skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There have been some epic ROM hacks done though. Check out "Somari" - it's a combination of "Sonic" and "Mario". What's impressive is they managed to make a very Sonic-like game on the 8-bit NES.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somari
one username on that page: "Timothy Goatse"

Enough said?
Here's PayPal's announcement about it: https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2010/07/update-on-paypal-accou...
This reads like 4chan creepypasta. Probably not true, but definitely creepy and well done.
There's also http://creditkarma.com, which allows you to check your Transunion-based creditkarma version of your credit score. Note that it's not actually your credit score, but an estimate based on all the information Transunion provides (debts, % of monthly payments made, debt utilization ratios, etc.). You can check it as many times as you want, and it doesn't hurt your credit score. It doesn't count as a "hard inquiry," but as a "consumer inquiry," so it doesn't count against you.
Some, but not all, of women are capable and some, but not all, of men are capable. Perhaps the numbers of capable men exceed the numbers of women. Even so that doesn't mean women as a whole are incapable of excelling with CS.

All professionals wants to be treated with respect and not be typecast, whether there is a population of 5 or 500,000 for their particular subgroup.

Community members going on about how women are less capable etc. makes for at least a partially self fulfilling prophesy. If a community member is badmouthing my particular subgroup, I am gong to assume they are prejudiced against me. Only the women who really, really love technology will go into a field in which they expect to be significantly discriminated against.
There is no harm in asking. I have been conducting interviews for developers in the past couple of days, and I have given honest feedback to everyone who came by. Although HR is not my full time job or specialization..
Reset is not the same thing as recover...
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On the plus side, Thiel was already really rich, which made it a lot easier to hire people who did have experience in the field. May have been trickier if it was two people with no experience in the field and also not in possession of billions of dollars.
that joke from 2009 is totally worth posting here. hey wait, it's not.
Chaos Black is different and unrelated AFAIK. It's from the era when Pokemon games were named "[noun] [color]" rather than just "[color]" like this Black is supposed to be, and it is nothing like the game described in the post.
"ditching" is a strong word. Apple has always been rotating between GPU vendor.
Pulitzer time.
Someone really tried to add numbers with jQuery... or something like that...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2520593/jquery-adding-one...
Why not compare the three of them? http://siteanalytics.compete.com/seatgeek.com+fansnap.com+ti...
I'm pretty sure this one was actually the motherboard manufacturer's idea, but Microsoft did something far stupider.

In Windows XP, if you open Windows Explorer and have the search sidebar active, there's a little animated yellow dog sitting there below the search form. He's originally from Microsoft Bob, and he's there as your 'agent' to search your filesystem. The animation goes through a full cycle about every 90 seconds, and in part of it the dog pants twice. A sound is played through your speakers.

This confuses and infuriates people: http://ask.metafilter.com/38461/
http://ask.metafilter.com/51844/
http://ask.metafilter.com/52427/
http://ask.metafilter.com/65029/
http://ask.metafilter.com/70851/
I just wanted to add something to the discussion here.. A lot of sugar is definitely harmful to you, but is it sensible to complete avoid sugar everywhere as if it is poison? Isn't all this a bit hyped up?
Example: I don't drink any processed juice or soda. But I do take sugar in coffee, and I eat chocolates once in a while. Is there any good reason for me to cut down on this sugar intake too? (and replace it with other so called "healthy alternatives" like those with Aspartame?)
For the rounded video effect I'm pretty sure they're just applying the moz equivalent of border-radius or doing an alpha mask to a video tag. Chrome has supported both for a little while now in their stable releases.
You have set up recursion (there is hackernewsbot that post the same link):

hackernewsbot I need a software that ....... http://twitter.com/#search?q=i%20need%20a%20software%20that
Getting Started is Overrated (2008)
Their mice acceleration curves sucks
I've tried mailman, over 10+ years ago.
No doubt. I'm not trying to be some irksome grammarian making a fusty point about dangling prepositions here. In current written English 'a software' is simply bad. This could change, but we're nowhere close to the point where it has. For all we know 'your welcome' might be just fine in another century. Right now, though, it's simply bad writing.
I'm really happy with my Nexus One. It's a shame these aren't in more people's hands.
That does not do what you think it does.

Your command will make /path/to/logfile fill up all available space on the disk. To truncate that file, which is probably what you wanted to do, you should

`echo > /path/to/logfile`
Likewise. Also heavily use the four finger swipes (for Expose, and switching between apps). At work I have a keyboard and mouse, but when I want to rotate something, I end up using the trackpad. Can't wait to get this one.
One area of text input that really could do with improvement in Safari is input labels. Especially on the small factor iOS devices, the zoom level after activating a text box is necessarily so high that the input label often goes offscreen, particularly if the labels are (far) to the left of the input. When filling in a series of inputs you end up swiping back and forth between input and label.

Since labels are often tied to input via ID or nesting, it should be possible in the majority of cases to show the label onscreen while navigating forms, overlaid near the input element. I would even have thought some simple heuristics could be used when the HTML does not markup the relationship explicitly.
The reason Linux does not show up on those lists is because Linux uses Hi Res timers which make it impossible to guess to uptimes from tcp timestamps.

See http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/accuracy.html#hz1000
... the major newsgathering organizations aren't sending people to Kandahar, Peshawar, and out to frontiers, where they aren't being kidnapped or killed?

That is precisely why there are very few "real" journalists. Because it is dangerous and expensive to send people to investigate half-way across the world. That is why most (at least) American news organizations just pass along un-edited propaganda released by Dept. of State.

Often they'll write "an offical from Dept. of State said..<blah>" and people are so used to hearing that, they believe <blah> automatically. It is an official, it is from a major news org and from Dept. of State -- wow, it couldn't possibly be a lie.

There are very few honest and idependent news organizations with "real" journalists. News companies are not there to provide news for money, they are there to sell audiences to their advertising client and make money mostly from that.

Even the military "embedded" journalists are "embedded" into one side. It is rather naive to expect them to be objective.

I will highlight again, that there are few brave journalists who risk /risked their lives and died in order to provide accurate reports of the situation. But those are very rare exceptions.

Now you provide a link to "Slate" where Kaplan claims that Wikileaks is not real "journalism" because the news wasn't shocking enough and of course everyone should go to slate.com where real journalists report.

Let's take a look at a couple of his quotes:

These problems were, in fact, the main reasons behind the new strategy that Obama put in place in December 2009—after the period covered by all of the WikiLeaks documents, which date from 2004-09.

That is true because ... that is what Obama said. It is the standard claim being broadcast from the White House now -- "Obama is already handling this!". I've heard this already on the radio and read in other sources. Note how Kaplan just assumes that as the truth and directly quotes the White House. So if Obama has already fixed all this, can we see some results or some documents, some proof that situation got better?

Let's look at another quote:

Journalism, the old saw has it, is the first draft of history. The WikiLeaks documents amount to the first notes of a journalistic story, and incomplete notes at that.

He seems to be saying that everyone instead of getting the un-edited data, should get the "filtered" data, interpreted by someone. Someone who would put the "right spin" on things, perhaps.

I am not surprised. He is just defending his profession and his modus operandi. He sees journalists as writing history and here is some renegade kids with a website disrupting the age old process. Bypassing all the filters so carefully put in place over the years. I can see how he would be less than sympathetic.
You can, but I don't think TicketStumbler is actively pursuing the site, so it's not a fair comparison.
Yeah, I tried it too. I've never been a big fan. Shared passwords for moderation, really?

If people really hate the name, I'll take suggestions, but I tried pretty hard to come up with alternatives already.

Personally I don't think it's a big deal because it's easy enough to search for 'ruby mailman', it's not like we don't have to do it for just about every other project (mustache, integrity, chef, god, etc).
Gestures surely cry out for convention over configuration.
Grow A Bigger Brain
You're forgetting that self-censorship is sometimes the greatest pressure on editorial staff. These newspapers's primary duty, unless their staff have signed up to the Munich convention of 1971, could be seen to be to advertisers, and then to industry regulators who they're hoping to get some kind of booster shot/protection aginst nu meedja from; that, at least, is not the case at Wikileaks.
I suspect moving the keyboard would cause muscle strain and the unpredictability of its location (system wide) would be frustrating.
> Assume you have a great idea in a field you have no expertise in.

Assume flaming monkeys are crawling out of my nose. How often does that ever happen? I couldn't name three real examples off the top of my head.
I think they're overlooking the effect on the atmosphere. If the water will all flow to the poles, so will the air. If the difference in distance to the center of the earth is 21km then there would be little air left at the equator -- it would be like standing on Everest, or thereabout. Plant and animal life would not survive across broad regions of what is currently inhabitable land.

Further, the water at the poles would be extemely deep, and subject to cold (winter) temps year.
Remember that Firefox was named phoenix, then firebird, then firefox. People take this kind of thing pretty seriously. I'm just saying it would save you a lot of trouble later.
and i didn't buy mcdonalds.com and a zillion other domains when they were available. as a starving college student, $50/yr (my memory of the cost) seemed insanely expensive at the time.
I think the major work after the launch boils down to iterating on the product (incorporating user feedback), doing excellent customer support (generates great Word of Mouth) and releasing new features (to keep the buzz).

Also, once the initial wave of excitement goes down, what a startup needs to find is predictable source of potential customers. The medium doesn't matter as much as finding such a source. It can be affiliates, SEO, PPC or a mix of these mediums.
If 75% of the US population is really vitamin-D-deficient, it's unlikely that most vitamin D deficiency is genetically-caused.
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News organizations curate and editorialize content.

I guess if you take the Orwellian interpretation.

Perhaps the original interpretation fits them best because they just provide the bare documents as the do not editorialize. In other words "new organizations are organization that do nothing but provide news".

Of course editorializing takes places when selecting the content. But hopefully the "wiki" part of "wikileaks" is emphasized enough to that everything is available to everyone and the readers get to decide that is more newsworthy for them.
"I wish there were"
I think youre in for a surprise if you try the new drivers! On ubuntu the install is seamless, even otherwise the installer just works and ati has pretty simple interface for doing colour balancing of multiple displays.
As I said above the reality of current Ati drivers is much better than the fiasco that existed four years ago. On ubuntu it just works.
May I say something regarding your experience with IIT-JEE?
I know atleast three people whose parents had set their hopes unrealistically high about IIT.

When they didn't get through, they just lost it. They completely lost every bit of confidence they had, lost interest in studies, and fucked up their college and careers for good.

I don't blame the parents. Every parent thinks his son/daughter is the next Einstein and instills this "get into IIT or you are an utter failure in life", and sadly this gets drilled into their heads pretty early in life.

What needs to be understood is that not every genius in India gets into IIT, because there just aren't enough seats, and there are too many really smart people around. At the end of it, only those who are smart AND work insanely hard get into. And I really don't think any less of anyone who doesn't, like the parents and the students themselves shouldn't.

Get this in your head: It doesn't matter if you got into IIT or not. At some point, no one cares. Hell, I don't even have a college degree yet because I keep dropping years, and there are still companies trying to lure me with good development jobs and attractive salaries, which freshers start earning only a few years down the line! (I am still a student in India by the way)

If you have a masters degree in CS in a good school and have got to the Google interviews, you must be a pretty smart programmer.

Get this in your head, and build some confidence.
http://www.doxdesk.com/updates/2009.html#u20091116-jquery

Yes, many jQuery fans are incapable of writing any JavaScript unless it has a dollar in it.
er, typo fail. They were correcting "gearman" to "german."
I'm not sure why everyone's focusing on the name, but this looks like a great project. I was just wishing that something like this existed yesterday, and poof, here it is. Great work! My only suggestion would be to support imap/gmail integration and the like without requiring an extra step such as getmail.
Here's a phony one:
http://www.mahalo.com/3g-iphone-reviews

That site has a few thousand crappy reviews scraped from all over the place. It comes up on google all the time and it's something that I automatically ignore.
I'm not aware of any parsing tools that make it particularly easy to scan large amounts of arbitrary text for substrings matching particular criteria. It's probably possible to do using lex/yacc, but it's certainly not straightforward, and I wouldn't be surprised if the matching were much slower than a good regexp engine. Parsers seem to be aimed mainly at the case of highly-structured inputs where the stuff you want to find is the entirety of the input, as with source code. Not so easy to use for the case where you have potentially gigabytes of noise, with some signal hiding in it that you want to recognize.
Your point is well-taken, although it's one step removed from the point I'm getting at. My point, it's true, assumes that more than 0% of vitamin D deficiency is genetic. In other words, my point only stands if the heritability of Vit D levels is greater than 0. From that assumption, I discuss the association between Vit D genetics and T1D. (The heritability of Vit D levels has actually been measured, and has been found to be very high - greater than 60% in some populations - so genetic factors are driving a huge amount of the variation that we see.)

If there were an association between T1D and Vit D, you would expect an excess of Vit-D-associated variants among those with T1D when compared to matched individuals. It is true that if 75% of the population is Vit D deficient and most of this is due to environmental effects, this would would hurt your power, requiring a larger study before convincing yourself that the null hypothesis really should not be rejected. Hence the couching of my language with "so far," since I know that associations can definitely be uncovered as sample size increases. But given the high heritability, at least in some populations, we shouldn't need a stratospheric sample size to detect association.
Implementing Smooth Signatures in Square's Android App
Dealing with IMAP is tricky. In order to support it properly, and leave the messages on the server after processing, a list has to be stored on the client. I'd rather leave that to a mature MDA than implement it myself.

However, I will look into providing a easy configuration for Gmail.
Wow. When choosing a name for a new project, isn't it standard practice to look for name collisions first -- google it, check freshmeat, apt-cache search, make search in freebsd ports, etc?
Interesting. When I wrote my lamson-based daily journaling software, I also found the yet-another-mail-server aspect of Lamson redundant.

The syntax of mailman looks a bit nicer. Good unit tests.

Any example apps?
Let me disagree with that. The open drivers don't support 3D, and the closed drivers make X crash at least once a day on my setup and similar ones. I have a laptop that is just one year old. All in all, I always got a better Linux experience with NVidia.
Twitter's original codebase started as a "my first blog" tutorial in Rails

Where on earth did you get that idea? It's not true:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#History

Moreover, the idea had been gestating for years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Dorsey
Ocular Migraine &ndash; Ocular Migraine Symptoms
" Apple has been going in the direction of ATI’s OpenCL acceleration architecture, the competitor to NVIDIA’s CUDA."

OpenCL is not ATI's technology. When i spot such an inacurracy in an article, i stop reading it, since i have suddenly no more reason to believe that the rest of it isn't just as inacurate
$25 is pulled from the top of my head — a lot of testing is going to happen once the application is built. :) Thanks for the advice!
No example apps yet, but there will be within area weeks.
I knew of GNU Mailman when I chose the name.
I think a solution for you is to try radical change. Take a sabbatical to another part of the world, Thailand, Australia, or somewhere exotic. Do stuff you normally don't do! Get out of your comfort zone! Don't worry about anything else but what you want to do. Set a tough long term goal (or goals) and work towards it. Whether it's bringing the internet, electricity, education etc to the developing world, or creating a startup, make the goal and work towards it. Let everything you do me motivated by the desire to achieve the goal. The break is to inspire you and give you ideas, and to release your existing irrelevant worries. I really hope you read this, as there are many much longer comments. I think this succinct piece of advice will help you!
Will do, thanks for letting me know.
Ask HN: The Most Important Data Structures
A few weeks ago there was an article on the frontpage listing some of the most important algorithms in CompSci (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1489166). In a similar vein, what are the most useful data structures a working programmer must be familiar with?

Links to papers/articles/code samples much appreciated :)
yeah, it will make googling the name nearly impossible...
I'm going to wait till it is sold on Steam, if that ever happens.
My "WeddingType at its biggest" idea was Moo.com for wedding invitations — the place to go if you're looking for professional invitations on a budget. Printing and mailing has an interesting problem — would many couples mail the invites without first seeing it? Would they prefer to have all the invitations on hand to mail themselves, rather than the service mail for them?

Just thought of this: What if they went through the service, had a "sample" of their finished invite sent to them, and once they approve, then the service could send out the individual invitations. Printing just one custom invitation for each customer might be problematic, though. But something to think about, indeed.
Google Adwords. And try a small ad in a very targeted publication.
Geeks, always dissecting everything :) .

English is in fact my third language. But, yes, I agree with what would be the correct phrases.
New 22" MultiTouch Screen can track 20 finger tips at once
Well if there are specific issues on mailman, it will make it that much hard to google for, especially since the other mailman project is similar. Your project name doesn't even make sense... a mailman delivers mail, not route incoming mail.

The one who actually routes/sorts your real-paper mail is probably just called the mail clerk at the post office. The mailman is just the guy who delivers the mail -- hence the name of the 10+ year old project.
Sounds Interesting, have you thought about making an arrangement with some printing service to print the cards so the users can basically design, checkout and order professional printing at low charges from your site, although keeping it optional for users.

I would go a step further and outsource the printing, take for instance Indian wedding cards, they are elaborate and usually have multiple pages and cost less than a dollar.
+1

Tracy worked with us on http://getupandmove.me/ and handled our really tough design direction and came out with great creative solutions like a champ. More importantly, she delivered reliably and quickly, unlike many who talk and talk but never do. I would definitely bet on her.
Interestingly enough Super Crunchers (http://www.amazon.com/Super-Crunchers-Thinking-Numbers-Smart...) goes into this in some detail and shows that the FICO score is really another barrier to minorities. Statistically speaking it's minorities, mostly with non-white skin that don't have a credit history. It states that the score is no more than an accepted form of racial prejudice.
I'm sure there is a niche for this service, but this is a disruption of a do-it-yourself (cheap but ugly) wedding invitation kit market rather than "the wedding industry".
I think this is a fascinating look at an emerging company diving through the discover process of picking core technologies. al3x, please keep going with these.
railmail?