skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to start a site using Noostr as well.

Anyone have any ideas? Something that hasn't been killed to death already like movies or video games.

Would like to do something entrepreurial based or a topic from the Geekdom that isn't too niche.
I'd like a clear explenation of this as well. So far I've seen this claim repeated again and again by Apple fanboys, but everything I read seem to indicate that it was lost (and then passed around).

Would anyone have cared at all or defended this if this was a lost OpenMoko or something equally irellevant?
I read on HN once that someone had figured out that the amount is typically $20k. But I can't recall the context, so this is probably nex to useless.

I don't have a corporate credit card :-)
I'm literally in the library right now, working on my last homework for a Search Engines course taught by Distinguished Professor Bruce Croft. We're using his new book, Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice. You can find the slides that accompany the book here:

http://www.search-engines-book.com - Slides, Data Sets

http://www.pearsonhighered.com/croft1epreview/toc.html - Book Table of Contents

The book expands on the slides, as well as includes homework problems, some requiring the use or modifications of the open-source Galago Search Toolkit.

http://www.galagosearch.org/quick-start.html
We've always been able to give our email as @gmail.com (I have), but any email we send comes from @googlemail.com, which is obviously always a headache for support tickets and such.

I'm glad they've finally got this dispute sorted out.
IE must have spell check!!!
Interesting. How pricey?
Steve Jobs selling iPad for an auction site [Misleading Advertising @Facebook]
Sure, but:

'Red Hat makes Operating Systems for servers'

would have sufficed.
Hang on, what's the story here?

Did they formerly detect signups from the UK somehow, and force them to use @googlemail, whereas international signups were allowed @gmail?

If so, how bizarre.
ABC Player for iPad updated, 3G streaming is a go
But then you're on a more advanced level than most other people and should adjust your workout a little.

If you want to lose fat faster you should look into High Intensity Interval Training. The reason why I wouldn't recommend this to every person is simple: Most of the people would think it's too hard and would give up faster than people who are more experienced in terms of sports and fitness.
Equally if you're looking for a single device to "kill" iPad you've gone in the wrong direction and missed the whole point of Android. And believing you have to beat the iPad in every area is exactly the spec checklist mentality you seem to be warning against. If it can be cheaper for the price conscious and loaded with specs for the spec conscious (not necessarily in the same device!) and fill enough market niches left unloved by Apple's strict product vision then Android will do fine.
Yes, if you signed up from the UK, GMail used to display name@googlemail.com instead of name@gmail.com. Both versions worked though, so if someone sent you an email to yourname@gmail.com you still received it, it was just an UI thing really.

I'm not sure how whether they used IP geolocation or the country you specified when you signed up to decide if you're in the UK or not.
Should we be afraid of Chinese hackers? ...Or lost cyber war. (Part II)
How Apple is Breaking The Law With The App Store
The whole concept of loyalty towards a corporation is off. You can have loyalty to family, to friends, to a country but never to an economic entity whose only purpose (on paper) is profit. I think that professionalism and well-defined internal rules should be the only things expected by employers.
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As far as I can tell, W7 doesn't have a learnable internal logic.

I've started a new job recently where I got W7 (having never used Vista) and have played with it quite a bit. Just when I'd think I had it worked out, I'd open up a larger volume of windows and it would change behaviour.

On top of that there are prominent applications which have never played nice - outlook (and anything that minimises to the status bar - behaves inconsistently), and excel (which has never played nice).
1.0 logic from a 2.0 guy.
Importance of Omega 3 and Brown Fat Cells in Losing Weight
if your in the UK using @gmail.com has always worked in the past so it makes no real difference, its just that they can tell people about it now.
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/cache/

and check ur pages to make sure ORM isnt making ridiculous querys

edit: also use PNGCrush on ur PNGs if you made them with Adobe: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pmt/files/
For what it's worth, JFK is very easy to get to and from on the subway.
Software Development And The Sunk Cost Fallacy
Yes, it was a trademark dispute. I believe the same is true in Germany (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10096107.stm)
They leave the place for alternative layout (i.e. Russian) on the tiny keys, nice!

Other than that, can anyone explain why RMS favors MIPS-based Loongson CPU and these guys - MIPS based Ingenic XBurst ? How are these CPUs any more open than any other (i.e Intel, or any ARM core)
The same Curry from whence we get "currying a function" and the name of the language Haskell.

When I started learning FP, I thought that perhaps currying functions were some how related to Indian food :)
I almost bought one, but they don't ship to Ireland, so I tried the EU distributers page. To purchare it, I need to create an account - nothing special there - but.. why do they need my gender and date of birth to buy stuff from them?? So.. nope, not buying it now.
I think it was 'JSObject'.

http://www.rgagnon.com/javadetails/java-0172.html

http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/1.3/docs/jsobject.html
Has always worked for inbound mail, not outgoing.

Posterous, for example, doesn't have an account verification email process. Outgoing gmail is sent from @googlemail.com so that's the email address you have to sign in with to the posterous site, and not '@gmail.com' which confused the hell out of me for a little while.
I think the answer is either that Silhouette has had a number of unusual experiences or he's overstating the case. In the last six months I have flown from the following airports:

Heathrow
Stansted
Ben Gurion
Cologne
Vienna
Edinburgh

I have had to take my belt off at all of them, and my shoes off once. The "worst" experience was in Israel where I had to go through my bag with the very polite security guards, and it took about half an hour. They were very nice about the whole situation though.

Basically it was inconvenient, but I don't feel it was a big deal and I don't feel like my humanity has been debased.

I've also travelled once on Eurostar and the security process was exactly the same.
Agreed re: words per line, but removing ads is wrong. If you don't like ads (excluding offensive or animated ones), don't visit sites that make their money from them.
Great read, I'm getting a distraction chair.
well, you learn something every day :)
A few notes here (AFAIK):

- All gmail.com and googlemail.com addresses are (and have always been) interchange-able (go on, try it out)

- The only noticeable impacts this will have is what gets displayed in the Gmail logo on the top of the window, and what gets displayed as the email address in your Gtalk profile popup

- I've noticed that regardless of where (geographically) I log in from, if the system locale is set to en_GB, it redirects to a Google Mail page.
With Chromium on linux, and ffmpeg-nonfree, this is the only player that works _reasonably_ well. Seeking is still a little borked for me and unreliable.

Youtube' html5 player, jillion's player, etc. dont work reliably for me. I'm not sure whether that is chiefly due to difference of the encoded video itself.
Filipina singer, bags the Grand Prize in an International song fest
so what happens now if you're in germany?
Meet Google’s Secret Time Machine Investment
Even Geniuses Run Off of Cliffs
Nokia 7230 with GPS Review and Specifications
Hi Rust
love your work

shoot me an email will u? trixjo (at) gmail
Tried: 9wm, aewm, awesome, blackbox, dwm, ion, larswm, ratpoison, scrotwm, w9wm, wm2, wmii, xmonad, probably a half dozen others.

I liked aewm, blackbox, dwm, ratpoison, and XMonad the most, FWIW. While I really like the keyboard-centric UI in ion and ratpoison, I think the layout/tile interface style used by dwm, XMonad, etc. gracefully accommodates programs that have too many windows or just blatantly break ICCCM, while ion and ratpoison don't even try.
We (Braintree) now work with companies of all sizes, including a lot of startups, and have no volume requirements. In the past we did have volume requirements. We were a smaller company then and were trying to balance maintaining a high quality of service when working with more leads than we could handle. We'll be blogging about this in greater detail.
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It is pretty nice that the different implementations of Lucene all use the same index file formats.

There are some pretty nice tools to go with Lucene - I've used Luke quite a bit: http://code.google.com/p/luke/
50 best jQuery and Ajax demos
"Plaintiffs attempted to exploit this inexperience by arguing that open source software involved behavior that was, if not downright illegal, at least ethically dubious. They promoted the fallacy that open source distributors unfairly take the property of others and thereby unfairly profit. They also suggested that Red Hat's public criticisms of the U.S. patent system as it relates to software and related calls for legal reform were un-American and indicated a secret fondness for the writings of Karl Marx."

Wow. It's like a bad movie.
Why's it trying to play flash if you've got an HTML5 browser that supports H.264?
A decade on from the ILOVEYOU bug
Please, not SCII. I'M NOT GOING TO BUY IT. OK?

Say it with me:

I PROMISE NOT TO BUY SCII INSTEAD OF BUILDING MY COMPANY

I PROMISE NOT TO BUY SCII INSTEAD OF BUILDING MY COMPANY

I PROMISE NOT TO BUY SCII INSTEAD OF BUILDING MY COMPANY

I PROMISE NOT TO BUY SCII INSTEAD OF BUILDING MY COMPANY

I PROMISE NOT TO BUY SCII INSTEAD OF BUILDING MY COMPANY
I thought a merchant implementing 3DS wouldn't receive chargebacks if a customer denies placing the order, since the issuing bank has performed "enough" authentication to satisfy themselves that the transaction is legit.

If that's the case then, holes aside, it makes sense for a merchant to integrate 3DS to reduce chargebacks (not to mention some acquirers charge lower rates for VBV payments, which can help offset PSP fees). But your earlier comment suggested that you were still being stung for chargebacks - I'd be interested to know why.

(and yes, it's a lot of spec for what's essentially 3 XML request/response pairs, but that's the payments industry for you - you'll know what I mean if you've had the joy of ploughing through APACS-70 or its predecessors...)
In the main I agree, but despite the buzzwords if the corporation really believes and acts as if "employees are the most important asset" and it truly gets that to be profitable it needs to take care of the "knowledge workers" (whatever that means) then it may be that some companies, because of their profit motive, are worthy of some loyalty. Most companies fall short of the ideal so professionalism is more than a second best in this case.
pg only links nepotistically in HN, with the one exception of that CO2stats web bug bullshit that he pays for without having invested in (which frequently times out and blocks the page rendering).

pg is constitutionally incapable of not pushing the products of YC companies, no matter how incompetent they are. Witness the link to the abjectly useless webmynd firefox plugin in the footer, and his absolute refusal to publicly acknowledge the existence of the amazing http://searchyc.com

We're mostly assholes here, and fittingly pg is the biggest of all by far. I could see him blacklisting readability, and for once I'd actually support him in his capriciousness -- people constantly karma whoring links to it in every thread are really damn annoying.
Spot on

in any case of mis spelling or page refresh this could be a problem to generated new ads slogan.

The possible solutions is to generated original captcha if the impression cycle of the ads is running out
I will build my Nexus first.
Crashed here: Chrome on Windows 7 (64).
I expect this thing has incredible battery life, but it doesn't seem to be on the website.
I liked this. He has apparently re-discovered Kant's original claim that time is a creation of our own minds, that we are incapable of conscious experience outside of the context of time, and therefore everything we can possibly cognize is bounded by a set of a priori constraints which we can recognize.
IMO, it was a lost phone right up to the point that the finder decided to sell it, at which point, it became theft. If he decided to keep the phone as a trophy, but not sell it, he would have been on the wrong side of the law, but a) we never would have known about it, and b) it's unlikely someone would have cared enough to track down the finder.

I think that most jurisdictions would consider finding something and not making a good-faith attempt to return it to be indistinguishable from outright theft. Sale of such an item would be hard to justify under any circumstances. (IIRC, airlines sell lost luggage in auctions, but there is a suitably long time permitted for the flyer to claim their lost luggage.)
Apple deserves to be slapped with Antitrust suit
In this day and age, yes, you are largely correct, but I don't think it was always so. I get the impression that at one time, "loyalty" between employer and employee actually meant something in both directions; the company might take some losses to hang on to people and/or help them out. Perhaps more so than would happen today.

I'm not sure that's such a bad thing, yet I wouldn't say that what we have today is bad either, I suppose they're just two equilibriums. The problem more likely lies in the transition from one to the other: employees that expect to be treated with loyalty and are summarily dumped with a few years left before retirement, or employers who invest a lot in employees and expect to see them stick around because of it.

This is pretty off topic, but I'm not particularly a fan of 'loyalty' to countries either. Most people happen to be born in a particular one; at least a company is something that you likely chose.
Talk to your acquirer - they're the ones who'll be enforcing PCI-DSS compliance/certification on you if required, not the gateway.
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I see a product like this appealing to people who shop at WalMart and want a $200 device. And that's obviously a very large market.
"Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving." —The Gateless Gate, Koan 29
How did a reasonably good reiteration of the "sunk cost fallacy" and how it applies to software projects (and I am closely observing just such a project running at a client site at the moment) turn into a snipe at JavaScript? Strange company.

The problem with JavaScript (if there is one) is that you have to "get it" to use it. Unless you understand how it works and how variable scope works then it might seem arbitrary and unpredictable. JavaScript is not a sunk cost but a rich web asset!
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
While the versioning looks useful, for CSS/javascript compression I'm interested in knowing if most people use a language framework or if they configure the web server to do it.
A good-faith attempt was not made, IMO. A manager of an Apple store certainly would have been a good person to return it to. A note to Steve Jobs would have gotten their attention, and it's not like no one has his email address.

You're right that the finder did the most wrong thing here, by selling the lost phone (at which point, IMO but IANAL, the phone was stolen because the finder no longer had any intention of making any further effort to return the lost phone to the rightful owner). However, Gizmodo/Gawker/Chen are not blameless as buying stolen goods is itself a crime.
I said nothing about "intermediary translation or compatibility layers", nor did the post I was replying to. Please read the thread for context before posting.
Online Business from Garage to NASDAQ…? Don’t let your idea die
My granda used to tell me you should always try and look at things from a different perspective (which, taking him literally, prompted me to climb the rock garden to look at our house). Working for different companies gives you perspective on ideas that you won't get from working for just one company. The methodology du jour won't work in every situation, it takes perspective to know that. So I agree with point 4, "The 30 year old with more than 6 jobs in that time, probably has a lot more to offer", and a lot of that comes from perspective.
I doubt that abc, time, or san jose mercury news would knowingly buy stolen goods.
Google once did an April fools, in Australia. http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/gday/index.html

Perhaps they'll be able to implement it for real?
I love pen input but touch too(touch between options, be able to draw and write).

In fact, I think Apple does too, and they are going to enter the market with only touch, and when mass production is ready, add cameras and pen too. They always do things in an progressive evolutionary way.

MS tried tablets but not changed the UI enough. Ultra expensive and you need a pen for anything(only one detailed point, we have ten fingers).

IMHO Chinese, Korean and Japanese really need the pen for writing.
See, that's a shame it's only 32GB of memory. I can go on dell.com and buy a machine with 128GB of RAM for about $10k, far less than I'd expect they're selling their boxes for.
The reason this continues to be a "big deal" is because people keep on talking about it. And the same arguments are repeated ad nauseum.
As far as I know, RMS doesn't care, it's just that by commercial accident, systems that are particularly open in other ways have tended to be MIPS based.
Rackspace Hits 100,000 Customers, 80 Percent Are Cloud Customers
Chimpanzee tool use is no monkey business
Bonus points for realizing it yourself and editing your post accordingly!
Digg’s URL Shortener Now Works Only For Digg
Fuck IE, it just needs to be called what it truly is: a failure, a blight on the web, a cynical door stop to lock in the desktop cash cow monopoly.

I hope Microsoft falls for the thousands of hours they've forced me to waste over the course of years of web development. I ain't getting that time back! As much as Apple now holds the champion belt for hating software developers, Microsoft was the original baddy.
When was the last time something hyped as an "X killer" actually killed X?
'Long-term harm' of too much TV for toddlers
I have one, they're a good toy.

I haven't managed to do anything useful yet, although as I bought it mainly to have a small device that runs "vi" I'm happy.
Programming languages are institutions.
I don't think anyone is saying that taking something someone leaves behind in a bar is not morally dubious.

That is exactly what he said. Even though it is odd to quote from a post two levels above, I will now do so, since I do not think you read it: "Can you remind me again how you qualify a phone (lost, drunkenly) as 'stolen'. You seem to be using that word rather loosely, when the person who found that phone in fact found lost property, not stolen property. Nobody stole from Apple here"

My issue is that by calling this 'stealing' your re-defining the concept of stealing and then couching the argument in terms of theft, which makes it really easy to be absolutist about who's right and wrong.

Let us pretend California law does not state that finding lost property and keeping it to yourself is theft. Now, here is a scenario: Two people, A and B, are at a bar. B leaves his phone at his seat when he gets up and leaves. A takes the phone, leaves, and sells it to someone else for money. During this time, B has made repeated attempts to recover his phone, and A has made no attempts to return it, either through culturally accepted norms (giving it to the bartender) or through direct means (using the information in the phone to find the person or giving it to the police).

We will now base further discussion on this scenario, which is functionally compatible both with your requirement of not qualifying discussion based on the syntactical legality of any person's actions and the actual situation as it is reported to have happened. It is important to note that this has so far not affected the debate in any way with regards to responsibility, morality, or culture.

We don't all live in California, so our legal systems classify what happened differently.

Any relevance of law that qualifies theft has now been removed from an examination of the situation, so we may presume it to have happened, for example, in Florida, or Canada, or Britain. I pose a question:

Has the morality of person A's actions shifted when this scenario is instantiated in another location? For example, in Seattle, person B leaves his phone in a bar. Person A takes the phone, leaves, makes no attempt to return it to the owner, and sells it for money.

If moving from California to Seattle has made this morally sound, then you have in fact proved my point that America's cultural integrity is eroded when compared to much of the rest of the modern world.

I would consider the major mistake in this to be Apple's in allowing something they value so much to be in this situation (how many pre-release iPad's were left in bars?) Some people have taken advantage of this but the only impact seems to be some photos on a gadget blog.

Irrelevant to the discussion, unless there is some implied meaning. Never once did I mention Apple, prototypes, gadget blogs, or the loss of trade secrets. Just one man's personal property.
what makes it possible to be loyal to a country? a country is just a bureaucratic + economic entity you randomly get assigned to.
He says it works on non ferrous metals too. That's what really baffles me.
I thought with a Linux box and a Macbook I would never really play games on a computer again, minus the odd casual flash/javascript game.

Then I got the SC2 Beta from a friend. Oh man, so awesome.

(Not addicted .. but oh so fun. Love Blizzard)
Quick, Hide In This Closet
Might make a good movie, but probably not mainstream :)
the bit where someone glares at me over the top of my passport while heavily armed guards look on

The experience of the Israeli authorities, is that doing this works. You have to do this 7 times to get through the airport in Israel. They can also do it quickly and efficiently.
> by calling this 'stealing' your re-defining the concept of stealing and then couching the argument in terms of theft

When I was 15 years old I used to take money from my parents to go out with friends and stuff like that, without them knowing. They've caught me once, and my defense was basically that I just found it on the floor, what I was going to do? :-)

So this goes both way ... by not calling this stealing you're redefining the concept of stealing and then couching the argument in terms of "finders, keepers".

> We don't all live in California, so our legal systems classify what happened differently.

I live in Europe, and here when you find something you're legally required to turn that over to the police. Of course few people do it, but then again few journalists are stupid enough to buy stolen property and then reveal their sources or the fact that they've bought it.

That's one liberty journalists usually have ... they don't have to reveal their sources.
So lastly posted on HN picture of time traveler was a guy from google...? :)