skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's good to know that companies worth billions never make mistakes that drive that value down. Certainly never down to nothing.
IIRC Cryptome has "history" with Wikileaks (I believe they were pretty fed up of WL's profile of The Whistleblower site despite being the new kid on the block compared to Cryptome).

Bear this in mind when reading.

With that said; I much prefer Cryptome to WL - they do consistently publish stuff! Usually without to much editorializing.

And even if this is all just made up (a possibility) it does highlight some of the concerns over WL. Assange is becoming a concerning character, where is the money going, the website does seem to be stagnating etc.
I think in written english. For me written english and spoken english are separate languages. I have extreme difficulty translating english words into their spoken equivalents. The reverse is easier only because I have far more practice with it. I have to memorize the spoken words that associate with the sounds. (Part of this may be because written english has a dozen possible sounds for each letter combination)

This is horrible obvious when I try to work with numbers. I've never worked with math higher than two digits in spoken language. In order for me to do any more complex math I first need to translate the spoken numbers into written form. Translating between written and spoken forms is painful for me. It can take me two or three seconds per character to comprehend spelling, phone numbers, or math. Writing down a phone number is almost impossible unless one of the parts is one I have memorize. 414, 920, and 644 are numbers I can instantly convert between their written or spoken forms because they are parts of numbers I've memorized. It is frustrating for me because no one I've encountered seems to have this issue and therefore I'm a special kind of moron for not being able to keep up.

The only reason this hasn't caused me horrible problems in life is I'm able to memorize enough to compensate.

> And our brain is faster and more optimized at processing mass volume visual stuff(especially pattern recognition), does anyone else think in pictures?

I'm pretty sure I think at one level of abstract above imagery most of the time. I'm currently reading through Lord of the Rings and I'm finding myself not thinking in imagery at all but simply absorbing information and forming mental maps of the terrain instead of experiencing it visually. Some of it is definitely Tolken's writing style, it readily lends itself to abstraction in my mind.

When reading Lord of the Rings, I force myself to experience it at a lower level of abstraction. At a lower abstraction my brain has to work much harder to form original imagery (not just dropping in stuff from the movies) and my reading drops to a fifth of my normal speed. The experience is much richer and well worth it.
The title sounds like a tautology. Don't all entrepreneurs take a chance on themselves, by definition? :)
It's a pretty bad and unscalable idea. Don't follow it. It won't work. 100.000 searches is nothing, start breaking it down to how many are willing to pay, and you see how small the market is. Unless you have an extra-ordinary passion for this area, find something more immediately lucrative.
In tetris, only the l and the o pieces spawn exactly in the center. All the other pieces spawn slightly to the left. Therefore, on average, you need to make slightly less moves if you stack on the left side than if you stack right.
>Since it is unlikely that unless there is a huge benefit to signing a prenuptial agreement a woman isn't likely going to
Then you don't marry her.

Say that in California, and the prenup is invalid.

Which is one reason nobody should ever be married in California.
A similar thing happened in the al-Sayyid Bedouin tribe in southern Israel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Sayyid_Bedouin_Sign_Language.
There are also a lot of high-end Android phones that have come out in the last two months, and coming out soon. In the end, this discussion doesn't really matter. Obviously, nobody knows the future.

I also realize that these numbers only represent one quarter, but if you look at the previous quarters, you'll see that Android is experiencing steady growth. I have no doubt that the iPhone 4 will be a boon to Apple's numbers. We only have to wait another three months to find out! :)
Thinking that marriage would work out is probably right thing to do in most cases:
- There is no additional legal effort up front.
- There is no emotional toll of dealing with the prenup.
- There is a good chance that divorce would not happen.
- If divorce does happen -- standard divorce rules most likely would not be too different from prenup terms.
Usually I would agree; however Wikileaks has been massive news and regularly features on here (they are not a Company - it is a Whistleblower site) so it is reasonable to assume the majority of people will know what it is about. Anyone who reads HN regularly in the last 6 months should have read about Wikileaks before.

(in the same way you would expect everyone here to understand what Reddit is)

I don't know why you got slated for asking though; seems reasonable.
A couple neat things about using chemical elements as hostnames
I also have difficulty imagining journalists figuring out how to set up freenet.
I'm not sure that English-speaking (and similar languages) people think in a background voice, but rather that we think in meaning and the meaning is echoed back in the mind as English words (or whatever language). For example, there's a lot of times where we will have something that we want to communicate, and we know exactly what it means but not how to say it in words -- often associated with the phrase "something on the tip of my tongue".

Reading also can take on something of that ideographic nature of chinese -- take the word calligraphy. I don't need to read the letters and then put them in order and deduce that the word is 'calligraphy'. I see the whole shape of the word and comprehend it. Thisisalsowhyitssomuchahardertounderstandenglishwhenwedon'tputspacesbetweenwords.
It's been done. I use http://www.fastpdf.com/

If you monetize it, make it easy to submit jobs, you have a business model.
Disclaimer: This is for my experience only:

- Tethering. I fly frequently, so sitting in the airport with a free wifi connection is nice.

- Navigation. Nav is just that much nicer than directions.

- GVoice integration. I'm a big fan free texts and transcribed voicemails.

- Cost. My total bill, including insurance, is $75/month, with 5 numbers of unlimited calls. I probably make 600-800 minutes worth of calls/month. I only call 4 people with any regularity, so T-Mobile's plan really works well for me.

- Webserver. I found a built-in webserver, so I can pull photos/etc. off my phone even if I don't have my USB. There are other ways to do this, but it suits me particularly well.

- Locale. Changes my call, wifi, ringer, and 10 other things based on my location, time of day, and other pieces of context.

- Swype. Best smartphone keyboard I've seen (admittedly beta, so not freely available)

Again, these are all things I enjoy, not objective arguments for the superiority of Android. But, I can't get them on iPhone, and the list of things that would be relevant to me on iPhone is somewhat smaller.
The client doesn't send code to the server, just a JSON representation of the function arguments (which can include names of client-side callback functions). There's no eval.
I'm willing to bet that places like Starbucks and airports who are offering free wifi will start blocking/throttling bandwidth-intensive apps like Facetime as popularity grows. You'll start to see network issues at these hotspots just like you see with AT&T.
There’s a bit of Dave Foster Wallace’s ''Infinite Jest'' that talks about precisely this, in considerably more detail, and quite amusingly.

Link: http://www.martin-brown.net/downloads/DavidFosterWallace-Inf...
http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/journal/10664

http://esem2010.case.unibz.it/

http://portal.acm.org/browse_dl.cfm?coll=ACM&dl=ACM&...

http://lens-ese.cos.ufrj.br/ese/

These are the links I know of in the area.
Are You a College Student? How to Know Which Mac Is the Right Fit for You
Your initial vote as the submitter didn't get registered. Several things happen when a story is submitted. I don't make them atomic because nothing serious breaks if they don't all happen. So if the thread spawned by the http request dies (because the server restarted, or it times out due to a spike in load), some may happen and not others.
Reflective games aren't a waste of a time (that allows you think and reflect on a situation thereby improving the way you learn things) but games that put you on an expert(or relax)-mode definitely are a waste of time--imho. I mean this is true when talking about games but probably in true in other situations e.g. you wouldn't like a Pilot who wants to reflect on a situation when plane and 400 passengers are in danger (taken from a Psychology book whose name I cannot recall) :)
There's nothing in the commercial, actually, that depicts ordinary, routine phone calls. They're intimate conversations between people with deep relationships to each other, who are separated and cannot be together – sometimes at critical, god-I-wish-I-had-a-teleporter moments.

If you've felt the kind of deep longing that sort of separation can cause, you'll immediately understand what Apple is selling here. A lifeline to the ones you love.

Believe me, at those moments there's not a chance you'd rather just be on IM.
Really? Last time I checked on iPhone the notifications popped up once and then vanished. Is there now a notification area that tells you all the different notifications waiting for you?
It is inevitable, as soon as you start brining in business people, since they are capable (and therefore will) start to play political games. It is simply the order of things.

If you keep the company limited to producers (engineers, doctors, scientiests, etc) and kick out anybody who isn't producing (in the event that somebody took the job to make a paycheck, rather than because they like to produce), and you should be fine.
Looks similar to the work going on with Rails 3. http://github.com/rails/arel
"Guido van Robot, or GvR for short, is a programming language and free software application designed to introduce beginners to the fundamentals of programming. GvR runs on Windows, Macintosh, and GNU/Linux, in a variety of languages. It's great in both the classroom and the home as a way of introducing people to the basic concepts of programming."

http://gvr.sourceforge.net/

Then on to python.
Wonderful article, as it gives more reason to smile in appreciation on the next flight. Human hubris, stubbornness and over-reliance on intuition add to the article's lessons in physics and biology.
generally _why causes confusion with or without the underscore.
Yeah, when you're using Open Office you can always ask the person your sending the spreadsheet to to download OpenOffice to read it. Especially if they are someone you're paying money to, like a consultant or an outside firm. It's free after all.
Straight Dope's answers are often quite illuminating but on this one they've really dropped the ball. First, consider the statement "I think in English, because that's what I speak." This is an extremely naive view of, what is to linguists, philosophers, cognitive scientists, etc., a huge enigma, or actually two:

1. Is our thought process based on language, i.e. does it use syntactical transformations that are characteristics of language. Note that introspective evidence immediately reveals that at least part of our thinking are in images. This type of thinking is clearly now linguistic. So, let's limit the question to the other modes of thinking, e.g. reasoning.

2. If the answer to (1) is affirmative, then in what language do we think? Is it our native language? What if we have two native language? What happens for deaf people? If we think in our native tongue, then how strong an influence does it exert on our thought process (i.e. was Whorf right?)

AFAIK, (1) is now accepted by most philosophy of language people. (2), however, is a matter of some debate. Some people, like Fodor, claim that we think in an innate language. This position is hard to defend for various reasons. With the recent rise of linguistic relativism (suppressed for about thirty years by Chomsky and his followers) more and more researchers are delving into the question of language of thought and the effect it has on our cognitive processes.

For an excellent introductory survey on the philosophical issues, see Murat Aydede's article (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/language-thought/). If your cup of tea is more along the lines of cognitive psychology/linguistics, check out Lera Broditsky's work (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lera_Boroditsky)
Each side has its perspective and points. Each side points fingers: "Scum", "incremental", "non-compete", "stole our idea", "couldn't breathe".

I'm not sure which side Amy Wallace falls out on, but both sides are right. And both sides are wrong:

In this day and age, ideas should not be owned. One-click by Amazon: obvious and ridiculous. Reuseable garment bag: more obvious and more ridiculous. Ideas are on a level playing field and competition - the only one that matters - is for customers.

If anything, Mr. Siegel by way of offering to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars offered to combine ideas and resources which may have created a more effective competitor.

The idea of a non-compete after buying two of something at a tradeshow and then a conversation over drinks at a Santa Monica hotel: ridiculous. It's just like an entrepreneur in our industry asking an angel or VC to sign an NDA and non-compete.

And for the record, the Eureka moment does not matter at all, either in purpose, practice or philosophy.
> That is sentimental bullshit

Yes - what's wrong with that? What do you think marriages are about? Business?
You pushed the button and out came hundreds and thousands of sonatas
Saying "probably" is a way of avoiding dishonestly over-representing his confidence in the marriage lasting. Obviously you're offended, but don't let that be an excuse to let your reasoning slip.
That can be huge for virtualizing legacy applications. A few months ago I was going to build a similar web app, but with X11 (legacy X sucks, but XRender is better than VNC for this IMO), and with the virtualization/"web-enabling" back-end infrastructure to use for an application at work. That didn't pan out, but I think making an easy to use, easy to manage web-app virtualization backend is a big opportunity. Having this VNC client available provides the web-browser half of the solution. I have a few hours a week available, anyone want to work on this idea together?
> This is also why all cheese in the US tastes to Europeans like plastic.

Come to Wisconsin, we have real cheese (if buy the local stuff). :)
It seems a lot of people here are tainted by the litigious society they live in, and have decided that marriage is the bad guy, a "liability", and want to stop everyone's marriages. I reject your viewpoint of my marriage and will remain in my non-litigious society. I feel a bit sorry for others.

I fail to see the analogy between a startup and a marriage, and I'm a bit curious on why so many others see it. A long bow to draw, I think.
This happened to me when I played too much D&D one summer. I saw everything in dice rolls for about a week after I took a prolonged break from it.
My native language is Russian. I learned English when we emigrated to US, at which point I was 9 years old. I also learned German as an exchange student when I was 17.

I can say that somewhere along my language learning experience (before I learned German), I learned to abstract my thoughts to ideas, then 'implement' them to whatever language I needed to speak at the moment.
So I went to a high school which claimed to practice the "Socratic Method." Now I'm not saying it can't be used correctly, but in 90% of the cases it was used it was sticking us in a lab, showing us an experiment and asking us what happened, THEN having us do the reading. It makes NO sense and was a HUGE waste of time.

As a tool in your arsenal it's great, as the cornerpiece of your education system it's really not. People need to be shown what to do ultimately.

Finally, America is becoming "less creative" based purely on the judgment of two scientists (literally they look at the drawings and say "I give this one a 15/18"). Seems a little melodramatic/farfetched. I'd be the first to believe the hypothesis but what a stupid experiment.
If you just want to prove that you had "idea X" at any given point in time, the simplest thing I can think of is to document the idea and then have the document notarized. Since a notary is a legally accepted witness to a signature, this should hold up. It may even be enough to mount a challenge against a subsequent patent (insert obligatory IANAL).

But if you really want to have a hope of preventing someone else from patenting it, then you need to publish.
Computers at Home: Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality
To clients, it looks exactly like a memcached server.
No slipping reasoning here.

OP: "Any honest person would answer their vows with not "I do" but "probably".

I answered mine with "I do". Does that make me a dishonest person? Did you read my vows?

Are mortgages also a lie? Should everyone have signed "probably" in case they ended up in jingle-mail territory? Are then then dishonest people? I think not. Perhaps my honesty bar is set too low, but, again, I think not.

Saying that a commitment question (Yes/no, In/out, etc) should be answered with "probably" is a little strange, and a little naive, I think.
Often you assume your customer is the same as you - sees the problem the same way, wants to solve it your way, and wants to pay for it. But you're explicitly not like your customers; for one thing, you have enough initiative and insight to quit your job to start a company. It's easy to let your idiosyncratic preconceptions prevent you from observing what the larger market will accept.

I think that's a corporate perspective to review a startup pitch. In a startup you're iterating and evolving your idea but you have some start point and perhaps it's your 'idiosyncratic preconceptions'.
This makes a lot of sense. My home coffee has gotten better as I've gotten more consistent with my procedure. (Fill the same kettle to the exact same point. Take it off when the whistle is just audible, move it to a cold burner, set the timer for 2 minutes...etc...)

What this also means is that I should be able to buy the same packets and have access to Italian espresso.

This also makes bad American office coffee even more exasperating. Why is it that US office coffee is so often sour and trashy tasting? Why is it that Italians can do it, but Americans fail? I suspect it's because the former population doesn't care so much.
Just curious, are you also a non-native speaker? Or from a Chinese language background?
Playlist of YouTube videos linked from top 1024 HN stories (2010/07)
I believe it's almost impossible to get away without knowing CSS/HTML and JavaScript/jQuery/whatever. SQL is a big plus, not essential but almost.

Im from a Java shop and recently started to learn rails, had a good experience with grails. The good thing about web frameworks is that you can reapply what you learn to other frameworks (ie, if you choose Django you can later apply some of the knowledge to Rails or whatever). My only nitpick with the whole ruby/rails stuff is that most of the stuff is mostly semi-broken in windows. Some gems need patching, others need native code (sometimes this code has to be compiled), others just don't work with gem X. I don't know how it is in the Python/Django universe, but comparing Rails to Grails (or any other Java/maven based project) I'm amazed at the low "respect" gem/plugin developers have for windows users. Java is really write once run anywhere, Rails just seems write once run in linux.

If you choose Rails, I would strongly suggest you to install a linux.
I see two aspects to the 3rd rule: one, pick a problem that isn't currently popular with most people in your field - it may be so in the future, thus you need to think ahead, OR, you need to look at a "solved" problem that really isn't, something from the past which you have new insights on. Avoid just chasing the current fad(s), whether in science or business.

Two, develop skills that are unusual, relative to others in the field. For instance, in older engineering fields (civil, mechanical, industrial), there are many problems that could be tackled differently and/or better by someone armed with both engineering domain knowledge, and solid coding skills. But most engineers are terrible coders. And most coders know little about non-electrical, non-computer engineering.
Try the cheese counter at Whole Foods. YMMV. Some of the people there care about cheese, some are just there for a paycheck. I recommend the Humbolt Fog.
These are all the youtube links mentioned on top links, similar to last time (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1425184) but with all new content.
I like that there is consistency in naming them when considering the periodic table. However, most people don't know the table well enough to know their atomic number, their classification (noble gas, halogen, etc.) nor would there be any connection between name and purpose. Rather you must know the meta-information about the element to know the purpose which makes this a well-suited convention for chemists but few others.
The last sentence should be the first: “If you have more than about 20 machines, just give them numbered hostnames and be done with it.”
Think about one of your "abstract" thoughts: What language are they in :-)
Usually the hostname should be disconnected from the machine's purpose. Instead, use a generic name and then use aliases (either cnames or additional A records) for mapping services to the machine.
This one isn't just a cache; it's a database with a simple key-value data model. It has very good clustering support. It can handle datasets too large for memory. It's fast, allegedly easy to set up (I haven't tried it), and you can communicate with it using existing memcached client libraries. I think it sounds like an interesting option.

I also think that, in a few months, Redis will probably have the same nice characteristics of Membase, but with a much nicer set of datatypes. Membase does everything I described right now, though, which is worth something.
Maybe you're just buying crap?

There's lots of good cheese easily available. Say what you will about my neighboring state of Wisconsin, but you can find plenty of the non-industrial variety there.

And chocolate? Hershey's is your standard??? No wonder. Hershey's is crap!!! I thought everyone knew that but just ate it cause it's cheap.

Basically, if you limit your eating to mass produced, industrialized foods, crap's what you get, with few exceptions. It's like judging all American beer by pointing to Miller Lite!
An interesting addition to your proposed study would be this: in addition to other people, how often does the person covered push their appearance. This was my main objection to this lady, when you go to her web page, her modeling and vanity shots are predominant, e.g. this is how she chooses to represent herself. She may be thinking that this would be advantageous in a male dominated profession.
Socratic dialogue is completely different from the Socratic method (which I hadn't heard of before). Socratic dialogue is a way of getting a student to consider and answer their own questions during a conversation, where the teacher responds to the student by asking leading questions.
It's not deliberate confusion. There was a lot of work to just getting the code out there, and we're now working on more and more docs.

Have a look at http://blog.northscale.com/northscale-blog/2010/07/what-exac... and http://dustin.github.com/2010/06/29/memcached-vbuckets.html for good technical content.
The Dwarfs and The Fast Marking Algorithm