skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Asking someone to marry you (I assume that's what the next step is- maybe it's something else) when you don't know what the answer will be pretty much only happens in movies. And it's not a good idea.

I was just at a friend's wedding last weekend, am engaged myself, and four other friend pairs are also engaged. In all of these cases, we discussed marriage extensively with our partners before anyone was officially asked. We all knew what the answer was going to be.

If you want to consider going to the next step, you should bring up marriage casually in conversation. If she sounds like she's just not into it, she's either going to say no, or say yes because of pressure when she doesn't really mean it.
Google Voice is your friend...
I suppose the most interesting goal, to me, is getting my teeth fixed. I didn't take care of them all through my twenties and it's had serious repercussions on my social and professional life as well as taking a drastic toll on my confidence.

Roadblocks and/or bottlenecks are easy: finances. Dental work isn't cheap, especially when you're looking at as much work as I need done. The "fear" of the dentist was also an initial roadblock, but not only is it far less worse than I imagined/remembered, I also happen to have "the hots" for my female dentist so it makes going far easier.
Build a house; specifically a wood/earth "natural house" and fit it out to be self sufficient (for monetary rather than eco reasons :)).

Current road blocks: finding time to build, finding a site without NIMBY neighbours, planning permission (grrr)
I don't like how (i) the card is pseudo-randomly generated and (ii) the people as passwordcard.org potentially have access to the key used to generate it -- it certainly would cut down on the size of the password space that ~they~ would need to search to steal your password; or the space that someone who steals data from them would need to search.
Nice! Yes, I have read it. Life Nomadic is what convinced me to do it for real. [for those who haven't, http://tynan.net/life-nomadic]

Since I could take a very long time to save two years worth of money, I'll just save enough to get started in some low-cost country (something like 3~5 months in South America or Asia) and focus on building something that can generate some passive income.

Thanks for the advices. Stick to it, and maybe we meet on the road :)
How to write a filesystem in 50 lines of code
You might actually be overtraining. In my personal experience it's quality not quantity that matters. See the recent Tabata grace. I would check out and find a great personal trainer to help you along. And good luck!
2 years worth of money is how much in this case? 30,000$-ish?
I'm not sure if that's effective - we've tried it some, but there doesn't seem to be a connection, yet, to "I should have done that with the potty". People have told us that it sort of happens when they're ready and not earlier, so perhaps it's best not to rush things.
Shazam sold them the patents.
carry my child

If they're a woman, they're a lesbian. I'm pretty sure men can't bear children.
As someone who is currently riding a moped in 100 degree weather in Asia right now - I really don't mind the helmet. You really don't notice it.

Hopping on a moped and heading anywhere, parking anywhere really is quite enjoyable. It is unfortunate north american cities are not well suited to it.
Damn, ok so basically we just silenced the 503 rumor and replaced it with 8800 copies. That is an even bigger flop because now its not a rumor. Unless they sold over 100,000 items they are fucked.
choose as much exotic race as possible with highest possible iq + looks

Such as if you are White
I suggest a good looking Indian girl who is pursuing PhD in CS or some such
Raise: http://www.bradlanders.com/2010/07/08/the-browser-isnt-going...

Post content here for convenience. See link above for hyperlinks.

Berislav Lopac thinks that the browser is going away, and native applications connected to web-server backends are the future. I feel the opposite. I think native applications are headed the way of the cli. The browser is the great equalizer. Think about it like this: what barriers prevent you changing operating systems today? What barriers prevented you from changing operating systems 10 years ago? Our daily computing lives are dominated more and more by web-based applications. We can use these applications anywhere. It’s one of the primary reasons mobile and tablet devices have finally gained traction.

Not too long ago, our mobility between operating systems didn’t matter much. No one really cared if they could easily switch from Windows to Linux, because switching didn’t achieve a specific goal that they were interested in. That is, the tasks they could accomplish were too similar. The introduction of mobile and tablet devices has created a new incentive for operating system mobility. Users want to be untied from their desks, and they want to bring their experience with them.

The browser is already an application platform. It is its own execution environment. Ironically, Microsoft’s early vision of the web browser was that it would be a platform to which native-like applications could be pushed over the wire. ActiveX and proprietary browser features were an attempt to leverage existing developer toolsets in a browser environment. This failed (for a large number of reasons), but the persistence of IE6 in corporate environments is a testament to just how close they were to succeeding. As browser standards advance, we’ll see a surge in the development of fully in-browser frameworks that use design patterns like MVC. I don’t mean V and C in the browser and model on the server. I mean M, V, and C within a browser, where the model reaches out (sometimes) to a server for data-sync or specific execution. Apple’s guidelines for iPhone web apps are a great example. Their entire framework is built atop an open-source browser, which is seeing widespread adoption in the mobile and tablet space.

The balance between client and server based processing runs like the tides. Not every application will become a web application, but the number and broad importance of native applications will diminish. Web standards will continue to advance, supporting more native-like applications in the web browser. Projects like Fluid will allow users and developers to package browser-based apps in launchable containers on the desktop, while mobile devices will continue with the existing trend of abstracting away the difference between mobile and native apps (see iOS and Android handling of web app shortcuts on homescreens). Browser application frameworks like Sproutcore will put new tools in the hands of developers that advance the way we think and build “web apps”.

The future of the web browser is bright.
Learn every juggling trick I have seen, heared of or imagined.

Roadblock: balls keep falling.

EDIT: current status (as of yesterday): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lsuO0tQZaU
How the World Keeps Defying the Predictions of Pessimists
Tell HN: ScoreYard has launched - Sport League and Team management
>Landmark has a method for music-matching.

No they have a patent the idea of music-matching, not the implementation.

I could have a patent on the idea of a car that defies gravity - and you pay up when you actually invent a flying car.
KIN registers its Facebook app on Facebook, where anybody can actually see the total number of monthly active users of the application. The KIN Facebook app is only available on KIN devices and can only be used by people who have KIN devices. So how many people are actually using KIN devices that are connected to Facebook? 8,810 as of right now.

There are about 2000 Verizon stores (http://www.vzwcareers.com/Why/Test.aspx?lid=//careers//why+v...), and I bet each one had an activated KIN on display. So that brings the number down to 6810. Subtract from that people who returned their phones within the 30 day window (I don't think the return deactivates the Facebook app).

But even if the real number were 8800, or even 88,000, that's nowhere near the 1 million+ Apple did on the first day for iPhone 4, or even the 500,000 estimated HTC EVOs sold.
I'm working on becoming a beekeeper. Learning about bee cycles and getting involved in a beekeeping group is easy enough. The biggest roadblock is finding a place to keep them in LA.
(Somewhat offtopic; sorry)

Holy crap -- I went to college with that guy. I always knew he was really, really into Starcraft, but I had no idea he had legions of internet followers.

Somehow, even with doing all that, he had time to do some really interesting math research. You'll find quite a few results if you search for him on Google Scholar.
> If you're gonna compete, you'll have to compete with the iPhone4 not 2007's iPhone.

And if you really want to compete, you need to target iPhone 5, not 4.
Reflections on Perl and DBI from an Early Contributor
* how many of those 8800 copies were sold

* how many were given away for free

* what was the time of the '503 sales'-report :)
Not pure as such, just something you can get the concepts from without to much language specific stuff or at to high a level. Don't think I'm the best person to suggest though having started with PHP in my teens, then only really had my mind opened up to proper CS when I got to uni.
No, not at all. Licenses change all the time, both for the better and for the worse. It isn't change that I'm challenging, but rather this particular change.

I challenge anyone to defend the language that is the subject of this news item, using clear, concise, and unambiguous language defending the terms "good" and "evil" without offering your own definition. It cannot be done because it requires a value judgment on the part of the reader, and not all readers will share the same value judgment.

Simply put, "good" and "evil" mean different things to different people. Therefore, they cannot be used as terms in a legal agreement without clear definitions as to their meaning. Google has chosen, rightfully so, to simply prohibit the language rather than debate their meaning.
Threads aren't going to scale to the same number of concurrent clients as an evented system though. Isn't that the whole point of things like node? Serving huge numbers of relatively lightweight requests?
Some good advice
1. use python + NLTK
2. read papers and posters from current conferecnce such as ACL or even WWW
3. start an incremental project and try at least getting a poster published in a tier-1 conference
4. If you have good grades + work ex go to CMU Advanced Lang. Tech Masters program
You may want to check out something from the Total Annihilation lineage. repeat build-queues dumping to a predefined rally point or patrol are standard. Supreme Commander 2 if you're looking for something commercial, or anything running on the Spring RTS engine if open source.
updated apn (3g etc) spreadsheet - please help improve
The applet at the top left contains a large number of interesting patterns.

http://www.ibiblio.org/lifepatterns/

I think the "stargate" pattern is similar to what you're asking.
Peer Review is No Panacea
Here is mine: http://blogriot.com/life-list/
The daring fireball article did say "sold". Other comments here have indicated that Verizon were giving the units away just to get rid of them. Maybe they didn't pay MS for those. Who knows what was in their contract. Maybe MS decided to scrap the deal 2 months ago and told Verizon to dump its stock. Until Microsoft releases its Official Kin Sales Report, it's all just speculation.

I am inclined to believe Gruber. If he stakes his reputation (very important to his massively inflated ego) on a specific number, it means he's satisfied it's correct, and that's a pretty strong vote in my book. Could be wrong of course but in the absence of hard evidence I go by gut & human nature...
i'd suggest to go to other country with cheaper but high-quality med services. dentist are super overpriced in US so many ppl do that. And you can combine that trip with vacation at this country. )))
YouTube launches Leanback for home TV viewing
People say similar things about javascript.
There's actually a sensitive period very early on in a baby's life when you can start to use that technique ("infant potty training").

Your kid is likely simply past that sensitive period.
I mean... it's the MD5 of a snippet of content off their website? That really tells you all you need to know about "Cyber Command", doesn't it?
> So, 0.5 kwh 18 hours a day, so 270 kwh per month so you're starting at like... $40-$70/light.

Electricity is 10 cents/kwh in my area which comes out to $27/mo (I used a 400W light in my original post @ $20/mo) unless I'm calculating it wrong? But I just realized we're talking about CA here and their electric bill calculations seem to be all sorts of messed up, so I give up.

>forget about the warranty, you can't send them weed encrusted stuff and expect to get it back.

If it was legal I don't see why warranties would be a problem. In fact, the light retailers would be able to start marketing explicitly to that market rather than side stepping the topic.
Hey,

I took the data from http://www.taniwha.org.uk/gprs.html which has a pretty horrible format/ hard to read, and turned it into a google spreadsheet. It's useful to have bookmarked, especially if you travel and switch out SIMs.

Would appreciate help fixing up the dns (my script wasn't that smart... :)) and any updates you guys might have!

thanks!
For Sale: Fitbit. Like New.
This would only apply if the existence of a Pirate Bay account were the impetus for the investigation. There is just as much a possibility that the driving factor was the observation of your IP obtained through a standard torrent client. In your example, the IR evidence was the grounds by which they obtained a warrant. I'm not saying this wouldn't be the case in our hypothetical prosecution here, but the distinction is important.

The bottom line is that suing individual file-sharers is an inane idea to begin with. The RIAA/MPAA are using this only as a shock & awe tactic. The rolling back of the file sharing tide will not come from the direct prosecution of every file-sharer. Their hope is that many people will become fearful of prosecution, thus resulting in a reduction of piracy.
Completing my CompSci degree and Financial Independence within 12 months.

Roadblocks: Psychological.

Bottlenecks: A boring regular job (partial financial independence) is an easier option.
The version of SQL Server CE bundled with WebMatrix is the first version of SQL Server CE that will run on a web server. Older versions were good for things like desktop apps, but were restricted from functioning in a server environment.

WebMatrix definitely isn't needed to use it afterward (WebMatrix is just an IDE), but is the easiest (only?) way to get the new version of SQL Server CE right now.
Here's a really low-tech way to steal credit card info while at a hotel:

Use a lobby phone to call up to a room. Say you're from the front desk, and there was an error in billing and you need to verify the credit card info. 9/10 people will voluntarily hand over a card number, expiration date, and CVV2 number without hesitation. Offer complimentary room service to seal the deal.
They've cancelled the product, so they're fucked regardless.
Great advice. David Ramsey has a bunch of material on getting out of debt and basic money management. It's amazing this isn't skill #1 we teach in school.
Looks like the source article is http://blog.steinberg.org/?p=11 It's much longer and looks like it has other interesting things in it as well.

To prove the phenomenon even exists, one particularly inspired British researcher had volunteers ride bicycles on a closed course, with half the people wearing helmets and proper attire, and the other half clad in their underwear. Graduate students positioned on the sidelines graded the volunteers performance and tallied any unsafe maneuvers. The results showed that the unclothed group practiced much safer driving habits, thereby supporting risk compensation theory - and Britain’s reputation for eccentricity
I was thinking more about Omega sponsoring the research & stuff.
Before he tries that, he may have to divide and conquer.
I guess I want to blame web apps in general - our hands are tied until only the simplest controls and the least helplful experience is possible.
I am coming from a similar place but not yet launched my site. I have thought about the challenge you describe, and there are many on this site with advice that can help.

Whatever size voice you might have, it is louder when you use it locally. Are you and your friends using it to help people? Are the people then helped not willing to try it?

I can’t see your site from my current location but with local and modest goals you might be surprised who the influentials are and what karma they might really want.
Counted the same number of brackets in both Node.JS and Clojure examples.
I found it kind of cool how out of all the possible examples that aneth could have picked, this one actually happened.
In general terms, you may need less sleep when you are healthy and fit, but if you are doing 2.5 hour runs you really should be getting extra sleep. Distance running takes a huge toll on your body and you need to do everything you can to help it recover. My favorite long run recovery technique is an ice bath, ibuprofen, and beer (carbs!).
"He will also release the 4.1 version without 'activation'"

Not for free, he is forcing users to pay an upgrade price. EXTREMELY shady in my opinion.
What are the three main points a VC wants to get out of a first meeting (part 2)
http://www.jboss.org/netty/performance/20090607-asalihefendi...

At the very least some hackers out there are able to make it scale quite well. Does anyone have a comparable anecdote for Node.js (honest question)?
>That doesn't make the studies cited any less accurate.

No, but it does make it statistically more likely that they are inaccurate. It's known as 'study selection bias'.
The kerning on the 'i' is off (look at the 'B' 'i' pair), the upper 'I' is indistinct, the ascender on the lower 'l' is grotesquely higher than the cap height (look at 'P' 'l'), and the lower 't' and 's' look like the bastard children of Eurostile. I think it's a mess.

There's a reason everyone tweaks Bitstream Vera; it works. Novelty sans fonts aren't the reason Linux typography sucks.
What Encosia said is correct, but I wanted to add a link to ScottGu's announcement that explains in more detail:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/06/30/new-embedd...

This announcement moves SQL CE fully into the space where it actually competes with Vista DB (previously CE was primarily used only by desktop/mobile/embedded apps). I wonder if that has any bearing on the decision to kill off Vista DB?
I always do that too - I don't want to worry about typos or TLDs, I rather trust google's spell checker to fix any mistake I might make.
To be a racecar driver--professionally or not. Sounds crazy, but something about watching Formula 1 for the last few years has driven (haha) me to really want to get involved some kind of way. Saving up for lessons at the Skip Barber Racing School for next summer.

Current bottleneck: no time right now to dedicate to it. I just satisfy race longings now thru occasionally karting and flying around the backroads here in NC.

http://www.skipbarber.com/
I know it's all in jest, but there is a lot of "me" and "my" in there. Does this prospective partner not have any ownership over the relationship and/or kids?
Become a 4 dan go player. Recently ordered a lot of new problems & other study material to try to get there.
Kerning is a property of the font, not of the renderer.
Yes, definitely don't rush it and always be patient. But you may be surprised to find that she actually does make the connection and still refuses to use the potty.
You could not use this or any other file-based db with Azure, as your Azure deployments are read-only.
Raise a million for charity, preferable a research-oriented one.
I've no idea how many units Microsoft actually sold, but just wanted to point out the active accounts does not equal units sold. There are probably several thousand units activated for development, testing, marketing, and point of sales demonstration.
Everything I learned in business I learned from these 3 charts
That may be but it doesn't stop the clojure code looking messy IMHO. Feels less structured (again IMHO)
Don't Fall Into the Trap of A/B Testing Minutiae
My daughter is almost two and has been using the potty in certain circumstances for 4-5 months. Someone bought her a potty for Christmas and we just left it out until she discovered it, showed her how to use it, and praised the hell out of her when she did. Pretty soon she was asking for it. Now she doesn't wear a diaper around the house and 99% of the time asks to go potty when she needs to. We haven't made the leap to diaperless nights or diaperless trips away from home. Those are major transitions and we don't want to push it since she is young and doing so well.
In my case, it's about $20,000. $30,000 would enable you to live very comfortably while abroad, I would think. I work at a lowly data-entry night shift job which explains why I make abysmal wages, and also I'm paying for college for the next 2 years. At graduation, I'm aiming for $15,000-20,000 saved up by then.
It's not bracket city, those are all Clojure data structures. The example could also be written like this:

http://gist.github.com/468107

Code is data :)
So far, the only place I really, really miss hover is xkcd.
Tim Berners-Lee on the exact location where the web was invented
7 Pieces Of Career Advice For All Aspiring Entrepreneurs
I had awful dental hygiene up until my mid-20s.

A big step for me was finding a dentist I trusted, and just doing what he told me - letting go of the fear that he was going to completely drain me financially.

It wasn't cheap, but eventually all the required work was done, and I formed new habits that have meant no no work has been needed for several years now.

One of the most important things I did was get invisalign (braces). My teeth were really hard to keep clean before - flossing was almost impossible in some places due to the way my teeth were overlapping. Now they're straight it's really quite easy.
That's pretty neat. I've been meaning to learn about Clojure. This is just the thing I needed to encourage me to get off my duff.
I hope this is the last time I see "the exception that proves the rule" in the context of programming languages. It's a wart. You know what would better prove the rule? No exceptional cases at all.
Moving to New York with my wife and two-year old. We've always wanted to experience the city and it's a major change from where we are now (Maine, 15 minute bike to work along the ocean). It scares the crap out of me but it's important to show my daughter how to have adventures.