skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought it flowed very nicely and had a thoughtful, conversational tone. Taken farther, your desire for concision would eventually bring us to a list of Powerpoint bullets.

This style of writing and speaking encourages reflection. When he says "One might speculate", his audience is encouraged to speculate themselves, to question his point, or to ponder if there are perhaps other reasons for why people play. Your revised sentence is dry and scientific, it says, "here's why, period, no need to keep thinking about it."
http://isbn.nu/authorx/comer_douglas/
I wonder what would be the outcome of making a small version of that trick in a business card...hmm...
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From your description, you qualify for rent control, which means your landlord can only raise you rent at the rate of inflation (with certain exceptions).

From http://www.sftu.org/rentcontrol.html:

San Francisco's rent control law covers most rental property in San Francisco. If you live in San Francisco, you are covered by rent control unless you fall into one of these major exceptions

1. You live in a building constructed after June of 1979. This "new construction exemption" is the biggest exemption in SF

2. You live in subsidized housing, such as HUD housing projects.

3. You live in a dormitory, monastery, nunnery, etc.

4. You live in a residential hotel and have less than 28 days of continuous tenancy.
> I would not be sickened by anything that someone would enjoy telling me about.

This is actually an excellent test of the quality of a leisure activity and one I'd never considered. "And then, I clicked on the OTHER square, and a pumpkin grew THERE, too!" I just can't picture that.
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Analogy is " Could Wisdom of crowds' be wrong?
Clever, though I don't consider this an optical illusion any more than I consider a TV/monitor one.
The GPL never forced anyone to share any code. That would violate the freedom of thought (and freedoms 0 and 1 as well).

Please don't be sloppy. It spread fallacies.
It's a simple algorithm, and you could carry it out by hand in an image editor without much difficulty.

Just overlay N layers (the frames of your animation) on top of one another. For every Nth column of pixels, delete the next N-1 columns following it (in all layers). Then, for each layer at index X in the stack, translate the entire layer horizontally by X pixels.

Your overlay for viewing the animation is just a black opaque rectangle with every Nth column being deleted to reveal the image beneath.
I tend to agree with the article - especially in California it makes no sense to own a home at current prices, rent is a great deal and most landlords with a mortgage have negative cash flow.

In some other markets, like Texas, it's possible to own rental real estate that cash flows.

So this is the strange position I'm in where I own houses to rent but rent the place I live.
Why nobody uses LDAP
What is this for? You can use the search API directly (it works with URLs):

http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-API-Documentation

If you truly want regex support, just grab a lot of tweets with the API, and filter client-side.
Agreed; it's exactly the same principle as a flipbook or movie projector. Though it seems arbitrary that those things have ceased to be seen as optical illusions.
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Since when it making up fake contact info illegal? It is not a criminal offense to breech the terms of a website (unless the offense is criminal in the first place).

There must be more to this story.
The "average person" quite possibly thinks he/she is above average in terms of identifying such opportunities (cf. Lake Wobegon effect).

On top of that, there are government initiatives to "encourage home ownership" and to protect "homeowners" even if they bet completely wrong or obtained loans they couldn't possibly have qualified for if the lender had any common sense. These will tip the balance in favor of going into the housing market.
> Webkit has used Quartz on OS X to do accelerated drawing for a long time, and Apple's port to Windows had basic hardware compositing

Quartz Compositor, as the name suggests, can only do compositing. This isn't just compositing. Windows Vista and above and Linux with Compiz also do compositing in hardware -- that isn't nearly comparable to Direct2D, though, because all these solutions render on the CPU.

QuartzGL, which is somewhat nearer to D2D in intent, still isn't enabled by default, even on Snow Leopard. http://www.tapper-ware.net/stable/web.dom.stresstest.transfo... is a good example of what's possible with true hardware acceleration and not just compositing: http://www.tapper-ware.net/files/stresstest.comparison.ogg shows how it performs on different browsers in Windows. Pretty stark difference, don't you think?

> Mozilla is very late to the party. It seems like they're following Microsoft's lead here after they released builds of IE9 that use Direct2D and started dropping talking points about 'accelerated graphics'.

It actually isn't. Mozilla started working on Direct2D support before Microsoft announced it, and the newest nightly is easily the fastest and most responsive browser currently available across any platform. It truly is a quantum leap, in that it is going to be impossible for a non-hardware accelerated browser to catch up.
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Personally, I may be more angry at Ticketmaster for sucking than at the hackers.

What makes you so sure Ticketmaster could actually do anything about it?
Definitely, MIT has spun off some great companies to be sure. What caught my attention the most was Campbell's soup - thanks for that share. Wouldn't have ever guessed that.
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Some NoSQL system might make a very interesting replacement for LDAP.
I'm curious, is there a lottery-based alternative to TicketMaster? Or an option to use lottery rather than FCFS within TicketMaster?

If not, I think that would be a great project for a handful of enterprising engineers. There would be some legal and payment-related related problems to solve, I'm sure, as well as whatever barriers are supporting TicketMaster's current monopoly. But if there were ever a foothold for a new contender to take them on, this seems like it.
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What gives? This is the article I submitted, now my account (doc-film) is corrupted (delayed and not allowed to post)
http://www.merchant-advise.co.uk/The_Biggest_Flaw_In_The_PCI_DSS_Security_Regulations
I've had laptops where the monitor would shut off to save power and having an obvious way to know it is on is very valuable. I do not want to hit thepower button if the machine is on.

In general, dedicated hardware indicators are handy when your screen may have died or otherwise cannot rely on a monitor.
actually i was looking to rent a garage in the area.

there is something special about palo alto garages
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Obvious questions: how many other, less successful businesses did this building host?
BYO with Yahoo BOSS. Here's an example app:
http://zooie.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/twitter-boss-real-time...
While I agree that LDAP is confusing - it is very widely used so I don't think it is realistic to say that "nobody uses it".
I have the same question as when this story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=648578 was posted.

Why would anyone ever do this while operating from the United States? There are countries with much laxer law enforcement. And, as a bonus, $6 million/person will go a lot farther in most of those countries.
Wow that is pretty incredible to hear the story of the National Enquirer. I just thought it was where Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith got their leads for hunting down aliens!
LDAP is a protocol, not a data store. I agree that you could implement a LDAP directory services server using a NoSQL database.
> which provides students from its two high schools free MacBooks

Can MacBooks have their webcams activated without the light turning on?
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There are plenty of good reasons for selling tickets at lower-than-necessary prices on a first-come, first-served basis. If tickets were sold at market price (or auctioned off), they would tend to go to more affluent--and likely then older--customers. If they were sold by lottery, then they would be distributed to random customers.

However, ticket sellers want to sell to younger customers who are more likely to become loyal fans, buy merchandise, promote to friends, etc. The low prices help attract younger customers who likely are not as well off, and the first-come, first-serve policy tends to weed out customers who only have a marginal interest (and thus would not serve as loyal fans).

This isn't to say that this business model is the best; just to point out that there are more considerations than the volume of tickets sold or fairness in the sales.
Great resource, thanks for sharing! It is yet another reminder that I should have paid better attention in statistics classes!
I am looking for an existing Twitter client that can filter by regex while still having all of the bells and whistles. Building my own would be a last resort.
To be fair, though, that's sort of how the RFC process works. For example, TCP is kind of a rat's nest of documents too: http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/tcp.htm#RFCs
No, AFAIK the students were informed that it was a glitch. No webcam LED was circumvented.
There are a few of these (or similar) on display at the San Francisco Exploratorium; well worth a visit if you've never been.

I made a simple RMagick script to generate these from animation frames. Turns out it even works well with full-color images. See: http://doormouse.org/illusion/
(interactivity only works in browsers that support the HTML5 range element)
That's exactly the rub, proving that this is fraud, or creating new legislation that make it fraud, is very difficult.

I hope you at least agree that they do not provide a service of any kind? They grab a limited resource and resell it, while adding no value whatsoever. They just grab it first and capitalize on the difference between the long-term and short-term best market prices for tickets.

I'd say the best solution to the problem is simply to take the thing partially offline again. Botnets can always out-crowd users, but you can't outcrowd actual people.
It's a particularly ugly protocol, if you ask me. I hacked and slashed and swore and got it working for a company I worked for several years ago, but it was not a pleasant experience.
startup idea: make advertising board with this. People walk by and see the motion.
I think you need one more variable in there, but yeah that's the right idea :)
One Hundred Years of Solitude

Completely offtopic, but...

i've never been able to finish it. The repetitiveness bored me out of my skull. It's on the stack of unfinished books with, among others, On the Road (by Kerouac) and Catch-22 (by Heller). I'd rather re-read Gormenghast (by Peake), The Plague (by Camus) or any book by Marukami.
I'd say "most community-lead ones".

Check out Spring Framework bugs(about hundred total):
8 for 3.0.3 (current stable)
0 for 2.5.6 (previous stable)
I don't believe in luck. There is only work ethic and understanding the probabilities.
Pretty sure that Zimbra's email server uses LDAP "under the covers". The Zimbra mail server is behind Comcast's email system, and many other ISPs and hosting companies use it as well.
Now with statistics from the Census Bureau!

"Women-owned firms with paid employees accounted for 14.1 percent of the total number of women-owned firms"

24% of businesses in total have paid employees. Also interesting: women-owned businesses accounted for just under a trillion in business revenues, businesses in total accounted for over 22 trillion.

Caveat: some more number crunching may have to be done, as by "business owner" they may simply mean anyone who files income under a Schedule C (usually in conjunction with a 1099). This includes all contractors, for instance.

http://www.census.gov/econ/sbo/02/womensof.html

http://www.census.gov/econ/sbo/02/cosumsof.html
Hmm, at $250 a pop, OLPC is on the price range of a netbook. iPad is a few steps away as well. It's very much possible that the iPad could get to this price range, if not even cheaper with the economies of scale for a project like OLPC. Yes, I realize OLPC needs a crank, etc. But, what's not to stop Apple from coming up with iCrank (I also believe Apple has created a new niche of developers iCranky using their iPhone OS 4.0 - but I digress).

Before you point out about Apple's closed platform, do think about how easy the App store is and how much more depth of interactivity and detail the iPad could bring to learning.
How about rattle?
http://rattle.togaware.com/
Lots of people I know use LDAP working just fine.
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The importance of “http://”
Their tech support does not seem too good. Many months back I wrote a command-line client to post/edit/delete etc in tumblr.

Posting an image gave an error (using their API). I forwarded that to tech support. Weeks later i even wrote to Marco. But no reply from anyone.
By the way, would it really have killed you to research for 2 seconds to find that Tupperware is still recruiting "Tupperware consultants"[1], whom continue to hold Tupperware parties "somewhere in the world...every 2.2 seconds"?[2] Or is taking someone down a peg over the internet more important than keeping your facts straight?

[1] http://www.tupperware.com/pls/htprod_www/tup_opportunity.opp...

[2] http://www.tupperware.com/pls/htprod_www/tup_party.classic
Checkout Yahoo BOSS, you can whip up your own client pretty easily in Python or Ruby.
Ahem...I use my school's LDAP directory, and it's very useful.
Yeah thanks, never seen that before. Buzz off.

Feel free to ding my karma again, I have plenty. Might as well put it to use griping about the same people who will vote these comments down. If nobody is afraid to break the HN taboo of complaining about the quality of submissions ("oh he's complaining, he must be a new guy, haha I'll link him to the guidelines and put him in his place, yeah!") then people will keep submitting crap.
This is giving me happy memories of demos on the commodore Amiga and Atari ST :-)
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This makes sense with the link between good fats, like Omega 3s, and elevated moods I keep hearing about.

It's really important to recognize the difference between good fats (salmon, avocado, olive oil etc) and bad fats (fries, butter etc). Same is true for good and bad carbs.
Part of the problem is that people are more likely to embark on careers based on the cultural imagery than on academic interest - if you have no prior knowledge of the academics behind any given subject, intrinsic attraction will not magically present itself, so decisions to seriously study any subject have to use other factors(pay, lifestyle, etc.) and the stereotyping plays into that.

Hence, it is the interest of society to:

* Properly introduce computer science(and other modern subjects) into school curricula, so that intrinsic factors can become apparent

* Have our artistic works give positive, progressive depictions of real people doing real work; this will push students towards more intrinsic factors.

* Continue developing accessible introductory material; the study process most programmers used to learn(bang your head against the wall for hours until you get it) is overly unsteady and hesitant, with most of the important conceptual imagery locked deep within dry, reference-heavy descriptions of algorithms and data structures. This hurts our talent pool. Accessible computer science - not "dumbed down", but better-taught - would automatically push the demographics towards gender balance.
Jeez. I really don't get the fuss about this. 99% of web users probably won't even notice, except they might be pleased with the removal of the incomprehensible (and, for years now, unnecessary for input) code in front of the part of the website address they recognise and understand.

And for everybody else, what exactly is the problem? Copy/paste? I'm sure that can be fixed, even if it means the user setting "show http:// in my address bar" as a preference.

I read a lot on this and other websites about opinionated design. This is one of those things. The chrome team think this is a good idea. Some people disagree. As anyone who has ever run any kind of open source project can tell you, you can't just react to objections with "Okay then let's switch it back". At some point you have to actually make your own decision, weighing up the benefits against the costs, taking into account the number of people experiencing each.

In this case, it seems like a massive improvement for simplicity for most web users, and a trivial, surely quite easily fixed bug for an unknown percentage of the small percentage of users who would ever need or want the 'http:// there.

Just my opinion. I would be interested to hear what other people think.
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I wonder how a small cactus would do in a terrarium of this size? They shouldn't need much in the way of water.
That sounds like fun!

Did you fill the lightbulb with water afterwards, and let the ship float in the water, or did you make some kind of stand inside of the lightbulb?
As someone who has had to maintain a midsized openldap setup I can only agree wholeheartly: The day the LDAP dinosaur dies will be a happy day.

LDIF is sort of bearable once you found proper tooling (ldapvi!) and overall the whole thing looks quite sensible and usable at first. For a few minutes. Right after installing slapd and adding your first organizationalPerson.

A few hours later, after wiring up a few applications, things will unfortunately have changed for the worse. Your schema is now cluttered with insane amounts of cruft and redundancy, because every application that supports LDAP (which is not the most common feat in first place) seems to have a slightly different idea of what your schema should look like or what a good password hash is.

Getting to the point of true single-signon is a major undertaking. And during large parts of that journey you will feel a lot like Indiana Jones. You get to puzzle together fragments of ancient documentation while fighting off a mythologic multi-headed hound. You get to spend hours in endless dungeons of subtle incompatibilities and meaningless error messages. And if you ever get bored there's always a fair share of cryptology waiting for the inquiring archeologist, sometimes humorously declared as "documentation" - but usually just in the form of brief S.O.S-messages carved into a usenet stone-wall somewhere on the internet. Sometime in 1983. By some other poor soul stumbling around in a similar - but of course not compatible and long deprecated - maze.

Yea, lots of fun can be had with LDAP. Not.
Cranks are not esthetically pleasing. And if Apple did create iCrank, you'd have to go to the Apple store to have someone replace it when it broke off. But we both digress...

But seriously, they said the same thing about computers in general, about their ability to bring more depth of interactivity and detail to learning. Somehow I doubt lack of specific kinds of technology are the major hindrance to learning today, at least in developed countries, er, ahem, the US.
But they let you FLY through the AIR. Seriously - it's pretty awesome.
A terser version with pictures: http://python.net/~goodger/projects/pycon/2007/idiomatic/han... from "Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python" by David Goodger
Indeed, like I say, most people don't realize the problem is the engines.

Also aviation radars see clouds by the moisture in them - they can't see ash because it's dry.
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I didn't want to reply to throw fuel in this flame, but felt that I should put an end to it. I merely pointed out the link (which you already are familiar with) to end the flames that were going on. Fwiw, I didn't even ding your karma down.

Yes, any community will inevitably be filled with a few neighbors with lawn-mowers going off in the middle of the night, but it's worth a gentle reminder. Heck, yes this may very much be off topic (to you and some others), but you have to also realize that the community shapes up the discussions. In this very thread, there are discussions about how this could be done interactively and even some examples at that too.

And before I upvote or downvote, I look at the username, their recent actions and their karma level. I saw the post user's profile and learned that the user is new to this community and let it slide, for hey we were all noobs once here and have probably done some off-topic things.

"people will keep submitting crap." Oh yes, they will! But, don't worry, HN is a pretty good community as a whole at smelling out B.S. :-)
I don't think you realize just how fast planes are compared to ships. A decent speed for a ship is 20kts. An airliner routinely makes 500kts. Hours become days and days become weeks. Everyone's world becomes a lot smaller unless you want to spend your entire vacation traveling.
To open a terminal simply press cmd + return.
>> "Also significant number of accidents on the roads happen because people are drowsy"

Show some evidence. I don't buy it.
That is not true. Well, it might be in some specific cases but in the UK at least it's perfectly normal for a lender to impose no penalties for early- or over-payment. Our mortgage market is extremely competitive however (that amplified the effect of the housing bubble).
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply "you" specifically as the one dinging my karma. I kind of meant for everything after that first sentence that referred to "you" to mean anyone reading it. You can't vote down all of my comments 5 times on your own.

For what it's worth, I'm mostly disappointed in stuff like this because, while many people were noobs at some point: 1) anyone is free to lurk until they feel un-noob-like 2) you can show some restraint when posting links.

I've only made a few submissions, and I think they were pretty ok. Out of the 10, 1 was off topic, and only partially.

Here is what bugs me the most: I used to be able to read the 'new' page and see cool stuff. Some of it wouldn't get to the top/front page. Most of it, even the stuff in 'new', was usually pretty good. As it is now, only the top/front page of HN is good to read. Going through 'new' is like becoming a human crap filter.

Please don't just submit any crap you feel like because maybe it will get voted to the front. Only submit good stuff.

"HN is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of people complaining."
I think you miss understand him - the encryption would happen entirely on your side.

That way if a warrant was presented, all they would have would be a bunch of unreadable files.
Interesting blog, showing the banking-side view. The call for 'executable-regulation' reminded me that lawyers also pride themselves on their fine analytical minds, piling up sharp clauses to cover this and that.

I suspect that, if they could, and would, run unit tests on their products, there would be much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

On the other hand, we already have that with the current system, and that's perhaps the point of it. The making of sausages, and all that.
I think tarsnap is the closest.
hey i'm about to do this, would be happy to chat about it sometime
Starting with Akka and Scala
And the L in LDAP means "Lightweight"! Maybe its just in there for comedic effect.