skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jason Calacanis hides Mahalo traffic in Quantcast
From web searches, it seems there are two senses to the word 'footfalls': the sound of footsteps, and the amount of foot traffic past a retail location.

And those are the most common wordings in en-US: 'footsteps' is also the sound, and 'foot traffic' is the common term for the quantity of people walking by a storefront.
Regarding the success story provided as precedent: I don't know the quantities involved, but if it is known that swallowing a toothpaste tube's worth of fluoride can kill a child, I'm not comfortable with the idea of tainting the drinking water with even "safe" amounts of this poison just so it will briefly pass by your teeth in its way to your digestive tract. Sounds reckless and extremely disrespectful to me.

http://www.fluoridealert.org/toothpaste.html
It works exactly the same in PHP, another twisted offspring of Perl.
It sounds like what you mean by coming across well on video = being charismatic. You seem to assume that's what we're looking for, but it's not. What we're looking for is people who will make good startup founders. We have a lot of data about what good startup founders are like, so we're able to recognize them well enough to make the video useful.
The new iOS 4 jailbreak doesn't require any of that. You don't even need a computer; everything happens in userland on the device.

Curious to see if this affects jailbreaking numbers.
The Mythical Man-Month - Wikipedia
So I think what you're trying to say is that it's an international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids?
Go to the company's website and apply manually? Or just shoot an email at jobs@company.com?
Ask HN: a twisted unconference on tech, got ideas/tips/tricks?
I'm kicking off a technology unconference with a very particular format: a weekend, a few hours, 50 people, only Lightning Talks and Dojos, all self-organized with the intent to share experiences and ideas --- and when I say "all", it means, that all participants must go to talk as well as to listen. So, no content consumers, only content creators allowed.

The idea is to keep high energy levels while distinct talks about diverse subjects (from Design to Development, and from Entrepreneurship to Career), come and go in no more than 5 minutes - so people can't get into much details and the conversation has to occur, preferably in a bar with a beer at hand.

We've put up a website at http://desconf.org (access the translated version by google with http://bit.ly/desctrans) about 5 days ago and we already have tons of retwits, some followers, and a some companies wanting to join as partners.

So, any input about the event format and theme, and any tips or tricks about putting up an event??
Ladies Silk Blouses: Enhancing Stle and Elegance
It's different from baseball cards because a given baseball card can't start paying dividends if all the people who own the card have a vote and decide it should.

I used to spend a lot of time playing Railroad Tycoon 2, and in that game a good way to get rich is

1. Put all your money in to a railroad you control.

2. Grow your railroad. As your railroad grows, the value of your stock in it grows. This causes your purchasing power to rise, allowing you to borrow money to buy more stock in your railroad.

3. Eventually you're in a ton of debt, but you've also got a ton of stock in your (presumably successful) railroad. Then raise the dividend paid by your railroad's shares and rake it in.

The problem with raising the dividend paid by your shares early on is that it will give your railroad less capital to expand with. So you only want to execute step 3 when your railroad is making more money than you know what to do with.

I think there's a good argument to be made that companies like Google know what to do with the money they're making.
And don't give you suggested values ahead of time based on the W-2 and 1099 data they already have. Also, I recall having to use the full 1040 when I had 1099 income--the 1040EZ is really just streamlined for people who had a single W-2 all year.
btw, Dojos are going to be Coding Dojo, and Design Dojos (for both graphical and UI/UX) -- following same Coding Dojo principles.
Mainframes are very good at their jobs. Where do you think virtual machines, NoSQL databases, SQL databases, etc., got their start -- about 40 years ago?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_(operating_system)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSAM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_R

Page at a time remote interfaces anyone?
Google is still handing out million dollar awards. For many people, the low risk but potentially high reward setup is ideal.

For instance, getting the big Android founder's award probably beat being the 10th employee at Aardvark.
OK, that's fair... maybe they can decide at a later phase. I guess I take issue with this being presented as a way to "apply to 25+ startups" instead of a more "mixer-like" approach.
It is also used in WebKit's JSC. Using the NaN space goes back much further than LuaJIT. E.g., you can see it mention in this 1993 survey paper: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3912.
Was it phone stalker behind IBM techie murder in Pune?
Two words: permanent portfolio.

http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2008/12/22/permanent-portfolio-...

http://crawlingroad.com/blog/tag/permanent-portfolio/
I don't know if I disliked a lot of things about Google. Otherwise, I would have left long before my 6.5 years. I turned down requests to join other companies while at Google. I couldn't have disliked that much of it. :-)
Naive, yes.
Good points. I don't think interiews ever became hazing rituals. What happened instead was that a lot of folks got burned out on interviewing, and because interviewing was never taken seriously as a priority, interview training was outsourced to an outsider. That led to a number of travesties.
The toxicity of lithium is a reality. To monitor the level of toxicity you need to check the concentration level in the blood. If you start to distribute lithium in water, how can you ensure that the level of lithium remains below toxicity in the blood of each water drinker (even if you control the concentration as you don't control the quantity of water used by everyone)? Lithium is often a salt and what will be the effect of the concentration when cooking or taking a shower?

Even if lithium was added in 7up[1] before the fifties, it's not drinking water and you don't take your bath with 7up or cook your potatoes with it...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_pharmacology
My favorite part of RWH is how it explains monads. Instead of introducing it as "here's a complex thing with some use cases that you won't understand", it just starts using monad-like structures, but doesn't call them monads. Then you get to the monad chapter, and it says, "oh hey, you know all that code you wrote in the other seven chapters? yeah. monads."

Net result? I doubt that anyone who read RWH from the beginning and followed the examples has any trouble with monads. It's things like that that make RWH not just a good Haskell book, but a good programming book.
CouchDB is really fun. The rules are very tight, but consistent, and it quickly appears to be a shotgun to cause a lot of damage with. Especially with good with Javascript on the client side. There is a native Javascript driver and the protocol is RESTful (HTTP GET, PUT, DELETE).

Compare the the closest NoSQL alternative, MongoDB. I say close because they are both document stores (fancy key/value) with indexing and map/reduce.

MongoDB is very lean and blazing fast. But there isn't anything close to an HTTP layer in Mongo. It speaks in a binary JSON protocol. The format, commands, and driver, while well done, are a whole new set of rules to learn. Plus a Ruby middleware to talk HTTP.

My conclusions are from writing a simple app with both backends. Punchline: After all this experimentation I realize I need a relational DB for my project.
But think about all the starving accountants. Think about their children!!!
Using the Opera browser as a widget engine in Linux
It just feels like it could be a waste of time for all parties involved.
And the opposite: we often see many posts by current Googlers describing it with rose-tinted glasses, all unicorns and rainbows. I'm waaaaaaaay more interested in hearing from people that left Google, especially recently. Also more interested in perspectives from folks over 30, and ideally over 40.
Tharoor, Pushkar to tie knot soon?
ps. I should add that I really don't use BSD much anymore. The reason is that ease of administration and wider driver support is more important to me than purity of development, and neatness of the user-land.

For that reason I'm using Ubuntu Server for many roles now.
I don't know any of these locations, so I'm sure these are even more amazing for people familiar only with their current state of being. I particularly appreciated image 15 with the soldiers carrying the Soviet flag underneath the modern German flags.
I would expect someone has done a study.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=renal+lithium+therapy
Taking your instructor with you for driving test
The Driving standard agencies are insisting or encouraging people to have an observer with them who will be sitting in the back of the car while taking their driving practical test. Sometimes, candidates have to attempt for the second time to pass the driving practical test or sometimes times it takes a lot longer time.

Generally, it would be your driving instructor but it could be your mum, dad or your friend or whoever taught you to drive. The third person will watch everything which takes place during your respective driving practical test and then they can comment on your performance which will help you to improve your performance.
For more information : http://www.123discountshop.com/asp/driving_test_bundle_package.asp

Except examiner to have someone else in the car with you makes you feel bit comfortable. Personally it helps a lot. The person in the back can't talk to you but it's always nice to know you have a familiar face in the car with you, you know for a little bit of moral support. It's also good for when the test ends because your driving instructor can help you with any minor (or major) faults you made.For more information : http://www.pass-test.co.uk/driving-test/driving_practical_test.aspx

Many times it may happen that you don't even know where you made a mistake or where you were lacking. In this case if our instructor is with us as an observer can tell you where you were lacking or made mistakes. Sometimes if you fail twice in your test and you lose your confidence in this your instructor may help you to correct you and can reassure you that next time you will pick up. Instructor will point out every single mistake of yours to which you can rectify which will help you for life time.

Book driving lessons with your local driving instructors to pass your driving test in 1st attempt. Driving courses available at the cheapest rate with high pass rate.
I have been an Arch user for about 6 months now. jumped the ship from Gentoo. Since I like to stay bleeding-edge, on Gentoo that meant often-broken packages that took a lot of time to fix. Arch has been very smooth till now, despite my using a lot of AUR packages.
Laughing rats and ticklish gorillas: Joy and mirth in humans and other animals
This is one of those things where playing around with the example leads to a much quicker/better understanding than reading the text.
For what it's worth, after a history of scams there are now a lot of regulations in the US around contests and lotteries. I've see "US residents only" in fine print before, and I wouldn't be surprised if they would risk legal or tax problems if they let anyone else participate.
Well, you can't avoid all drugs, but you would agree that it would reduce the ones you can actively avoid. Right?

Naive or not, I think an active healthy lifestyle is something that we should all strive for. Work and hope for the best.
There's probably all sorts of complications when sending a battle axe around the world. I don't think it would get past Australian customs without some additional documentation for example.
The message from both PG and the VH guys seems to be this style is on the rise

Is it though? I'm a fan of PG and VH.com but I wonder if the tail is actually wagging the dog here.
That bot is easy to write in Perl! I have a document summarizer written already.
It's not free at all.

Buying a rental property off the MLS means you have to manage it, and is like starting a small business. This is fairly safe to do even for beginners, and is a good way to leverage a few tens of thousands and a good credit rating.

Buying at courthouse auctions is a completely different ball game, and requires you to

1. pay all cash(this eliminates 99% of competitors)

2. research title and liens on the property(if you screw up you might end up buying the second mortgage instead of the first and lose everything)

3. estimate the market price without being inside

4. be there on weekday mornings

5. have strong intestinal fortitude.

6. have heard about them in the first place and have taken the trouble to learn the system.

The above are why you can get discounts of 30% or more off of market price.

Properties need to be individually researched, fixed up and resold. Someone has to physically go attend the auction. It's MUCH too messy for hedge funds. It's ideal for individuals, or groups of individuals, with cash and local knowledge. More and more people are showing up at my local auction, and good deals are getting harder to find.

Are you in California? Go to your local county courthouse at 10AM on a weekday and look for a circle of homeless looking people holding large cashier's checks. Depending on the state, it might be once a month on a designated weekend. Let me know if you want more info.

Stop reading HN and get back to work on chapter 35.
Binary package management in FreeBSD isn't well-advertised, but it's definitely there:

# portupgrade -rvP --batch foo-1.2.3

This will upgrade installed package foo and anything that depends on it using binary packages from the mirror site, falling back on a build from source.

Installing a new binary package:

# portupgrade -vNP bar/baz

If you're using portaudit to stay on top of vulnerabilities (it's part of the default install these days), here's a nice way to upgrade everything:

# portaudit -a | sed -ne 's/^Affected package: //p' | sort -u | \
xargs portupgrade -rvP --batch

I'm like you, for some vulnerabilities I don't want to upgrade a ton of stuff. FreeBSD is perfect for this though, you can just pop into the port directory, "make extract," apply the patch, and "make reinstall." You can avoid full rebuilds by always passing "-W" to portupgrade whenever you install / upgrade stuff.
Bernard Lietaer (former central banker, successful currency speculator, one of the architects of what today is the Euro, and nowadays complementary currency advocate) starts most of his post-crisis conferences by asking the public to raise their hands if they believe that the worst of the crisis is past/ahead of us. Generally, most people will raise their hand to state their belief that the worst is still to come. Here's an example, in front of an audience of financial journalists:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfMbYllbN6c

(Skip to 2:40 for the actual start if you want.)
But the shoe shine boy has no motive for lying to me. The "top money manager at a major Wall Street firm" may be lying to me in order to get me to do something that lines his pocketbook. For example, he may be front-running.
Yep, definitely. Generally speaking, the book has a very good structure; everything has its place, and the book makes a very good job in guiding you from the very basics to the more complicated constructs. Moreover, all the constructs are explained very well thanks to the fact that they use quite a lot of code examples to back up explanations in the book, which help you understand everything much better.

What I personally (as a novice) have to mention is, that RWH surely is a very good book, but nonetheless you'll start reading some paragraphs or chapters over and over again, especially if you come from the imperative programming branch. Haskell is definitely not easy for a beginner, so prepare yourself to put quite a lot of effort in learning the language and functional programming in general, it's definitely worth it! :)
This made my day. I love it that we funded a company that gives away battle axes.
I use both - Arch as a primary desktop and OBSD for my servers.

For all practical purposes you are correct.

I personally think of Arch as a collection of components loosely put together, you pick and choose what you want and they generally work together, there are no releases per-se, stable or otherwise.
OBSD is a more coherently designed and engineered system, if you want a particular feature that is available in a new release , the logical way to get it is to update to a new release. If you don't want it , you can simply stay on your release and just apply the rare security patches that come through.
pay minimum living expenses with a little cushion to be safe?
YouSendIt Raises $15 Million Series D
I am curious what the original 7up with lithium was like.
Kind of depressing that most of the US will never have something as cool as this due to this countries lack of appreciation for dated architecture.
> " If things get really really bad you can always put a hole in your head or jump off a bridge. So don't worry about it."

That philosophy might work if you're a single person.

That philosophy suddenly does not work so well if you have a spouse, children, and aging parents, perhaps sick or dependent families. Suddenly the whole "oh well, I can always just shoot myself" solution isn't so clean and practical.
Get everyone who's working on a big problem together in one room.

It raises the question: if this works, why not do it all the time?
Some initial ideas on SSD database tuning
I'm not sure that spending your time on HN instead is much of an improvement.
This seems likely to bring a bunch of people to being almost but not quite miserable and hopeless enough to commit suicide, without any plans to ever rescue them from that state. To me that sounds more sadistic than helpful.
"When we touch them with a rod (READ - Poke them with a stick), they show rapid escape responses"
I find it interesting that stick poking is still considered a scientific methodology.
How about India? Indian economy has bounced back some time ago. Here is sensex over last 5 years.

http://in.finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=^BSESN&t=5y&l=on&...

Risk-free return rate is still at around 8%:
http://www.bajajcapital.com/gss/nsc.html
I think one way of doing what you suggested is

M-x name-last-kbd-macro

which will bind the last macro you defined into a named function for the rest of the session.
This is really cool, especially with companies now providing CouchDB hosting.

The article says that writes can be validated so only authorised users may write. Does anybody know if its possible to limit read access to certain users? If so, I may revive an abandoned project and try it as a CouchApp.
Yes, having 1099 is a big pain. But most people are W-2, so it's not a big deal.

When you take a 1099 job, you include in your rate the extra money that you'll need to do the extra paperwork.

Similarly, I never consider the money that I need to pay for taxes "mine". This is why I am not bitter about taxes. When I ask for salary, I decide how much money I want (or can get), calculate how much of that the government is going to take, and ask for the amount of "real pay" that ends up being the amount of take-home pay I want. That way, income tax is my employer's problem, not mine.
I really don't want to instigate a flamewar, but think for a second about the dogmatic bias required to create a slogan such as "GPL-incompatible".

This is a pot-kettle situation if there ever was one.
Video is more powerful potentially, but it's also very hard to "edit". I remember applying to YC via a video app and I probably had to redo the video at least 10 times before I felt satisfied with it. It's easier to just edit text with a mouse cursor than it is to edit video. Speaking into a camera isn't very natural, so it's hard for me to create such a video in a single take, however this problem probably wouldn't occur if it was a talking head that I was speaking to.
[Taking more time to develop features correctly] just sounds like it takes longer for stuff to be released

This attitude demonstrates a pretty significant lack of experience.
I recently finished my PhD in pure mathematics. I'm not currently using it because I made an abrupt and idiotic career switch into something I didn't completely understand, but that's another story.

Your level of focus and motivation is going to be dependent on whether or not you love what you study. Earning my PhD required plenty of long hours with boring problems, boring subjects, and awfully boring theorems. It was emotionally challenging to push around a pencil on problems I hated. It frequently seemed like a complete waste of time, life, effort, etc..

It required a level of focus and dedication that was only possible because I love my subject in the sort of way that keeps me up all night and ignites me with Christmas-Eve-Santa-is-Coming excitement in the morning.

Sometimes it's easy to forget why you love your subject. Sometimes I despised mathematics. Earning a PhD helped me to move beyond these times, concentrate my effort, and make effective project management decisions. These experiences taught me a repeatable process for quickly mastering anything: Concentrate on the elementary, challenge everything, do the grunt work (yes, even when it sucks), and never stop thinking.

Here is the best that I can offer you. I've been considering earning another PhD, but I cannot see the point. Earning my first PhD taught me how to master something. I can now do that on my own.
My fiancee's 3GS was passed to me, and my iPhone 1 was thrown in the bin.
Why I Switched To Posterous
To be honest, what more do you want to see in it? Perhaps Apple should go down Microsoft's route, and add more and more stuff until it looks and acts ridiculously.

I hope it does not.
Bioethics attracts all the weirdos who want to propose really off the wall crazy crap, like drugging the water supply, and call it "ethics".

Let's take a look at the Table of Contents of the Journal of Bioethics shall we
(http://www.bioethics.net/journal/)

* Should Human Beings Have Sex? Sexual Dimorphism and Human Enhancement

* The Risks of “Sexual Normalcy”

* Humans Should Be Free of All Biological Limitations Including Sex

* Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “Human Dignity and Transhumanism: Do Anthro-Technological Devices [nonbiological entities introduced into or attached to the human body] Have Moral Status?”

The whole discipline of bioethics is basically about trolling... or they're serious :/.
Ask HN: How do you know when you are an expert?
I know that I'm almost an expert in something when, given a task, I only see the annoying small details.

So, I'm curious about how you know you became or are an expert in something.
Read access is on a per-database basis. So if you have a work group only Joe, Anne, and Robert should access, you can give them a database, with their own copy of the app running in it. We don't do per-document read-control because it becomes to complex to manage in real world situations.
You seem to be suggesting that the choice of AT&T was a bad one. How quickly we forget that AT&T was the only carrier that would allow Apple to develop the phone almost completely without influence. Verizon was choice #1, but they refused to allow Apple to have the control it wanted, then issued some kind of silly statement along the lines of "We felt that the user experience was beyond our control with the kinds of demands Apple was asking for". Which is true, but something Verizon just couldn't bear the thought of.
RevoScaleR: R stats gets Hadoop Integration
Sounds great for team productivity (as you suggested), probably less good if you're working alone.