skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you know visuals were the only criteria? A flat panel is a hell of a lot easier to clean than a regular light switch.
> I am happy to read what you quote as relevant.

Ah, now we're talking. So, chapter 9, page 247 http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/papers/imbookfinal09.pdf

""" You may wonder why we are offering all these details about specific countries, patenting of chemical processes, and pharmaceutical products. For a very simple reason: if patents were a necessary requirement for pharmaceutical innovation as claimed by their supporters, the large historical and cross country variations in the patent protection of medical products should have had a dramatic impact on national pharmaceutical industries. In particular, at least between 1850 and 1980, most drugs and medical products should have been invented and produced in the United States and the United Kingdom, and very little if anything in continental Europe. Further, countries such as Italy, Switzerland and, to a lesser extent, Germany, should have been the laggards of the pharmaceutical industry until recently. Instead the opposite was true for longer than a century."""

I fear you would have to read "all these details about specific countries" if you want anything more substantial. That's 7 pages (from 241 to 247).
Linode's lowest package is about $20 USD/month and its a very nice VPS with stellar support. I use it and recommend it.
Growing it at home is practically free. Like home-brewing beer people will grow for fun. More entertaining than a tomato garden.
Response of most of the NoSQL advocates I've spoken to: BerkeleyDB was written before I was a programmer, therefore it cannot be trusted since it's "old".
That mapping seems to undervalue the expressive power of pictures, which is commonly taken to be: 1 picture = 1000 words.
Symmetry, Priors, Logical Probability, Infinities, and Needless Paradoxes
This seems clearly to be written from an anti-legalization perspective as a worst case scenario.
It will be difficult to make inroads against HP Server Automation, but I am sure people would love to see you succeed.

That being said, this is very much a solution services business. You will need more than core talent. A lot more.
Project Implicit - feelings outside conscious awareness/control
I still wish some congresscritter would pass a law simply stating "if you can copyright the implementation, then you can't patent it"
Not Reading Ticketmaster's Terms Of Service Shouldn't Make You A Criminal
If they go to court and he does win the case wouldn't the cost of his lawyers be paid by the loosing side, so, he in that case would not lose anything and perhaps might even be awarded nominal damages if the other side pursued the case friviously.
... And much like home-brewing it won't destroy the market for commercial sale (Inbev does OK).
The author of the article doesn't understand the government's capacity to tax.
Pot is a weed. It's like growing St. Augustine grass, or dandelions. If it were legal to grow, before taxes it'd be about a dollar an ounce to make wholesale. Decent soil, lots of water, my favorite 8-12-16 fertilizer, epson salts, a bit of iron sulfate, and that stuff would explode. Once it's being grown on many acres, the cost per ounce is trivial.
I'm planning to identify a suitable candidate to get married to, and who is genetically appropriate enough to give me good quality kids, then convince this person to marry me and carry my child, within the next year.

Difficult, but I assume interesting.
Indeed. However, keep in mind the green revolution always has had the PR of high yield & low risk.

People who point out that it is in fact high yield & high risk, tend to be accused of being anti-progress luddites.
Not to mention peoples appetite for profit and the power of anchoring.
he's wrong, there you go: http://pocketnow.com/rumor/actually-kin-sold-more-than-503-d...
GMail not Loading – GMail Problems and Possible Solutions
That's the kind of advertising I would like to see more companies put money towards.
This article quotes 500 from a Microsoft employee. While they may be quoting Gruber I find it more unlikely that they wouldn't have at least a ballpark figure.

http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2010/07/kin-fusing-kin-clusion-...
except for all the electricity, fertilizer, equipment, water?

You ever look up the type of lights you need and how much power they draw? how quickly various bits of the setup degrade?

but yes people will grow a plant or two for fun...
Debt Free
Yeah, Windows XP's ClearType does things very badly. I was referring to this article that was posted in a different thread:

http://antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/
Virtual Instruction Sets: Opcode Arguments
Hack a gibson...
While I don't take drugs I know people who do and let me tell you that they're making a fool of you; $100 for an eighth is way too high anywhere in the world, even in NYC. Anything above $50 is completely unrealistic (and even that's ridiculously expensive). You should find a better "young entrepreneur".
I have a workable but annoying solution to this. I have a master email account for every website I'm signed up on. I have the password for that email account memorized and that passwords isn't saved on my computer. If I need access to photobucket when I'm away from my computer (and 1Password) I can reset my photobucket password to a memorized password. Then when I can get access to 1Password, I can login in and change it back.
You going to be split-testing?
The site has some interactive tests designed to make you think critically about some common beliefs you might have (e.g. "I treat whites and blacks equally")
The Peltzman Effect: Induced Human Error
Analyzing Etsy’s data with Hadoop and Cascading
Do you think the lack of drivers and external support for things like the SVideo is a TI deficiency, or a linux community problem in general?

I'm trying to decide between i.MX51 and OMAP3/AM37 for an upcoming project and it seems like the level of support from TI or Freescale is going to be the only thing making a difference in the decision...the chips are just too similar in functionality.
I can't find the specific justifications but I believe it's all described in the GNOME HIG: http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/

Not to say it's necessarily correct, but if you really want to dig into their reasoning, that's where it is.
Why is it okay to design layouts that require a pointing device, yet it's not okay to design for hover? How does one draw this line?

I think this is just a matter of designing for your audience, not a matter of "moving forward".
Ask HN: Real Time Mail Traffic Overview
Setting up my mail system at the moment, and the easiest way I figure to stay on top of mail problems (spam attacks etc) is to actively be able to see what is happening as it happens.

There are plenty of log analysis tools for Postfix, but not many are still in production. Does any one know of a tool which allows you to view, in real-time, mail being processed?

Mail going through the server, current queue levels, sender address and recipient address. Drill down to daily totals for each address too.
this guy is a fanboy whore..i know for a fact there are more than 503 sold... working for a carrier and all. He needs to get more credible sources.
Step 0: Get adopted by Indian parents.

Step 1: sit back and relax ;)
It could be another form of RSI (Repeditive Strain Injury). Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is one particular form of RSI affecting your wrists, but it's also possible to get RSI and pain in other muscles. Just because the Carpal Tunnel tests are negative doesn't mean you don't have some other illness. You shouldn't be in pain. If you're in pain, and all the Carpal Tunnel tests are negative, then it's something else.

I've frequently had RSI pains for about a year now. One solution is to change (somehow) your typing set up. e.g. if you use your right hand to use the mouse, and have pains in your right hand, then change to your left hand. This will give the (damaged and strained) muscles in your right hand a break and they will start to heal. Likewise, change your keyboard. I got a €25 Microsoft Natural Keyboard. When typing on a laptop it's common to rest your wrists on your laptop (before the keyboard). This means you have to bend your wrists upwards. If you do that a lot (like I used to), then you'll get pains along the top of your lower arms. The solution is to not do that as much. I got a new keyboard which means I don't bend my wrists up like that. This means these muscles are not doing as much, and hence aren't being strained, and hence are given a chance to recover.

Install a typing break programme. This is something that will lock your screen every X mins for Y mins, forcing you to take regular breaks from typing. If you're using Linux & Gnome, this is built in as part of the keyboard preferences.
Plenty of patterns can survive in some degree of static. One of the rules is "Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation." Therefore, a spaceship cell that normally had two neighbors could run into an extra blip, and there would be no effect.

As far as specific patterns that are just generally resilient, Life patterns tend to be pretty fragile, and I would expect this to be an unavoidable consequence of the game's rules, one that would scale to any complex construction you built.

Also, I'm not going to attempt a proof but it sure seems that for any pattern X, you could construct a (pretty simple) pattern Y than would destroy it.
Hitchhike across southern Japan (Honshu mostly)
Finishing my PhD.
Funny story:
We went on a road trip recently. Checked into a hotel, were given a magnetic stripe key card and a room number, hauled our bags upstairs, attempted to open the door to the room ... and discovered that it was already occupied. Another guest was already in the room, with the inside bar lock in place (so the door would only open two inches).

In a crazy coincidence, we spent the next night in a different hotel in a different city and the same thing happened again.

I was surprised by this. I had assumed that the system that tracks reservations, available rooms, etc, would somehow be connected to the system that reprograms the magnetic stripe keys. I thought it would be harder for the front desk to hand out a second set of keys without some kind of warning message ("Hey, you already checked someone into that room ... are you sure you want to give out 3 more keys to the SAME ROOM?"). Apparently I've overestimated the room key/reservation systems in place at most hotels (another commenter here mentioned using DOS for reservations?!).

So, does UPM solve this problem? :)
The only thing I dislike about the beagle board is that the generation 1 had a faulty USB interface. Also the Serial Connection is a 9 pin. I'd rather they just let me use a standard ft cable.

=/ Arm units are definitely cool. Look at the maple leaf, and other Arm 3 based units. Very very cheap stuff. Very very powerful.

Arm is definitely seizing control of the embedded device market, and linux with it.
My Advice:

1) Accept the person that you are, and learn to love that person. If you don't accept who you are and love yourself, others will have a hard time following suit.

2) Do the things you love. In doing so, you're likely to meet others who share the same interests.

3) Stop worrying about whether you'll ever find someone. When you do this, you project a sense of desperation, and others can pick up on this.
I think your idea is good. I have been using an excel spreadsheet for keeping track of income, expenses and credit card accounts. I've been thinking about turning it into a web application but I don't have the time.

While not all people use excel of this, one question you should ask is if most of your target audience will consider switching from their own excel or hand drawn accounting or what have you to your app.

As for your questions

1) best features I would love to have in an app like this are:
- ability to see detailed monthly income info (estimated vs actual to see if i'm on track)
- ability to see how much money i'm saving or have saved up for the past n days (eg. 1 year) (estimated vs actual to see if i'm on track)
- ability to see how much money i'm spending from checking accounts and credit accounts
- ability to see how much i'm spending on certain categories that are relevant to me (food,entertainment,travel,utilities,etc)
- ability to enter all my data manually (not using something like the mint model)
- very nice summaries with charts of daily, weekly, monthly income, expenses, credit card purchases/payments/expenses.

also for people who like to enter all their data manually, how about an reminder option every 1 or 2 weeks reminding them to update their info?

2) Not sure what single-entry/double-entry means nor do I care about GAAP. Leave out the typical financial terms. I just want data to be easy to input, easy to see and easy to draw conclusions from.

3) Not sure. Some nice summary tables and charts.

4) To deal with data security easier, one idea would be to simply not store identifiable account information (eg. don't store account numbers). And don't make users enter their personal info like full names and addresses etc.

5) Web browser based access is best in my opinion. I rarely do finances on my phone because I need to look at as much of the data as possible (in my case excel)
To do research in natural language processing. Roadblocks:

* Time. Or if time = money then I need money to be able to spend time on this. Also, in itself this wouldn't bring in much income I don't think.

* No CS background. Don't know where to start.
The Downside of Invincibility
"While I don't take drugs"

This is both hilarious and obvious from the rest of your post. Number one, you don't take pot and lumping it in with other drugs is simply ignorant. Number two, $50 is not bad at all for good stuff. $50 is a scam if you're buying reg, and I'm sorry that your informed source apparently is; it's not worth any amount of money in my opinion.
Hmmm... so maybe a defense would be "How do you know this, MPAA/RIAA?" If they can't present legal evidence in court, they'd lose. They can't extort people who know the evidence is illegal.
How do I configure it myself? Do you have a reference?
Having never looked into it before
http://www.specialty-lights.com/plantgrow-questions.html#fun...

$250 for a 400W grow light with a 5 year warranty

$20/mo for the electric for the lights

$16 to fill a 5,000 gallon pool. No idea how much water the plants would need, but I assume less than that but lets say that is a monthly cost.

$14 for a 40lb bag of fertilizer

Never had to purchase drugs, but lets say the seeds of the strain you want cost $250.

$500 startup cost
and $50/mo for running costs.
5 producing plants and 5 seeding plants

Over the course of a year you spend $600. The net claims 17.5oz average yield per plant.

Unless I made a gross error $30/oz is completely reasonable.
Of course not, they would never complain. Poor southerners don't do that. The one did talk about losing the farm though. Don't take his word for it though, look at some data: http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2008/05/04/average-incom...
Pancakes...
People are VERY conservative when it comes to interfaces. Remember those old Westerns, where the guy in the Hotel washes up in a basin? Two pitchers: hot and cold.

Along comes running hot and cold running water! Two faucets replace two pitchers. Still washing in the basin - fill it with some hot, some cold.

Now somebody clever invents the single faucet- one handle to mix hot and cold! Cool! Quickly get just the temp you want. Fill the basin, wash and shave.

But wait - kids are just washing under the flowing water. Those darn kids! But it DOES save water.

Everybody is doing that now - so filling the basin becomes an anachronism. In fact the basin is just to catch the water - its a drain. A dirty drain. Who would wash their face with drain water? Ug.

So we go from pitchers and basin, to running water with adjustable temp going down a drain. Total elapsed time: 100 years, 3 or 4 generations.

Nothing in that process was rocket science. Could have happened the 1st day. Its PEOPLE that are the inertia, darn those people and their expectations.
Doesn't it kind of imply that we will see heavy spamming of the sky in the future? I guess by now there are already zeppelins used for advertising, but perhaps they were not efficient enough?
My advice: Don't tell them that on the first date.
He'll definitely be using genetic algorithms.
I do use Office. I'm a dev in a ".NET shop" and the org is Windows all the way around so I most certainly do use Office.

That said, I'm not using Office for anything fancy: lots and lots of Outlook, some basic Word-based requirements docs, a bunch of Excel, and the rare Powerpoint. I also have a pretty monster rig at work, and never had any performance problems with 2007. I upgraded to 2010 during beta and am running the release right now. I like it (the UI improvements in Outlook are nice), but it doesn't strike me as a "must have" upgrade over 2007. It _certainly_ isn't an upgrade I would've spent $100+ of my _own_ money on.

I use GoogleDocs at home for personal use.
Interesting, thank you. Two questions, after a very quick look:

- Is it possible to get a diff/patch mechanism working losslessly ?

- Color ?

(clickable link to paper: http://pixel-shaker.fr/wp-content/uploads/publications/Baudr... )
Raising our daughter. Current bottleneck: not using potty. Think we'll just have to wait until she's ready though!
Flagged. There are x million articles on Wikipedia. HN is not the place to discuss them.
Not a massive fan of clojures syntax though - that example is like bracket city!
The eight hour day, forty hour week was a key victory won by the persistent efforts of the trade union movement (and anarchists and socialists). Mr Ford seems to have been writing a clever justification for a pre-emptive capitulation. And it seems to have been a good piece of business for him. But it is Labour Day, not Henry Ford Day.
That was my first thought as well. From Amazon's point of view, this is very much "Not cool, dude." I'm not sure at what point it becomes a legal issue, but it is definitely a dickish move.
I had to Youtube how to put a sim card in my iphone : d
That already happened. The company is called Venture Lighting:

Venture CEO Wayne Hellman began the development of the company after a 16-year career with General Electric, during which he pioneered innovations for metal halide lighting. Fifteen years of developing metal halide for GE convinced Mr. Hellman that a tremendous opportunity existed for a specialty metal halide lighting company. Mr. Hellman, along with a small core group of marketing and engineering managers from GE, formed Venture Lighting, literally beginning from scratch.

http://www.venturelighting.com/About_V-History.html

I don't know what would be wrong with that. As long as you don't take any IP or equipment you can generally be free to do what you want.
Three good books that can get you started:

1) Natural Language Understanding - James Allen
2) Speech and Natural Language Processing - Jurafsky & Martin
3) Statistical Foundations of Natural Language Processing - Manning

You can brush up your probability and Linear Algebra from the prep guides available from Andrew Ng's machine learning course. My best wishes.
U.S. Facebook growth sputters in June
Modify the Debian packaging files to provide the correct compilation options - sorry I'm not experienced with this as I've only made RPMs before =- but it should be pretty easy to figure out.
Some cancers _are_ caused by viruses: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervical_cancer
Dell crowdsources its laptop cover designs with Threadless
I can't tell if you're trying to say that my goal is adorable or disappointing or that I'm a young'un or what.
Why We Do Things That Aren't in Our Best Interests
Earn my FAA Private Pilot Certificate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_certification_in_the_Unit...
Previously on News.YC:

"Optimizing your wife

If a man can expect to meet exactly N eligible women in his life, what strategy should he use to maximize his chances of choosing the very best one?"

http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath018/kmath018.htm

Just curious, are you attempting to quantitatively rank the candidates in a spreadsheet, especially the intangibles like 'as potential mother'?
Generally, these restrictions on the admissibility of evidence apply to agents of the state. Simply because some sort of evidence became available by illegal means doesn't automatically make it unusable in any court case, ever.
When someone talks about Linux problems with fonts rendering now, I get really confused. I worked on Win/Mac/Linux (currently using Macbook and Ubuntu Desktop) and I have to say Linux has the best font rendering. Compare this:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/113891/pics/font_rendering_linux.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/113891/pics/font_rendering_macosx.pn...
What part of NLP? It's actually a pretty wide field.
With this new font, things look even more amazing. Great font.
tell the depressed girl to join a band.
Actually I can already tell you from my own dataset that quality of housing has very little correlation with rent amount off-campus. An insane percentage of great landlords undercharges significantly and doesn't realize it (or maybe it's the bad landlords overcharging). Yet, because of the nature of student housing and the level of enrollment, all housing still seems to get filled at the same speed, whether under- or overcharging.
launch a web site that brings in enough income that I can quit my day job
les paul or an SG?
Become one of the world's top salsa dancers by 2020.

Current roadblock is that I'm just not doing it enough. I get distracted by other interests of mine. I was previously practising 3 times a week (which probably still isn't enough) but lately I'm only going once a week.
Stop Grieving Startup Failure, Start Another One
to find this surface mount resistor I just dropped.
ROFL this finally hit the news? I remember grilling the guy who invented her about her trying to friend me on facebutt. She's awesome.
You should watch "The Invention of Lying." I think you'll like it. :)
I'm doing the same. Have you read Life Nomadic? The guy who wrote it did exactly what you're aspiring to do and he seemed to do alright for himself.

I'm building up my programming skills and saving up 2 year's worth of money (as well as paying off any outstanding debts) before embarking on this grand adventure.

by the way of advices, I guess I can only say just keep a tight lid on your wallet; spend it only on necessities, like food, shelter, and bills.
In some places all you have to do is throw a seed in the ground and attend to it no different than all your other plants. Plenty of seeds in your $30/oz bag you buy from someone else. ;)
I guess the piratebay is getting a taste of their own medicine. A third-party is sharing their data without their consent. Boo Hoo.

I remember hearing a speech a couple of weeks ago from one of the guys that runs the Piratebay. He talked about how he remembered when he was a little kid and he was taught to share. He believed that everything online should be given out for free for the goodness of mankind.

I hope this guy shares all of the usernames/email addresses and password hashes as a torrent. After all, it's just data. Data is only 1s and 0s (and can't be stolen).
5usd a day == 250usd/day today == 31.25usd/hour. With much lower taxes. Cool.
Introduction to Kanban
Hacker in AT&T iPad case breaks gagging order
Well it had to slow down at some point. It took longer than I thought actually.
Same here. I'm almost there. Selling the car as well, which will help.
Then I go travelling on my own.
Keynes v. Hayek — 1932 Redux