skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and the question was where does the tree get it's mass from.

I suppose you could look at it in the twisted sense of 'what in the tree contributes so much to it's mass', but that's a rather tortured use of English.
this is going to be on all things considered today.
It might be true that any app worth its salt simply doesn't need this service and if that's the case then the service won't succeed its as simple as that.

I think one of my underlying assumptions is that people are willing to pay to get out of the deluge of apps that are currently in the store. As an indie developer without a big company behind you its often very easy to get lost in everything. If the problem truly is that the app "got lost" then a service such as this could put it in the hands of people who will recommend it etc. That being said this is a fairly weak argument since an app that is good probably wouldn't have gotten lost in the first place.

Only time will tell I suppose
I know a couple of doctors who have said that people come in saying "I have X, I need Y".. they called it "Googleitis". There are some times when they are right, but many times that they are wrong.

I agree that the tests should still be performed to take care of that problem. I also strongly agree that "requiring referrals" and having to go to 3 or 4 different doctors to get a test, diagnosis, prescription, and often times, another test just to make sure is terrible. Each time, I need to schedule appointments, wait, go to another doctor, wait, etc. It seems like what should take a week to do is stretched out in to 6-8 weeks, and I have to pay for it every time, even with Insurance.
Hypnosis Is Just Like Programming
Just replied: Haha, I'm in Philly and my sister lives in NYC so I might just take you up on that :)
I largely agree about the gestural nature of this. However, UK society (in my experience) differs slightly from ours in the degree of public familiarity with the legislative corpus. With no referenda or political 'issue' messages, and no lawmaking at the county or municipal level (Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish devolution is a very recent innovation and their legislative scope is narrow), Parliament is the only game in town.

Thus the British public is at least as familiar with specific controversial legislative acts or clauses as the California public is with statewide ballot propositions, if not more so. EU legislation is a distracting factor but awareness of and interest in that is limited mainly to the business community, except for the EU human rights charter which trumps national legislation in some matters.

Lacking a single clear constitution, Britons are spared (or starved of) our endless constitutional wrangling. Court cases, which are incidentally reported on in far greater legal detail than is popular here, mainly focus on factual issues and arguments over statutory construction or matters of law are relatively rare. There are three reasons for this: judges are selected and appointed by senior judges (so being reversed is a career disaster); barristers are groomed and approved at Inns of Court by judges and senior barristers (such that their training and professional life is extremely incestuous by American standards, and not far removed from Freemasonry - both figuratively and literally); and if the court system should finally yield an unpopular result, the Home Secretary wields a quite surprising degree of executive power - the limits of which are conveniently ill-defined, at least in the short term.

So for the British, Parliament is like City Hall, the state legislature, Congress, and the Supreme Court all rolled up into one bicameral entity, with by far the most actual power concentrated in the lower house. Governance is so centralised that the public almost cannnot help being familiar with the contours of the legislative landscape.
My "mindful" running hacks
As a long distance runner, I know that the biggest challenges to running aren't physical - they are all in my head! Most of the time it is mental fatigue or self-pressure that really slows me down. I've come up with a list of the mind hacks that I use to overcome the challenges of running longer distances. What are some techniques that you use?
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 mini pro starts shipping
Most companies have highly stupid standards and requirements. Most of them prefer older platforms and frameworks just because their customers require older versions. Top notch enterprise solutions are still using IE6 to check compatibility of their products.
That gives them all the possible negative Karma. On the other hand, innovative tech giants like Google are using their closed proprietary technologies, which is not doing the world any good.
MS actually seems to be the better one here allowing people to use their Visual Studio, making a product out of it. Every language has its weaknesses. A developer proficient in programmer should not stick to a company for his development works and venture off privately. That will create the likes of DuckDuckGo and all the good that is out there changing the way we look at the tech world right now.
Which Companies Are Flirting With Failure? [Infographic]
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One reason the 37s page works really well is that it is bold, stark and clear. For example; they have a white background - which really emphasises the black images & text.
By being an activist, you are by definition bias to a certain cause. To me he is more of an activist then a journalist. He can call himself a journalist, but that doesn't make him so.
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I often use vim for your python step. A sequence of 3 commands to convert opml to a file with feed urls, one on a line.

:%!grep xmlUrl
:%s/.*xmlUrl="//
:%s/".*//

Edit: it relies on idiosyncracies about how google reader formats OPML, though.
Apple vs Google - Who's side will Verizon end up on?
Could you explain what Frogger is and what is it good for?
Tapulous has largely failed to do anything other than Tap Tap Revenge. Twinkle, Tweetsville, FriendBook, Fortune, and Collage have all been abandoned. Riddim Ribbon hasn't seen any updates in months (not even adding new music tracks for download). To me, it's somewhat worrisome. And, of course this is completely subjective, but their music choice has gotten really bad recently. Lady Gaga, Coldplay, and Dance were all really good games with great music, and there were some nice indie tracks in Tap Tap Revenge 1. Now it's trending towards low quality pop music and it will only get worse when they start doing Disney artists. Again, that last part is 100% my opinion, and I'm not sure if it means much in terms of the company's success.
New in Firefox 4
The homepage says it caters to assembly developers particularly. Its GUI can be controlled using ASM. This can be a nice tryout for those interested in hacking. Ttruly, hacker News stuff. :)
At 27 tons, it would require a Delta IV-class vehicle to haul it there. That would be quite an impressive ICBM

Now that I said that, we need to place a couple of there in LEO for the time non-EMP-hardened machines take over the world ;-)
I think maybe his cultural position is to opine how well a specific piece of art from a particular class of artists is, rather than being a critic of every artistic medium.

At least that's all of the respect I give to him and his position.
That may be the case, but, here in San Francisco, 3G coverage lacks. AT&T told me that the towers in my neighborhood are "degraded", and even when directing my phone to new towers, I'm still unable to make calls, while 3G is enabled, nonetheless, my point is that this antenna issue is minor, and "people" should not go on a rant just because. I find your case very interesting, and am very jealous. :(
It's tough to read pragmatic bookshelf books on a Kindle - the fonts are not quite right and the screen is small. The Kindle is a rough device. The UI is clunky, but it gets the job done.

The iPad versions of the books are better, but still have odd font issues that I don't much like. If they used a reasonable font for the code, it would be great. I'm still deciding which display I like better.

The iPad is more polished, but the Kindle is smaller, cheaper, lighter, and has a battery that lasts for weeks. I keep wanting to touch the Kindle screen, though.

In the end, I prefer reading technical books as PDFs on my laptop, where I can work and read at the same time. The layout is better, and it's nice to switch between code and book quickly.
I know how that feels. I wish you the best of luck.
In addition to the narrative and the "twist", Braid is also viscerally beautiful, with the music and visuals creating an emotional experience that makes it hard to deny the label of "art". It's also highly approachable for someone who doesn't play many games, though a casual gamer is not likely to make it through to the end.

> Really, though, if he doesn't want to play a game, I don't see why he should have to.

Oh, I agree. He didn't fully backpedal, though; just state that "maybe someday" a video game would come along to prove him wrong. Even if he admits that his opinion has no relevance, he still clearly holds the same opinion about the current state of games.

(And admittedly, none of this actually matters. It's just good old-fashioned "Somebody is wrong on the internet!" :P)
Wow, $5000 in sales in one day? I haven't hit that in a single month. Any tips for those us of that don't have any marketing experience? I've tried to get features on blogs and tech sites but haven't had much luck.
Hearing a phone with such great specs runs a Windows OS is like hearing that you won a brand new house but the interior is painted from floro to ceiling with feces. Sorta.
The Big Idea (Donny Deutsch - CNBC)
How'd you get so Rich? (Joan Rivers - TV Land)
while i agree that's an issue, the real problem is that they only have 2.1 million feeds. don't get me wrong, 2.1 million is a BIG number, but if you're going to start talking about missing data, the feed count is the first place to start.
How to win a Nobel Prize: fail, persist, iterate
I believe it's an issue. I'm also starting to think it's a manufacturing problem that primarily effects first or second shipment phones.

I just got my iphone yesterday and cannot replicate the problem. I thought maybe I was in a good signal area so today I went to an area where I know signal is poor. When not in my hand the phone sat at 3 bars. If I touched the spot I could get it to bounce around from 2-3-4 bars. Never once did it go to no signal. Also, no matter what hand I hold the phone in my particular grip doesn't naturally touch the spot.

A friend of mine who also just got his phone has has the same experience as I have. No real issue.

Another friend who received his phone on launch day can touch the spot and go from 5 bars to no signal in minutes.

The only commonality between the 2 phones that appear to have no problem is that they were bought at best buy from a very recent shipment. The phone with the problem was bought from Apple and received on launch day.

IMHO, the biggest problem with the whole situation is how Apple has handled it. Clearly some people have issues, but Apple being Apple has been arrogant about the whole ordeal. This is one time where a little communication would go a long ways. I'm going to guess they still aren't sure of the exact problem and that's why they have been totally quiet on the issue (other than SJs typical quips).

Also, the whole design defect thing needs to have some logic enter the equation. Do people really think that the phone went through an entire hardware design cycle and a group of engineers never thought to test of the phone was held? Even the worst developers I've worked with and managed do better testing than that. I think it's much more likely that there is/was either an issue with software and/or manufacturing.
I have no illusions about the kind and quantities of Kool-Aid Apple issues its workers. The current iPhone 4 antenna problem is a nice demonstration of how bad news can go ignored not to spoil the presentations you give your managers.

It's absolutely impossible nobody had noticed that problem before the phone being shipped.
"We have been developing this under moderately strict coding standards"

Which evidently doesn't include PEP8.
I considered using Vim at the time. The nice thing about doing it all on the command line is that it's repeatable and persistent. I have a huge shell history, and that command will now be in my history for months. I rely so heavily on my history that I'll often remember a related command from a month ago, find it, then modify it for my current use. :)
Beauty of the broken (Detroit)
Killer Designer Wanted, Launched, Good traction
I haven't been able to find any large (or medium size) OSS apps written in Compojure. The best I was able to dig up was http://github.com/briancarper/cow-blog .

Compojure doesn't do much for you (it's like Sinatra), I find it elegant, but it really doesn't give me the massive productivity boost Rails does.
There's also http://www.icombinator.net which is formatted to the iPhone. I read Hacker News via RSS, so I'm not sure how the full experience is through that site or compares with ToadJaw mentioned earlier.
"Wow! You're telling me that if I send out a job posting for interns, not only am I supporting a "systematic evil in the job market" but they have "no choice"? Really? First, what systematic evil are you referring to? Second, nobody is holding a gun to their heads. They have a choice. Do you want to give up some of your time for a chance to learn something? Yes or no. There's no duping involved. It's laid out. Also, at the end of the post, I clearly state that anybody offering an internship program SHOULD offer some sort of fiscal or other reward if the intern performs well."

Actually because of the economic situation in the United States people who don't have senior level experience in the job market take unpaid internships at companies because they think that they would be better selected for a position in that company.These people have to eat somehow. It's not morally right to send out internships and get these kinds of people, and then hire them. Or try to create a job market such as that while maximizing your own profits off of these people. It's almost equivocal to outsourcing, only outsourcing. I'm sure you haven't had these kinds of people ask you for a job, but keep in mind that does happen. Not only that but many internships even GSoC are an outright insult for free labor.

For instance the projects for Facebook in GSoC this year were ridiculous, they wanted college kids to build entire SMTP servers for their platforms, or drop in a replacement for libcurl, or at least code one, in one summer. Honestly if you ask me those tasks seem way over the level of students because they are broad projects requiring a team of developers to test for rigor in the system. They aren't the only company who pulls stunts like this, there are worse companies who want this done for free.

"As for the line you quote: in context, it's written from the perspective of the intern - not the employer. I'll concede that it wasn't entirely obvious, though. :)"

This also emphasizes my point about the person's view of themselves. No on wants to be a slave, doing "grunt work", just for a glittering hint of networking.
I think it's probably a matter of taste, and also the type of project (which surely are correlated). I prefer this sort of micro-framework because it gives me control. I like my software to consist of many independent pieces that I can mix & match and then string together. The Rails approach is more the opposite, you've got the structure and fill in the gaps.

Admittedly, none of my web projects in recent years have been typical database-backed web apps. Clojure (and thus Compojure) is actually a fantastic candidate if you're keeping state in memory - STM is made for this.

On my infinite TODO list I've got an xLightweb back-end for Compojure. This would allow asynchronous I/O in the style of Node.js, something that's a bit tedious in pure Java (no closures), and Clojure has certain advantages over JavaScript/V8. I find asynchronous I/O hard to imagine in a Rails-style environment.
You said that the Kindle UI is clunky and that it is small to read on. The Kindle I'm thinking of buying is the new DX model with the 9.7" screen. I'm wondering if you think that one is still too small, or if that is suitable?

And regarding the clunky UI, what is the problem with it? The most important things to me, I think, would be easily flipping pages (back and fourth), and searching for text.
It's actually an even deeper problem that people self-diagnosing through Google, as diagnostic tools increase in sophistication and decrease in cost you can potentially find "issues" that never existed before.

Take CT scans: if you took a random sampling of people, gave them a CT scan and then had an ortho doc look at the result 30% of the scans would show an "abnormality", but almost none of the patients would end up actually needing spine surgery.

Similarly with apnea, almost everyone has some sleep apnea, but not everyone needs a CPAP, etc.
I was absolutely baffled last week when I found out a full 50% of mobile traffic is coming from iPads on our servers.
I bought a few shares of Tesla, not really to make money, more so to support the company and get in on the first U.S. car maker IPO since Ford in 1956. I've never traded before, and really had no urge to, but this was interesting and I had $100 to burn on a gamble.

I bought at $18.50ish. The following day there was a high of $30. Of course, today, it's back down to about $21, but for that brief moment you could have made a bunch of money. Which explains the dip today.

Personally, I like Tesla as a company and I think any investment in their company should be seen as a gamble, but a long one. This is a car company, something that has to be built and proven, not a stock that will spike due to new iPhones or what not.

If you're going to buy Apple, wait for the lull. We're still on iPhone 4 volatility at the moment.
Certainly we want to reduce/eliminate frivolous lawsuits. The (really hard) problem is finding a good way to do so.
Now with Disney IP and security they have no excuses left to do something more interesting than dots that blip to a Hannah Montana beat.

They have no excuses not to do something more interesting…, right?

Anyway, one has to give it to them: they managed to create a huge brand based on a game concept that already had a huge brand attached to it outside the iPhone world, namely "Dance Dance Revolution".

I do feel that their website showing 14 TTR games out of 16 apps (apparently they had more but they are not showed there) shows that they've been milking the concept and brand to death, but in the end, that's still a major accomplishment. Especially with that kind of exit.
Watch one of the first iAds - impressive concept
Aamir Khan defeats Amitabh bachan - Top Entertainment
Agreed. Perhaps with today's multi-GB media (video) files, steganography will see a new surge in popularity. But then again, we'd probably have already seen that by now.

(and I'm working on a steganography technique, not steganalysis - if I can get my act together and focus some, I'll be submitting it to a security conference in next month... I hope :)
:) Yes I can relate. I started saving my shell logs in 2006 and one of my most commonly used commands is cmd_grep.

I'm now watching http://blog.extracheese.org/2010/04/a-raw-view-into-my-unix-.... I've ended up constructing my own vocabulary (column, freq, etc.) for most common uses of perl/awk in the commandline. http://akkartik.name/bash.html
Symbian wasn't limited to Nokia phones until they took over the whole project and created S60. I had Symbian UIQ3 on my Sony P1i.
The author is guilty of time traveling here. Obviously now we know that social networking CAN be viral. Its always easy to look back and say "how did they miss that?".

Also, buzz was meant to compete with facebook? I always considered it more of a twitter knock-off, as the user experience is much more like twitter than fb.

Google is definitely playing catch-up now, but its a mistake to count them out. Myspace got replaced by facebook, so another power shift (although unlikely) is not unthinkable.
Why do you combine the Kindle service with the Kindle device. There are two questions here: Should I be using the Kindle service (e.g. on an Android phone or iPad) and should I buy the Kindle.

I don't have a Kindle, but really wanted to because it's light. But the screen flicker (will happen a lot esp. with technical books), useless buttons, and he inability to do pretty much nothing except reading books killed it for me. Also I believe, Amazon will redesign the Kindle soon to make it cheaper and better.

The Kindle service, though, is a winner.

I have a subscription to O'Reilly's Safari. The interface and text quality leaves a lot to be desired but it is unbeatable in its breadth. especially when I'm consulting a technical book, I'd rather have the physical book because I do a lot of shuffling around.
It should be noted that this story was shopped around to the highest bidder.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/07/01/exclusive_conv...

I question the credibility of the exchange. The whole thing could've been some elaborate troll to try to elicit a response and then sell it in the first place.
Basically yes, but it's a really good one. For instance, it supports dual monitors and you can swipe to move between them, you can pinch to zoom, pan around, etc.
Certainly, but it does mean that. Besides, 2.25% of a company is a meaningful amount, so at least a senior developer would make some actual money if RethinkDB hits it big.
Jobs To Upset Customers: 'Relax... It's Just A Phone'
Thanks!

I'd keep it around. It is hosted with the free plan of Google App Engine, so keeping it won't be hard.

I never saw Kids as a target audience - I could use a strong SafeSearch and customize it for them if there is enough users..
The HTC HD3 will probably cost nearly the same. This is one expensive phone.
Asp MsSql Web Development
Google already owns the Orkut social network and probably it would be better to just improve it. If the "Google Me" thing is real, then it might be a huge shift from the former.
Actually, to call something torture is substantially different in connotation than to call something 'torture'. I think the Atlantic headline writer goofed.
FYI -- looks like ported numbers return the original carrier, not the current one.
If time is your only concern then no it's not better but it is more environment friendly... And you get to keep the bag to use somewhere else.
This is simply innumeracy, in particular an inability/unwillingness to use Bayes rule.
Does having a transparent political agenda disqualify somebody from being a journalist? Should Amy Goodman and Geraldo Rivera be stripped of their credentials?
Update: the python pad string example isn't working because of the indexing of punctuation (python: in question title). Will re-work this for next release.
BU scientists discover group of genes that code for 100+ year lifespans
> Now that I said that, we need to place a couple of
> there in LEO for the time non-EMP-hardened machines
> take over the world ;-)

Just need to make sure that SkyNet doesn't know about/have control over them...
What an absolute blast of new technology for the browser!
I've got to believe it's going to open a whole slew of new attack vectors though.
When to Cancel an Event: Lessons from a Failed Event
I'm curious what the battery life will be. All of features are great, but I can't help but think that trying to watch a movie at 1080p on my phone would drain the battery significantly.