skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clubs can't programmatically adjust rates based on the current balance, though. The best they can do is have bouncers to filter the quantity and quality of men they let in. A bouncer can be pretty clever but there's room for an algorithm to do well too ;)
Killing most bacteria is a function of temperature and time. The higher the heat, the less time it has to be at that temperature. The lower the heat, the longer it has to be at that temperature. It's all a numbers game. Nothing is completely safe.
Well, how many problems do you need?
Pretty easy once I got all the parts together. Assembled it all over the course of one night. Hardest part was drilling the hole into the side of the hotel pan for the water heater. Luckily my neighbor is an electrician and had a step bit that worked perfectly, took about 45 minutes.

Oh, and the Radio Shack relay mentioned didn't work for me when hooked up to my PID's solid state relay (different PID then used in the link). The switching voltage wasn't enough but eventually got a relay that only needed 5V to switch. Short term I used the internal relay which worked fine, but was noisy and I wasn't comfortable driving that amount of amperage through it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law
Your reasoning is flawed. My threat would only be empty if I were to buy an HTC handset. Since I won't, it's not an empty threat. I intend to follow through.

It's, however, not a substantial threat, unless growing a spine becomes a requirement for selling mobile phones. This, unfortunately, is not going to happen anytime soon. Yet, I feel I should take a stand, as principles matter.

Too bad. I would respect them more if they bought Palm. That would probably make them own a lot of patents both Apple and Microsoft cross-license.
Somewhat ironic that the Mac OS X platform represents the only way to develop for the iPhone OS.
I would use something like this, but, as inerte says, you need a heck of a lot more selection. Maybe you could team up with designers and resell their work, giving them a cut?
Gizmodo suing the police because Gizmodo purchased stolen property is like me suing McDonalds 'cause I am fat. I mean, yeah, the food is bad for you, yeah, the portions are irresponsible, but no one is forcing me into the drive thru lane.

"...If Gizmodo editors are, in fact, a target of a criminal probe into the possession or purchase of stolen property, the search warrant served on editor Jason Chen on Friday appears valid..." [1]

[1] http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20003539-37.html?tag=mncol...
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BlazeHtml, A blazingly fast HTML combinator library in Haskell: Initial results
Thanks for the feedback. You're definitely right about needing more templates. I am adding three more this week, and then want to see if any of them sell before I add even more.

Currently there are no options for custom designs. I like the idea of being able to offer custom designs but that involves a lot more work and a lot more time. ;)

What next steps would you take to grow the site?
>For this reason, Adobe (or anyone else who stands to profit from Apple’s demise) ought to seriously consider funding such a project.

How would getting the entire mobile developer world to code to Apple's API's lead to Apple's demise?
Were there any good CDOs? An interesting aspect (in retrospect) of The Big Short is that some people spent huge effort determining which ones were worth shorting and other people seemed to make just as much money indiscriminately shorting all of them.
Attempting to see all this from as wide a perspective as possible, I think it's only natural given the incredibly fast pace at which mobile is developing right now. The mobile industry is in the middle of a massive renaissance, Apple somehow ended up right at the center of it, and it just makes sense to focus all their resources on it while they have the advantage.

In a few more years, as this new generation of mobile matures, Apple will probably shift back to the desktop as the pieces begin to drift together for the next generation there.
According to "Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air" Thorium will last a while. A few hundred years should be possible. That should be plenty of time to develop nuclear fusion.
Very smart, nice idea.
At least not for the time they have any relevant product. That should happen within the next 15 years or so.

GP mentioned Microsoft's future. IMHO, that's quite credible.
The second coming of jumping the shark.

I really don't like the deemphasis of OSX in favor of iPhone OS. The iPhone is great for mobility because it strips computing down to the core, but it has a LOOONNGG way to go before it can toe up with OSX or Windows when it comes to productivity, IMO.

ps. I'm a mac fanboy at heart, but i try to remain objective about consumer technology for the "masses". Outside of the tech ecosphere, the world is a very different place.

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/01/windows-7-grow...
Didn't he already say there would be no App Store for desktop apps? Some developer emailed him about that and the reply was "nope".
"It seems unlikely that anyone will be able to buy service as a communications provider in the same fine-grained quantities in which a subscriber can buy it"

It is simple. Assuming the Ts&Cs don't define you as a subscriber, you simply write an official letter to your ISP stating that you are purchasing their service as a communications provider and not a subscriber and that upon receipt of the letter they acknowledge their notification of this.

Pop it in the post with registered mail (so you have proof they received it) and you are done.

Whether it stands up in court, though, is another thing...
I've been reading about "Quantified Self" on kk.org for a while. I didn't realize it was actually Gary Wolf and others writing a lot of the content. Pretty interesting stuff...

One simple idea is to have an API to enable easy collection of quantified self data as well as to consume it. Thought about it myself at one point but I am not passionate about it.

Daytum (http://daytum.com/) has a nice webapp but no API...
Probably. I still have the feeling that it wouldn't get this much bad comments in a python entry.
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That's not entirely true. If you for instance "cook" meat at 100 degrees you'd end up with more bacteria than you started with. You do need to cook at a temperature that is hot enough to actually kill the bacteria. It's not a numbers game at all, it's understanding a little microbiology.

Nothing is completely safe, but food poisoning is also not fun.
Sounds almost like an explanation I got for kosher salt.

Sounds neat, thanks for the explanation.
> "That would be like saying that the only important part of sex is the exchanging of fluids."

It strikes me as like saying the important parts of sex are the physical sensations and emotional connection (regardless of where the fluids end up.) It's dead on.

I have a strong family and a strong community, but much of it is online. I met my wife on the internet (in 1998, on a website devoted to our favorite video game); another friend from the same website was a groomsman at our wedding; we named our son after the website's founder. Members of our online community have organized prayer groups, attended weddings and funerals of other members, and helped each other in times of physical, emotional, or financial crisis. I personally have met with people from our community in Chicago, Vancouver, Kansas City, Seattle, Denver, Colorado Springs, Provo, and at a hog farm near Medford, Oregon.

The important part of community is not that we can walk over to each others' houses. It's that we can share with each other, help each other, take joy in each others successes, give comfort in failure or tragedy, learn from each other, and treat one another as friends.

Not every website can live up to this standard of "community". But mine has for the last twelve years.
You're right. That's one option I have thought of. In which case I would like to make it easy for designers to upload their own work to the site and display it. I don't mind being a middle man, as long as I can play that role passively.

I think this would be similar to the logo store on 99designs right?
Typically you would sear the fish/beef/chicken before/after for texture, flavor and color. Beef for instance will come out grey on the outside and look unpleasant unless seared (inside is still bright red/pink though).

The bigger risk is the time that the food is left in the danger zone of above 50 degrees and below 125 degrees (don't quote me on those numbers, going off memory). Basically any bacteria present in food in that temp range will start reproducing quickly. I have heard 4 hours as the time limit acceptable to have food in that temp range before being considered unsafe.
agree - his annual reports are beautiful...
Or maybe you just made an ass out of yourself..
This might work if you work for yourself. But several assumptions the author makes just aren't true when you work for others. And isn't necessary if you have a small amount of self-control and time management skills.

> decide what One Thing I’m excited about

Only sometimes coincides with the business need my employer pays me to fulfill.

> you tend to know what you really want to get done.

Almost never do I know what needs doing over the next 8 hours. There are fires, sudden directives from Corporate, or our bosses, having to cover for people out that day, daily morning meeting to discuss priorities and what needs to be done, etc.

> I can slack off for the rest of the day

yeah, good for you. Even if you are contradicting yourself.

> The only thing that matters is the actual doing.
I support companies that license technologies that have valid patents. What HTC did just lent credit to Microsoft's FUD about their never disclosed patents Linux allegedly infringes.

Want to bet Microsoft will not disclose the patents? If they did, they would have to defend them in court or see them be completely avoided in one or two minor releases.

Those patents are worthless unless they want to make FUD out of them. The HTC license was, perhaps, in exchange for lower Windows Mobile and Windows Phone 7 licenses. Don't forget HTC sells tons of the former and expects to sell tons of the latter.

I imagine lots of the "settlements" they make involve such tricks.
Privacy and Startups
Actually, if you or I (assuming you're not a journalist) did with the Gizmodo editor did, they'd be perfectly find serving a warrant to break into our houses.

However Chen is working as a journalist in CA, it looks like they have no right to get a warrant for those computers, they have to just subpoena the specific information and make Chen produce it that way. The CA shield law doesn't have an explicit exception to allow warrants in case of possible criminal acts by newspeople.
But the statutes very specifically cover the cases above with wording like "took action to deliberately cause the death of another".

The courts have made the definition even stricter, by allowing things like the death penalty and abortion. Although the individuals involved in those acts deliberately caused the death of someone, it doesn't count as murder.

How can anyone be expected to obey the law if it is not absolutely clear about what your obligations are? Overly general laws that the courts can deal with "later" are a grave danger to society.
Not to be rude but I don't think you are comprehending the scale of the problem. Where would the compost come from? A rough calculation (10 million ha, assume a thin 80 mm layer of topsoil is lost, 1 mm of soil over 1 ha is 13 tons) estimates that 10 billion tonnes of compost would be needed per year to replace the lost organic matter.

It's a feedback system since good land produces lots of organic matter. Once eroded away, it's extremely difficult to restore. I have a hard time figuring out how we could avoid serious troubles in this area in the not too distant future. Some years ago there was a big push in North American to improve farm practices (stop burning straw, reduction or elimination of tillage, etc). That helped a lot but developing countries have not or cannot adopt such practices.
I don't think it's hurting their computer business, except for iPad sales cutting into imaginary MacBook Air sales.
I highly recommend that anyone read this information before attempting sous vide. It outlines the various bacteria involved and the time/temp calculations for various items:

http://amath.colorado.edu/~baldwind/sous-vide.html
It took them 3 OS versions to introduce a cruddy voice control feature so maybe they just weren't confident with what they had in-house.
I had this "wiping local data when syncing" issue on and off since back when sync was only available for iPhone users, but got frustrated with it three months ago, so what I did was:

- Back up both local Address Book, and the Google Contacts

- Turn off syncing with Google Contacts

- Wipe Google Contacts completely

- Turn syncing back on, and verify that it worked proper by syncing several times.

Has been working fine since then. And by "fine" I mean no nickname sync, no sorting options in Google Contacts, and all the other things OP describes are still there. But I no longer loose my data on sync.
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While I certainly agree with you, I would also point out that OSX is also a very mature platform whereas iPhone OS is in its infancy.

So one could argue that OSX does not need as much hype to spur development, and since it has been around for so long, many of the critical gaps in the application space have been filled on OSX. Whereas there are still many opportunities for mobile device applications that solve problems that are not yet solved.
I wouldn't say it's impossible: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1295052

But yes, highly improbable.
According to California state law, it states that you are not allowed to issue warrants, or abjudge items owned by anyone working for news organizations.
The fact that the police literally broke into his home is ridiculous, and a violation of that penal code.
Debt: The first 5000 years
That is bunk. That blog article is pulling a few quotes from 2001. In 2001 we had a recession with high unemployment, and lowering interest rates was sound advice.

If you find some quotes from 2004 or beyond where Krugman actually advocates policies that would encourage a housing bubble, then you may have a case.
well, unfortunately if you're getting into the social network space, you have to consider that you are taking on Facebook and other social networks, and you have to make sure you find a niche.

This isn't the early days of social anymore.
What makes your site different?
Why should a person use your site instead of Facebook, LinkedIn, Last.fm, Flixter, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc etc. oooh the list goes on and on.

This doesn't mean there isn't an opportunity for you, but if you have something that nobody else has, it is not readily apparent to me from what I can see from your home page.

You may have to allow people to discover some of the non-social content (you list news, sports, etc) in order to grow visits and get people interested.

I don't see the reason to put that behind a sign-in wall
Well, if you saw a killer app on an iPhone, you could run it on your non-iPhone smartphone with this approach. Thus no need to buy an iPhone yourself.
I am very lucky to live in the (US) subdivision I'm in right now. The situation you describe about kids playing in the street and (mostly) the yards is what we have here. Our neighbors have "parties" in their driveways and everyone is welcome. People just sit around and talk as the kids play in the yard.

It's not utopia, but it's good enough that we have seriously considered the risk of moving into a closed off neighborhood when we move. We are lucky and are going to hang out here as long as we can.
The problem with the peak hydrocarbon argument is that there is more than enough of some variety of hydrocarbons in the ground to satisfy a world population 10 billion people all consuming hydrocarbons at 1st world levels for hundreds of years. The peak hydrocarbon argument relies on a chain of hypothesis, none of which have been backed up by evidence. Firstly, there must be no discoveries of new reserves. Secondly, there must be no advances in technologies in extraction or refinement. Thirdly, there must be no advances in technologies to convert different hydrocarbon sources into others (e.g. manufacturing gasoline from coal), worse than that there must be no adoption of known hydrocarbon conversion technologies (coal gasification is a decades old technology).

Anyone who's looked at the numbers for reserves of coal, tar sands, methane clathrates, etc. is unlikely to take peak hydrocarbon arguments seriously, there's just too much of the stuff. Ultimately the peak oil argument comes back to a visceral hatred of petroleum and a wish to see a world without it, but wishes aren't reality.
And what's to stop Apple from changing things up again? The most insidious problem with these walled gardens/lock-in environments is that you don't know what's coming next.

I got out of MSFT development when I saw that they basically said "all that stuff you learned and invested in, we've decided to break it, but you can pay us for the next version and do it all over again!" The VB/VBA programs I wrote back then are long gone. The C/Perl/Java programs I wrote against standards still work fine. Sure I might have to make some tweaks if I want to catch up to the latest version, and some day Oracle will do something stupid to Java and we'll be stuck with the previous version, but I won't concede retroactive control over my investment to another company's marketing department.
When we understand that slide, we'll have won the war
Here's a startup idea:

A centralized forum where people can respond to potentially defamatory content. Log in via OpenID or FB Connect, enter the offending link, and then tell your side of the story. Freemium model lets anyone do this, but you can verify your identity for a small fee.

Alas, clearmy.name is currently squatted.
Consider the following:

* Organized crime syndicate starts a money-laundering operation.

* At the same time, they start a small local newspaper.

* They keep the money-laundering records on a computer that's also used to make their newspaper.

By your, and the EFF's, interpretation of California's shield law, at this point the police must simply give up and say, "oh, darn, that computer and everyone who's ever used it is now immune to us forever". Somehow, though, I don't think that'd hold up in court, because if it did there'd be a whole lot more mob newspapers floating around...
I touched java 1.0 or some such (super early days) very briefly way back when, but otherwise haven't really touched it.

Mind you I'm very much a polyglot programmer type so maybe I just know how to do the right google searches to quickly get answers?

And the app I'm talking about is using compojure + CongoMongo so it doesn't take any knowledge of the underlying Jetty to do much, Compojure hides a lot of that.
Thanks for the numbers and details.

By the way, what's so bad about burning straw? Or is it just that composting straw gives more soil?
Well, if you love a language enough, you'll eventually be dragged through all of its weak areas and get real perspective.

The important thing is just to keep quiet during the "best thing EVER!!!" phase. The reason fanboys are so annoying is the combination of enthusiasm and relatively shallow knowledge.
Your approximation works well in a wide percentage range. But you can just as well us the exact thing--the logarithm instead.

The universe (and even the earth) is pretty big. There's plenty of time, if we keep expanding.
Depends on who's doing the pronouncing, I suppose, but certainly linguists are not competent in all languages.

Two obvious examples occur to me. The first is the clicking sound in some African languages. Another is a speaker accustomed to a limited set of vowels trying to input vowel sounds he can't replicate well.
Makes sense to me. There's just not much exciting innovative stuff happening on the desktop these days. Good apps get marginally better all the time but is that worthy of an award?
Awesome read. I love the guys at that website, their blog posts are always insightful.
This is a historically ignorant argument. It's unlikely we'll actually run short of any of these metals. The more likely scenario is that if and when we do start to exhaust the most easily mined sources prices will start to rise, spurring investment in new extraction technologies and exploitation of previously uneconomical sources. Increasing production and amortization of R&D costs will then lead to lower prices in the future. This has happened innumerable times with innumerable resources throughout history.

Which is, indeed, the conclusion of the linked article as well.
I can't help wondering if all the regular app reviewers have been pulled to help with iPhone and iPad app reviews. The Apple Downloads section hasn't been updated in weeks, and now this.

As a Mac developer, this feels like a major blow. Sure, I understand that the iPhone OS stuff is the new shiny and the spotlight is going to be on it, but lately it feels like Apple is just coasting on the Mac side. It makes me seriously question if I'm writing apps for the right platform.

If it's time to reevaluate platforms, then it's time to take a look at all the possibilities again, not just the ones made by Apple. The iPad looks great, but then again, so does the web.
Sorry, no. We're already so far beyond something that design that we'll never take that path.

Slates are the way forward.
> because Gizmodo purchased stolen property

Serious question. Do we know the iPhone was stolen from the Apple engineer? The last I heard, it was left at a bar and someone found it.
PDF: http://www.eurozine.com/pdf/2009-08-20-graeber-en.pdf
Mustache: Logic-less templates
I've tried the wipe method repeatedly, even went so far as to wipe, wait 24 hours, delete any stray contacts created automatically, then delete every one of those contacts and then sync 8 hours later (no emails in my sleep).

Still goes bad. Side note: it works better with OS 10.5, because there it doesn't try to sync everything and it really does work. It works as bad as I said only on 10.6 (all minor versions tested - I kept hoping the darn Nickname sync issue would go away at some point release).

I do admit that the Spanning Sync trial I used once may have done something to my Google Contacts at one point when I checked that it shouldn't sync Suggested Contacts, but I don't see why Google would let such a thing made via the API stick forever. (And Spanning Sync wasn't for me because of the whole "give us your password" thing.)
Opera Mini isn't a browser. You can tell this easily because Apple lets it into the App Store. Opera Mobile is a browser.
I got my own merchant account because I needed to do some more sophisticated monetization work than Clickbank, Paypal, or Amazon allowed.

Now I use Authorize.net + Powerpay.biz + 1shoppingcart. Works pretty well together.
So the moral of the story is "bring your own laptop to the demo" right? :)
That's the event that people are referring to as "being stolen".
> Well, if you love a language enough, you'll eventually be dragged through all of its weak areas and get real perspective.

You'll be dragged, but you won't get any perspective if you know only that language.
I've seen more than one lawyer who seems to think that the exception is implicit, which would mean the search is not invalid on its face.
Only if that's actually the logic they're following. I don't see any indication that it it.
He also said there wasn't going to be an iPhone while developing it.