skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does it for me is the daily email with the subject:
"Successful Credit Card Settlement Report."
That's interesting. Unfortunately the text isn't free. Do they have any guess as to why?

My guess is that there's some fairly simple heuristic that gives the right answer, which birds are using but which we, for some reason, are not. Either we lost / never had the instinctive heuristic or it gets vetoed by confused conscious thought.
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[To be able to scale] your web app business must also:
1. Not require additional staff time per customer

Well, I guess that means immensely succesful enterprises like Facebook and Twitter don't scale.
After all, they've been hiring more and more people while growing, in part to deal with all their customers.
Ask HN: Do you understand your operating system?
Dear HN readers,

this is something that bugs me for quite some time, therefore I decided to ask around:

Do you feel like you understand your OS? Have you really have acquired the feeling of trust and mastering its (inner) complexities? And, most obvious: do you care about this?

This question affects free OSes a lot more than proprietary ones, obviously, so if you care, it'd be great to hear from your experienced feelings corresponding to the OS you use or used, as well as the depth your technical understanding had to reach in order to gain the experience of 'groking it'.

I hope that's not too vague, maybe it helps to tell you that this question popped into my mind when I thought about switching from GNU/Linux to *BSD once again, this time hoping to leave some mysteries behind.
I haven't actually used XMMS2, but I really like not having the music stop if I have to log out. Also, having it play when I'm not even done booting yet is nice. :)
I don't think there's an ETA for 1.9.2 yet (although some discussion about creating a new release schedule was taking place on ruby-core) and I've not heard any hints that the numbering scheme will be changed.
Done. A couple of times at least. And I agree it sucks :P

(though I do love my day job)
I think you're missing the point now. Again, no disrespect to you or your Nethack abilities; ascending a character is serious evidence of skills.

What I wanted to point out is something you didn't emphasize: using and abusing the rules is what makes Nethack a unique gaming experience. Self-imposed restrictions aren't the only way to go, but they do force you to abuse the rules more heavily than without.

Here are some classics that demonstrate what I'm talking about:
- foodless atheist polyless: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/m...?
- pacifist, with Pestilence as his pet: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/m...?
xmms2 is a daemon like mpd, but with more modular handling of streams and a better API for writing clients.

One client I wrote: http://github.com/jrockway/bigband

It collects data on which parts of which songs you listen to, and then presents the data as a web interface. Since the data collection and web stuff are async, the web interface can update live as you are listening to music. (The use of this is to see which songs you listen to all the way through, and which ones you ditch at a certain point. For me anyway, the graphs are quite interesting.)
I think it's the baseless threats of lawsuits against those implementing something that is claimed to be an open spec that puts them in that category.
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yes, but if you are careful you can add a weight vest or light ankle/wrist/dumbbell weights and do various cardio exercises with minimal risk (if you use proper form). you should reduce your weight if your exercises are too high impact.

small to medium dumbbells in combination with different exercises (squats, lunges, burpees, squat jumps, etc) can definitely give you an edge in your overall conditioning. jump training is very effective with a good amount of extra weight (30lbs or more) - of course watch your landing. even punching for 3 minutes with 5lb dumbbells is insane.
All of the files are downloadable and free of DRM. This only affects people trying to watch live via non-adobe software. Who have now all found out that it's better to just download and totally ignore the limitations imposed by the BBC.
Fortunately you can buy cheap 3G data SIMs with cash in the UK... so I am not exactly sure what this will prevent.

Why does the government care so much about such a small minority group (movie studios / bands), anyway? It's sad that nobody wants to pay money for creative works anymore, but that's an issue with the market, not with people. Stop making music and movies if it's not profitable anymore.
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"which is largely why the GNU/Linux desktop just can't get a foothold, despite its quality"

lol
Another battle won for copyright lobbies. This bill as no upside for British society, neither for consumers nor for companies.
>libraries and universities could not be exempted
That sentence made me tick, reminiscence of autodafés.
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Conversely, a way to ensure that it does appear on Reddit is to include several pictures (or videos) of kittehs.
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The craziest aspect is that this seems to be done in the name of copyright protection. At the very least, they should have claimed it is necessary to fight terrorism. But piracy?
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So? This does not help me at all. If my host is down, then my site is down. If my JavaScript CDN is down and I have no fallback, my site is down as well. You imply that "totalDownTime = CDNDownTime", while really it is "totalDownTime = WebhostDownTime + CDNDownTime". Thus using a CDN, while it might make the site faster 99,999% of the time, always increases the total downtime.
Same for Linux. Regarding fraud profitabililty, I wonder whether it's really that a good idea to evangelize to get Windows users to switch platforms.
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Books give him a temporal high? WTF?
> or it gets vetoed by confused conscious thought

Bingo, IMHO. The "stand back, I'm applying rational thought to this" attitude has made quite a few victims ...

Also known as "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing".
Our overdeveloped pattern-recognition engine is not as good (and unbiased) at rational thought as we like to believe.
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Unless my lab mouse is really conducting experiments on you? Trying to make you think that your oil is smarter (RIP Adams)
Link bait misleading headline. Flagged.

>> "THE GLORIOUS BRITISH GOVERNMENT, upon which the sun finally set almost 100 years ago, has decided that having open WiFi networks is bad for the general population and it wants them all shut off."

No. One unelected lord Mandleson who was kicked out of the commons twice and then made a lord by his cronies, otherwise known as Darth Vader, is trying to get his poorly thought out bill through. He doesn't represent the government, and he certainly doesn't represent the UK.

This is a mainly crazy proposed bill that is pretty moot. Despite it being completely crazy, there's likely going to be an election very soon.

http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2009-10/digitaleconomy/s...

It's not even through the house of lords yet, let alone house of commons.

This sort of tripe anti-uk article has no place anywhere, let alone HN.
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It's nice to think that every plant has some mathematical formula encoded within it's genes:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=polar+r+%3D+%28sin%28th...

but given a shape, what's the easiest way to find the formula. Is there automated tools to do this from picture files?
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The two generalizations

1) "Pushing to a live site is a bad idea."
2) "Pushing into a non-bare repo is a bad idea."

both don't hold.

Regarding 1): It depends on how well-tested the code you're pushing is. Also, conceptually it doesn't matter whether you deploy by pushing to the live system, or by triggering a script on the live system which pulls from the test system. Both achieve exactly the same, so both are equally good or bad. However, the push is more comfortable.

Regarding 2): I have a scenario at home where such a push makes a lot of sense. There is a stationary computer and a laptop, both of which have a common document repository (using Mercurial). Synchronization happens when the laptop is at home. It's just "hg pull -u ; hg push". The laptop needs access to the stationary computer, but not vice versa.

If I avoided the push, I'd have to trigger a script on the stationary computer which in turn pulls from the laptop. Net result: One more script and one more communication channel, i.e. more work and less security.

So please be careful with exaggerated generalizations.
I think you may be assuming that either A) the children were forced to work or B) the children (and their parents) just did not know what was good for them. Both seem unlikely to me.
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It is pretty well established that using the characters etc. of one work to make a new work constitutes copyright infringement (it would be a derivative work). (Quick Google search turns up: http://www.publaw.com/fiction.html) The new work certainly has copyrightable elements of its own, but that does not change the basic fact that the new work infringes the old.

The bigger issue in my mind is the license. It is generally the case that if someone gives you a license to property, and you spend money in reliance on that license in a reasonable and expected manner, then the license becomes irrevocable. If Vivendi granted Phoenix a license, and Phoenix spent money developing the game, I can't see how the new property owner Activision can just retract the license.
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KK has eloquently explained the Internet is a copy machine. Money can/should be made on the so called 'generative values'.
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/01/better_than_f...
"Dependency resolution and updates are basic or not working yet."
Also incase it gets overlooked and assuming that those caffeine pills have no sugar/protein:

If your coffee has sugar you may notice the drop in sugar. If it has protein then this can greatly change the effect of the caffeine (the amino acids tyrosine+phenyalanine are required for adrenaline synthesis for example)
Someone needs to mention to startupsrule.com that they're using what appears to be a istockphoto copyright. The earth photo in the center...still has the watermark on it. not something you should be encouraging :)
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Presumably, when they attach the monetizers to their huge audience and begin extracting money from them, it will happen even when they sleep, so the statement still stands.
do you know why this sort of article is easily believable?
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Indeed -- it's called eccentric contraction, and the reason you do it is that it works the same muscles in a different way. Exercise routines that combine eccentric and concentric contractions (where the muscle shortens as it contracts) are probably more effective at increasing strength than ones that focus only on concentric contractions.

This is a really big error, and I don't see how it could be a typo. Agonist ("doer") and antagonist (opposing) muscles contract simultaneously when stabilizing a joint, but when lifting weights, the antagonists of the primary action (triceps and to some extent anconeus for curls) are relaxed both during concentric and eccentric contraction of the agonists (biceps, brachialis, and to some extent brachioradialis and a few other muscles of the forearm for curls). That is to say, the author's claim is absolutely wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_contraction#Eccentric_co...
It's certainly not won. As Axod points out this has barely made it's way past the proposal stage and I don't think it will actually make it through (due to the election coming, political climate etc.)
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Because some people believe everything they read on Reddit?

For example the tripe about the UK being overrun with CCTV cameras that are centrally monitored by the government.

As more and more people get their news from the internet, and don't bother fact checking, this will only increase. Rumor will rule. Knee jerk will be standard. Sad really how mob rule works.
has google been making the same mistake of not making enough ahem political contributions?
I don't get why this is bad. The stuff in /usr/local is supposed to belong all to me unless I have to share my computer with other users and then I guess I'd use a group. I also like the point the brew README makes about how using sudo a lot conditions you to use it without thinking.
Enlighten us :P seriously though the entire piece should ring bells. Example:

Most legal experts say it will become impossible for small businesses to offer WiFi access to their customers.

Really? No citations there?

Then the admission at the end that actually it probably wont affect them practically because they are too small....
Why is TSMC still having 40nm woes?
That's true, but unfortunately, trashing is the default.

Without any hooks, the next "git commit" on the remote system would add a patch that reverts the uploaded changes. This is very contra-intuitive and could be the source of big mistakes. It's a really nasty trap if you don't watch out!

I like more the approach of Marcurial and Darcs where "not trashing" is the default.
you may like __git_ps1 :)
What resources would you recommend for learning more about SEO (either online or in books) ?
The article seems to ignore code size completely, which seems to matter in real world apps.

See:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=841874
Any idea how old this is? It mentions Gopher ... Just the fact that it's some kind of technical writeup by jwz means it has to be a bit dated, right?
This is unrelated to the larger educational app, but I hope "Startup 3.0" doesn't take off as a name. It's a more fad-based, ephemeral phrase that is being used to mean the same thing as "Lean Startup" (ie the intersection of Customer Development and agile product development)
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Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1158510
Really? I would prefer a world without internet than a world without movies and music.
Slight aside, but thanks for posting that link. I was confused at your "let alone house of commons" bit as I never realised a bill could be started from either house..

http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/laws/passage_bill/index.h...
I read an article on Gamasutra a long time ago about this kind of experiment with mice (sadly, my google-fu was weak.) The researchers compared how much effort mice would put into pushing a lever N times to get food vs. pushing a lever that had a 1/N chance of giving food. What they saw was that, if they had a fixed goal, their "motivation" would follow a seesaw pattern: right after they got their prize, they would ignore the lever for a while, but when they were a few pushs from getting food, they would go nuts on it. The random lever got constant attention at a higher average.
The author translated this to Diablo: the player has leveling up, which is a fixed, visible goal that the player can strive for, and random equipment drops, that keep him hooked even when other incentives are one or two hours away.
Another game to consider: Civilization. I know you all experienced the just-one-more-turn, why-are-birds-chirping-outside effect. It does it by interleaving minor and major goals in different areas, so you don't have motivation valleys, only peak after peak.
Drug companies do sell or give away IP from time to time. But even in the scenario you suggest, with finite resources, why put money into antibiotics development? Why not just fund cancer research at a higher level? I think most pharmas wouldn't want to take the risk that the governmnt would leave them holding the bag. Contrary to the popular meme, drug companies don't generally want to sit on a drug that is ready to go.

But all that aside, there is nothing stopping the NIH from starting a research program and developing their own antibiotics (or any academic institution). This happens a bit already, but then it comes time to run the clinical trials and develop the research compound into an actual medicine. This requires expertise and infrastructure that does not exist in the public sector at a sufficient level to get the job done.
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At a luxurious 10 seconds a word, you would translate your 2000 words a day in approximately 5.5 hours. I think 10 seconds a word gives you enough time to translate one word, play one move of chess, and repeat. You could get really good at chess this way.
[Mandelson] doesn't represent the government

Now, I'm confused. The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (and First Secretary of State, cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Mandelson ) does not represent the UK government ?
What counts as a government 'seizure' of data under U.S. law?
Care to explain why is it funny?

If you remove network effects from the equation, do you still believe Windows would have its current market share?

I believe quite the contrary - if network effects played no role in the availability and usefulness of a computer, we would have a far more diverse ecosystem than we have now. I am not talking Unix-like OSs (subject to their own network effects) but really wild things all the way from the Ataris and Amigas and Smalltalk-as-the-OS machines to desktop Connection Machines (I would love to have one) and Plan 9 desktops.

It would be a far more interesting world.
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He meant temporary.
completely agree. Quality servers, definitely. Quality desktops? Gnome/KDE/other WMs are making inroads, but they are competing in an innovative market and it sucks to be third. Neither MS or Apple will let up the slack (after Vista) so even though Linux desktops look great compared to yesteryear's competitors they aren't looking very polished next to Win7/Snow leopard.
I do understand my OS, but it's probably better to not think about it. Knowing too much about UNIX leads you to want to throw it away and write something sane... but that is time consuming. Better to close your eyes and not think about the details.
http://bonsai-www.mozilla.org/cvslog.cgi?file=mozilla-org/ht... indicates it dates from '98
I can never find enough free icons for design work. There needs to be some sort of effort to compile all the free icons out there and add more over time too.
I care and I think I pretty much get what's going on under the hood of my Linux boxes as they seldom surprises me. OTOH, it's a complex system, with stack upon stack of hardware, firmware and software that makes really groking it (as I did with my Apple IIs in the early 80's) next to impossible. Even before the OS loads, an x86 PC is a very complicated animal.

As for the Windows notebook I am typing this in, it never ceases to amaze me and surprise me in almost always frustrating ways. It's indeed a box full of magic, but I am not sure its genies always work for me rather than against me.

I have tried a couple times to move to FreeBSD, but I always got frustrated with, what I perceived, a purist view of what a Unix machine should be - clean, simple and somewhat bare. I kind of like the magical things that happen in Linux, particularly package management. I utterly dislike the way it handles wireless networking, but I guess this is a feature nobody got right.
The TV license is already £142 a year, or about £12 a month. I think even that is expensive never mind suggesting paying them £120 a month whether you watch the BBC channels or not.

When you compare what you get from Sky (if you are into sports and movies and the US shows on Sky 1), the BBC license fee is steep enough.

That said, they do provide a good service, and wouldn't be able to if it was not for the license fee model, but it does annoy me that I cannot opt out of watching BBC and waive the license fee and yet still watch Sky Sports becasue its a against the law!
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Be sure to consider the accounting & customer service costs of whatever model you choose. A one-time fee is is easy to administer, while a recurring cost is an order of magnitude more complex, and recurring costs with roll-over and top-up ability yet another order of magnitude more complex-- And not just from your side, but the mental burden it inflicts on the user. Recurring costs, no matter how small, always present a greater mental barrier to purchase than a one-time fee.
http://www.iconfinder.net/ is a good resource. You can filter commercial/non-commercial.
according to various resources google.load() can do the work asynchronously so the whole page load will not be stalled by the <script> loading. Also you may want to load that .js only on demand not on page load.
That said, IMHO most pages are fine with hardcoded <script> though.
That partisan think-tank study is pretty laughable. Since when is quality of life judged by appliance ownership? I don't have healthcare, a proper education, job skills, and my neighborhood is dangerous but hey at least I've got AC and this wonderful color TV!
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For me the most interesting data point was this paragraph on page 10:

In 2008, Google ran 6,000 experiments involving web search which resulted in 450–500 changes in the system. Some of these were experiments with the user interface, some were basic changes to the algorithm (Hoff (2009)). The ads team at Google ran a similar number of experiments, tweaking everything from the background color of the ads, to the spacing between the ads and search results, to the underlying ranking algorithm.

That's over a dozen A/B tests per day. For each product line.
Is making use of unprotected Wi-Fi stealing?
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I guess the author refers to prototyping as in getting something basic working rather than UI prototyping. So in that case, thumbs up to HAML and SASS/LESS (whichever you use).

I love Balsamiq. I got a lot of UI ideas done easily with it. Was worth a lot more than the $79 I paid.

I thought I was the only one using haml to write my HTML for static sites. I just completed a static site for a friend and I didn't know about the static site servers mentioned in this blog, so was using
$ haml mypage.haml mypage.html
to get my output each time.

Kudos for tipping everyone on the statis site servers.
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