skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A) Just because something is 'traditionally' done doesn't mean its mandatory. Databases 'traditionally' spoke SQL but I don't see you dinging anyone for breaking that tradition. You've used the Appeal to Tradition fallacy (look it up on wikipedia) many times, and it add nothing to your argument.

B) Durability is an important goal at a system-wide level, but that doesn't mean it needs to be handled at the database layer. In addition to the already mentioned replication and transaction log methods, it can also be handled at the block or fs layer using snapshots, or by admins using backup tools. It can even be handled by having a different Database of Record and using Mongo as a operational store. Mongo as software is agnostic; we provide the tools, but it is up to the user or admin to make the best decisions for their technical and business interests. If another layer of the stack provides sufficient protection against data loss, it is unnecessary to pay performance costs associated with doing it in the DB layer.
On a single-page: http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2010/07/08/innovating-w...
iAds is the new mobile advertising platform from Apple.

See: http://advertising.apple.com/
> So where is MS's Facebook?

http://www.thespoke.net/
"Microsoft's digital lifestyle club for students from around the world, with message boards, hubs, blogs and 10 MB of upload space for members"

The problem for them is that their network is losing relevance fast. The value of desktop software lock-in is in sight, server software is coming next.
I'd rather Apple just offer a "notification" API in iOS4.1 that lets apps push their state to the user.
The Journal of Brain Research does that, and did so for decades. But there is a bias: only papers with good reviews are published. What happens to good papers with bad reviews is that they don't get published, or get published elsewhere.
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I meant to get back to you after Beta1... The product is interesting, but wouldn't sway me from using a normal twitter client. For my use of Twitter I care more about who is saying what than what was said overall, if that makes sense.

You might want to refocus it as a trend or search type app. If you can out trend twitter trends by picking up on context and not just tags, I think you'd really have something.
replying to ugh and steveklabnik:
I guess I'm a cynic but I can't see people just sticking a meaningful amount of dosh in this every month for no marginal gain.
Museums have tried similar methods with voluntary contributions instead of entrance fees it doesn't work.
Now if they were to get a mention as a valued internet patron
on flattr or on the sites they give to then maybe
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I don't think there's anyway that it can be a sustainable trend. You'd have to have one hell of a product to get a positive ROI on that CPM (plus you have to add in Apple's take).

I imagine it's a lot of novelty of the platform, and the fact that iAd is a good bit more engaging than most of the other ad platforms. Eventually ad fatigue will set in though.
Neat. Similar idea but definitely different.
pedalpete, excellent feedback - thank you. Clustering doesn't seem to be conducive to the benefits of the long tail. Wouldn't clustering simply show you what's popular? Do you happen to have links discussing theme clustering? A quick Google search didn't yield anything tangible.
From the macrumors comments:

This developer earned $1,400 from serving adds to people who are standing in the dark holding their iPhone at arm's length so they can use it as a flashlight. Somehow I don't think the advertisers are getting their money's worth on that one.

hehe
Improved Logic Capabilities with Google Forms
I'm surprised that APN settings aren't stored on the SIM card.
It's a huge rate, that's for sure. I'm sure it's due to the reasons you mentioned- these ads will remain viable for some time. The actual rate paid out is likely not sustainable, though. Same thing happened to AdSense when it launched- those who got into the private beta in April/May/June were doing gangbusters until the market settled down after that summer.
The only Emacs command you need to know is CTRL-X CTRL-C
Kinda what I was thinking (and I don't even live in a suburb).
Where are there businesses serving the public but yet no public restrooms?
And let's not forget mongeese in Hawaii started out as just 8 little critters on a boat 130 years ago. The population is estimated to be in the millions now.
Go to a meet-up on meetup.com or something. Pick something you are interested in and fits your profile (not the lesbian biker meet-ups). Get there early and be a "greeter" of sorts so you introduce yourself to everyone. Act like a newbie and ask questions, people are more than happy to show off their knowledge if you let them.

Go from there.
Start blogging about everything you know. Teach the world. Check your Analytics regularly to find out what of those things people are searching for. Use the Google Keyword tool to measure market potential of digging deeper on those subjects. Start spin-off sites if there's enough potential. Sign up appropriate affiliates. Develop information products around those subjects. Sit back and relax.
This could help a few bloggers get off social welfare (Adsense).
good thought. probably, though getting her a visa through my company or someone else's is still the biggest challenge as she doesn't have a college degree.
Adios Garmin: Waze Is Smarter, Social, On Every Smartphone and FREE
Only implicitly: no threading model is documented in the ECMAScript Language Specification [1], and no widely-used interpreter implements threading. The new Web Workers specification adds something like threading to JavaScript in the context of the browser [2], and Node intends to add support for this on the server as well [3]. Have a look at [4] for a nice article on threading in JavaScript.

[1] http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST...

[2] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-workers/current-work/

[3] http://nodejs.org/

[4] http://odetocode.com/blogs/scott/archive/2007/01/08/javascri...
Turning Hackety Hack into a force to be reckoned with when it comes to teaching programming.

I was a really bad steward for the first half a year, due to crushing lack of assistance and being really demoralized. Lately, I've managed to turn that around, and am currently crushing it pretty hard. 1.0 for Whyday, and then more beyond... things are looking up, but it's a long hard road ahead.
I imagine this is happening:

1) New iPhone 4 owner downloads a free flashlight app. Plays around with the one-button interface, gets bored.

2) Notices iAd, clicks on it.

3) Navigates around the ad more than he/she does the app.

I don't see the $1400/day revenue lasting much longer for this developer. If the user launches the flashlight app in the future, they'll just use the flashlight and quit. I doubt many people will actually touch the ads when they're searching for stuff in the dark.
Diversity reduces average crop yield so each farmer would have significant incentive to "cheet" the system. With storage it's fairly easy to varify your approach is actually being caried out. Also food storage protects vs a wider range of issues.

EX: Wide scale contamination of the food supply, War etc.
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Could you elaborate more about why you needed to spend $10K up front? And how you take advantage of your one giant server?

Are you using Xen to virtualize a bunch of servers on it?

I've always figured colocation + System Admin ends up costing more than a cloud solution. Especially when you need to have enough redundancy so that you don't fall over if a single server fails. In the cloud if a single server fails, it's their problem. In physical space it's your problem or your system admin's problem. How much time can you spare?
How is losses per unit sold relevant to anything? Overall profits or losses are what matter. I don't know how much Microsoft made off each one, so I'll be generous and guess $400 average revenue after subsidy payments.

1,000,000,000 - ($400 x 503) = $999,798,800 lost

1,000,000,000 - ($400 x 8810) = $996,476,000 lost

The difference is negligible.
Exercise made more difference to me than anything else. Not to "bulk up" or show off -- I cycled. But in addition to good health, it left me feeling quietly more confident and happy with myself. Which made interacting with others easier.

As they say, "Your Mileage May Vary". But for what it's worth.
There's a lot of technology in a Wacom pen that is missing from a finger. I'm not aware of a practical way to identify and measure the location of a fingertip that's any significant distance from the screen, except by using cameras.

Ultimately, I think any tablet made for serious work will have to implement Wacom pen tech and multitouch.
Wanderlust doesn't look to bad. Had some trouble getting GNUS to work with GMail, might give that one a try.
Here let me Google that for you...
Crad, thanks for your time. My goal isn't to replace twitter clients - but to offer a place one checks from time to time to get caught-up and possibly discover interesting tweets which were simply lost in the noise.

BTW, do you rely on the use of "lists" to keep up with "who is saying what"? Or do you simple resign that to a serendipitous event? I think this is what most people do. Another problem I'm trying to solve...

I find this "experiment" interesting because doing it well has widespread application and benefits.
...and goldfish!
> Why the hell do banks still close on Sundays???

I'm confused. Does your ATM stop working on Sundays? Does your home banking stop working on Sundays?

The closest branch of my bank is 3000 miles away. The last time I stepped inside a branch was probably 4 or 5 years ago. I call them on the phone a couple times a year. The fact that they aren't "open" on Sundays is a complete non-issue for me.
I agree with you that these aren't micropayments in the strictest sense. But your argument seems to be along the lines that apples are a poor dietary choice because they're not oranges. A content creator gets paid something (likely in variable quantity comparable to a micropayment) with very little thought required on the part of the payor: What's not to like here?
I didn't think you were being hostile, and I hope you don't detect any hostility from me, none is intended.

There are many incentives to overstate the validness of ones claims and unfortunately it weakens the overall strength of the field. I'm not asking that they make it understandable to the layman, but perhaps on any recommendation they could put confidence intervals on predictions.

Here's a presentation by Carl Wunsch, and here are the slides: http://web.mit.edu/esi/symposia/symposium-2009/2009-symposiu...

http://cdn.static.viddler.com/flash/simple_publisher.swf?key...

He's one of the worlds experts on the ocean, and is saying the same thing i am.

Here's a feynman quote on it:

I would like to add something that's not essential to the science,
but something I kind of believe, which is that you should not fool
the layman when you're talking as a scientist. I am not trying to
tell you what to do about cheating on your wife, or fooling your
girlfriend, or something like that, when you're not trying to be
a scientist, but just trying to be an ordinary human being. We'll
leave those problems up to you and your rabbi. I'm talking about
a specific, extra type of integrity that is not lying, but bending
over backwards to show how you are maybe wrong, that you ought to
have when acting as a scientist. And this is our responsibility as
scientists, certainly to other scientists, and I think to laymen.
-- Richard Feynman, CARGO CULT SCIENCE

Also to be clear, I'm optimistic and hope we can solve all sorts of problems and discover how the world works -- but I think to we need to have integrity and maintain to foster and maintain that trust. The medical field is ripe with wild extrapolation from small studies, it's a sign of exhuberance -- "Hey, here's the answer to the problem you having!" When it should be, "It seems that in some situations this may help, we still have to do more studies and don't know why it works but it seems to." It's more honest and when things go wrong, which they almost always do the person understood that it wasn't well understood.

I encourage you to watch the video - it's by an expert saying that we don't have enough information to be sure about anything and he proposes the following advice:

In the meantime, study the system; study the control options; but----take precautions (mitigation), prepare for adaptation, and do nothing that is even possibly irreversible (which may be almost anything, including of course, the ongoing injection of greenhouse gases).

Also his example of gravity waves, I think is extremely enlightening.
Monash University, I finish in 4 months.
I recall one study in which students who tested as “dumb” were placed into gifted classrooms, and students who tested as “smart” were placed into remedial classes; the teachers were none the wiser and had no resume to assume that something was afoot. After a year of teaching, “dumb” students tested “smart” and “smart” students tested “dumb”.

Anyone know whether this study actually exists? It sounds rather unethical; how did they get permission to do it? If it took place in the US I'm sure you'd have a pretty big lawsuit on your hands.
The Rust programming language
> When you actually want very high availability and consistency across multiple geographically separated locations, cloud or no cloud, it's still going to be incredibly hard to solve.

But then... you're talking about a niche. Granted, no consolation if you are in it, but most people are not.
Seems like Emacs is just becoming a large window manager in itself. Instead of having a lot of apps and using Alt-Tab to go between them, you stay in Emacs, have buffers, and use C-x o to flip between them.
Funny, I'm the same way. I've been waiting for WP7, but for some reason the Kin cancellation now has me either getting an EVO or Epic. Although I knew the Kin was a flop, something about the cancellation just flipped a bit in me that said, "skip the first gen WP7 devices".

If they turn out to be good, I'll get one in 18 months or so. But the Android trajectory is looking pretty great.
Singletons could be reset using a beforeclass(Reset data before a test suite is ran) or beforetest(Reset data before a test is run) type method. This is built into test frameworks for java, python and others.
exercise is in fact one of the only things keeping me sane.
i bike a lot, and run sometimes.
To me this reads "We're better than you because we're all using emacs". Sure making the best use of development tools is important but it's just a means to an end, that can be reached in different ways.
I'm assuming that Social Skydiving is basically making a concentrated effort on talking to strangers frequently?

How many times did you try it? If you tried it for three days, and failed miserably, don't give up. Any skill takes time to build.
You aren't a luddite if you identify potential risks that we should be aware of.

Ah, but you are not identifying new risks. The risks are obvious.... IF you think that way. It's almost a politicaly argument, where some people are just convinced there is no systemic risk. To others is it obvious. I don't know why this has become such a polarized topic.

But the result is people who talk about systemic risk are often accused of being luddites. As if their view is not based on facts but on politics.

The alternative itself is also obvious, it is to grow a large variety of wheat strains. This however would reduce yields. And it seems that most societies prefer to bear the systemic risk... for now.

The preference for systemic risk might be political. Because there's still a lot of hungry people in the world, because farm lobbies like mono-culture, it may even be a rational preference for all I know.
You think it's pretty solid - but it may not be. Computers are fast these days - passwords even loosely based on real words and common substitutions can be brute-forced - so not saying your system is bad (it's probably what most of us do, more or less) - but this passwordcard idea seems equally valid - you are still free to use it however you want, and without physically obtaining it, someone would have no idea where to start. If they did physically obtain it - they'd still have to know how you used it (which is up to you) - and that's assuming you didn't add some other out of band information (which you are free to do).
"why are they targetting me and not the already published implementation of Dan?"

Probably because Dan didn't title his article Creating Shazam in Java
thanks for the greeter idea. i guess in the past i arrive just on time and get lost/left-out in the conversations.
will surely give it a shot.
Somebody mentioned having prizes for the drug developer. This would especially help medication where there wouldn't be much profit incentive but would do lots of good (e.g. Malaria).
F5 Optimizes Microsoft Solutions Enabling the Dynamic Data Center
Perhaps Acton or Leona Valley could work? I went cherry-picking in Leona Valley last weekend and there was quite a bit of honey for sale here and there. Also my local grocery store sells great honey from Acton. If you're not familiar with these areas they are in and around the Antelope Valley (about one hour north-east of LA).
There was some very interesting discussion about status here previously:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=937541

I particularly liked nazgulnarsil's post which linked to:

http://greenlightwiki.com/improv/Status

which was subsequently posted

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1042624

and also referenced in the article

(would be nice if HN had some way to link ongoing discussion on subjects - I'm not a huge fan of tags but it could apply here)
The Economist: Attempts to ban online gaming are doomed to fail.
Which "European problems"?
I used to use and love emacs, but I stopped because the various control key combinations were too hard on my hands.
I can't recall the study off the top of my head but it's also mentioned in this TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/769