skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think of what she has always dream t of and go after that.

Many times our dreams arent necessary what we think they are, but unless you try them out you would never know.

I know the story ..... ( things wont work out or too hard ) but heck nothing in this world is easy , even ur dreams.
Clicking on the link doesn't take you to a Facebook page -- it takes you to the TripAdvisor page, which is chock full of additional information. That page may also tell you if you have friends that have "liked" that property, which is not available via Google.

Full disclosure: I work at TripAdvisor and I led the Like project where we were a launch partner for Facebook.

I don't think that there's anything left that I can't talk about; I'm happy to answer question.

ps. And yeah, we're hiring to make this stuff more better.
Coca-Cola Promoted Trend Nets 86 Million Impressions on Twitter
You know having humor is actually considered a good character trait.
Can the spot price rise above the standard pricing? If so, are you able to switch to standard pricing without losing your instance(s)?
The way A/Bingo handles this is to assign every user a unique ID, and for each test take the MD5 hash of their ID concatenated with the test name. That gives you some big ol' integer. Modulo the number of choices gives you the number of the choice to show them. This is extremely fast, durable, and has very little state, which are nice things to have in an A/B testing algorithm.
http://www.rekeeb.com/2009/08/09/on-skiamorph/
Wouldn't that be some sort of interminable recursion stack that causes Government to run out of memory and crash? ;P
Is Facebook’s Social Search Engine a Google Killer?
Bakersfield Welding - Bakersfield Welder
Smalltalk "died" before GNU Smalltalk was even usable, if it existed at all.
http://www.longnow.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_geological_repository

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubTropolis
Really? Are you seriously comparing maybe 2 bars of lost reception that many people have been unable to replicate, IF you hold the phone a certain way, to a product that could kill you. And not in a "cigarettes can kill you" sort of way, but in a firey ball of death sort of a way?

I would certainly prefer that the phone did not lose any reception no matter how it was held. It is worth complaining about so that maybe apple will fix it. It is, however, in no way comparable to Toyota's mess. Not even close.
I think this whole Toyota metaphor is too strained to be useful. Toyota's problem was tied up with the fact that car crashes kill and injure people. That not only makes it a lot easier to raise a mass panic, but also raises the stakes a lot: Juries understand and fear car crashes, lawsuits over car crashes pay a lot of money in awards or settlements, and there is an entire division of the legal industry with years of experience in litigating over these specific issues.

Whereas it's hard to see a lawsuit over poor cellular reception going anywhere. I presume that somewhere in my cellular agreement is a clause stating that AT&T isn't liable for dropped calls. I mean, if that clause didn't exist surely the citizens of San Francisco would own AT&T by now?
I live in Toronto, and I have to say that it's pretty scary the way that everyone's civil liberties have gotten suspended the second some big mucky-mucks roll into town.

The number of police officers standing around downtown has to be seen to be believed, and this is not the first arrest in the last few days on seemingly trumped up charges.

My best wishes to Byron and his wife, hopefully this blows over without long-lasting consequences...
Java is everywhere. You wouldn't see it on hacker news but rest assured major corporations around the world are still using java and will still be using java for years to come. I do acknowledge some may switch to dot net.
The point is that you are not actually using their machines. You're using virtual machines that have only ever given you a fraction of the machine's total power.
You can work on your startup full-time on an F1 visa after you complete your studies in the US.
My apologies. Yes, I do mean MS - I started off doing *nix development, but now am doing Win32 programming 18 hours a day.

Please discard my above comment, everyone.
India Steps Down Deregulation Road
It is downvoted because it's a useless criticism with no value to anyone. Original poster "put himself outthere" in a way that is helpful to the community, and that guy was just trying to be mean and probably hasn't done anything himself. Downvoted to show original poster that we appreciate his response and do not support troll-like behavior.
It doesn't work at all you are right. That is why twitter is moving away from ruby and towards scala for reliability...sarcasm
What I would be curious to know is if this idea of getting caught on Google Street View with some odd mask on your head is going to viral? Maybe there are people looking for Bin laden of Elvis on Google Street View...

That's got to be tedious! Could software be written to flag oddities like this one in Street View? ;-)
The effort of Liking is easily an order of magnitude less than creating a link, which is what (nominally) Google uses.

And I'd SWAG that an order of magnitude more people are capable of Liking than are even able to create a new link.
Socket.IO - WebSocket JavaScript library with fallbacks to Flash, long-poll etc.
Sure, but it would have taken a fraction of the time to also provide screenshots and some explanatory text.
Why does this feel like the second coming of AOL?
The article sites the average American's risk of developing Parkinson's at 1%. I really question that. My husband's father died of Parkinson's several years ago, my own father is currently living with Parkinson's, my best friend's father has Parkinson, and so on. Am I the only one surrounded by Parkinson's disease, or is it a growing epidemic? I wonder if that 1% number is an old statistic. I can't find any sources, links?
The "what" is available to everyone. The "who" is what Facebook controls. Don't undervalue that.
Ask HN: I just launched a Coworking space at the Jersey Shore - Now What?
Been wanting to open a coworking space for a number of years and we recently moved to a larger retail/office space and we have room to test out the idea.

We opened a few weeks ago and have just started to ramp up on promotion. I was wondering if anyone else out there had any success in promoting a coworking space outside of a major city where there is little to no tech culture and quite a smaller population.

What marketing/promotion strategies do you find helped, didn't work, etc. We bootstrapped this project but have a little capitol to invest if there is a potential for solid return. For reference, you can check out http://cowerking.com
I heard Mercedes said to solve the left hand issue is to just not steer using your left hand. Using the left hand for steering has serious side-effects such as not looking as cool, limited window waving abilities, and inability to ash a cigarette out the window while driving.
Definitely get out of marketing and avoid anything advertising-related. It will without a doubt suck the soul from you.

If she can work as an account manager, she can probably become a great project manager. Is she organized?
It's a vague recollection but I think options commissions at Bear -were- $100 per side back in 1995/96. Now, I didn't work in investment banking, I was a lowly programmer in the Securities Lending department. Also, you had to use Bear to trade if you were working for Bear.

That said, I was green and didn't know anything about trading at that time. I found work by being good at what I do :D.
First, you need a 70m antenna.

http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/

http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/images/realtime/latestS.jp...

And, it seems simple, but is not: you need very precise pointing, and very precise ephemeris (http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?horizons) to get the relative velocity to the s/c. You need velocity so you know what the Doppler-shifted frequency of the transmission will be.
"So, where did the once-vocal Ruby community go?"

Well, it turns out there are many Ruby communities, some vocal, some not. Talking abut the Ruby community is going to end up missing a lot of what is going on.

Mostly, though when people talk about a singular Ruby community they mean Rails.

"In a world where a standard can take years to be discussed, approved, implemented and supported, Ruby standards such as Rack skip from conception to widespread support at blazing speed."

Wish the same could be said for Ruby itself. Everyone who's completely moved to 1.9, raise your hand.

Overall the points made are interesting, but much the same is happening in other language communities. People building stuff in Haskell, Clojure, JavaScript, Scala, etc. are more than happy to steal the best ideas from other realms and make them their own.

So long as people don't start believing in The One True Framework or The One True Languge, we're doing quit well.
MugShock.com - Webcam Collage Website
www.mugshock.com

After a few tough weeks in the labs MugShock is finally ready for launch. It is a simple way to make webcam collages of you & your friends then share them on Facebook. Please help spread the word!
It really depends on the data. For highly redundant data like web pages with lots of boilerplate header/footer, it can compress better because the bm_pack (first pass of bmz) looks for large common patterns over all the input. For typical text, it should be a little worse than gzip but faster.

BMZ = bmpack + lzo by default and can be combined with lzma if necessary. It's not really a BMDiff and Zippy clone, as I've never had a chance to see Google's implementation. It's based on the original Bentley & McIlroy paper: "Data Compression Using Long Common Strings", 1999. Even the two pass idea is from that paper. It was really a wacky experimental implementation (with a lot of room for improvement) to satisfy my curiosity. I'm a little surprised that the 0.1 version has been stable for quite a few people compressing TBs of data through it.
When you click through to the page, you'll see if any of your friends liked it.
You can't convince engineers with facts? That's a very, very sad assumption and/or experience. Care to elaborate?
Strooltz is the original "Situation"
If they are that cheap, don't buy one paid in full, but buy three with 60% leveraged. Try to rent them out to long term tenants, or at least two of them, and maybe try your hand at the tourists with the third one, see if it can make a significantly higher ROI and get a feel for how much work it is.

With real estate, you need to be in it for the long haul. Let your tenants pay the mortgage and put the bit you have left over away so that you can buy a new unit every year or two. Real estate will appreciate with inflation and after 20 or 30 years (or 15 if you want to pay off aggressively) you'll be mortgage free and can retire on the rent. Or you can finance new properties with a mortgage on the equity in the other ones in 5 years... Real estate is awesome like that, but you'll get burned if you see it as a get rich quick scheme.
hahaha...
I've been to this place...great space!! ;)
Jim Gray on data science
Why would it have to be a percentage of his net worth? He's contributed $50MM which he feels is enough to "move the needle". Medical research moves slowly and simply throwing money at it may not offer any incremental benefit.

Edit: I thought I'd add an example, since my father has Parkinson's so I know a little bit about it. One promising area of research is stem cell therapy. However, one known side effect of stem cell injection is cancer. (It takes years to develop but there have been enough studies already to show a strong correlation). Now, Parkinson's doesn't kill per se - it makes life miserable towards the end, but as a rule, people with Parkinson's live just as long as people without. So let's say you had really high net worth and wanted to spend it all to cure Parkinson's. Would you be able to "buy" people to trade a low chance of improvement in their lifestyle for a very real chance of cancer? I don't think so. Of course, this is just one example, however, it shows that things are not that simple.
My advice to you is to have a long timeline. If you try to turn it into a million in 1 year you're going to take too many risks and fail.

Diversify your investments. Putting $100K in 1 stock is how you lose money. Try picking 10-15 companies in different industries: technology, healthcare, finance, commodities, etc. Do your research and pick companies that have a lot of upside potential.

For example, if you wanted to make a bet that the mobile space is going to be the future of computing, which seems pretty likely, start buying up suppliers of tablet computers. ARM holdings, Qlogic, etc, find all of the chip makers that make chips in an iPad and research each one of them.

Finally, I would recommend you protect your earnings. My portfolio is up 35% in the past year, and I keep trailing stop limit sell orders on all of my securities to protect my winnings. The global economy is uncertain enough right now, and who knows if we're going to see a repeat of fall 2008 again (my bet is we are). I want to lock in my earnings. Consider pair trading, or hedging yourself in other ways.

Definitely think long-term, protect your earnings with stop limit orders or hedging and pair trading. This is the only way to come out ahead of the market.
I don't think computers are going to warp us in the long term because they are going to become more like the very best human teachers, assistants and entertainers who just happen to work very cheap and very consistently. And who sometimes have nervous breakdowns :-)

In other words, its the interfaces that are warping us and they are improving gradually. One day, even a half senile person will be able to pick up the phone and find answers to any concern with the greater speed and success than many of us now have with google. And the voice on the other end will carefully explain things to your grandma just as considerately as you might.
OCR Technology for Mobile?
I have gotten differing opinions on the state of Optical Character Recognition technology and how good it can be on a mobile device/iphone. Any suggestions for off-the-shelf products or open source that have proven themselves?
Using your iPhone 4 micro-SIM in an iPad 3G HOWTO
"Sultry" means something other than what you seem to think it means.
Ask HN: Ways to send mass email + analytics
What is your preferred way to send a lot of email (newsletters, as well as transactional)?

Our volume is dozens of thousands of email per month. Up to 15k at once.

I need to make the right decision now and sincerely need your help; please pitch in with your experience with these or other solutions:

1. Pay for SendGrid or AuthSMTP to ensure deliverability. SendGrid has the additional benefit of built in analytics; for AuthSMTP I'd have to roll my own analytics. Both options are cheaper than Campaign Monitor (our current provider), but still relatively expensive in the long run -- we are a non-profit and function entirely off donations.

2. Pay for Google App Engine and roll my own analytics code. I have a lot of questions about this one. Is this the most cost effective solution in the long run? Is deliverability comparable to SendGrid/AuthSMTP for sending up to 15k emails at once? ie. Do the mail facilities in App Engine take care of SPF, domain keys, black lists, bounces?

I am _very_ cautious of having to write a mountain of new code for option two. Unfortunately, this is where it gets fuzzy for me. I've no experience writing analytics code (do you? headache?). Most importantly, I have no idea how much of the email plumbing I would have to do on App Engine. Please stop me if I'm biting off more than can be chewed by one person in a few weeks! Assume a no thrills solution: send to a list and track opens and clicks in the most trivial way possible -- no templates, segments, fancy UI or anything else.

Any other options out there?
You're assuming that Facebook's ranking algorithm is incredibly naive and is only counting the raw number of likes.

What if you add in whether you're friends with anyone who liked it. Or at least a few degrees away.

Facebook already finds and deletes fake accounts. Trust me -- I've had my test accts blown away regularly!
Yes indeed. I have actually built a few tube guitar amps for fun. I did the designs myself and the first one produced so much noise/hum that it was practically unusable.

Twisted pair wiring, careful routing of grounds, transformer location and component selection all seem to play massive roles.

No wonder then that most amps these days are built around transistors, even though they sounds worse...
How did you find work at an investment bank without being sufficiently savvy to realize?

Is this deliberately intended to be disparaging? 1. There are plenty of people at investment banks whose principal function isn't to understand options. 2. What makes it so clear that buying options is a "guaranteed way to lose money over time".

At any rate, the only people profiting on derivatives are the market makers. And even they blow up eventually.

This is empirically false. There are a lot of people who make money in derivatives. Vol stat arb funds have performed very well over the last 5 years, dispersion has long been a popular trade.

Bear stearns did not blow out in its marketmaking capacity.

Typically the options traders that are said to "blow up eventually" are premium sellers, not buyers, which is in direct contradiction to your previous comment about option buyers being guaranteed to lose money over time.

This is unnecessary and not really in the spirit of providing help to someone asking for advice.

You either think he's full of BS and are trying to call him out or are just being rude. I think he sounds sufficiently accomplished and is trying to understand a new field. Don't discourage that.

edit: had to look up how to properly italicize
"Thing is, the human body is so complicated, you can do all the right things and still come up on the short end"

It's complicated, but it's not magic. If you are doing things to avoid a problem and you get the problem, then you were not doing "all the right things" - your understanding was wrong.
Couldn't agree more. Seems like the OP needs to start with basic money management skills before doing fancy things. 100k isn't a lot. I suggest reading getrichslowly.org/blog, it's focused on getting out of debt but the same principles apply to personal finance beyond that point.
"Random is blotchy". At 1 out of 100, you don't have to know that many people who are able to get Parkinson's to have a non-trivial chance of seeing "more than expected" the number of cases. I don't know anybody with Parkinson's, and I "should", I know well more than 100 people who could have it, and if they did, I would know. And of all the people reading these comments and able to post, the odds that at least one would be in a "comment-worthy" blotch is basically 100%.
Also notably, slackware has shifted it's packaging format to a xz tar since the last two releases. This validates xz as a good replacement for gz/bz2.
Where did he say that?
I think people are placing way too much speculation into this. Would I be surprised if I saw a low end iMac come out that was touch enabled, no. It is no big secret that everyone is gunning for these thin OS'es for net enabled entry level system.

But, I would not expect for a minute that the Mac Pro, and the MacBook pro are going to run a stripped down web enabled OS. It counter to the power of the platform and would kill there top end.

Sure you may see pieces converge from the two and you may see touch enabled concepts come over to the pro line. But the day apps for the Pro line can only be purchased out of the app store, is the day that the Pro line ends.

It is two different markets. Apple has traditionally not competed well in the low end of the market. They believe with their success with the iPhone and the iPad that they can now offer products in that space and make up margins on the back side. I think iOS is the platform for that low end strategy and you will most likely, at some point, see computers offered in that low-end product space.
American Time Use Survey
It's stories like this that remind me just how big the world is - despite all of the satellites, instant communication, air travel, and all of the other things that sometimes make the world feel small there's still lots of things and people hiding out in the vast wilderness away from it all.
I think there's money to be made in trading Apple against Nokia, RIMM, etc. This just needs a LOT of research. I agree with the rest.

I'm not planning to use more than 25-30K if I trade and 0.5-1% of that on every trade. Proper money management and risk controls are key.
I've actually found it immensely useful for being able to log into a different Gmail account without signing out of my primary.
I agree that the point is interesting.

Part of it is the differentness of the environment (high radiation, low temperature, microgravity, great distance). This necessitates a rethinking of design constraints at a fundamental physical level -- i.e. deriving system constraints from first principles.

Another part of it is the unique nature of a lot of the stuff we send out there -- rovers to Mars, planetary orbiters with exotic cameras, Earth-orbiting satellites with hyperspectral imagers or advanced radars, powerful telescopes with cryogenic optical/infrared cameras.

Here's an example (.mov):

http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gallery/video/movies/mer_ch_edl_Te...

from

http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gallery/video/challenges.html
> My timeline is 10 years or less and I could, likely, add 50K a year.

Just a quick note here:

With 100k in year 1, plus 50k per year after, for a total of 10 years, you need to get about 11.5% annualized return after taxes and fees.

Good luck. :)
But watts/dollar is quickly decreasing. I wonder if performance per dollar spent on energy is increasing or decreasing. I wouldn't be surprised if it's decreasing.
Sounds difficult if there are not lots of home based entrepreneurs and home office workers in your area. Do you have any idea about that? Any stats?

Here are a couple of links that might give you some ideas:
http://webworkerdaily.com/2009/04/14/coworking-in-rural-plac...
http://www.mail-archive.com/coworking@googlegroups.com/msg05...

This is an interesting area to me. I have been toying with the idea of opening a co-working place myself. Let me know if you want to talk. Contact at http://en.origoterra.com
Dan
Agreed. I was a little worried about the state of ruby a few years ago when MRI was flaky and Rails deployment was a real hassle but now it's just such a productive and pleasant environment to work in. There's still work to do, of course, but I still reach for Ruby when I need to get something done quickly.
Google adds vuvuzela button to Youtube videos
Let me refer you to my previous statement:

> Personally, I use computers for many, many hours per day, and the little things really add up. Maybe you

> don't care about that, and you just want the right CPU and hard drive. If that's the case, more power

> to you.

My MacBook has been used heavily for four years, and is going strong. The screen, keyboard, and touchpad feel great. The screen is vibrant, with a wide view-angle. The operation of the hinge, the magnetic power adapter, and the layout of the ports is good. The sound is unequaled, in my experience, in a laptop form factor.

I don't know if it survives freezing. I don't really care, though, since I use my laptop on my lap, which isn't freezing.

It sounds like you care more about edge-case exposure issues, which are relevant to you. I care more about the daily user experience.

I've read many posts slagging Apple for overpricing, but when I examine the components, it's as good a deal as any. For example, most cut-rate Wintel laptops have utterly crap screens, something you don't know until you use a better one, and yes, I know Lenovos are [were?] said to use some good ones.
Hospitals Feeling Competition from Retail Clinics?