total.

Owning a car and driving is too easy. Building some cycle lanes isn't encouraging people to get onto bikes - it just makes life easier for those who've already made the decision (and so don't need convincing). You'd need to make cars less desirable to have the effect you want, but even that ain't easy.. I didn't see people flocking to bikes when oil was $150 a barrel.
yes, and more generally making things hot is easy (efficient). so it's normally pretty stupid to use electricity for this (you would be better burning whatever you used to make electricity directly).

[edit - ah, i see that they are hoping to use the "waste" heat to get the overall efficiency up]
And what sells the most books and makes people read blog posts – losing loves, getting arrested, being fired, inching towards cirrhosis of the liver – is not actually that much fun when it’s you doing it.

Yep. Drama follows people like us everywhere. Takes guts to put it out there, being sober today (I am, too). Congrats. A lot of writers tend to burn hard and crash, and I don't want to end up there, either.

To quote a friend of mine: "It's kind of a bumpy, unrewarding ride anyway. I don't recommend. One star on Yelp for health benefits."
Principal Accused in "WebcamGate": I'm No Spy
2 and 3 are easily done in SVN also. 2 is basically merging your changes in personal branch to the personal branch of another user. 3. Well your branch in SVN is your domain, do what you want.

I think the main advantage is really for larger groups. Having 3000 branches in the linux repo would be unmanageable. Also, private branches are something SVN can't do to my knowledge. If I want to hack on a git repo without anyone knowing, it's easy.

But there's many advantages to GIT/Mercurial over SVN/* aside from the "everyone has a repo". I love git but currently use SVN due to legacy and keyword expansion at work and it's not that bad.
In case you had any doubts about where Google's revenue comes from
Hotel Vijolica website - Bled
Thats what they originally stated in the 60 minutes story. $3000 isn't bad. If what they are claiming is true then you would pay it off in less than 5 years and then have reduced electricity afterwards.

Throw in an electric car and you've seriously reduced your fuel costs.
Suggestions for Small Business Owners on how to Overcome Procrastination
It might just be me or Preview.app, but that pdf seems to have the wrong text color in many places. It's not consistent with what's in scribd.
Are you an Active Listener?
Detroit vs San Francisco: A Tale of Two Cities (Infographic)
Given that you can hot-swap the binary you could just write a bash script to enable or disable the modules you want and swap out the binary when it finishes compiling your changes.
The above is misleading and wishful thinking. Compare with the papers and disease mechanisms referenced in these posts:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2008/03/lose-the-visceral...

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2008/01/how-excess-fat-ti...

It's the fat.
Throwing up a few random examples doesn't further the debate very effectively. There are obvious differences between, for example, anonymous links in the infrastructure of the Internet and an identified end product hosting site. There are obvious differences between a local web hosting company, which has a specific commercial arrangement with an identified individual, and a generic hosting service that allows arbitrary, effectively anonymous individuals to post arbitrary material.

I'm not saying there should be no provisions in law to support the effective running of the Internet. I've never said that. I'm just saying that companies who want to establish a certain business model on the Internet shouldn't get a free pass just because it is difficult to run a business with that model while still complying with the same laws as everyone else. If that means some companies cannot continue, so be it: as I said before, I don't think anything of significant value will ultimately be lost, and I would rather that than effectively legislate certain businesses above the law just because they can't work out how to do things legally otherwise.

Your final comments are a straw man. Hacker News and Digg aren't republishing those articles, they're just linking to other sites that do.
Similar to a certain eternally cheerful OS, or should I say, GLaDOS...

Half the time I can't even remember the protagonist's name.
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Traffic at BuddyTV surges
my personal website is hosted on weebly. Jimdo.com has lot of better features though and excellent site designing widgets in browser. I personally tried to build same thing and then understood making these simple things for end user is PITA and demanding on my (limited) skillset
To be clear, my comment was made in surprise that that his creativity/passion goes unappreciated - I agree it's an amazing accomplishment.

In general though I think the binary of warm/emotion vs. cold/heartless is kind of useless. As in his quote : "I can understand why it’s an issue if you’ve got an extremely romanticized view of what art is" Art is amazing stuff people make, be it software or music.
I can't comment on the actual interpretation of the laws in question, but whenever we dealt with DMCA notices at a previous company, standard operating procedure was to take down the content in question, and then reinstate it if a counter-notification was filed and leave it up to the two parties' lawyers to settle the dispute. In this case, there seems to have been a counter-notification and the involvement of legal counsel so simply taking down the website seems highly extreme. Maybe it just comes down to operating procedure and Network Solutions goes for a heavy-handed approach because a lot of their customers are hosting warez and such.
This reminds me of a (probably apocryphal) story I once heard about Charles De Gaulle. Supposedly, once he made up his mind to quit smoking, he rounded up all of his staff for a meeting.

He then pronounced, "From this moment onwards, none of you will ever see me smoke a single cigarette." True to his word, he quit entirely and permanently. He was incredibly proud, and the fear of being caught was a massive and effective deterrent to cheating.

It seems like Mr. Carr is trying to take the same tack. I wish him the best of luck with it, alcoholism can be quite pernicious and difficult to kick.
I don't trust any complex trading strategy period. On the other hand I am perfectly willing to believe that we can make ITER work to design specifications. And we could scale up the same basic design to a working fusion reactor. The difference is extrapolating to never before seen physical reactions is reasonable, while human psychology is not.

As to temperature predictions IMO it's more of the same, I don't trust that we can build a highly accurate forcast of global temperature, but estimating temperature change with a +/- 50% accuracy seems vary reasonable.

PS: It's not like we are missing the past 30 years of highly accurate temperature measurements as we have continued to dump mind bogglingly huge quantities of CO2 into the air. IMO, predicting 50 years into the future vs 200 years in the past involves far more unknowns, but extrapolating 1,000 years into the past even worse.
The more I read news like this, the more I respect organizations like Sunshine Press (Wikileaks) and the work of individuals like John Young.
Arthur Andersen was convicted in the summer of 2002 for having obstructed justice by shredding Enron documents. See sample article from that period: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2047122.stm.

The author's point, I think, is that the vagueness in the law is what is unjust, not the idea that prosecutors make up the laws as they go. In other words, the laws give prosecutors shall vast discretion that they can be applied in ways that are unfair and even ruinous to companies such as to deny them basic due process protections (and, of course, the Andersen conviction was ultimately overturned).

More broadly stated, when language is corrupted so that nothing is clear, everyone acts potentially at his peril because legal outcomes - that is, punitive legal outcomes that can harm or destroy lives - rest on the whim of enforcement authorities who have broad powers to punish based on vague criteria affording no checks on their power to abuse their discretion. This is how the author lumps college speech codes with Justice Department abuses and ties it all back to Orwell's famous piece on language and its uses and abuses. It is actually a well-written piece, certainly so from a lawyer perspective.
Being able to do processing and I/O in parallel is another source of speedup from concurrency on a single processor.
"You don't want to rest on your laurels, but it's likely that you're never going to take in less revenue next month than you did the previous one."

Bull. If that were true then companies that charge subscriptions would never go out of business. Also as Teej said, his examples are horrible. Zynga is not a subscription business by any means. Apparently he is not aware that charging for products does not equal being a subscription model business.
I think he's right about announcing his decision being a good tool to help him quit. Of course, if he fails, it will backfire. Also, I don't want to raise awareness and encourage people to try using that tool, except to those who can directly benefit from it. If publicly announcing your decision to quit was widely viewed as an acceptable course of action, failing to follow through would be viewed as an acceptable course of action as well.
In this case moral relative depends on the definition of better. If you have a specific definition of better (EX: for one person, one group, society, the environment etc) you can actually come up with a relative ranking. However, it's the choice to use better in the most vague term that makes it a monochromatic argument.
Stalk a Stranger. Point Your Phone At Their Face.
It's "wishful thinking" to say that a "magical drug" won't solve all our problems? Seriously?

I'm pretty sure the people proclaiming that all we need is a miracle drug to eliminate fat are the ones involved in wishful thinking.

Read the facts: http://higher-thought.net/complete-notes-to-good-calories-ba.... Being fat may have some health costs, but the primary impact is caused by the diet that made you fat. If you believe that simply removing the fat caused by an unhealthy diet will make you healthy again, now that is wishful thinking.

If you don't eat healthy, you won't be healthy, no matter how many pills you swallow and how much you exercise.
sigh, it's true. Adoption is the hardest part, as DNS/URLs work great right up until they don't.
people always say they're such a great domain registrar...

its the least navigable site i've ever used in my life.
i will always use enom via google.
BioShock couldn't live up to what a great game SS2 was. However Warren Spector's (of SS1) later title 'Deus Ex' was probably the best cyberpunk game of all time.
According to the letter submitted by Senators Kerry and Lugar, it would only affect resources for EB-5 visas (no mention of EB-3 visas):

To make visas available, we would amend immigration law to create a new EB-6 category for immigrant entrepreneurs. We would draw from existing visas under the EB-5 category. The EB-5 permits foreign nationals who invest at least $1 million in the U.S., and thereby create 10 jobs, to obtain a green card. In areas where unemployment is high, foreign nationals need only invest $500,000 to obtain residency. Though roughly 10,000 visas are annually allocated for the EB-5 category, less than half were used in FY 2009, so the addition of immigrant entrepreneurs should not present an unreasonable burden.

http://startupvisa.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/dc-startup-vi...

This merely branches a new visa off from EB-5, which is separate from, and has different intentions than, EB-3. EB-5 visas are not all being used up anymore, so both Senators are attempting to put those waisted EB-5's to good use. They imply that the proposed EB-6 visas "should not present an unreasonable burden" on the system.
In my opinion, browsers aren't a good way to test a REST interface. Browsers are good at GET, and maybe POST, but they are very limited for other HTTP verbs and can't really do much in the way of header manipulation.

A much better solution is to use a tool like curl. With curl, you can set headers, HTTP verbs (even custom ones), and, importantly, test each transaction in isolation.
My understanding of justice systems in general was that this kind of thing is the status quo. Anyone who has ever been disciplined in high school or college should be aware of such things. The severity of your punishment depends on how "nice" the people doing the punishing are and not on the severity of your crime.
Once you have a Visa/Residence permit (work) in one country you can freely move between all the EU countries. (I live in Italy with residence permit, so I know)
Wikileaks is hosting it as well if you don't want to sign up to get the pdf: http://file.wikileaks.org/files/microsoft-spy.pdf
"... his is also not to mention all of the fruit juices/cocktails .."

Squeeze your own so you know what's in it.

"... Do I really need to have HFCS in my whole-grain bread? ..."

Harder, but find a better baker.

"... It's just depressing to see some juice at the grocery store that sounds like an interesting blend of fruit flavors only to realize that the first ingredient on the list is sugar. I mean how many people are actually reading those labels? They are probably buying those bottles of juice thinking that it's somehow more 'healthy' than drinking soda, only to be deceived by the juice companies. ..."

Look I agree. What's not happening is transparency in food processing. That's why I try to remove the processing out of my food. Am I 100% successful, no. But by buying the raw ingredients and cooking them up myself I can attempt to avoid this problem.

Of course the next bit is knowing sovereignty of fruit and vegetables. But that's another problem. I guess as a consumer we can vote with our dollars to make a difference here.
A Happy Failure Story: Lessons Learned From My First Startup
White House IP Czar Taking Scientific Approach to Piracy Harms
Just wait until sobriety pays Yelp to move a positive review to the top.
Graphic/UI/UX designers: come help us fix travel search
Re-posted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1152041
Every initiative can be used wisely or misused. Understanding atoms led to Hiroshima as well as clean fuel.

I am a US resident based out of India and mentor a few students. I do talk a lot of PG and recently one of my students asked me as to why YCombinator would not come down to India to organize a camp and find worthy ideas deserving funding. These are students who, in the current scenario, need to first head over to US on a student or work visa, and then apply for YC funding. By the time they do that, most of them would have missed out a few precious years from the age PG writes about as the golden age for taking risks (and I agree).

This visa opens up those doors. Yes, it can be misused, but if a little use comes out of it and benefit the world, that is good enough.

US is losing out to India and China with respect to having a whole new generation being highly educated. This visa is a great measure to continue to attract talent from world over.
Oscilloscope doubles as a serial terminal
GREAT idea! I went into my local coffee shop here in Chicago last weekend, and EVERY single table was occupied with someone with a laptop. At least 25 tables, all with laptops, me with no where to sit with my food/drink.
15 House Plants You Can Use As Air Purifiers
I don't see what's so terrible about this, other than just knee-jerk moral outrage.

It probably also helps deal with some of the more disruptive elements of running a coffee shop with wi-fi, like squatters, torrenters, etc. From my time working at one, I recall that the most frequent laptop users could be pretty disruptive, and didn't spend much more than a typical customer.
Based on my wife, who has lost a whole bunch of weight, some weight loss tips:

* Other than say breakfast cereal and snack soups, eat mainly or only food cooked at home,
* By implication, no fast food,
* Lean toward simple minimally processed ingredients,
* No soda,
* Buy smaller plates, US standard dinner plates are way too big,
* For any restaurant, only ever eat half the portion. Sack the rest and eat as leftovers later in the week,
* Where possible, avoid foods such as bread, ready meals, cereal, jams and jellies that contain HFCS,

This ideas can be eased into over a period of months, and will lead to a much healthier diet, and as a bonus, will teach you to cook.

As a further bonus, a diet like this cut our grocery bill for two down to around $300 / month. And we still get dessert!
How To Write A Killer Email Pitch To A Tech Blogger
Next for NASA: Inflatable Space Stations, Space UAVs and More
Tichy, I have checked. I'm almost positive it doesn't exist, but I welcome others to prove me wrong.

I don't see how you made the logical conclusion that I was asking questions without doing any research at all?
i know right? after the 16th character in the 96-character set it gets a little tiresome to type but i think keeping my twitter account secure is worth it.
The new Mac Heist holding page animation looks great, and no Flash
Hilarious article. I'm always a bit disappointed by how little overlap there is between the chemistry and hacker communities though. cf. comments like this:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1149075