skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except for a lot of other things, too: iTunes client, App Store with millions of credit card numbers in its database, MobileMe cloud service, a chip design firm in PA Semiconductor, 5% of Akamai, 7% of Disney, a soon to launch iAds, and a soon to launch Game Centre.

People seem to forget that Apple owns a chunk of absolutely everything from one end to the other.
I thought of setting up offlineimap -- I'm a huge Gnus fan -- but more so I don't have nnml hierarchies only accessible from only one machine. How do you handle Gnus's grotesque Maildir support though? I'm given to understand it doesn't support Maildir flags and will put its own flags off to the side where nothing else (including, presumably, offlineimap) can read them. That and it makes a ton of links to the specific filename for its indices so I imagine everything would break and there'd be lots of space lossage if offlineimap moves messages around under it.

If you're having good luck with offlineimap/nnmaildir though then that's encouraging and I might try that.
In the phase diagram on Wikipedia, which is more precise, shows a negative slope on the transition frozen-liquid, unlike the sketched version on the second video, which, I guess, is for all other elements. On such a negative slope, if the temperature increases the transition will continue to occur if the pressure decreases.

Isn't this negative slope well in accordance with the fact that water expands when freezing?
What should students choose? Less than 50k or should there be a new option?
Trademark law is, broadly speaking, a good thing. It can be abused, but there is a reason it is there.

Coming at this cold, Groggle strikes me as a bad-faith effort to build on the Google name. This is exactly what trademark law is supposed to stop. If it weren't a search app I might feel a bit more sympathy, but come on! Am I seriously supposed to believe you would have named your app that if there wasn't a world-famous Google? Yes, the odds are non-zero ("grog" is a funny-sounding, memorable word and definitely a good base for a name), but in a world where everyone knows the name Google, give me a break.

If this is trying to drum up sympathy, it has failed. Don't wave red flags in front of bulls then complain about the result.
Last company I worked at did nothing but that. I think it's more common in the MS/.NET world.

http://accusoft.com/
I assumed readers would know not to select More than 1M and More than 50K.
For what I have read, Cubans brought Cuba back from the brink of starvation. The main merit of Fidel was turning his eye to the other side when people began to break the official policies and do what needed to be done in order to keep themselves fed.
I think I'm a bit naive, but how can a high dollar exit leave your vested shares worthless?
There is a lot more awesome stuff like that here:

http://www.chromeexperiments.com/

In fact, the thing you linked to is linked to from here.
Vote for YC: Heyzap, Anyvite, Heroku, Wufoo, Highlightcam, Clickfacts
Although that's most likely true, unfortunately, based on my research, I haven't seen anywhere that says that is an acceptable answer. I know. Sad isn't it?
These figures will be distorted by many on HN who are building equity in businesses rather than drawing income.
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This guy should just be pleased - national publicity in the major papers.

Best thing he could do is change the name quick and get people using the service.
I just described the intersection of power, money, and business. (so yeah, government contracting fits in the bucket)
re: battery life

Since, 1.4.1, I think things have changed. I get 3 days out of a full charge now which is close to making me forget my blackberry.
The real issue is that your thesis is flimsy and hinges on selective quoting and ignorance of context. Here is but one example:

when Jobs was making those statements about $500 tablets?

He wasn't. Here is the original transcript from which your first quote was pulled. It is not about tablets, and only by implication is it even about the idea of an "Apple netbook", the prevalent rumor of the day.

Toni Sacconaghi - Sanford Bernstein

And then you had also mentioned the price umbrella statement and you said look, certainly to be successful on iPhone, we don’t want to create a price umbrella. I think in response to another question, you also talked about extraordinary feature functionality in terms of your Mac products. Do you have the same philosophy around Mac as you do with iPhone, that you have to be careful not to create an umbrella in each? So I guess the simple question is should we continue to see more affordable price points across the Mac product family and across iPhone going forward?

Steven P. Jobs

Well, I think what we want to do is deliver a lot, an increasing level of value to these customers. There are some customers which we choose not to serve. We don’t know how to make a $500 computer that’s not a piece of junk, and our DNA will not let us ship that. But we can continue to deliver greater and greater value to those customers that we choose to serve and there’s a lot of them. And we’ve seen great success by focusing on certain segments of the market and not trying to be everything to everybody. So I think you can expect us to stick with that winning strategy and continuing to try to add more and more value to those products in those customer bases we choose to serve. Does that make sense to you?

Toni Sacconaghi - Sanford Bernstein

Yes, it does. I mean, I guess, if I could follow-up, you did in this case add more value in terms of feature functionality with your notebook by actually lowering the price, so you retained the features but lowered the price. Certainly in terms of the new notebooks, you retained the price and added more features.

Steven P. Jobs

Correct.

Toni Sacconaghi - Sanford Bernstein

Can we expect you to continue to attract more customers by doing both, both adding more features at the same price and lowering price and retaining the same features?

Steven P. Jobs

Well, we like to attract new customers but you will just have to wait and see.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/100980-apple-f4q08-qtr-end-9...
Actually, a bunch of us are working on taking the pain out of async programming. Here's my approach, using (fab)'s chained continuations:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tr4nslator/4532445014/in/set-72...
It will also by distorted by those who are playing the lotto but have not yet won it.
Correct, but they can still be implemented on top of the callback based APIs.
This is particularly important in the early to mid stage of a startup. I've seen cases where professional CEOs were brought in pre-funding or just as the company was getting funded.

The CEOs that I saw in these instances simply didn't know how to operate creatively in an environment with tight constraints, so they did the only thing they knew how to do: bring in unnecessary layers of middle management which of course results in burning through cash before achieving a scalable business model.
They will also be distorted by the large number of readers concentrated in the coasts.
Apple Paid More Than $200 Million For Siri To Get Into Mobile Search
I'd rather press charges against people who make comments on TechCrunch.

Tangential note, are there any good encryption plugins for GMail/Gchat/IRC?
Well, 'grog' is a synonym for 'booze' in UK and Australian culture. So it's not as arbitrary as it might seem. I think Google is overdoing it a bit here, and he could consider fighting it.

An injunction is not a trial, and if he loses at a court hearing he'll only have to pay his own lawyer but not Google's, unless Australian civil law is very different from here. It's basically down to the judge's opinion of whether Google's claim of substantial similarity has any merit, and with 'grog' being popular slang for alcohol, I'm guessing he'll side with the Australian government in allowing it.
How? I mean, through all my shell accounts, I could probably easily fake 10 votes.

Back in my less mature days, I registered 20 AIM accounts, and then wrote a script to have them all log in simultaneously and in one by one start a conversation with a target, and then at my command, flood the target with "warnings", silencing them on AIM. So immature - so fun.
This whole discussion about "job hoppers" is so bogus.

Employment is a relationship. It has two sides. When one party decides to end it, the most common reasons are:

1) Other party's chronic inability to respond and satisfy the breaker-upper's needs.
2) A competitor coming along who satisfies those needs much better.

Employers regularly break up employment relations for those two reasons. But now some CEOs and VC managers will have us believe that it's wrong for employees to do the same to them.

Employers are expected - nay, obligated! - to fire employees who fail to meet performance expectations. But if an employer fails to meet your compensation expectations, and you leave, the Susters and Calacanises shall publicly insult you and announce they will not hire you, and nobody else should either.

It is telling that only very specific employers and very specific dream-dealing businessmen are among the mob shouting indignantly about loyalty and morality. When was the last time Google or Palantir blogged petulantly about "Generation Y" and "trophy kids"?

Suster, Calacanis et al are reacting to their own failing at keeping employees, with all the grace, maturity and effectiveness of that girl you dumped, who went out on the street and shouted about what a terrible person you are to leave her, and how nobody else should ever trust or date you.

Mature, successful employers do not waste their time on that. They're too busy making great products with their happy, motivated, tenured employees - or bidding polite farewell to those who should or want to move on.

This article is spot on. Startup executives are world-class dealers of dreams. They need to be more weary of selling to their own employees. Too many bright engineers work insanely hard for a year or two, then discover all they're getting is fairy dust, and quit. Why don't Suster and Calacanis write an article about that?

It's most striking when a top employee leaves for a company that's not a startup. Take that engineer that left Mahalo for Yahoo recently. Suster and Calacanis call him a flake, yet how much you want to bet he'll stay at Yahoo longer than a year?

And since when is it acceptable to attack an ex-employee that way, sleazily keeping his name out, when everyone on the internet knows who the epitaphs refer to?

These people are sore losers, and they'll keep losing until they figure out what that "dying company" is doing right that makes their best engineers "hop" there rather than labor at their own enterprises.

All they do right now is poison and taint an otherwise healthy, open and mature dialogue between employees and employers.
I was just about to say the same.

Fear of computers is nothing compared to fear of mathematics.
If you're using gchat over pidgin, then the OTR plugin.
can't reproduce on my end -- Win7, IE8. Fairly quick turnaround for a fix on the MS side.
Given that you're a Cocoa developer, you may find Cappuccino interesting if you decide to start targetting the web.

http://cappuccino.org/
Many have said so, and I don't know if you'll check this thread, but many many thanks for this library. I've only ever used it on internal tools (and the ones worth sharing belong to my now-former employer), but it was really a joy to work with. I keep looking for places where I can use it in the future.
Change your job?
I've noticed errors in IE 6 on Live.com and Bing, too. Silly that I spend all this time making our sites work with IE6, and Microsoft themselves have tossed it aside.

As for the general point, I couldn't agree more. I do think Microsoft has intentionally impeded the progress of the open web. They made it clear with the whole Netscape deal that shift away from desktop apps (i.e., win32) towards a system where one can access programs and accomplish tasks equally well on any desktop OS was something they sought to avoid. And why not? They essentially had an obligation to their shareholders to preserve their advantage.

One could see how their interests would be served by making web development more difficult.
these images are transmitted through broadband to eye surgeons who are located hundreds of thousands of miles away.

That's gonna be a hell of a phone bill.
This is Mark Jeffrey.

My quitting Mahalo was in no way a comment on either Mahalo or Jason -- it was about me, my life, and stuff going on in it: and what i wanted to do next.

Jason is telling it like it is. And I'm totally stoked about ThisWeekIn and it fits much better with where I want to do -- and I'm frankly delighted to be working with Jason on it, given both our friendship and his experience. And he has a gun to my head and made me write this :)

(In all seriousness: JCal is telling the truth, I promise.)

- Mark
And Highlightcam
These editorials always make me wonder if my friends, cousins, and I are some sort of statistical outlier in my generation, or whether, maybe, it's just that the good workers my age don't get comment.

Then again, I've been told I'm too critical quite a bit.
Actually, what gave me the confidence to use the 1500 watt heating element was when I searched for the PID I was buying on google, I found a lot of links to home-brewers who used these heating elements drilled into the side of big aluminum/stainless steel pots. They were using even higher wattage units to get quicker boil times.
I'm pretty sure that list sums to zero, though.
If you put it in container that it can't possibly break, will it not freeze completely?
I'm sorry, but I've seen any number of scripts throw a JS error (especially an "Object Expected" error). Maybe an element isn't there (someone missed an if(el)), maybe an analytics service threw it, etc., etc. Microsoft does some silly things, but I don't think not testing is one of them.
Sorry about that! Edited.
Here's the best argument against that pessimistic view: people at Apple, Steve Jobs very much included, use Macs. They obviously love their macs, and would be very unhappy to be forced to move to windows. Steve Jobs does not want to use Windows, so he'll continue making computers that he wants to use.
Rackspace Cloud instances come in at $10 / mo for the smallest size.
You pretty much describe exactly what I built. It's all installed in a wooden box I created that sits on my counter, the top has the PID display, on either side is a wall outlet, one controlled by the PID and one direct 120V current for the water pump. The temperature controller is on a long wire that just comes out of a whole I drilled on the front, though you can build the fancy headphone attachment as detailed in the link. All the other wiring is in the box too, including the relay which is nice since it muffles the sound of the relay switching on/off.

I tried using it with the rice cooker I had and the results weren't great. I found the temperature fluctuations too erratic but didn't really investigate too much since my rice cooker was gonna be too small for anything but eggs.
How? I mean, through all my shell accounts, I could probably easily fake 10 votes.

Get an open proxy list, then rig up a simple script to roll through them casting votes.
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I know how you feel. I even hacked up a CGI library for node.js so I could host it on a shared server:

http://brianmckenna.org/blog/nodejs_via_cgi

It would have been great if this came out a few days earlier...
While I do think the guy should be prosecuted, I don't like how TC is turning the ordeal into another way to make money.

It reminds me of public hangings.
well... if you're a hacker with control to a botnet, then yeah, just tell the botnet to vote no. The 'no' votes will come in so fast that it will crash the servers.
It will be interesting to see what comes out of Symbian^4. As the 10+ year old Symbian UI framework is tossed out of the window and replaced by a Qt graphicsview based new one it requires all the app UIs to be rewritten there's a good chance to see some real improvements i.e. a real touch based UI instead of touch glued on top of dpad UI.

What comes to the developing environment Nokia has taken a huge leap (ok ok any improvement of the late atrocity is a huge improvement :)) by adopting Qt and their tools. It's hard to find people who will put Qt down.
They already are: http://github.com/kriszyp/node-promise
"These 'kids' are old enough to bear children and have done so during the majority of human history."

Historically children have been given less and less responsibility as the grow up and maturity has followed the same path.
New AWS region now live: Asia Pacific (Singapore)
> I think Flash will still be king until someone creates an authoring tool that can allow artists to easily animate something like this.

This is at least the second time I've seen the suggestion for an HTML5 authoring tool come up, something that would let designers and animators do what they can do in Flash. Adobe might incorporate HTML 5 as an option into CS at some point, but here, unlike w/ Flash, they don't get to spec out the language that everybody has to use.
Bingo -- my parents' street, which is comprised mostly of successful professionals with post-graduate education who work full-time jobs, has excellent community spirit. It's pretty much a given that any Friday evening with warm weather, most of the adults and kids on the street will be outside having a shared meal, talking about their weeks, and so on. They call it "Firepit Fridays," and it's apparently inspired other streets in the neighborhood.

My cousins live about a mile away, and have had similar success after installing a big front porch.

It's not "energy independence," or anything like that, it simply takes an effort to get these things started, and keep them going. And you have to like your neighbors; having a front porch doesn't hurt, either.
A pretty small victory at that: the laws are "unlikely to be passed before the election". No mention of any issues, just an unexplained delay. Not much of a retreat if you ask me.
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There's usually a fine line when prosecuting 'hackers' like this. Are they just playing around to see what they can do? Do you have a substantial chance to point them in the right direction for the future if you don't take the legal route? In this case, though, it just looks like an uneducated thug of the internet that Arrington would have little hope of converting.
Polling and assumptions about behavior don't mix well.
Honestly, the most surefire litmus test I've found is ex-employees who still speak positively about the employer.

Conversely, a very vague non-answer, like "I couldn't really say" may hint at a non-disparagement clause in exchange for a severance package (with an NDA covering the existence of the agreement itself).
Super Mario Crossover in the browser
Yes- larger crystals + expansion --> puncture and break cell walls --> not good when you're defrosted. Tangentially, this is why ice cream cooled with liquid nitrogen is so smooth
I put <50k. Just because we're students isn't an excuse!
Isn't HN's particular distortion the point of the exercise?
I made a lousy $20k last year, but I also made my analytics platform so that year's not a total writeoff.
Now we know. In a World Chess Championship match, three out of four games are decisive. Draws are an anomaly.
I know what grog is. I said everything I said fully aware of what it meant, I never said "arbitrary". http://arrrr.com/grog.shtml

You didn't answer my question, probably because it wouldn't help your point. Do you seriously expect me to believe that the name Groggle had nothing to do with trying to be a play on Google? In a search context? Google, the seventh most valuable brand in the world in 2009? http://www.interbrand.com/best_global_brands.aspx

If this was an innocent mistake and they had the purest intent, they might as well pack it in as they are too stupid to run a business anyhow. But that's not what happened, what happened is they tried to ride somebody else's name. There are good reasons we do not allow that, and casting the story as "awww, poor little dudes" doesn't make those reasons go away. (Indeed, "poor little dudes riding on established name" is one of the exact things trademark law is meant to prevent, and it is a good thing; being able to reliably and easily identify who you are doing business with by the name is one of the basic fundamentals of commerce, needed by all entities large and small. It isn't even remotely worth trading that away to make the "poor little dudes" happy.)
Even better, convince 4chan that it would be 'funny' to screw up the poll so that no charges are pressed. ;)
Let's talk about peakers' "mistakes":
> Firstly, there must be no discoveries of new reserves.

Wrong, all it takes is that the demand grows above the discoveries rate. If I remember correctly, demand to discoveries ratio was about 4:1 in the last decade. (and demand is to go even higher as emergent countries create middle classes that aspire to follow the American dream)

> Secondly, there must be no advances in technologies in extraction or refinement.

That is irrelevant. Efficiencies can only buy you more time. Every grade school kid knows fossil fuels are non renewable resources. We could debate whether the Peak Oil is one year, or one decade or one century away, but this is something that will eventually happen.

> Thirdly, there must be no advances in technologies to convert different hydrocarbon sources into others.

This is frankly foolish! It takes energy to transform materials from one "format" to another, and it takes serious energy to do that at an industrial scale. Specially, if you want to take low concentrated energy sources and make then highly concentrated, you will waste most of it away! (while screwing the environment on unprecedented scales) There is a good reason the Nazis tried an all-in and attacked Russia. They could not afford to keep converting coal into synthetic oil for much longer!

> Anyone who's looked at the numbers for reserves of coal, tar sands...

One thing that has to be said about this, is that the good stuff is already gone. Clearly, there is plenty of cheap, dirty, low yield fossil fuels around. But the sweet crude, the one that yielded 100:1 returns on energy invested, was burned during the economic expansion of the 20th century.

This is not to say that we are doomed, and that we are back to the dark ages (when I see the stupidity around in Facebook, I sometimes think we are indeed, but it clearly has nothing to do with peak oil). The catch is that we need to recognize that our whole civilization is built over a non renewable resource, and we have to use whatever we have left of it in an strategic way (which I think may last for the 21st century, give or take). It would be nice to make the jump now that we have still some capacity for retooling, than later on when we have less so.
The beauty of that last one is how there's absolutely no way to fluff it away.

You're asking for a number. Your interviewer either gives it to you, or he evades.

Another brilliant one is "how long are you planning to stay?".

This can lead to some of the most revealing and unstructured discussions you'll engage in during your interview process. Not for the feint of heart.
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I'm assuming that he had chat logs, or was openly bragging about it on a public irc channel. Encryption (of the pipe) wouldn't help either of those.
> While I do think the guy should be prosecuted, I don't like how TC is turning the ordeal into another way to make money.

I had almost the opposite reaction - I also think the guy should be prosecuted, but I think it's smart how they're turning it into an ordeal. They got messed up by the guy, but instead of being all serious and sober and lawyery, they're having a good time with it.
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