skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow - https://authoritylabs.com is both better and cheaper than the other ones I've seen so far. Thanks! I will definitely give it a try.

I really appreciate your advice, and it matches my early conclusions: simple optimizations do work, and do really affect the traffic (I'm using http://www.toutpourmonipad.com/ as a test-bed).

But there's no point in becoming obsessive about that either.

I will have a closer look at conversion monitoring with regard to the entrance keyword, I didn't think about that, but now it seems pretty obvious. Thanks!
This chap's fairly knowledgable... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHL7Drfj0B0
"I don't know what BP is waiting for, they are wasting their time."

I don't think it is really up to BP whether or not to set off a nuclear bomb in the Gulf of Mexico, even if they happened to have one in their repertoire.
> The UK doesn't really have a significant number of people who vocally and unwaveringly support particular political parties.

Oh really? Half of the Labor/Conservative vote isn't reliable?

In any event, the belief at issue need not be in a political party but in "what govt does".
sure, send me an email and we can meet this weekend.
I tried the same concept and others probably before me:
http://www.tailtelling.com/
Good luck! :-)
That's one of the best essays I've ever read. It says almost nothing about meditation, but it nails every frustration and unhappiness I've ever experienced.

It makes me think that if someone can be that insightful, I'm more likely to go along with whatever he suggests because he's got it figured out so well. Maybe it's time to give meditation a shot.
> I disagree that people overlook that fact. Humans are certainly not infallible, and that's why peer review is an important part of the process for confirming scientific discoveries and claims.

Peer review compares to the literature and does some minor arithmetic checks. It rarely redoes the statistics, let alone verify that the measurements were real.

That's part of why peer review is almost useless in detecting fraud. It has other failings as well.

It is better than nothing.
I spent quite some time working on the "palindromic pangram" problem. I believe I solved it, but my program took several days to finish, so there's probably an optimization I'm still missing. If my program is correct, the shortest palindromic pangram is length 57. Has anyone here done better (either a shorter solution or faster running time)?
They also consume a ridiculous amount of bread (+pasta), dairy and sugary beverages. And probably then wonder why they get fat.
Why waste energy on finding a place, when you can make your own? Sounds like you need to make a startup and hold your feet up on a table.
I have a bunch of 1200's w 040 accelerators, extra memory and whatnot boxed up somewhere. Still have a library of boxed games too... and Amiga Power of course ;)
It's not about 'constantly working' (I don't), it's about having lots of things that I like to do, plus work. I think even if I were wealthy and didn't have to work I'd find more ways to fill my time than time available. In some ways that's good - I don't remember the last time I was bored - but it does mean my time is limited.

I guess the point is that for me, exercise is probably more efficient, time wise, in terms of benefits/time, and also includes some of the mental things that I think meditation must give you, but of course it's a fairly personal thing, and to each his own.
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I think people are missing the point, it's not the invention itself, it's how a 13 year old kid made his imagination into reality (instead of, for example, playing video games all day).

Just imagine what they can do at 20 with the right encouragement.
Right, but it isn't an ASPX page. It just has a couple links to ASPX pages on another site/domain.
I always thought fat models and skinny controllers were the preferred design pattern:

http://www.google.com/search?q=fat+model+skinny+controller
It doesn't work if flash is blocked (Chromium 6.0.451.0 (51013), FlashBlock - Version: 0.9.30). I think because there's not enough room for the override button to show.

Nice music so far, though. And I like the minimalist interface too.
Mediation is sort of the opposite of thinking. You don't actively think, and when thoughts do occur, you dismiss them.
I bet 90% of thes "basement labs" are just covers for manufacturing meth. Biology is too expensive, and if you want to pursue synthetic biology you can get well funded to do so by the NIH. You don't need a big corporate lab, you just need to go to grad school.
How much it cost?
I got a social networking site that has chatroom, photo album sharing, music sharing, users can create friends list, one-on-one chat, messaging, personal calendar.Right now it has more than 700 members, anybody got an idea how much I can sell it or can I find somebody to finance it specifically in advertising and operational expenses?
The article talks about simple sharing to online services, then says "Apple and Google still do not have this functionality."

But that's not true. My android phone has a 'share' button in the gallery, from which I can choose a variety of destinations, including Picasa and Facebook (and any other app that registers itself as a picture sharing endpoint).
How can one improve in these sorts of problems? Crack open CLRS and read that?
I agree - there doesn't seem to be a correlation between obscurity and me liking/not wanting to listen to something. There is plenty of extremely obscure music that i do enjoy on a personal level.

I dont know how your algorithm works, but it doesnt seem like it would be collecting accurate data if i click "more obscure" for music i just "dont like" (this might be just be part of the cute irony of the site though) .. anyhow - good idea and execution.
Ah, the classic neverending story. I prefer the "3 word" story variant myself (you may only write the next 3 words in the story).
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This isn't news, but it is a classic story about "equality" gone awry. Required reading.
I agree, but I meant peer review in an objective sense. There is nothing stopping anyone else from verifying their own measurements. The bigger and more unbelievable the claim, the more subject it is to scrutiny.
I refactor at one of two times. Its either after I get my unit test working or its a change to the structure of some code so I can add a feature. So its an activity I am constantly doing throughout the day to make sure the new functionality is put in relatively well.

In the same way I can't count how long writing tests takes I can't count how long refactoring takes as its simply part of the normal development process. I only ever account for work that includes these activities because after doing it for so many years I realise you can't split them without doing a hack job.
They don't look that fat :)
It is funny how history repeats itself. That story of Intel very much reminds me of Charles Babbage's transition from the single purpose Difference Engine to the more general Analytical Engine.
I was wondering this as well.

It appears I could upload some obscure music to the site via the Upload tab. I assume that your team has to vet that the music I upload is 1) what i say it is and 2) that covered by a CC license.

Can you play back non-CC music you 'own' because you're streaming it (ala a radio station) rather than allowing user's download it?

I love the site, but it seems scary having something like this in today's litigious world.
SEM Rush (http://semrush.com) is a great tool that we use. There's plenty of tools that track your own input keywords, but SEM Rush for it's ability to discover keywords you didn't know you were ranking for. Free version is pretty decent to get started.
An ex BP oil engineer (who I know) used the following words when I asked him about it:

dear god no, it would be horrific

His opinion is that the geology in the region would not take a massive explosion well and the most likely result (he admits it could plug/slow the well) would be a large number of cracks/channels deep underground that would seep up through the sea floor and be pretty much unstoppable.
Interesting idea! I'll definitely keep that in mind for future designs.

For now I have reduced the text color scheme to use only two shades of gray. I tried to pick two shades that have good contrast but with neither being unreadable on white.

Let me know what you think
He has written many books on the subject. I think I'll read the linked one and get the "sequel" soon. http://www.amazon.com/Bhante-Henepola-Gunaratana/e/B002LADY6...
Nixon was told: sea level would rise by 10 feet in 31 years
(BTW, it's interesting and welcome that you direct discussion to HN.)

"The hacker doth protest too much, methinks."

The big issue I see here is the battery. You've got a set of tradeoffs that I suspect are going to result in different choices for feature phones in the developed vs. developing world:

The bigger the battery, the greater the cost.

The bigger the battery, the longer it can go without recharging.

The bigger the battery, the longer it will live (all things being equal (and it's more complicated than this, I gather), the lifetime of the battery is strongly coordinated with the number of recharge cycles).

Lithium-ion batteries have a finite "shelf-life", time and heat (including ambient) are enemies.

So given the above, you ideally want the smallest battery that provides adequate time between charges and that dies from exceeding its maximum number of recharge cycles about the time it would die from plain old age and/or when the phone itself will die.

Making the battery bigger than this is wasted cost (including size and weight), unless you need the larger capacity for some reason. "Developing world" phones may have a bias towards larger batteries since large parts of it have higher ambient temperatures. Various parts of this market are willing to trade off the higher cost of a larger battery because the opportunity to recharge whenever you want to is not there (many countries don't supply electricity 24x7, many areas don't supply it at all, you need someone's generator).

And of course in the "developing world" cost is a even more important consideration.

BTW, for my own reasons I too have a Nokia "developing world" candy bar feature phone, a 1600 I bought near the end of 2007 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_1600). It's now discontinued, and I suspect from comparing it to your 1616 that the latter is its replacement. Yours has a slightly smaller battery (800 vs. 900mAh) with a longer standby time and a much longer talk time:

http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_1600-1188.php

http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_1616-3007.php
1. If the whole app experience is as quick & snappy as the screens I've seen just poking around without entering data, you're doing something very right.

2. As a potential customer, I need a screencast that shows me what your service does, how it will help me accomplish X and Y better than my current system, and why I should spend time exploring it. See dropbox for an awesome example.

3. You should come right out and name your competition and explain what you do better. It's a giant pain in the ass to switch CRM midstream, and yet there's so much room for improvement.

4. The name is atrocious. It fails multiple tests (can your users pronounce it? spell it? remember it? understand it?). You should really consider changing it.

Good luck!
Now this was not a wise naming choice.

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"... when posting an article on HN which title contains the word "hacker" it would be nice if you put quotes around it if it's not intended as it should, like: ..."

True, but I try to keep the original headings. Changing them often causes confusion (editorialising) if I misplace emphasis. Besides I'm pretty sure most here know the distinction b/w "hackers" & "crackers".
First, they aren't fat.

Second, how can you judge this without knowing how much calories they burn?
To quote the article:

"We live in a world where spammers are a real problem and must be addressed, but CAPTCHAs are not the answer. You simply can not afford the friction. By using a CAPTCHA you are making the internet a whole lot less fun for all of us."
Don't worry, if you plan to be a good developer, you will know both technologies (and even more). So right now you can pick safely either of them. Yes, it's that simple :)
By pure coincidence, this ties in well with something Nassim Taleb just tweeted:

"Unless we manipulate our surroundings,we have as little control over what & whom we think about as we do over the muscles of our hearts."
Video games can encourage imaginative thinking.

Check out Scribblenauts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh65m-3o1co
http://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/17647441068
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dk-matai/gulf-of-mexico-danger...

That this is even a remote possibility suggests that, no, big explosions should not be used. 1 in 10^9 is still too risky.
FASA was always a mixed bag. Yes they published a lot of material that no one else would publish, but they also ad-libbed a whole lot as well, inventing, in the end, their own version of the Star Trek universe that often contradicted more canonical sources such as Sternbach and Okuda.
A breakdown of per-capital consumption of Coca-cola products worldwide:

http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/ourcompany/ar/pdf/2009-pe...
I suppose it depends on what you mean by "state-change manager".

My understanding has always been that a controller's job was to translate user actions into domain-level operations to be carried out. You might start the foobazifier by clicking a toolbar icon, pressing a keyboard shortcut, or selecting a menu item, but they all have the same effect. The controller's job is to interpret those user actions to determine the required effect. The model's job is to understand what that effect means and update things accordingly.

In practice, of course, it has never really been quite that simple. Views tend to have metadata (such as the current cursor position in a document or zoom level) that are also maintained by commands from the controller, so not all data is stored in the model, only the important, domain-related state. Observer patterns get implemented so that the model can remain independent of any particular controller/view pair, but it still has to provide both an API for updates from controllers and a defined set of events that interested modules can observe.

In any case, the model's role is not just to be a thin wrapper around the database/file system/whatever. It is also the guardian of "business logic". I think one danger with the term MVC is that it suggests a system composed of only three modules. In reality, MVC is a high-level architectural pattern, and in non-trivial applications all three of those components are going to need a lot of internal structure as well. Representing domain concepts and persistent state may well be at the core of the model, but just about any code that works entirely in terms of domain concepts probably belongs within the model component somewhere.
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Willpower is a limited resource, at least in the short term: http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2009/12/willpower.php
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There are tons of .NET jobs out there. They're just not at 'cool' small web startups (like Facebook). Pick any Fortune 1000 company (or any of the consulting companies that those companies use) and you'll find plenty of .NET jobs within their walls.
yeah, stop working on Mongrel2 and get a business off the ground. Then maybe possibly one day when it's making money you can work on Mongrel2 again, your way.
My analysis was in fact limited to the legality of the solicitation. I'm in no way qualified to figure out the legality of their operations in general.
As a guess I'd say getting it out there in front of enough people that Zed is no longer writing 99% of the code. Getting real community effort on improving it. Although he might just mean in context of the company not keeping any aspect of it proprietary.
Oh, BTW... meant to ask ages ago;

the Trie thing looked awesome and I immediately started to think of wrong uses for it (e.g. XPath parsing)...

if you get time then python bindings would be nice :)
The article fails to mention Benjamin Franklin and John Adams were the other two members of the committee charged with drafting the document. Producing a hard copy in those days was a real chore, and probably only done in order to present a working document to the full committee.

So did Jefferson make this change on his own, and take the extra care in changing the words so the rest of the committee wouldn't notice? Or in discussions with Adams and Franklin did they all recognize how momentous the change was and expunging "subjects" was a kind of ritual?
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This phone is around 30 euros before taxes, unlocked and free. I don't think the battery is particularly larger than in other models, it's just that the phone itself is quite economic in its use of it, I guess. There are few features and it uses simpler software.

Batteries are getting better all the time so this should be a case of the new, modern battery and simple technology which gives it prolonged use. If they really wanted I would bet they could make it to hold even longer before charges. It is a matter of tradeoffs as you say.

I have a bigger issue with the fact many people consider such phones are for poor people or for developing countries. I for the fact, want such a phone on purpose. Hell I wouldn't even mind the colorless screen. This is what irks me. Such phones are becoming increasingly rare and difficult to buy. I do not want a camera, mp3 player, FM radio, browser, apps, MMS and gazillion other gimmicks. I want to make calls and send/receive SMS without charging it every few damn days.
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Ignore the kids, look at the adults. They're not morbidly obese, but they are carrying excess fat. Without a change in diet, or adopting the training regime of a competitive athlete (do you know how many calories you need to burn every day to stay lean on that kind of diet?), this is likely to trend to obesity as they age.
Obviously ajkirwin is better at deeper reading than you are because Gruber is basically saying the iPhone 4 is unassailable technically. He blames everything on a white lie that Apple's bars were telling and refuses to see that the design of the phone is bad for people who hold it a certain way. Like Jobs, he brushes these people off as complainers and "dares" people to return their iPhones.
No, but I'm strongly in favor of a plan to nuke the moon. That thing's been looking at me the wrong way for years now.
The problem with starting your own company is that you end up owning a company. That means you have to run a company which means you have less time to hack Mongrel2. I totally understand and respect wanting to get hired by a bigger company like the guy who developed Redis did. Basically being able to completely focus on your code without having to hunt for funding or worrying about where your next paycheck is coming from is a much better proposition for most people.
Zed is hate to be system admin?
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I've long had that pegged as the ultimate terrorist act. Wait, wasn't that the plot of Superman 2 or something?
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It looks like the bottled water is soda water. I am also a sucker for fizzy water.
I'm sorry, but I don't see how what I described is limited to a single client. There is no reason you could not have your model running on one machine, and a view/controller pair running on another. If you have multiple clients, just start a view/controller process on each of them. Indeed, I have worked on systems with essentially this architecture, and it works fine.

Fundamentally, MVC is a three-way relationship, designed to support an interative user interface. I don't see what is gained by trying to shoehorn a web-based system with a linear structure into those boxes. It's not wrong, it's just different, but it is unhelpful to call something different by the same name.

Funnily enough, the MVC idea does work rather well for the client side of a web-based interface, as the event model in JavaScript lends itself quite neatly to handling by a controller, and the whole HTML/DOM set-up lends itself to rendering by a view.
And after their mismanagement of this crisis, thank God corporations aren't allowed to possess nuclear weapons.
Try a search.

The site is up, but it's not functional. Apparently they relied on a simple, static interface to search and Google has removed it, so they aren't able to perform searches anymore. (Which they will tell you if you do try to do a search.)
Do you know where to get this model of phone in the USA? I would like to get one as a backup phone, and for world travel. It's also interesting in that it can hold two simcards.
I always wanted to do this for my license plate.
I am not criticizing their diet. Look at their picture:

http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2007/hungry_planet/1...

These people are NOT obese. They are not super lean either, but for their age this looks like a perfectly healthy weight. In fact they are relatively lean compared to the other families.
On a similar note:

I'd like to see an effort to eliminate the word "consumers" from our leaders lexicons.

Cows are consumers... Hogs are consumers...

Consumers are commodities that are fattened until they're slaughtered!

Words have significance on both conscious and subliminal levels.

Beware a government AND a corporate elite that has come to think of you as a 'consumer'... a 'subject'.

'Citizens' are a nuisance!

Jefferson, Franklin and Adams knew that words were important.

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I've personally known them for almost 4 years and they're not crooks. They are important figures in the community and employ a few dozen people here.

How is this relevant?
I think its amazing how with all the Ivy League Scientists that have been thrown at this leak, none have managed to effect a brilliant solution to this problem that can actually work. Maybe we need to rethink exactly what qualifies someone as smart in this world. They had Bill Nye, James, Cameron, and even Kevin Costner there. LOL. Despite the enormous pool of intelligence that now collects BP checks for failing to "solve" this problem, only the most basic juvenile and idiotic suggestions emerge, like Nuking the drill site. Wow. Megafailure.
The price of a single ticket is probably relatively small and so they may be protecting themselves from chargebacks. It is extremely common for those with stolen credit cards to test them using small value purchases. If you can find a site that doesn't rate limit your purchases in any way you can test a lot of cards at once, determine which cards are valid/active, and saddle the merchant account holder with tons of chargebacks and their associated fees.
I don't think I need to mention 1984 by George Orwell, but you might be interested in the movie Equilibrium which has a similar theme: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238380/
I think a James Bond villain tried to draw his name on the moon.