skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent a week in Tokyo at the beginning of the year. I'm glad that I read a lot before I went and picked up a few words. In hotels and restaurants, people will bend over backwards to help you. Everything they do is based around politeness. Everytime you walk into any kind of store you are greeted, whether a 7-11 or a high end hotel. But things are different. Your waiter doesn't come around to check on you until you specifically call for them. It's considered rude to bother the customer until they signal they need something. When at work or out socially, nearly every situation is governed by "sempai", which is who is senior among us. I went out drinking with 2 guys I met. They both worked as welder, but one was slightly older than the other. The younger one made sure he was always doing what the older one wanted. It wasn't as extreme as it sounds like I'm making it, but it was an under current the entire night.
There's a lot of one-sided rhetoric in this post. Oracle could be highly committed to accessibility while still laying off some or all of the Sun accessibility people.

Maybe Oracle simply doesn't care about Gnome. If I were Oracle/Sun, I'd remove the entire GUI from Solaris, remove all the desktop-specific parts from Solaris, and port all the GUI tools to Windows and MacOSX, because almost every one of their (paying) customers is using Solaris remotely from Windows/MacOSX desktops anyway.

I recommend reading the transcript of Oracle's Oracle+Sun meeting with analysts. Basically, Oracle said that they intend to focus Sun's efforts on the Sun products/services with the highest profit margin. The profit margin on Gnome is pretty much negative, any way you look at it.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/185052-sun-microsystems-inc-...

"So let's start with at the top of the slide, engineering. We're going to also shift our engineering focus to invest heavily in the high value, differentiated products and have increased investment in those areas. And in addition, having these database appliances or appliances where the hardware and the software are engineered together (inaudible) being the first one, we'll have a series of new products, we're investing heavily in engineering to make great products that are differentiated that are multiple times better, order of magnitude times better than competing products."
Maybe I should have added a corollary.
I'm assuming you already have a solid business model, or at least a well-defined market. "Adsense" is not a business model.

Also, monetization is NOT hard if you're selling something people want.
Getting traffic is hard. Monetizing is trivial if you're running an actual business and not a hobby.
I think this is nit-picky and unnecessary.

He is saying he wants the appropriate level of risk that would come with 4-5% return. There isn't anything unclear about it.
Update your debate stats. Facebook's biggest growth is older women, and they're losing the 20-somethings to Twitter and...
Am I the only one here who's never been to a dentist? From my perspective, it seems like they do more harm than good with the drilling, scraping, filling, etc. People I know who go seem to end up "repeat customers", with all kinds of "problems".
We've moved from file sharing "piracy" to personal information "piracy." And, ultimately, neither is preventable.

Sounds catchy but makes no sense at all. The two are not even related.

Also "personal information piracy" is a strange description of people giving out their information voluntarily. This can be trivially prevented by simply not typing that information into a website...
People are raving about what Jason's doing with OAF. Kudos!
Phillips Exeter Academy Mathematics Course Materials
The entire article seemed to focus on a few high profile douchebags and extrapolate their behaviour to the entire population.
What I wouldn't give for a way to filter all sites like that from search engine results ;)
Open Angel Forum New York, April 8th
Happy to announce our forth Open Angel Forum, this one in New York City. I've asked my partner on Weblogs, Inc. Brian Alvey and Charlie O'Donnell to run the chapter.

We're accepting applications for folks who are raising funding. Angel investors with four or more investments in the past year (or so), are welcome to apply as well.
Head over to the bogleheads forum, they give excellent advice:

http://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=1
The confusion is due to different interpretation of "average". They should have used median faces instead of mean faces.

Ba-da-bum.
I agree, I think this is perhaps a better question: how can I find a competent money manager?

As many other posters (correctly) pointed out, typical money managers may not have your interests at heart.
AmEx: "We discourage the use of special characters because..."
Dear Americans,

Would you please translate all your units in International or Europeans ones please ?

(What is a 32C in France ?)
You've never been to a dentist? Whoa. Where are you from?

I imagine, to some extent, that there it is the best interest of dentists to have you come in regularly, but I have to imagine that the research says that going to the dentist prevents all kinds of tooth and gum problems.
He was eating junk food and poring over the MacBook Air tech specs.
The best and most useful books I've read on trading and investing (= slow trading if done right) are these:

Mastering the Trade - John Carter

How to Make Money in Stocks / How to Make Money Selling Short - William o'Niel

Anything by Brett Steenbarger
The Shuttle program has alwasy been a boondoggle. There has been not one significant piece of science that has come out of it. Robots are far better at space exploration than humans.
At the last startup I worked at, we used Jira [http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/] as an issue tracker. As ideas came up, we had a separate category for "idea issues". This kept everything in the same place, so when we wanted to work on a feature that was previously a TODO idea, we'd just assign it to someone to work on. Because it had been kept in JIRA for its entire lifetime, all thoughts and comments that people had had about it were already there for the implementer to consider.
Crunchgear is just re-writing the article here:
http://www.livescience.com/technology/plasma-jets-dental-dri...
Rumored Windows Phone 7 details surface ahead of MWC launch
great resource!! what is it about NZ and machine learning :)
(weka comes from there, for those who are not aware)
Anyway, PyML (http://pyml.sourceforge.net/) and biopython (http://biopython.org) are two other packages I found pretty useful and can be explored..
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Hiring the wrong professional is a great way to lose your money though.

It all depends on which professional and there are plenty of shysters in that world. A fool and his money are soon parted, and there are people that have turned that sort of thing in to a career.

Case in point, a friend of mine did pretty good, had a good sized IT business and a sizeable nest egg. Enter the investment advisor. 15 years later, and a lot of bullshit stories he's down to roughly 15% of what it was when he started out.

Finding people you can trust with your dough is very hard, learning how to do so yourself is not easy but if you fall you hopefully won't fall too far.

Coming in to some money without having earned it is harder still, it means that you don't have money managing skills that would have gotten you to that height in the first place.

It's a very tricky position to be in, best described as a goldfish landing in a shark tank.
Trying to give a little back since the game has been so good to me.

I know how hard it is to raise money. I've done four or five major projects, and it was a ton of work to get capital to fire them up.

Our goal is to make the OAF will be the best place to raise an angel round--period. No fees, no bullshit.

Also, on a personal level, although the OAF is never going to make big money, I do get first shot at seeing and investing in all these amazing companies. I'm going to invest in two of the five companies at OAF LA and one of the OAF Boulder companies I think.

If I can angel invest in the top company at every OAF eventually, that would be 100+ startups a year.... I'd have to raise an fund to do it!

if you have any questions, ping me jason @ mahalo.com or @jason twitter
I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt since he's so young and seems to generally have a good head on his shoulders, but a MP Air is definitely not pie in the sky, especially for those in the tech industry. Had he said a Porsche, that may have been entering the "joking" territory, but even then, it's hard to say for sure. From his posts and tweets, he seems like a smart, savvy, mature-beyond-his-years reporter and should've known better than to insinuate, even jokingly, that his coverage could be bought.
Well, I guess it's no surprise that the rot has set in even at Exeter. In many ways, my below average public school in the late '70s was more rigorous than this dog's breakfast, at least prior to the calculus (where I don't like the emphasis on "Working within contexts whenever possible...").

Note that the word "proof" doesn't appear until the very highest specific class; traditionally the geometry class after the first algebra class was where that was introduced.

Then again, if they're preparing students for Harvard, as of the late '80s the only math requirement there was to prove you could do algebra, according to a friend who took their honors calculus.
No special characters in passwords is one of my biggest pet peeves. It really screws up my general system for generating passwords for different sites.
It's funny that you mention it as I wrote something that might be what you are looking for just a few weeks ago.

(edit as I re-read: doubtful that this fulfill your needs, you are probably better off with a more traditional Bugzilla-type-of thing. Keeping this posted anyway :)

This is an application that I wrote for internal usage. Have you ever heard of TeuxDeux (http://teuxdeux.com/)? Well, basically, I fell in love with the user-interface and it fulfilled that part of my needs. So, I took the look & feel and ran with it and made the following additions to my own version:

- Under the "some day" items I added categories which could be edited by dragging & dropping the category into the "some day" input box.

- Encouraged the usage of "hash tags" to TODO-items (#projectabbr Fix nasty crash bug)

- Added a filtering box which would highlight queried TODO's with that search filter

- Made it so that when you hover over a todo-item during drag/drop: a tree would pop-up with issues that depend on parent. You can drop the todo-item you are dragging and dropping into any of the items in that tree. When a parent is "freed" (done), its immediate children become separate TODO's in the list again. Rince/repeat.

- A detail screen which would appear when clicking on "..." next to a TODO item.

Put in mind here that I like the minimalistic and straight-to-the-point of this layout. I want my TODO lists to act like post-its :)

Unfortunately I have not open sourced it and I really never intended to do that for the very reason that I basically "ripped off" the look & feel of Teux Deux. But this might give you a few ideas, though. And it's not really too hard to implement. Give me a holler if you need a bit more info :)
fuck's sake - first off, this article is terrible. Here's a great quote : "advances in antibiotics (no more worries about what used to be called venereal disease)" Are you kidding me? HERPES you can get it with a condom, genital warts and of course fucking AIDS and hepatitis? To the people talking about how this is unfortunate for women... if those women CHOOSE to fuck an asshole like tucker max, one of the biggest douches of the internet? They know exactly what they're getting into and there's no sense sympathizing with them if they let themselves get played in such an obvious way. That's not to say I'm a sexual prude - but I'm happily free of all STDs and any girl that sluts around with highly promiscuous guys like that needs to get tested before I get involved. There's absolutely nothing new about this either, rich attractive young males have been running their way through women since the dawn of time. How about putting aside all of these stupid gender roles and focusing our time on arranging a sane, happy and sustainable life? There's plenty of women and men that do this and don't obsess about knotches on a bedpost. Seriously after the first few hundred times how do you not start looking at the fact that you have limited time to find a super compatible person? Even without kids nobody wants to grow old and die alone and super compatibility is not easy to find. Enough ranting about this stupid ass article.
big tits
Almost as bad as the IRS: http://zaid.posterous.com/irs-is-not-dot-com-friendly
Apple A4 SOC unveiled - It's an ARM CPU and the GPU
A good friend of mine was part of the pioneering team that initially researched this stuff over at the Technical University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands. See this article from 2006: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19125586.200-plasma-ne...

I can remember getting pretty freaked out when he was explaining it to me.
18:21 <@swombat> trying to post "Excellent talk. Transcript or not, watch it."
Poker and blackjack (50/50).
I suppose what they mean is that keyloggers / keylogger log analyzers can spot passwords by detecting unusual sequences of special characters or improbably long non-dictionary words. I'm far from being an expert at security but sounds like a reasonable concern to me.

It would be very interesting to hear the thoughts of some of the security expert HN-readers on this matter.
I don't know what's scarier, their security practices, or the fact that they call the person responsible for the system a "webmaster".
Ok, and why this got to the hacker news? Instead of this http://guides.rails.info/3_0_release_notes.html or just any other of these links http://www.rubyinside.com/rails-3-0-beta-links-2966.html ?
My china can find a few dutch children to help plug the holes in the dam? I wonder how worried US people that run sites the chinese gov deems unseemly should be when going to china.
Didn't the IPCC imply that their claims were from the peer reviewed literature?

However, my comment was indeed agreeing with you that peer review "is not falling apart", and implicitly I was saying that had little to do with this part of the IPCC's shenanigans. My comment was more general, in that the IPCC and others used "peer-review" as a bludgeon against their opponents, all while they were gaming the peer-review system to exclude them.

As Phil Jones wrote to Mann: "I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow--even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!"
Holy living fuck. And this is a company that basically has encryption and security tied into its basic business. I think I might have to cancel my AmEx, cause they are obviously idiots over there.
Not to me. You shouldn't compromise the security of your entire system just to safeguard against certain keylogger scenarios.
That response seems to be par for the course.

I phoned up my bank (HSBC in the UK) a few days ago to explain that their bank-issued Visa debit card is not secure: Verified by Visa is akin to protecting my money with a sheet of paper. Their explanation was, and I am not joking, that the system was American and so poor them can't do anything about it.

Honestly, the banks don't care. They've shifted the burden of dealing with fraud onto us consumers, but gave rubbish security tools. They have no incentive to change, until a big theft happens. Even then, I doubt they'll change their ways.
I'm a big fan of the Motley Fool investment newsletters/forums. In your case I would have a look at the "Income Investor" and "Rule Your Retirement" newsletters.
The video of the product looks great, so I go to edit one of the examples and choose "Import to Vector Editor" and then a window loads asking me to install Adobe Flash 10 and I think to myself, why on earth would anyone create an Adobe Creative Suite killer written in Adobe Flash?
A secure password can be a correctly-capitalized and punctuated sentence. There is nothing reasonable about their concern.
Interesting - almost every single paragraph of this response is incorrect:

<--
I would like to inform you that our website has a 128 bit encryption. With this base, passwords that comprise only of letters and alphabets create an algorithm that is difficult to crack. We discourage the use of special characters because hacking softwares can recognize them very easily.
-->

I don't even need to dissect the "hacking software can recognize them very easily" in this forum. They sound like they are suggesting reducing the possible keyspace is a _good_ thing. It isn't. It really, really isn't.

<--
The length of the password is limited to 8 characters to reduce keyboard contact. Some softwares can decipher a password based on the information of “most common keys pressed”.
-->

This one is just so wrong as to make it hard to understand what they are saying. Ironically, _fewer_ keys, make it easier to guess based on the "common keys pressed (4 character passwords on Intercoms are easily guess based on "Wear")

<--
Therefore, lesser keys punched in a given frame of time lessen the possibility of the password being cracked.
-->

Still making no sense.

<--
Moreover, American Express is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all of our Cardmembers, both on-line and off-line. We believe that our current security measures, which include our sophisticated monitoring systems to detect unusual or fraudulent card activity, provide strong, ongoing protections for our Cardmembers.
-->

Nothing to do with passwords, and, based on the previous sentences, doesn't really inspire faith on their Sophisticated Security. I'm not saying amex doesn't have their act together, it's just not coming through in this email.

<--
Rest assured, I have forwarded your comments to our webmaster for review. During this review, we may contact you if additional information is required.
-->

Well, at least there is hope that the "webmaster" may come to their senses.
Advising many people to buy on a predictable date smells like an attempt to create a profitable liquidity trade: short on the 1st, cover on the 2nd when prices return to normal demand levels.

Buy on a random day, or a down day. :-)
They also have a name for this technique - dollar cost averaging.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_cost_averaging
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There have been alternatives to the drill for quite some time. My dentist uses "air abrasion" to clean out the cavities before filling them. This is a pain-free and numbing-free method of dentistry.

Per WebMD: http://www.webmd.com/oral-health/guide/air-abrasion
CambrianHouse did this for a while and had a very vibrant community. They shut down and became VenCorps because they felt like nothing was actually getting accomplished.
i got stood up twice by the founder of drop.io who never showed up to two separate meetings he setup.

really awesome to have to pay $20 you don't have for a taxi to meet the companies founder and then have them not show up, twice.

i would highly advise against applying
In my experience, service in Paris is inferior to almost every other place i've been to. People simply can't be bothered to be helpful. They always have better things to do, like finishing the conversation with their spouse, texting the boyfriend, biting the nails, etc. That is, unless you're a good looking piece of ass, in which case you might get a nice i wanna do you smile.

The French do indeed expect you to address them in French (in my experience, the ones that speak good English will have no problem with English though; very few of these though). And they simply have a different mindset. The waiter doesn't give a shit about you since (s)he is paid the same thing. The sellers in stores don't give a shit about whether you buy or not -- they get paid the same. They endorse random strikes, etc.

You just have to learn to live with it. There are good things about Paris. And I have seen good service in France, with trained waiters; the trick is that the bill/person can run up to 100 euros in such places.
Sounds like you have an application worth selling back to Teuxdeux or releasing yourself after "tweaking" the UI so as not to steal from them. Just took an overview of their product and your additions seem like good ideas.
I tried not going to the dentist during grad school, yes. (More out of absent-mindedness than with any definite plan.) I spent perhaps four or five years dentist-free.

My reward was a series of extremely painful toothaches followed almost immediately by a bunch of very expensive root canals and crowns.

Let me assure you: Once your toothache starts, your time as a dentist-denier is going to come to a fast end, one way or another. They hurt a lot. Not to mention the fact that if you get an abscessed tooth it can literally threaten your life.

Of course, you don't necessarily have to have the dental insurance and the well-paying job that I had when my dental emergency arrived. Instead you can elect the more traditional option: Have all the offending teeth pulled out. Then you may eventually need dentures. [1] I'm told that dentures are no fun whatsoever. I have had no reason to regret spending money on dentistry instead.

Of course, if you literally never touch soda or sugar, brush your teeth carefully, and are blessed with better genetics than mine you might get lucky...

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[1] Pulling one tooth can have a negative effect on neighboring teeth, as the bone loss under the empty space causes the neighbors to loosen and slip. That's why people who lose permanent teeth tend to get crowns or bridges.
I think Dollar Cost Averaging is also fairly common in discussions about regular savings plans - eg, establishing an automatic savings plans that deducts $x from each salary and invests in a fund has the benefits of slowly building savings without you missing it, and dollar cost averaging into a market.

Perhaps it's more common here in Australia, where compulsory superannuation (currently at 9%) means almost all of the workforce are investing in shares in some form.
Thanks for sharing those figures. For someone EU-based it might not be much... but for me (South America-based) it would be more than my day job :) .

I hope I'll have the strength of will to follow through and do this :)
So, then the question becomes... how do you develop good taste?

Is it even something that's developable at all? And, also there's a gap between having good taste and being able to make products that reflect it.

Ira Glass touches upon it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hidvElQ0xE

And so does _why, http://favstar.fm/users/_why/status/881768089

So, perhaps the answer (translated to web products) is, just keep releasing a bunch of work, keep trying to understand your market and keep learning from the work you're putting out to make future work better. Not quite sure this is the right answer, though.
This seems reasonable to me. Key loggers on users' computers are probably their most common breach vector (by far), so whatever password policy minimizes that risk is probably best. You also see this in their other security policies - for example, asking a secondary password (security question) which sets a long-expiration cookie. With 128-bit SSL on the login page and a 5-guess lockout policy, there isn't much reason for strong passwords.
even 2^20 wouldn't be a megabyte rather than the figure of 1048576 (which happens to be the amount of bytes a megabyte happens to have), so, a number != a storage
You probably mean Weta Digital (http://www.wetafx.co.nz/), named after a New Zealand insect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weta). Confusing matters is the fact that Weta Digital is located just off Weka Street (my old street, coincidentally), which is named after a New Zealand bird (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weka).