skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the first calculator I used was one of those. It took me till college and programming before I really properly learned precedence because I never trusted any calculator I was using, and always used parentheses.

This also kind of influences my programming, probably for the better - I would rather use parens and be clear than be ambiguous and trust that my interpreter and I agree on what has proper precedence.
Thanks, that was an excellent and insightful comment.

I do have a small question: do you have any idea how much time and resources are spent on these kinds of deals? I.e., how much emphasis is Foursquare putting on vendor deals, compared with other forms of monetization and user attraction?
The same author has a book, also titled 1491, which apparently goes into many of these issues. It's been on my to-read list for awhile.
Photoshop and Coda. And a good cup of coffee.
Exactly... I guess this is just another lesson that security of a network (in this case meaning all the different services we use) is only as strong as the weakest link. Certainly not going to be firing up the foursquare app for a while
If a person doesn't know that sqrt is 1^(1/2) probably (just probably...) that person would never need to use sqrt...
FWIW, I'm a natve speaker and havenever heard of blue humor before. You learn something new every day.
Well I agree whole-heartedly with the long version! Thanks for the kind words. I look forward to trying it out. Good luck.
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I'm doubtful. Have you quadruple checked?
I doubt this is the case from my Wikipedia reading,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontacted_people

On January 18, 2007, FUNAI reported that it had confirmed the presence of 67 uncontacted tribes

So in the last three years they contacted everybody in those 67 tribes but this one guy? Possible, but it seems unlikely.
And this question was closed once. That's one of my biggest annoyances of stackoverflow. Some people are too quick to close any question that doesn't meet their strict definition of a question should be.
In Northern Europe it's similar to Germany.

Actually in my home town (Kuopio, Finland) the first passive/zero energy student housing (a 3 floor block of flats) is nearing its completion.

The US Ambassador to Finland Bruce Oreck visited the site a few weeks ago. He himself is quite active in this field.

Few pics here: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&h...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house

Our ("socialist") method of operation is setting super strict national building requirements. Very soon you won't be allowed to build other than low energy housing. The people are quite happy to oblige, similar to them liking paying taxes. There will also be governmental subsidies for converting some of the remaining oil heating to geothermal (some 20% of the equipment acquisition cost + you can also deduct 3000€/year of the paid work done on the house from your personal taxes).
My apologies. That was someone else.
$20.000 gamer PC
It's a while since I used PowerCalc but I think it's a good replacement for calc.exe for WinXP http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppow...

some other nice tools there too.
Nassim Taleb comes to a similar conclusion, but with much better examples (one of the best Planet Money Podcasts ever IMO... just posted it here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1623713)

Taleb slams Obama & the media, prefers recession over high deficits, advocates clawbacks, slams forecasting models when high debt levels are present and predicts the broad failure of public companies due to fundamentally misaligned incentives.

That said, here are two (rather discomforting) counter arguments to both Cuban and Taleb:

1) A warning against credit derivatives
(or betting the market will go down):
"The market can stay irrational longer
than you can stay solvent." - Keynes

2) In an inflationary environment, high levels of
long-term debt can actually be a good thing for the
issuers. It's the short-term debt that must be rolled
over that creates most of the problems (e.g. ARM mortgages
and a majority of commercial loans).
I have to say that I agree with all of small lessons presented, and I couldn't say enough on how the lesson "Make illegal states unrepresentable" is core to any static type system and makes my life much better.
The instant visa is actually the bigger draw.
* our government is printing money at a record pace and our money is being devalued by the minute. as much as i hate having my money in the stock market, at least it has some protection against inflation.*

The problem is that no one actually knows if we're heading towards inflation, as you think, deflation, as some economists fear, or something in the middle. Economists, naturally, are split: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/06/business/economy/06deflati... . Regarding deflation or not, part of the story happens in the labor market, about which see this: http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/08... .

Anyhow, there's a real danger that you're worried about inflation and might get hit with its opposite.

Or not.
And, if you need to explain it to anyone outside of CS: http://blog.mathgladiator.com/2010/07/h2h-sex-sells-explaini...
For some reason, I'm vividly reminded of I Am Legend. I can definitely see a couple parallels here.
Melancholic Depression
My overall point is that Windows (in my experience) breaks at the slightest registry change or missing DLL or config file. Linux/Unix try to be as loosely coupled as possible, which means you can still run your in-memory gnuemacs (as in the article) even when your /bin directory (presumably with supporting binaries for emacs) gets wiped out.

That kind of design takes a lot of thought and, as far as I know, doesn't hold true in DOS/Windows.
'Politically correct' is just another way to say 'being polite, even to those without power.'
Unless you're reusing passwords (which of course you shouldn't be), this doesn't really seem any worse than any other unencrypted website login, or hijacking authentication cookies from an unencrypted connection. The latter you could even do with gmail until they defaulted to SSL.

If you were using, say, Hacker News on a public wifi without going through a VPN or so, I could trivially log in as you just by looking at the Cookie: headers you send to it. I don't need your password to post as you and I probably could even change it because HN doesn't ask for your old password, but maybe it requires email confirmation in which case you just need to notice. Of course, HN is a similarly low-key target as 4sq for this sort of thing.
that doesn't seem to setup an assertion for which a counter-example could be shown.
Decrying an argument for lacking facts and then replying with an anecdote is hypocritical.
You can configure an Alienware PC up to ~$15,000 without needing to add on every single gaming accesory you can think of, or three monitors.

And if you're wanting multiple monitors, why wouldn't you chose ATI's Eyefinity?
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Ask HN: Search metrics question
Hi,

I write tutorials for certain types of software and I want to have a better understanding of what people are routinely searching for via google etc as it relates to the specifics of said software.

So, I wanted to know if there are any websites that can help me assess this information.

I'm specifically interested in what people are searching for within the umbrella of certain criteria. This way I can conform what I write to demand better.

An example would be a website that allows me to type in "Final cut pro" and a huge list of phrases appear by percentage and popularity.

Thanks
Just because your friends aren't on it doesn't mean it's "single-player", since you have visibility with other people who live in your city -- I have in fact met people solely because we friended each other or traded mayorships through Foursquare.

Also I'd question how many people use Foursquare to meet up with friends. Are you saying that friends meet up at locations not because they set it up via email or Facebook or Twitter beforehand, but because they were in a location randomly and saw a friend in a nearby location? What if they weren't invited?

I don't think you really understand how Foursquare is actually used.
How to “visualize” the competition
Google "AdWords keyword tool.
Introducing AppMake: An AppEngine Makefile
Any such spoofing protection is of course not real security, as you could still extract the key from the app, or intercept the GPS API calls and feed them false information. So this isn't "having to brute force RSA or AES" level security, just making it slightly harder.

Still, it could be relevant:

It's not quite clear to me what Foursquare's business model is, but if location owners are handing over cash in return for checkins (i.e. new customers or increased repeat business) either indirectly or directly, then as such a customer of Foursquare you'd probably want the system to be less easily gamed - which is the reason I was surprised.

EDIT: the comment by a Foursquare employee blows that theory out of the water - the locations aren't paying them as far as I can tell, and are providing incentives for users on their own accord.
Maybe they used to have a VeriSign certificate, but switched to Comodo and forgot to delete the old image from the assets folder?
Geeks will find a way to ruin anything.
I've seen a video walk through of every single feature of WM7 along with apps/games. I think that's a pretty good basis for an initial opinion. I've also used the Zune HD which has a very similar UI. (nearly pixel-by-pixel identical for the media player app)

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LauraFoy/First-Look-Windows-P...

http://gizmodo.com/5471805/windows-phone-7-series-everything...

For the record I own an iPhone and an Android phone. I've owned a BlackBerry, WM6 phone, Palm Pre, etc. If I had a third front pocket I might consider buying a WM7 device.
What Spreads Faster Than Bedbugs? Stigma
>With inflation on the horizon

That's a huge presumption considering we've just done the same things that historically create deflation and resulting depressions.

Trillions in questionable debt is still outstanding, and the Fed and Govt's intervention is far from clearly solving that.

It's very possible we could end up like Japan in the 90s - deflating - or worse since they had household savings then and we don't.

It's also possible we could get some unholy combination of currency inflation and debt deflation, which I have no idea what that looks like, but I imagine it ain't pretty. Only thing I'm certain of is that stocks outperforming bonds and cash over the next 20 years is not a certainty. The past 50 years is not enough data to know that for sure.
One would like to think.
Yea I mentioned this on twitter to one of their engineers a several months ago and he said it was "on their to-do list." Seems a little too important for that.
OK, thanks, I see what you mean.
Makes me proud to be a norwegian.
The articles says this is a bigger disaster than the 2004 tsunami, the 2005 Pakistan earthquake, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake combined.

Maybe in area or property damage it is bigger, but in deaths the floods are around 2000. The earthquakes were each in the 80-100 range, and the tsunami 230k. I would guess that has a lot to do with it.
He also ran a successful hedge fund if memory serves me. From his writing you could easily get the idea that he is more opinionated than informed, especially since he seems to jump from talking about stocks to bonds and back again as if he didn't know the difference between them. I'm pretty sure it's just because he is such a poor writer though. While I don't ever agree with someone who thinks they can time the market, he certainly is knowledgable.
I'm seeing something different in terms of corporate sales. You're right, the BES is a "global"/centralized project and cost, usually negotiated with an org-wide discount for devices.
But every Blackberry device for each individual employee is usually an as-it-comes decision, spread out over departments. And at that level, the Blackberry is very much in danger.

Why?

* Within months of Apple announcing iphone Exchange compatibility years ago, it was enabled at every corporation that I know of. (It only takes one VIP with an iphone to make IT jump to make it happen. It's not just an iphone thing, it happens all the time with all sorts of edge/marginal technologies.)

* As for non-VIPs: even Blackberry companies have a cell phone purchase program for non Blackberry devices. This usually involves a preferred carrier and device set (that has a company-wide discount). But it also includes an "exception" program where companies will reimburse part of the cost of whatever device an employee chooses. These programs were not invented for smartphones, but just simple phones. But they sure are being used for smartphones at this point.

* Newest: What I'm seeing on the ground is this: Due to tighter budget scrutiny, fewer and fewer corp-bought devices (of any brand) in general, and employees not even bothering with any employer stuff at the purchase level. And then seeking partial reimbursement for their bill. It's less and less common for the employee-chosen device to be a Blackberry.

This is part of a larger movement of the consumerization of business technology. And employee phones is a part of the larger BYOPC movement. A primer link is here: http://darwinmag.com/article/597485/BYOPC_Could_Make_Sense_f...
So, the company that played a major role in modern India's history, American Revolution and for the most part British modern history is now a brand with a bit more than a coffee and tea shop? I wouldn't call that exactly a 'return'. It's more of a homage+memorabilia setup than anything.
I disagree. One can use square roots to find the roots of quadratic equations (for example the equation for the velocity of a projectile) without needing to know that sqrt(x)=x^1/2.
I feel as though some of the episodes are bizarrely topical, like references to the app store, The Da Vinci Code... all things which would have been topical even a few years ago, when the show was cancelled. My theory is they are lingering, filler ideas they had to get out of the way in order to air brilliant pieces of work like A Clockwork Origin and The Late Philip J. Fry.
Dividends don't make sense for growth companies because they can invest the money at a higher ROI than you can. AAPL is a good example of this. Companies with high profit and low growth (MSFT, and soon GOOG) have to.
After listening to this, I'm more convinced than ever that Nassim Taleb is the most overrated phenomenon in business/economic literature. His books are vague and trite, and while his arguments touch on currently popular memes (i.e. "debt is bad, because it exposes you to downside risk"), his thoughts go no deeper than the level of analysis you can glean by watching five minutes of CNBC.

It was still interesting to hear this interview, because it's clear that when he's pressed by a moderately intelligent interviewer, Taleb has nothing to fall back on other than repetition of sound bites. By the end of the interview, his logic degenerates into the repeated invocation of a weak metaphor comparing US spending with the Madoff ponzi scheme.

Hopefully this guy's five minutes will be up soon.
The damage of an intercepted cookie is limited to the site you're logged into - if I intercepted your Hacker News cookie, I can't use it to log into your bank account.

The damage of an intercepted password is much bigger. It's a fact that most people reuse passwords. You can't say the issue doesn't exist just because you shouldn't do it.

There're also services that are a lot more careful than that. e.g. Facebook Connect's API uses HTTPS for (at least) the login so you can't intercept the passwords, and then it uses an HMAC-like authentication so that even if an attacker can intercept any non-encrypted messages, they can't change it or impersonate you.
How to Be Frugal and Still Be Asked on Dates
My kids would choose a DSPhone over an iPhone any day, and they are valid consumers since 3 out of 4 of them have phones.
I agree with you, but come on, as an Indian wouldn't you LOVE to own the Dutch East India company? I also think reverse colonialism played a huge part in Tata's purchase of Land Rover and Jaguar.

"Turnabout is fair play" as they say - I'm sure there are a bunch of Indians who would love to get a hold of "prized" British assets. It's an ego thing.
On an unrelated note, I saw on the menu that Texas BBQ® is a registered trademark in the UK?
> I doubt a hundred million know him by name.

They do now.

> And the fact is, it won't be too hard to convert most of the people who do know of him and like him into disliking him.

That has probably happened in the last 48 hours.
The first couple of episodes in most series are a little weak. I mean, Futurama's already back in pretty good form, especially after the low point that was most of the movies.
It's currently Priority 0 (meaning, top priority!)

If you'd like to be part of the beta list or know when the app is out, please add your email here: http://notifo.com/mobile_apps/android
It's also possible that we were not alive and/or could not have understood the "howdy" when it occurred. We are but a primitive species. To think that somehow in the last 1000 years or so somebody must have made contact in a way we could understand -- or there is nobody -- is really pretty arrogant.
The problem with the adwords keyword tool is it doesn't really help with giving me insight with the specifics of what people are trying to do. The keyword tool just gives me a list of keywords. For example, When I type:

"Pro Tools how do I"

I simply don't get a list.

If I type "Pro Tools" I only get a list of vague search words, like "Pro Tools help" and "Pro Tools keyboard".

This isn't useful if I'm debating if writing a tutorial on tempo mapping or audio file conversion is more important.

Thank you for the response however.
Only tangentially related:

The other day I was trying to log on to a service I rarely use, and couldn't remember my password. So I started chugging through all the different passwords I use. Then I realized what a horrible idea that is. If the service wasn't benign (or if they were using plain text), I could have just let out ALL of my passwords.

Really, really stupid, but I wonder how many people do this, and how effective it could be as a way to collect passwords.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870448840457544...

"Pentagon lawyers believe that online whistleblower group WikiLeaks acted illegally in disclosing thousands of classified Afghanistan war reports and other material, and federal prosecutors are exploring possible criminal charges, officials familiar with the matter said."

They haven't said what law WikiLeaks has broken, but it will be interesting to see what they come up with. The Espionage Act was the first thing that came to mind, but you may be right that it would be a difficult -- if not unconstitutional -- case.
My point is I fail to see how this is an unusual or new situation. You can probably accuse millions of sites of sending passwords in the clear on login.

Besides: say I steal your HN (or whatever) cookie and hit logout from your account. Your auth cookie is now no longer valid, you get a login prompt. You assume it's some kind of glitch and re-login with your password, which I intercept. Is that much better?
It's not just in their images folder, it's displayed prominently on their payments page
> XML isn't bad in and of itself.

I'm arguing that it is. Symptoms of badness: version 1.0 of the basic standard is on its 5th edition over ~8 years. Said standard is stupendously huge. Major security/crash & other bugs in pretty much every parser (https://www.cert.fi/en/reports/2009/vulnerability2009085.htm...) as of less than a year ago. XHTML's abandonment. In short, XML stinks and there's plenty of evidence out there that it does.

Please note that doesn't mean I would wish XML away. Widespread adoption, in and of itself, is a killer feature.
At twice that, I'd consider it.

From what I hear, lovely country, great weather, and wonderful people. The offer is just a little too cheap for my circumstances.
1) Foursquare was one of the most popular targets for DEFCON'S Wall of Sheep this year, next to Twitter. I believe the mayor of the con was also made the mayor of Sheeptown.

2) Their desktop site doesn't use SSL either, as my Unencrypted Password Warning Chrome extension (https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/mjpinemnkjlppmem...) will warn you, so it should come as no surprise that mobile doesn't.
Mac OS X Calculator gives 7 in any mode. Wow, thanks for the information.
The federal government is going to have to get involved here at some point. When states go broke due to these exploding pension costs, the yound productive people will just move to one of the few remaining states that doesn't have this burden.
Nonsense.

Light, as defined by dictionary.com:

2. Physics

a. Also called luminous energy, radiant energy. electromagnetic radiation to which the organs of sight react, ranging in wavelength from about 400 to 700 nm and propagated at a speed of 186,282 mi./sec (299,972 km/sec), considered variously as a wave, corpuscular, or quantum phenomenon.

b. a similar form of radiant energy that does not affect the retina, as ultraviolet or infrared rays.
He uses emacs because he likes the benefit of slime when he's programming with Clojure. But he's not opposed to using vim once a vim Clojure environment becomes more mature.
This really gets to usability. Most scientific calculators I have owned have a y^x key AND a √ key. Most have a cube root key as well. √ is a very common operation and with its own key can on many models be applied to a result with a single key press (it often works immediately and the = is not even necessary.) y^x to indicate square root can be applied to a result with ^,0,.,5,= -> 5 key presses, or 4 if continuing without having to finalize the calculation. Given that √ is a common operation, 4 or 5 key presses for it is pretty ineffective compared to 1 key press.
Blackberry bought QNX which gives them a pretty sweet base. It doesn't seem like the CEO of Palm was too effective despite his pedigree. I don't know who you would have to buy to get a Steve Jobs.
I'm assuming Comodo poached them from verisign and no one has told Dominos to take down the verisign logo.

Comodo probably blabbed about their cheaper (lesser known)certificates, but they really dont stand a chance against the brand recognition that the verisign logo carries with it.

It looks like Dominos made a bad decision.

Avoid the Noid.
Avoid COMODO.
I think they've been hit and miss. Some I liked a lot. Some I didn't like so much. I actually do like the direction they're going...

- No more "It's that wacky bender!" every time they can't come up with an in-context joke. That was a big problem with the movies.

- Finally had Fry and Leela hook up, so we won't have to deal with any more of those whiny episodes. Best thing to happen to TV since Jim and Pam got together.

- I liked the addition of Nibbler to the crew. (Although now that's looking like it got zapped with the magical sitcom history-erasing reset button.)

- No lame extended musical numbers. (And now that I've said that, I'm sure they're be a six minute one next week...)

- And most of all, we got to see Scruffy's serious side...
What RFCs are relevant for query parameter and URL encoding? I'm assuming that the article is talking about semantics and not syntax.
My understanding is that the Navier-Stokes problem has to do with showing that smooth solutions always exist for the three dimensional system of equations, so a counter-example would be a set of initial conditions for which no smooth solution exists. On Wikipedia, the problem is described as:

"Prove or give a counter-example of the following statement:

In three space dimensions and time, given an initial velocity field, there exists a vector velocity and a scalar pressure field, which are both smooth and globally defined, that solve the Navier–Stokes equations."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier–Stokes_existence_and_smo...