skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Price is a variable, but it's not a major one for me, and I don't want it to be. In a world where you compete on price, all airlines are Ryanair, all supermarkets are Lidl, all TV is reality TV, all music is chart pop, all clothes are polyester... Kinda the point of money is not just to have it, but to spend it on the goods and services that enable the lifestyle you want to live.

I am open to paying a premium for a premium experience. Virgin are one airline that really "gets it", they won't be the cheapest on any of their routes, but they won't be that much more expensive, and it'll be fun, and when things do go hatstand they'll go the extra mile. If they do my route, I don't even look at another airline.
8-bit Color Cycling with HTML5
Having flown AirIndia on a few flights domestically, I understand where you're coming from. But in our experience, the AirIndia nonstop from JFK to Bombay is equivalent to the Delta nonstop, and much better than BA thru Heathrow.
If you are feeling really adventurous I'd look into visiting an Onsen. It's essentially a japanese hot-spring bath-house and is a major part of the culture of Japan. Their isn't much written about it but I was fortunate to travel all around Japan with my ex-wife (a native) back in 02. We went to onsen's in almost every city we visited, including Bephu which has the oldest onsen in the country (something like 1100 years old).

It's a really interesting cultural experience because it's such a big part of japan's history. It's also a bit unnerving because it's split between men and women because there are no clothes allowed and for me, I was alone with a very limited grasp of the language. People were really nice and mostly curious about me and how I knew about onsen's (seemed like a big secret to me at the time).

If/when I go back to Japan I would actually make it the entire reason for the trip; aka, travelling around from one onsen to the next.
http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-com...

from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1479107
Maybe I'm just ignorant, but why were you designing web layouts in Photoshop? It never has been the right tool for that job. My goto tool for mock ups and layouts is Illustrator, which fits the bill far better, and has been around just as long as Photoshop.
Open-source, software-based GSM cellphone network
Thanks. I realized the answer to my question almost immediately after I posted it but I hope someone else will find the information useful.
Quick question: is the service meant to work in the latest DEV release of Chrome? I just get a blank screen: http://cl.ly/92a3f95975927920868b
Maybe you just have nothing to say and don't recognize that such behavirs are clearly wrong, that failing silently for a database is a case of bad design, and MySQL is just technically inferior to Postgres. Or are we missing something?
yeah, regardless, its a great start to building an official database of strains. well done
Hello, thank you for sharing this!
My thoughts exactly. Out of those 20 links, the author expressly asked the reader to click at least one link to understand his point. And that was a link to a picture that a good article could have easily embedded inside his article.

I guess without proper "paid" media, articles of this quality is all we get.
I would also be concerned about the legal system in China, but political pressure on the media is very widespread in europe as well. During the Iraq war, the entire BBC top management was fired for being critical of the war. In many European countries, polititians are the bosses of journalists at the most important TV stations.
Seadragon could be implemented on Flash or Canvas. It's a library, not a platform. It's like comparing The Wire and a camcorder.
Definitely an issue, even I am sometimes hesitant to get off the couch and go to my desk to write a review. iphone & android apps are in the works to help alleviate this problem. Also hoping to start partnering with some dispensaries and provide them with branded stickers for various strains that they can put on their meds, provide basic information and maybe a qr code for quick access.
In Apple's response to the EFF's request for a DMCA exemption, they said that jailbreaking was and should remain illegal. http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/02/apple-says-jailbreaking...
currently on the front page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1546135
Informative, but should really be called "The Evolution of Writing in Italic and Germanic Scripts" (only one obligatory reference to an ancient Greek example and no mention of many other Indo-European scripts (say Slavic, which includes Russian etc.), let alone any Eastern scripts (CJK, etc.))
Which the article directly addresses:

"I think we bought it in May 2009 or something like that for maybe $250,000, which seemed like a lot at the time and now it seems cheap."
Yes to some parts (e.g. "All meaning is man-made"), no to others (e.g. "This is who I make myself" - I've read enough about psychology to know that the environment and other people have more influence on my formation than not).
There's an entire field devoted to this: Knowledge Management (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_management).
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/storm_watch_stories3&#...
So, this works for me:

Step 1: Clear your mind:
- Close your eyes, take a deep breath and say "oooooooooooooom" ten times. Try to keep your voice as steady as possible - concentrate on trying to keep the intensity and pitch of your voice consistent.

Step 2:
Open your eyes slowly. Your mind will feel clear and you can now focus on the task at hand.
Upvoted for consistently referring to yourself in the third person.
Echoing your point, having a library that can do something is fantastic. Having two is even better when you have a choice on which one feels more comfortable to use and is more suited for your project. Having 25 libraries that do basically the same thing gives diminishing returns because the community is split over which one is better and easier to use, while the majority won't be full featured and with a larger number of bugs overall.

This is not necessarily a black and white scenario that holds true to everything, however. There is no such thing as an absolute generic.
My comment on the subject:

http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/msg/de4630fa8953b183
Review my app: utsup.com, simple team awareness for projects that use git
Just the ability to hide one tweet. Please
Strictly speaking you are able to, but you shouldn't want to.
One thing I think that this analysis misses is the fact that, for most people, you're not going to enjoy the flight no matter what. At that point most people shift from "maximize enjoyment" mode, where paying more for something better is more rational, to "minimize costs mode." If I'm going to spend 5 hours being uncomfortable whether I spend $300 or $500, what's the point in paying more?

I think there's a certain enjoyment threshold below which something becomes "unpleasant," and moving from one state below that threshold to another state also below that threshold isn't as valuable as a similar state shift would be if the initial state happened to be above that threshold.
A Linux experiment gone horribly...perfect
What is the scope of this issue? Most well-written Ruby code on github I see doesn't use ActiveSupport.
It seems crazy to me that someone would build a gem that expects the user to already have Rails installed. =:-o
Awesome, this is exactly what I wanted! By filtering out all the Apple/iPhone/iPad-related crap, I'll probably be able to cut the number of new items from tech blogs in half.
why were you designing web layouts in Photoshop?

It was a company practice at my first job — didn't have much choice.

I've always found Illustrator to be equally bad for web, though. It's a vector tool, but the web is still a pixel medium.

For me: Photoshop for manipulating photos, Illustrator for illustration, Fireworks for web/application layouts (although it can handle some basic photo editing and illustrating, which makes it even better for layouts).
Excellent points, I'm glad someone helped add some facts.

I moved my startup from the US to Hong Kong in 2007. I've spent the last three years there and in Southern China doing business. At the moment, I've moved back to the US (to LA) for a new venture, though I still have things running in Hong Kong (I'll be back next month).

For anyone interested in running a startup in Southern China, I'd be happy to answer questions. Getting things going in China is not easy. It's much easier to bootstrap in Hong Kong or Singapore while you get your bearings and then moving into mainland China later. And this comes from someone fluent in Mandarin Chinese.

If you are interested in doing things in that area, I recommend getting in touch with the Hong Kong Startup Association and introducing yourself there. The community is small and very supportive. Also the Hong Kong BarCamp is coming up soon, make sure to attend that if you can.
Maybe it's because of visa issues or because India is so notorious for red tape. Personally I would feel much more comfortable in a democratic, english speaking country such as India where human rights and freedom of speech are taken more seriously.
Cool, sending an email.
The fact that we travel more frequently.

I travel far less often now than a few years ago. I feel the airports today are so flier hostile that I would rather just stay home. My last few vacations were spent within driving distance of my home. Even though I could easily afford the airfare.

To put that into perspective... I used to fly a lot. A weekend trip across country would not have been an unusual thing for me. My wife and I flew to Japan several times a year to visit family... we just don't do that anymore.

Now I'll fly on business if I have to. but that's pretty much it.
Dynamic typing (ala Scheme or Python) gives you generic programming for free, but it's less efficient.
Maybe they will revive Compaq or Packard Bell.
Badges? It's become kind of cliche as of late, but it might work. I've known many a pot-smoker who were (overly) concerned with their rep as a connoisseur, as it were.
I agree with Kristian. It's not that much time and you would be surprised how you can grab lunch with someone and, by the end, they will have completely changed how you thought of your idea.
Wallowing in Education: There are way too many students out there
+1 for Virgin. I've never flown (I live in Chicago and they don't hit O'Hare) but I've heard almost exclusively good things. They are doing exactly what needs to be done in these giant, somewhat stagnant industries - introducing a brand with a customer-centric model, offering a "premium" service. Of course, in the world of air travel, it takes surprisingly little to distinguish yourself from the notoriously horrendous experience of dealing with other major lines.

Last year, there was a Wakefield/Wi-Fi Alliance study that found 76% of travelers would choose an airline based on wi-fi availability. (http://www.wi-fi.org/news_articles.php?f=media_news&news...) A number which, I can only imagine, has been increasing over time. And, as we've seen (re: Starbucks) there's a big difference between wi-fi and free wi-fi. As far as I can tell skimming a couple searches, there doesn't seem to be any line that offers free wifi... yet.

It seems like there's a coming sea-change, however. The going theory is that free wi-fi is going to be a standard check-box item by the middle of next year - with many assuming Virgin and SWA will likely be leading the way.

On a related note, I fly pretty much exclusively Southwest. I took my first flight at just over a week old and have flown pretty regularly ever since. About 6-7 years ago, I made the change to flying SWA whenever possible and haven't looked back. Last time I flew to SF, it took two different flights with a transfer in between - and I got a free drink on both.
How specifically does Clojure's STM implementation avoid the pitfalls outlined in the ACM paper? How many real-world benchmarks do we have demonstrating Clojure's concurrency scaling?
The "Palm" brand name still has huge mindshare. I wouldn't say the Palm brand has been so much stagnated in recent years as it has been under-marketed. A large marketing push by HP for new Palm phones, with the well-received WebOS behind it, could be very successful.
As we grew as a company, we found that we frequently had people working remotely on a project, sometimes from home, sometimes from another country. trying to keep track of what everyone was doing at any given moment seemed to get exponentially more difficult as time zone differences were involved. just asking people for status updates became a pain. we decided that we'd have to find a better way, and what we came up with to solve our internal issue is UTSUP?.

We developed the application to work transparently with git to update the entire company as to what individuals are working on without the communication overhead of having to actually send someone a status update; now we all just "sup" each other.
Apparently, haven't tried it yet, if you press STOP STOP PLAY, it skips it. But I have no evidence for this to work.
In Germany and The Netherlands, T-Mobile has been the official carrier for the iPhone for years. The T-Mobile brand is being used in a lot of countries.

T-Mobile USA is the odd one out, though. It was a preexisting network (VoiceStream) which after being purchased by Deutsche Telekom was given the T-Mobile name for the sake of international brand unity.
Avoiding The Startup Stall-Spin
The article isn't about how to narrowly focus on one and only one minuscule thing (reading one article), it's about focusing on one and only one task (reading a blog post in this case, which typically implies the availability of related links), and more importantly, how to train your attention span so that it lasts longer than the usual couple minutes.
FULL-CG masterpiece: Architecture art across a photographic point of view
Why is it that within ten seconds, I felt compelled to "hump" other arrows with my own?

It was also interested to see if I could get other people to form lines and other constructs, without any communication other than my own cursor.
Especially if you consider that the base was abandoned a week later [1]. Looking forward to seeing "Restrepo"[2] when it becomes available. I can't say I like the "action theme" in the trailer, but at least it seems honest.

[1] http://abcnews.go.com/International/exclusive-apache-pilots-...
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DjqR6OucBc
I like the scatter plot with four quadrants, I think that's a good way to visualize things
But would you also:

* Come back regularly to play it?
* Pay to play it?!! :/
* Click on ads? (If the creator were evil, they'd confuse
the users into clicking on ads, making them think it's
part of the game).

Still a fun thing to make though!
Unfortunately I haven't gotten far enough in Real-World Haskell to have fully understood the parts about Monads but as I've been learning the language, I'd often wondered how common it was to use functional languages for pipeline processes like middleware. Seems like a great fit.
I've been using the pomodoro app for a few weeks now, and I love it. I've found I can get twice as much work done before I started to lose my concentration.

Also, vidar mentioned Vipassana which I also have tried in the past. I meditated daily for a few months and my focus increased a TON. Extremely beneficial.
"you're not going to enjoy the flight no matter what."

Why aren't there carriers that try and create a comfortable and enjoyable flight experience? The article spent a great deal of time explaining that people pay on two factors, price and schedule. Attempting to differentiate on comfort doesn't win you more customers, therefore, the carriers aren't incented to create a comfortable flight experience.

I've certainly had some really outstanding flight experiences, usually when being upgraded.

But, I think I see what you are getting at - we're so far beyond that point right now, that subtle increases in comfort won't register - you need a quantum leap - something akin to moving into first class, to really capture people's imagination.
Dude, seriously... I can't believe it. Talking about freedom, comparing europe and china ... Come on ! Is this a joke ?

Your friend is getting sued, so you move to a country where people are put in jail for their political opinions ?

Don't invent stupid excuses, there's no need to. You're 24 years old and are looking for opportunity, and China, despite being a bloody dictatorship were a billion people work in slave-like conditions, is the new land of opportunity, so you're giving it a try. Good for you.

But cut the ridiculous crap. You sound like a spoiled brat.
I've heard good things about Ireland as well. I heard bad things about Hungary (nationalist thugs hunting down gipsies and foreigners). Never heard of the "German bundes" though.
I'm 6'7" (200 cm), so being stuck in a typical economy class seat is extremely uncomfortable for me.

On my next long trip (from Minneapolis to Italy), I chose to spend about double for business class, because the prospect of 10 hours flying in economy literally terrifies me.

When I fly to Taiwan I make a point of traveling on Eva (a Taiwanese airline) which has a class between economy & business (like Virgin). It's well worth the extra cost for a 12 hour flight.

I would gladly pay a premium for exit row or galley seats with more legroom. I still don't understand why airlines don't consistently sell these seats in advance.

In years when I'm flying a lot, I always stick with the same airline. Getting elite status gives you free upgrades and first crack at some of the more comfortable seats.

All of which is to say that price & schedule are not really my #1 considerations.
I would love to see additional type rendering options, but this would have to account for the OS as well and Adobe tools would have to accept WOFF and EOT files, which counters FontFont's point of offering web fonts DRM-free.

And I still don't think there will be a tool that makes code better than a hand, not that such a tool couldn't assist in a great way. TextMate snippets and CSS preprocessors maybe, but that's not exactly WYSIWYG to HTML.
U.S. Declares iPhone Jailbreaking Legal, Over Apple’s Objections
Well, JetBlue kind of does this already. You get more leg room and infinite snacks/drinks on every flight. They also have live television for free, in flight.
Sample code I'd like to see:
* How you'd implement a B-tree object
* How you'd implement the-equivalent-of-a-class (a list of related functions and structures akin to something you'd see in the GTK documentation).
I've traveled to about 30 countries within Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe, Central America and a lot of travel within the US. Of course there have been hiccups along the way, but overall it's been pleasant and I just don't share the feelings with others that air travel is a horrible experience.

I believe my point of view stems from the happiness of being able to travel around the world so cheaply (even free with airline miles). This wasn't even possible until modern times and it is easy to take for granted.
Is Wikileaks reliable?
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I haven't read his thesis, but more and more languages/environments are moving to two-level scheduling being the dominant way to get performance. When I read through it later I'll be interested to see how his results are applicable to the systems used in eg. Go, erlang, .NET, etc.
"Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte." - Blaise Pascal = "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time."
I suggest you take a look at the direct Continental flight from EWR to BOM. It was very comfortable and they kept feeding you every few hours. I watched all the Harry Potter movies via the in-flight TV system.
StackExchange site for statistical analysis opens for public beta
One thing that always bugged me about air travel in the US is the time you spend on the ground, standing in queues, pulling your shoes off, putting them back on again.

You'll say that this is for better security. It's not an effective way to achieve better security. In Europe, queues are shorter and people only have to remove their shoes when there's a reason for it. Europe has not exploded yet - put it down to behavioral profiling, making good use of extant security measures and (for the most part) having enough personnel to avoid the building up of queues.

To pick the restaurant analogy, it has the same effect on the airlines as it would for a restaurant to have pseudo-policemen sit in front of their door and bully everyone, building up a long queue.
Lots of good points on cost tradeoffs considering personal costs, lost opportunity costs, and specifically Cassandra and SQS. Since there is a download link, this would make good airplane viewing.
What kind of traffic have you gotten in the last hour?
Well, it worked, so it doesn't seem to have been a bad idea so far... I assume whatever agreement they worked out to transfer the domain also precluded future lawsuits over it or the trademark, but IANAL
I've used the pomodoro + Spaces + single monitor technique for a while. I actually took things a bit farther and now keep my laptop on a stool to the left of my desk (I do my main work on a desktop). Instead of having a separate Space for non-work stuff (chat, email, casual browsing), I keep it all on the laptop. I only use it during pomodoro breaks and I have the screen go to sleep after only a couple minutes of inactivity so it's not distracting when the breaks are over.

I've found that since I have to perform the physical act of swiveling my chair to comfortably use the laptop, it is much less tempting to get distracted. It was too easy to "just check my email really quick..." or "just respond to this one instant message..." when it was only a quick Spaces shortcut away.
Did you miss the part where the page also says Android?

I am using a Motorola i1 running android with a sim card in it.

If you are traveling to the US, one of the cheapest ways of getting a data plan without a contract is to buy a prepaid Motorola i335 for $30 - $50 with a prepaid connection and tether it for 35c / day.
That's one of the reasons I always use VLC to watch DVD's the first time, and then Handbrake, and then VLC to watch them each subsequent time.
An informative and lengthy discussion between two experts (Cliff Click of Azul Systems and Rich Hickey): http://www.azulsystems.com/blog/cliff-click/2008-05-27-cloju...
Nice design. Did you do it yourselves?
It would be even better to see support for scoped namespaces in Ruby...
And if it's a Gawker Media site, they allow you to filter their by changing the URI. For example, http://gizmodo.com/tag/not:apple/not:iphone/not:ipad/index.x...

I wish more sites had that kind of filtering.
I don't smoke, but this is a remarkable web app.

The design is excellent, the UI is very well thought out, and I genuinely enjoyed fiddling with it despite having nothing more than a passing curiosity in the subject.

One caveat: make it more obvious initially that the filtering compounds on each other, I was slightly confused at the disparity initially. (I know it makes sense to have &&'d filters, just saying)

You've made something that is pleasing to the eye and enjoyable to use even for people who have no personal investment in the data. That's hard to do.

Great work, good luck.
What I want to know is: if Apple knowingly brick your jailbroken phone now, are they breaking the law? Or is jailbreaking still at your own risk? (I assume the latter)
I love the irony of a pot site that took too long to build.

Like any review site, you'll have to work hard to make sure that it isn't a ghost town when people arrive.