skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think so. The domain's administrative and technical contact is one 'Selino Valdes', which has a website at http://selino.com/, which seems pretty serious. flojuggler.com has existed since december 4th 2009.

On his site, Selino showcases Flojuggler as

The premiere menstrual tracking application. Designed to
track the cycles of multiple persons. The focus of the
service is not medical but more lifestyle.

It could be an elaborate joke that has me fooled, but actually: why would this be a joke? I admit that I don't have a clue why I would want to track anyones period, but perhaps there really is an audience, in which case the courage to go through with such an awkward subject could net him quite a few $.

The signup page is interesting from a privacy-backlash perspective. Two of the bullet points are:

* Can I easily delete my info?
Hells yeah! This is your data, your pictures, etc. At
any point just hit the delete button and it's gone.
There's no waiting for approval. This ain't Facebook or
Yelp.
* Why not use Facebook Connect?
Seriously? Do you even want a chance that Facebook is
gonna announce that you use Flojuggler?

That also makes is seem like some thought went into it.

As to the 'why?', another bullet point clarifies:

* Why do I need to know when my girl/girls are bleeding?
Hey, if you like a little rainbow kiss in your diet
then that's on you. We don't judge. Personally we prefer
hitting the skins when the lake isn't muddy. Sometimes
ladies have really bad PMS, too. It's a good thing to
know BEFORE you get home.

I think it's a shame to perpetuate/encourage the idea that there is something inherently dirty about menstruation and I think many 'PMS' claims are just easy ways to excuse/blame bad behavior on some days, but: there's your audience.

Aside: anyone care to explain the 'rainbow kiss' idiom to a non-native English speaker?
I mean that use of them is about as solitary as games get, and the prevailing reason they're known as "social" is because of artificially engineered spam-your-friends-to-advance mechanics. I play a particular RPG on Facebook -- beating some monsters requires getting 100+ folks to click on a viral link for you. We've got our own little social norms and lingo for dealing with that: I click on your link and tell you "PRTF http://example.com/12345 -- for "please return the favor", because since I'm telling that to several dozen people I don't know and don't care about every day I'll be darned if I actually type it out.

None of my friends have ever come over in real life and told me "Patrick Patrick guess what guess what I got a new FarmVille cow." That would be really, truly social for me. (And I say this as somebody who regularly hears stories about WoW loot or D&D games from days gone by.)
Why? Is the subject so awkward that you can't even bear to have a link which suggests it in your HN front page?
Http://www.viginus.ning.com
I feel confident finding so many books I own for my studies are getting rave reviews by Norvig. Then again, we do use a book he wrote with Stuart Russell as well in one of the courses :)
How's 9 week old milk then
on a related note: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAVjF_7ensg
"we call this sticky, very fine gravel concrete and we use it all the time;"

I wonder if Nanotech could come up with some kind of super concrete. Ie particles that stick together extremely well?
Beware of mistaking intelligence for knowledge. If you don't really know anything about the subject matter, you are likely to overlook all kinds of relevant details, making your intelligent solution pretty much useless. If, in addition to being intelligent, you aren't aware of your lack of knowledge, you may get the tendency to think everyone that couldn't come up with your 'obvious' solution is a fool, which leads others to turn away and rant like
http://mattmaroon.com/2009/05/01/hacker-news-disease/
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Are these all true colors? Seems like a lot of red and yellow floating around? Or maybe thats just the way the galaxy is, I'm no expert.
Disagree. This is exactly why terms like "We're friends on Facebook" exist, which effectively means "I can remember seeing their face online".
i think the images were taken from spitzer. so yes, it is as seen from earth.
Lowering The Cost Of Managing Applications Sponsored by Oracle
A lot of people said that in 1969. Don't get your hopes up too high.
Rotana,music,film,sex,move
Carl Sagan on Drake Equation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duoHtJpo4GY
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rainbow%20kis...

I hadn't heard of it before either.
The unspoken implication behind this site is that, for several days every month, women become "unclean" and less desirable, to such an extent that one must use this application to be aware of and schedule around it. Can you see how that's offensive?
these images were taken using the spitzer space telescope, which is an infrared telescope. so no, those aren't "true colors".
There has actually been a case of an Ebola-carrier travelling by plane to Johannesburg, back during the Gabon outbreak in 1996. The only other person he infected was a nurse who had come into direct contact with some of his blood. She died a short while later, but infected nobody else.

Ebola is a frighteningly deadly virus, so this sort of research is very encouraging, but its lack of an aerosol delivery mechanism and its quick mortality cycle both mean that it will likely never cause an epidemic on the scale of Bubonic Plague.
Chefs, curators, & developers
Cool project, but way too heavy to be used as a tablet. Even iPad is a bit too heavy at 680g (1.5lbs) and has to be rested on something after a few minutes of use.

I used to own a HP TC4400 (2kg) and an older Progear tablet (1.5kg) and that range is just not usable in the same way as iPads or Kindles are. Kindle at 290g is about the optimum, weighing the same as a typical book and easy to hold for extended periods of time.
Get the military to do it and invoice BP.
BP Says "Top Kill" Operation Has Failed
Searching for "Emo Phillips die heretic", besides amusing, may be enlightening.

(Just an educated guess about the root of the problem, I have no idea of what goes on in IRC.)
http://news.ycombinator.com/rss

There you go. It's the top articles and not newest. The link is in the footer link list

For the newest article (firehose) I'm sure you can use Yahoo pipes
50 cent shocks fans with weight loss
As a woman, the underlying idea isn't actually such a bad thing, though I'm not sure about the way they're marketing it. There are several menstruation calendars on the market, they're good for a whole lot of things, from pre-warning you about potential mood swings to reminding you that you should probably take some sanitary items with you on that weekend away, to planning for baby-making :) Most of them focus on the latter though, which is a bit... conservative, really.

As for me, my partner currently lives a reasonable distance away, and so it'd be nice for me to plan my trips to visit in advance, and then expectations can be sorted in advance. Also, in my case, sometimes I don't realise when I'm suffering from mood swings, so it'd be nice to know when to expect it, rather than just thinking "oh well it was sometime at the beginning of the month last month".

Like I said though, I'm not really sure about the marketing, but I think it would definitely appeal to younger, sexually active women and their partners.

ETA: Yeah, definitely not so sure on the marketing... some of it's pretty crass. But perhaps it'll help break down some stigmas associated with talking about menstruation? (or possibly add to them?)
Http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&pub=xa-4a817dfa0f019d69
Thank you for that !
You still have to understand PGP conceptually, though, which is a huge leap for the average person. FireGPG + GMail is indeed nice, though, although it seems to be broken half the time.
There are some cultures that do consider menstruation unclean (we can't really judge them on that) so there is an outside possibility this comes from one of them... but somehow it doesn't strike me that way.

I think it's just how this presented that makes it problematic. The crude terminology and focus on sex (and other areas of lacking sensitivity).

Because on the one hand there is a solid/useful idea here.

My girlfriends comment was "I'd maybe give it a shot if it was developed by a woman, or for a woman. This looks like something for a man, by a man"

EDIT: I thought of a similar thing a friend of mine once had, he had a few girlfriends and recorded their periods on a calendar so he could check back and figure out who would be "free". This gives me the same impression :(
Are you creating software to impress one person?
I said in another comment:

I think it's a shame to perpetuate/encourage the idea that
there is something inherently dirty about menstruation
[..], but: there's your audience.

I disapprove of the goals the webapp achieves, but that is not reason enough for me to flag it. I also disapprove of dating sites that cater towards a single 'race', but I don't flag articles on those either.
"They report a 100% success rate, although admittedly the test group was very small, just 4 rhesus monkeys.

"This is a breakthrough"

I'd hold off on the word "breakthrough" until

a) there is replication of the result in a larger sample by other investigators

and

b) there are some human trials of the treatment. The technique is interesting, but it needs more study.

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html
Betacup Challenge - Design A Sustainable Coffee Cup
Dear Alain,

no - I don't work in marketing, and you're probably right about the fact that I am not even near the target audience.

But does it really matter?

I believe you can relate to the fact that the more further you're from the target audience the more objectively you can slice & dice the advert. Of course, I might be too far away from the target audience so my views might be biased in that sense.

I don't pass judgement. I started writing in the basis that I wanted to share my own perception of the matter and hear what you guys have to say against it.
or woome?
Well, the person that came up with that term, and everyone using it, doesn't seem to realize that cunnilingus usually involves the clitoris and that it is very well possible to perform it without getting 'menstrual fluids' in his mouth.
"Hacker" Gary McKinnon's fight with U.S. extradition
Isn't the problem here that the legal system in the US allows for such "made up" cases?

I mean, like suing someone because you burned your tongue on coffee, which is a hot beverage. I just don't get it.
JavaScript: Creating timestamps with time zone offsets
In my humble opinion, McKinnon needs to be given the opportunity to be tried, by a jury of his peers, in the United Kingdom.
Using ExcelPacke to create Excel sheets on server
Michael Jackson leaves his kids more than $33 million each
MICHAEL Jackson has left his children a multi-million dollar fortune – despite dying BROKE, we can reveal.
Obama has banned deepwater drilling (I can buy that at a stretch, but I'm not convinced he's done it for the "right reasons") and the Senate is already hearing testimony.
Like Features, Like Dueling Banjos
Too late... :)

I'm hoping recent developments with scramjets (the X-51) will lead to single stage to orbit, and more specifically Air launch to orbit.
People are willing to pay a few dollars to get to their destination faster. For example I always take the direct highspeed trains over the slow train the stops at every town, and happily pay the premium.

However with the concord it wasn't 'a few' dollars, it was close to an order of magnitude over the cheapest tickets. It also really didn't get you there that much faster, if you count your travel time from you leave your house until you get to your hotel. For example to fly to New York I would have to leave my house 2.5 hours (at the latest) before my flight, then spend 1.5 hours flying to the nearest airport with direct flights to New York, then spend 3 hours waiting for that flight, then 7 hours on the flight to New York, then 2 hours getting out of the airport and then I still have to get to my hotel. So all that concord did for me was reduce a 14 hour trip to 10.5 hours, and the place where it saved time was in the least annoying part of the trip. Concord basically optimized away least painful part of the journey, and that simply isn't worth paying that much money for. Now had someone found a way to get me from my front door to my hotel in New York in say under 5 hours, then all of a sudden I'm interested. Or if someone found a way in which I could show up the airport 10 minutes before my flight leaves and get out of the airport 15 minutes after arriving the gate (but making it significantly cheaper than chartering a private jet), again I'd be very interested, no matter how slow the actual flight was. So yes, people want to pay to get to their destination faster, but concord-like airplanes aren't the solution to that problem.
His review of Black's 'Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition' made me chuckle, and accorded with my own experience of the book.

To the reviewer who said "I was looking forward to a detailed insight into
neural networks in this book. Instead, almost every page is plastered up
with sigma notation", that's like saying about a book on music theory
"Instead, almost every page is plastered with black-and-white ovals (some
with sticks on the edge)." Or to the reviewer who complains this book is
limited to the mathematical side of neural nets, that's like complaining
about a cookbook on beef being limited to the carnivore side.

http://www.amazon.com/review/RZ7FBFHHLJHYE/ref=cm_cr_rdp_per...
Free fall for short periods (a couple of seconds) is easily attainable in a small airplane. Go to your nearest general aviation airport and find yourself an aerobatics instructor and you can get a taste of zero G for a couple of hundred bucks.
Unfortunately the tools we have on the web are not powerful enough for all applications yet. Photoshop and Visual Studio have to be client side to be usable...and developing even a rudimentary IDE with web tools is harder than a good IDE with desktop tools.
Sounds great. I'll be looking forward to the settings update which I assume will be accessible via a different url (versus user controlled setting)? I.e. toadjaw.com/hninverse Again, nice implementation and it's become my default as of now.
On the topic of Vim: I can imagine an Emacs user going back to TextMate because they're both modeless editors. But would a Vim user go back to an editor that isn't modal?
Your post & pitch is almost exactly the thing I was after for!

I couldn't have come up with a pitch like yours, which imo would be so much better for Microsoft than the current "carton of milk" -analogy.
The Four Most Ridiculous Word Origin Myths
Here's an interesting article on the myth.
Seriously, I can't think of a single good reason why you would want to check whether an email address is "valid"!

Because it's fun.
Clay cups work fine in India and they are sustainable <http://chaipilgrimage.com/2008/09/14/the-indian-clay-cup/...;
So what's your alternative?
It looks somewhat periodic:

http://images.rdujour.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/domainL...

I did not include the length of the tld.
thanks, that really is a helful information
Generalizing from a single example often does guarantee that you're missing a whole lot, though. It's almost as bad as generalizing from no examples, even when the single example is a good one. Which it wasn't, in this case.
Just like I used to imagine computer code.
The author is Chris Bishop...
Drama creates pageviews.
Link doesn't work, but if it is a proven concept, might be an easy win for the competition?

Edit: fixed link http://chaipilgrimage.com/2008/09/14/the-indian-clay-cup/

Now if somebody could solve the problem of mud dissolving into the chai/coffee, it might be a winner.
The Web Doesn't Need Embracing
Luckily, you only need to find one exception.
Oh yeah! I read this on kuro5hin a long time ago (whatever happened to that site anyway? So much good stuff there…) and I wondered if it was quackery or not. I have a friend with crohns and I was going to show it to him but I couldn't figure out if the article was reputable or not. Has anyone read the full text of this (or any related) article?
This is a preview of the Win 7 tablets that will eventually be coming out after everyone gets over being scared shitless of the iPad. If 'some guy' can hack together a tablet as impressive as this, it makes me wonder what HP has been doing this whole time and gets me excited about how awesome Dell's version of this (even running Android) will be.
What is an ECU? CPU Benchmarking in the Cloud
Cool. I thought I was the only one that couldn't figure out a nice way to do threaded comments, turns out even reddit orders stuff in memory.
I think the length is indeed a limitation for the person tweeting, but it gives benefit to the people receiving: short and sweet. It forces you to cut down to the point.

A twitter stream therefore feels like light reading. Low commitment. I suspect if twitter ever increased the length, their usage would go down.
Thanks for that list. I guess I haven't run into any of these more "complex" issues yet developing the relatively low scale sites I've been working on. Hopefully some day, the Django ORM would become too much of a time sink for me to consider SA, but in the meantime, I'm gonna be sticking with it just 'cause I find it easier/more intuitive to use :).
Where I lived in India many years ago they used glass cups not clay. I have a vivid memory of sitting at a roadside stall, enjoying my cup of chai and then watching in horror as the chaiwalla squatted beside the gutter with a pitcher of cold water and rinsed out the cups using his grimy fingers to swish the water around. Yes, disposable clay cups would be a major improvement.
Trains are a great example, since they're motorized mass transport instead of motorized individual transport, and are more efficient and less ecologically destructive per capita at high densities. In cities that aren't built for cars at the expense of human-scale forms of transportation, cycling and walking are often legitimate options as well. (On cycling, read this about Copenhagen's infrastructure: http://www.sightline.org/research/sprawl/res_pubs/Livable_Co...)

If the standard is endangering thousands and wreaking ecological destruction at a wide scale, the disastrous choice of designing cities to favor the automobile over other forms of transportation is not only a failure, it's a government failure more so than a market failure.
Yeah I leave some people on my list that I no longer have any real contact with any more just incase they say something interesting from time to time, relating to my interests. I would actually love it if people I knew and added to facebook could post have have interesting HN like conversations on there but it's usually mostly fluff about peoples day to day lives.
Computation as Expression
Oops, you're right, the other phones are not AMOLED. I had assumed they were, for some reason.

I don't doubt the resolution on the iPhone HD/4g will be better than the Nexus One. I just don't think that the non-rectangular pixel grid on the Nexus One is a huge drawback at that DPI.

This is going to seem like a really silly conversation in 10 years, when technology has moved on.
Tim Bray's thoughts on the BP disaster
Mozilla uses WebTrends for most of its web metrics like visitor and session analysis. We use SiteSpec for multivariate testing.
For everything else we use Kimball's dimensional modeling to build data warehouses and then build reports, dashboards, and analysis off of them. We make extensive Pentaho's suite of tools for ETL, multi-dimensional querying of OLAP cubes, report creation/publishing, and a website to deliver interactive dashboards.

I would strongly recommend that anyone asking these questions do some extended web reading or pick up a few books on the topics of ETL, Data Warehousing, and Business Intelligence. I feel it is critical to have experience these fields if you need to derive insight from data. Using open source ETL/BI tools can help a startup without blowing the budget. When they discover the value for their company, they can look for specialists to join the team or they can investigate support and contracting options available.

In particular, a good ETL tool like Pentaho Data Integration is invaluable to any company that has to do anything with moving data from one place to another. Even if you don't use it for traditional BI.

For our Socorro project, we are making use of a Hadoop/HBase cluster to store large amounts of crash report data. The next two versions of Socorro will be pushing significantly more analysis into MapReduce and Hive type queries.

We are also working on a new data storage and analysis backend for Test Pilot which is based on Riak. The interesting part on the analysis side is that it is performed by submitting MapReduce jobs vis a simple HTTP POST to the REST API.
(OT Snark: So, regardless of which way round it is, it's still logical right?)
My gut feeling is that it has something to do with Arc. Some people
tends to think it's just a regular Lisp with shorter keywords and that
there's nothing really innovative in it. The problem is that pg kept
the code private for too long while advocating publicly the power of
the language and criticizing Common Lisp.

So when he finally released it, some lispers were disappointed because
they've been waiting for something really disruptive. And it
backfired as most of the time, the harshest critics comes from
your disappointed sympathizers.

That being said, I don't hang that much on IRC so I have no real
back-story supporting this.
The Density of Smart People
Ask HN: Which android phone to buy
Since my current mobile is barely functional i'd like to get a new phone. An iphone in india is too costly . Samsung I5700 Galaxy Spica looks like a good choice.. it costs around 12.5k. since am a java guy it will be easier for me to play with the android os apps and seems like a good choice since i can update the os.
Amateur Astronomer Images X37-B Space Plane in Orbit
Palm did the same trick when they switched from 160x160 screens to 320x320, back in the day.
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Good developer hygeine
I’ve met numerous developers that give me a blank look when I ask them which clipboard manager they use.
The ECHELON report
I suspect the issue is more the depths they're working at. At 5,000 feet down, these "simple" solutions don't become so simple anymore.
I don't think that Facebook necessarily encourages people to have a second-rate experience. Rather, it acts as a sink for people who would have had a second-rate experience anyway, and still manages to be a tool that serves people who are more ambitious with their lives.

The author compares a very idealistic picture of friendship sans Facebook, with a realistic look at friendship with Facebook, and the former is certain to win, but long before Facebook very many people were busy with keeping appearances and combating loneliness with meaningless drivel.

A better approach would be to research the positive ways in which Facebook can be used to foster real friendship and add meaning and purpose to one's life and publish recommendations to people so that they can fine-tune their use of such tools.
To the car analogy. That's exactly what it means. As a driver I have no obligation to honor your request to change lanes. It is your obligation to decide if moving sideways into my car is the right move.

In the above case, and in tynt's they aren't doing anything wrong. It is more analogous to gun control, without the dire consequences of misuse.