skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not crazy about hyphenated, justified text in the first place. It may look pretty, but I get briefly jolted out of the flow of the text at every truncated word.

Maybe it's a relic of printing processes that can be left behind.
Robot snake can climb trees
Helps to have custom models. The free ones though are decent and a lot of recent sphinx improvements help.
No, discovering that is market research. I don't see how McMethodologies help there.
I preferred speakertext when it cost $.30/minute, not the new price of $2/minute. I can understand why they would want to increase the price, but the new price point means that it is not usable by casual bloggers.
It's all relative. For example, the reason you have daily 15 minute meetings is because lots of companies had daily 1+ hour meetings. I believe scrum originated from trying to fix companies that were doing things unbelievably bad. From that perspective, it's a lot less process than before.
Build a website for the government.
Seems as if they blacklisted inappropriate suggestions - the most outrageous thing suggested so far was "why do atheists gravitate towards stuffed animals"
This isn't Digg.
This webpage has a redirect loop.

The webpage at http://challenge.gov/ has resulted in too many redirects. Clearing your cookies for this site or allowing third-party cookies may fix the problem. If not, it is possibly a server configuration issue and not a problem with your computer.
I have limited personal knowledge of RC helicopters, but a great deal of experience with rotational systems. Colleagues tell me that the counter-rotational systemson helicoptors are stable because the CoG is hanging from a point quite a long way above, and cross winds are applied more-or-less at the CoG because of the cross-sectional area distribution.

I don't doubt that your experience of a toy double blade helicopter is that it seems to have a lot of rotational inertia. I am certain that it's not due to the gyroscopic stability of exactly matched counter-rotating blades.
HP Confirms It Is Suing Mark Hurd For Potential Leakage Of Trade Secrets
Maybe VZW is split testing the rollout with different bundles and settings. My wife has had the same issues as me with her Incredible after the update. Maybe our charger is hosed and we only noticed a difference when looking for changes between versions.
Tough talk like that will win you cheap points, but you're just wasting peoples' time by taking a rushed and uninformed barf in the comment box. Let's examine your basic claim that: "[excluding the blatant propaganda, the projects] are just feel-good projects of no consequence". Here are some challenges featured on the front page:

* An X prize for green cars with a prize pool of $10,000,000. Run by Progressive Insurance and the X Prize Foundation.

* An X prize for green aerospace with a prize pool of $16,500,000. Run by NASA and the Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency Foundation.

It took me about 5 minutes to verify that you just cherry picked from the data to support your preconceived notions. I have absolutely no idea how you could have thought you were adding to the conversation.
Fantastic, I was hoping someone would implement the concept for all the ruby developers out there! I love the history feature too, I might have to steal it ;>
Out of curiosity, why do you think this is not possible?
That wasn't clear from your title. Thanks for the clarification.
The article seems to be something of a joke. Yes, caster angle is important for stability, but the Gyrobike training wheel seems to illustrate how gyroscopic forces can also be helpful.

See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbfe2_2DDc0

Additionally, stationary trainers like rollers that don't allow for the steerage correction described by the author illustrate how at speed something other than castor angle is assisting in stabilizing the bike.

See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaYDZ-RSOTA
Phantom by Max Planck
That sounds like an assumption that everyone's in the business of selling software. I'm certainly not.
Does anyone have any good articles/thoughts on creating APIs?
Trying to understand income inequality in the USA
You can even get it to repeat itself after a while:

I have been able to find anything in these search results from RT on your
Google searches by subscribing to the feed via email to state their case
and their ownership of their owners and are strictly for viewing and printing
of these books are nothing but another form of therapy for these patients
is not known whether these are the only ones who can not afford to pay for
their own users and groups to their Friends / Favorites list yet, so I'ma
keep popping up in their own right and do not want to be related to their
particular field or industry in which they are attached to their respective
owners and are strictly for viewing and printing of these books are nothing
but another form of therapy for these patients is not known whether these are
the only ones who can not afford to pay for their own users and groups to
their Friends / Favorites list yet, so I'ma keep popping up in their own
right and do not want to be related to their particular field or industry in
which they are attached to their respective owners...
I'm really interested to see what comes of this and what went wrong. It sounds like (from reading his blog) they were making a lot of customizations to Cassandra?
Internet Explorer 9 Beta sees video demo, hits 95/100 on Acid3 test
The Perfect Salary for Happiness: $75,000
Based on informal anecdotes, non-techie users seemed to have liked it. They don't care what the technology can do, or what technology is used. They just found it fun.
Look to me that seoprofiler.com wasted a year of their life. This data is already free from https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com and http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/ and by doing site: query on google.
There are a few big companies that provide this service. I know of Actimize myself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actimize

A company I worked for had a problem with chargebacks, so they now run the transactions by Actimize first, which will then give you a score of the likelihood it is a fraudulent charge. This gives a run down of how it works: http://www.actimize.com/index.aspx?page=solutionsfraudcard

If a small company wanted to compete with Actimize it would be difficult, since they have all of the historical data and, I believe, they can connect fraudulent accounts between merchants (e.g. amazon.com and paypal) so there is a network effect that creates a real barrier to entry.
yes, and the worst part is when the pointy haired bosses become Agile experts and start to look down on software developers. They couldn't write an application even to save their lives but now they feel they are the experts and try to manage the developers.
EFF: Courts May Require Search Warrants for Cell Phone Location Records
I had the same thought about First Round Capital.

FRC is one of our company's VCs. I have no insight into their accounting methods (#9), but they seem to hit all of the others except "have far fewer meetings with startups" (#11).
French president is butt of new joke on Google
I don't really have a problem but the licensing is a problem for other people, not to mention that it contains binary blobs (I don't know if it is windows only) for it to work which greatly reduces how much a person can see how the program works in order for them to fix it.
Leaner Than Lean: Is Ultralight a New Class of Startups?
From iPhone to Android: three weeks in
Actually, the atoms would move much more slowly, something like the speed of sound through the material.
http://imgur.com/8YJIB.png

Looks like it includes someone's source code, probably that of the page itself?
Do you really believe an organization could function with no management? Can you really not see the wholes that would create?

The programmer attitude of "All management is bad. I'm better than everybody else in the company. I'm the only invaluable person in this organization." gets really old.

EDIT: OK, as pointed out below, I'm an idiot (much nicer than my grouchy post...). I do feel strongly about the anti-management stance, but that was necessarily not what this reply was talking about. My apologies.
I agree with http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html as the general rule for creating wealth. My question is, is "middle-class" income and wealth simply a function of how labor-constrained the current engine of economic growth is? The postwar boom needed lots of workers so it was worth paying them more. The most recent booms have been technological and IP-driven, which is why fewer people benefited from them. Pay for the middle class is reverting back to their marginal value of an hour of time.

(Caveat: hundreds of millions of Chinese and Indians are benefiting from the same labor-constrained economy that the US benefited from 50 years ago. I'm mainly talking about the US).
Looks like some fishy sites are linking to that page. http://www.google.com/search?q=links%3Atoksvaerd.net&ie=...

Maybe it was previously hacked and part of a SEO-spam network?
Be sure to check out the bookmarklet. It works on any text field (I'm using it now).
I don't. Technology had not yet progressed to the point that one could design experiments to test relativity. And such technology depends on insights from other areas of physics.

Quoting Cecil Adams (http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/957/was-isaac-newto...),

[He] took six thousand years of disjointed fumbling and made it into a science. Two sciences, actually, physics and to a large extent mathematics.

Feeling any "ha, he" that he missed a development 200 years later loses perspective about what he did.
Interesting poker hand - can Phil Ivey be intimidated?
Man, I wish Instapaper let you create articles out of multi-page things. It'd be even good enough if I could say, "This is the next part of this other story", manually.
So, if we set aside all of the ideology about how if anything involves the word government, then we all need to jump on some kind of bandwagon..

If we set all of that aside, this looks like a decent idea, no? More engagement is what we need in this country. Ask not what your country can do for you and all of that.
I've been meaning to set up some gyroscopically neutral rollers and see if it's possible to ride them...but I've been lazy (and my neighbors hate my rollers).
Digg turned into nothing but a paid distribution and SEO engine anyway
This man's reputation is on the line. I hope they release more details on what exactly it is that is causing the problem. As it stands he appears to be an unfortunate scapegoat.
Same topic, many articles:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1668979

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1668909

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1668478

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1667603

Business Week, LA Times, New Scientist, Inc.com, and now Wall Street Journal.

Take your pick.
Hacker News is an online business directory that has the most complete and up to date with the latest active trackers for this torrent download
To be expected. I love that hiring by Oracle, by the way. When someone gets a minor disgrace on their record, you have to expect they're going to be trying extra hard to show that they're deserving of playing in the highest echelons.

Fraud, embezzlement, things like that - no way. But c'mon, lots of CEO's do minor things wrong (hard drugs, affairs, escorts, saying not-PC things) - I mean, lots of people have at least one or two things about their life that they'd get in trouble if it came out in the wrong context. Someone that had been recently shamed by something like this would be able to get hired below what they'd normally command and would be likely to work extra hard. Good hire by Oracle so long as they can handle the PR backlash, which is something Larry Ellison never seemed to care about anyways.
Hmm, thanks. I did a little more searching and reading about this with my new vocabulary (bending spacetime). It seems like photons also bend spacetime.

More info here. All of it contradictory :)
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=287888

So I'm still wondering if it is proper to think of a star's gravitational field being caused not just by its matter, but also by all the photons it has pumped out over its lifetime.
They have made many feature additions to Cassandra.

They haven't said much about the details of why they are having trouble.

It could be a core Cassandra problem, something they added, or completely unrelated to Cassandra; But the internet doesn't care. It's drama at its finest.
Also comes up when you block cookies, which is what I do by default (convince me that your site is worth having cookies on, and I unblock them.)
Apple by quarter
I never notice it when reading books. You do?
The marketing speak is often useful when one needs to sell ideas to management who might otherwise default to waterfall. I can tell not many here have been in that situation or there would be more appreciation for the utility of branded ideas.
Hmm, I'd take your word over mine but this doesn't fee quite right to me. What I'm thinking is, say you reverse the action so that instead of bumping one end of the see-saw, you release your grip on it having been holding it down. So in normal circumstances the other end would fall while the near end rises (of course now an external gravitational field has entered the thought experiment). But if movement is still due to the bumping of atoms , how does it work, where does it start? and if it's something else, then what, and is it still not instantaneous?
digg was dead to me when they introduced their stupid "digg bar" that framed every website.
when was it something different?
We'll fix this, thanks!
"This webpage has a redirect loop.

The webpage at http://challenge.gov/ has resulted in too many redirects. Clearing your cookies for this site or allowing third-party cookies may fix the problem. If not, it is possibly a server configuration issue and not a problem with your computer."
I think Scrum helps product management more than developers.
Good programmers always get stuff done quickly and iteratively. Thats how they become 'good programmers' and thats how most of them naturally work.

To me, making the product owner think about backlogs and stories from an end user perspective is the real benefit of Scrum.
Launching Year One Labs – An Early Stage Seed Accelerator
I actually wondered if they were running into issues with Cassandra. I'm not a NoSQL hater - but its still pretty bleeding edge and it always seemed like making it your core db was super risky.

arg - really want more insight, maybe Quinn will elaborate now that he's gone.
A useful way to distinguish yourself from the spate of "$20K and 3 month" YC clones out there.
There's a limit to the number of boards a partner can stand to be on simultaneously, which means if investment = board seat, the number of investments per fund is limited. And if fund sizes are big, that means the average investment has to be big. Which means you have to get a large percentage of each company to generate the returns you need.
> can a sufficient amount of light 'pull' objects towards itself?

Yup. As the article says, all forms of energy cause gravitational attraction. Even light! But, as you can see from E=m * c^2, it takes an insane amount of energy to make even a little mass-equivalent. C=3 * 10^8 m/s, so c^2 = 9 * 10^16 or 90000000000000000 m^2/s^2. So 1kg of mass at rest is equivalent to 9 * 10^16 joules of energy. It's about equal to a 4.5 megaton hydrogen bomb blast.
The article lacks any kind of interesting content and is badly edited at that.
Interesting to see two (imo) extreme reactions - on one hand, the top-comment says "In what way is this a "startup"? It looks more like thinly veiled advertising for the government than anything else.". Another comment says "Wow! Very ambitious and bold startup. People are solving more society problems than the Govt itself."

I'm in the middle. I do think that it is a startup (assuming that they're leveraging a common platform to build these sites) I also think that civic-oriented sites are a good idea and contribute to society (Of course, I'm biased because I build civic-software apps, though not for the government :)

OTH I think it is an exaggeration to use this site as an example to say that "People are solving more society problems than the Govt itself".

[edit] Just saw the reply that the site was built for free. Apologies for saying that I assumed that the govt outsourced this website to the contractor and that govt contracting is generally lucrative

I think building the site for free is great for both sides. For your startup, it is great PR and will help win future clients. For the govt, it helps saves money for other work. Congratulations on building the site.
Sorry about that. We'll get this fixed.
rlwrap is useful, but it lacks command tab completion.

Typing

http://www.google.com>; co[tab]-a

is much easier than typing

http://www.google.com>; cookies-a
I couldn't find it either. I even did a "find" for "10", "ten", "dollars", and "$". Nothing showed up (other than the amazon ad).

The only way I was able to find a price was clicking the "Pay Now" button, which is what the original commenter complained about.
Hopefully he creates a blog post explaining the disaster. He seems to regularly update that site
If people understood and believed this, doesn't this bode poorly for recruiting people to work at startups? If you can make 100k at a stable, established software company, and you've already saturated the utility of money, a compensation based argument for working at a startup is hard to make. This bounds the reward for "hitting the lottery" with a successful startup. With small some chance you make a ton of money, and you aren't much happier than if you'd only took the sure bet of a steady income. On the other hand, there is a large chance that you'll actually living under the money-happiness saturation point when the startup fails.
Hurd falsified expense reports for personal gain [1]. Not sure what your definition of fraud is, but that qualifies in my book. I'm not saying I disagree with Oracle hiring Hurd, but HP's problem with Hurd had nothing to do with his personal life.

[1] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870330970457541...

"[Hurd] submitted inaccurate expense reports that were intended to conceal... a 'close personal relationship'".
Reddit runs on Cassandra + PostgreSQL. They use Cassandra as a key/value store and not as the primary database though.
That's really a clever trick, though my initial reaction was horror at the idea of checking one's grammar against the Internet.

Looks like Scribe is only looking one or two words ahead, though - it's not actually checking what you've written, just throwing the Google Suggest box into your writing.
For some reason this reminds me of the "no one has ever been fired for choosing IBM." slogan. I guess maybe there is some truth to it. Seems like new tech needs to start slow on big places, only startups really have the freedom to risk it all.
How do Html5 apps get paid? If those are integrated into the Markets, then there will be a boon to them. Otherwise, it will be just like the Flash apps.
Latest Cyberduck Version Provides Better Cloud File Management - ReadWriteCloud
Is there any reason that Cassandra is the focus of this article? It is really silly and irresponsible to peg a nascent project like that without any reasoning or sources. I'm sure something changed besides just a Cassandra rollout, and wasn't Digg using it on v3 too?

I think Cassandra is pretty well tested. There have been lots of super-large-scale deployments. It just seems lame to blame it on that, but I guess maybe their anonymous sources inside Digg revealed it? But then we'd hope they'd know if the problem was with the datastore or the implementation.
I doubt "hundreds of webmasters" did this as Google claims. Could be done by a few dozen motivated bloggers or 1 hacker with access to many sites.
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More so in newspapers and magazines than books, but those, too.
They are planning to transition to Cassandra as the primary database. PostgreSQL is not used in a relational way on reddit -- it is used as a makeshift k-v store. You can take a look at this yourself as reddit is fully open-source: http://github.com/reddit .
"An agile coach should be able to code, perform analysis, manage the project, test -- anything that needs doing on a project."

This kind of statement seems to typify guru-ism. I suppose there are geniuses what can do everything, write your whole project for you in weekend and be done. But eventually these methodology camps will wind-up turning a bunch of fairly average people into consultants, these methodologies need to have these consultants focus on some particular things they are good at and leave the rest to the others.

The best managers I've had didn't try to be programmers. A large project requires coordination and the manager should be there to do that - see what's on and off track, etc.

I don't know if these consultants are supposed to be managers or architects or what. But whatever they are, they're "goodness" needs to be in doing that well, NOT pretending to be so smart they can tell everyone else exactly how to do their job... And, of course, when a given consultant fails, the head guru can excuse the basic by saying "see, he didn't everything about everything so of course things didn't work..."
I wonder what issues they are running into that a dark launch would not have found. As I have discovered painfully in my own projects, making big changes without a rollback plan is usually a bad idea, and it sounds like this is no exception.
as far as I remember: yes they were using it on v3 too, for some things
I wouldn't call it opensource. Only the GUI is opensource. The core functionality is binary. You could not port it to OSX or BSD (unless the BSD in question can load linux .so)

http://github.com/etexteditor/e/blob/master/ecore/libecore.s...

http://github.com/etexteditor/e/blob/master/ecore/libecored....
Exactly. IMHO the role of the Scrum Master only really exists during the daily standup. The rest of the time that guy should be coding with everyone else.
You do need ground, but do it without loops. Grounding loops are a violation of the electrical code (and can be dangerous in certain fault conditions).
Mmmm. Okay, but a star puts out a lot of energy, over a long period of time. Is it enough that we calculate the gravitational effect of all those photons, rather than just the mass of star itself when calculating say the acceleration of the pioneer crafts?
BackType, what is the time frame for the internship position?
We responded to a request for information and built it for free.

( original rfi: https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id... )
> Hurd falsified expense reports for personal gain [1]. ... "[Hurd] submitted inaccurate expense reports that were intended to conceal... a 'close personal relationship'".

Without knowing the details, this sounds to me like a minor indiscretion and being on the wrong side of politics. The article says - "The amount of money in question wasn't disclosed." Sounds to me like we're talking about a rounding error in HP's expenses - a wrong-doing, to be sure, but one that only makes the ax fall on you when combined with politics.

If I was Oracle I'd do a thorough interview, ask some tough questions about the event, and ask how he feels about behaving squeaky clean at Oracle. Or even having him agree to expense auditing - you could break that in a diplomatic way by saying, "Hey, I want to recruit you, but the board has misgivings. Would you be comfortable having your expense account audited?" If he says yes, I'd be cool with having him onboard.

But again, we don't have the numbers, so I'm just guessing about the nature of it here. I could be dead wrong, in which case I'd change my mind.