skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Per the garage door reference. Any garage door opener manufactured between 1984 and the preset operates on frequencies between 300-400 Mhz, Which is smack dab right in the middle of US military allocations. There are well documented cases of military communications systems interfering with garage door openers resulting in many problems for the owners.

Edit: Preset == Present
I wonder do people outside google find this useful?
No, it means that the user retains rights to their own data. It says nothing about a competitor's right to access their servers ad lib.
You have a constitution that is designed to prevent one man at the head of one agency deciding he doesn't like blacks, or communists or Jews or Muslims.

Instead you need at least the supreme court to decide you don't like these people.
If you are allowed to tell phone companies to break the law and you will pardon them later - where do you stop?
I am not a physicist nor an astronomer. I wanted to ask however, when they explain gravity by the analogy of holding a blanket, first the blanket is on earth thus any object that is put on it is being pulled down by earth and the blanket is being held by two people, thus what is pulling the earth and sun down and who is holding the space blanket? Also, seeing some of the images on the site, it is clear that space is something and it is not nothing. Thus, what is space?

The second thing is that if you carry out the above experiment, the ball would eventually stop. That is because of friction. Why does the earth never stop? What makes it overcome friction?

Someone is probably going to shoot me down for being a complete idiot and knowing nothing, but I am genuinely interested to know the answer or to know if there is no answer.
I'd pay for an Octocat shirt.
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Like others have said, any movement will propagate at the speed of sound through the rod. But moreover, as the end of the rod speeds up, it will experience relativistic mass increase from your point of view, so it would still take an infinite amount of energy to accelerate it to c, regardless of how long your lever was. (Though special relativity, dealing with inertial frames, is strictly not applicable to a rotating rod, but you can probably make use of a succession of infinitesimal inertial frames to figure that out.)
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The battle between HTML5 and Flash has been raging on for the past year or so, with Steve Jobs and his friends at Apple making a strong case for a Flash-less future.
I was thinking the same, every single trans or genderqueer person I know is in tech; but then I found it difficult to think of people I knew of any description who weren't in some way in tech. I guess it's a matter of perspective. Still, I would imagine it is easier to experiment with presenting, gender identity, etc when you are anonymous behind a LiveJournal (for some reason all the trans people I know have one). Heck, I was accidentally presenting as male for 2+ years on usenet because nobody took the time to wonder what gender I was, instead just assuming.
It's an analogy, and as such it has limited applicability. Noone is "holding" space, it's infinite. The blanket is two-dimensional and embedded in the three dimensions of our world, hence it has boundaries. Space is, well, space. It's not embedded in anything. This is quite nonintuitive and here's where the blanket analogy hurts more than it helps.

The best way I know how to think about curved spacetime is by analogy to the Earth. We are effectively two-dimensional on the Earth's surface, as the radius of curvature is much larger than we are. Yet you can imagine drawing straight lines (i.e., great circles) on the ground to make (large) triangles and discovering that the angles don't add to 180 degrees and hence deduce that the surface is curved.

It's sort of the same way with space. Since we are three-dimensional, we can't directly perceive the curvature as we can an embedded two-dimensional object. A straight line would always look straight to us, yet we could measure the curvature by observing that the fundamental theorems of Euclidean geometry don't hold.

The Earth does slowly spiral towards the Sun. There's no "friction" per se, but it loses angular momentum to other stuff, like gravitational waves and the dark matter hslo. It just operates extremely slowly.
I think the importance comes from the GPL's requirement that the device manufacturer allow the described modifications.
what are you talking about? On a global scale foss operating systems all sit sub 5% of population usage combined. No way are there more people who use Linux than windows, its not even close.
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Great comment. I think what people are missing here is that Dijkstra regards this difference as a bad thing, one that we are not capable of handling! It's not something to be proud of at all.
I dev in Ruby also, but the features, stories, and scenarios in Cucumber can read fairly well, even if the step definitions make it tougher than it would appear to be.

Agreed that Steak is simpler overall. Cucumber could have used the time spent supporting LOLZ on something more useful:

OH HAI: STUFFING

MISHUN: CUCUMBR

I CAN HAZ IN TEH BEGINNIN 3 CUCUMBRZ

WEN I EAT 2 CUCUMBRZ

DEN I HAZ 2 CUCUMBERZ IN MAH BELLY

AN IN TEH END 1 CUCUMBRZ KTHXBAI

step implementations:

ICANHAZ /^IN TEH BEGINNIN (d+) CUCUMBRZ$/ do |n|

@basket = Basket.new(n.to_i)

end

WEN /^I EAT (d+) CUCUMBRZ$/ do |n|

@belly = Belly.new

@belly.eat(@basket.take(n.to_i))

end

DEN /^I HAZ (d+) CUCUMBERZ IN MAH BELLY$/ do |n|

@belly.cukes.should == n.to_i

end

DEN /^IN TEH END (d+) CUCUMBRZ KTHXBAI$/ do |n|

@basket.cukes.should == n.to_i

end

(from http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/cucumber-introduction/ )
Gruber is good at examining things Apple does and pointing out possible rationales Apple had in doing them. That’s easy to mistake for uncritical acceptance of everything Apple produces, especially if that’s your preconceived notion. Gruber was never a critic of Apple and never claimed to be. His goal seems to me to be to explain Apple.

I don’t think Gruber’s personal opinion even matters all that much in what he writes. Oh, sure, he won’t hide it but as long as the explanations are sound I don’t care.
Crossfit never takes longer than 30 minutes. Some workouts can be as short as 3 minutes.
The group is a good place. We read tweets and blog posts too, so that will eventually make its way back.
Yeah, I saw this on Facebook recently and was thinking of looking into it, thanks for the link!
Do we know that space is infinite?
What % of the 9-digit number of iTunes users do you think has even downloaded iTunes 10 and noticed the Ping tab on the side?

What % of users will be extremely excited to know they can follow what Katy Perry and Cold Play are doing?

Which of those two numbers do you think is larger?
I was similarly curious about that whole sentence. My sense among people I know is that LBGTetc are not particularly underrepresented in tech; and are possibly overrepresented. (Once you correct for the overall underrepresentation of females, that is; lesbians are clearly underrepresented, but not clearly so once you limit only to women in tech.) Like you, my evidence is only based on my personal interactions with people, but I would certainly like to see some numbers supporting the claim.
I think that 1.5 hours exercising is a bit too much. Most people tend to recommend at most 1 hour per day, including warm-up (so this means 30 extra minutes of sleep :-)).
I'd add that it's a good idea to take it easy because it's never going to be less work, as DHH suggested at Startup School http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY
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Hacker News is about web startups. PickDooUp News is about your friend's startup.
It's too slow to be useful -- suggestions don't keep up with typing at a reasonable speed. Plus, the fact that 10 suggestions need to be scanned before you can proceed slows the process even further. Maybe it's useful as a way to work around writer's block or to remember a word that's slipping off your mind.
I especially enjoyed the linked article Do It Now by Aaron Swartz: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/doitnow
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Here's but one: Cholesterol: When dehydration causes too much liquid to be removed from inside the cells, the body tries to stop this loss by producing more cholesterol.

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/13-symptoms-of-chronic-dehy...
The lifecycle of software development fads:

phase 1: a few brilliant people come up with a brilliant idea and use it to do brilliant work

phase 2: idea propogates as dogma, commercialized and exploited by hucksters, causes mass cargo culting and holy wars

phase 3: everyone gets fed up, idea is nomitavely stigmatized while its most useful aspects are quietly assimilated into the status quo

As it was with AI and OOP, so it shall be with Agile
It's pretty exciting to see the iPad coming to the enterprise. I've heard that the company I work for released them to executives a few weeks ago, and it sounds like we're not alone. What's really exciting though is how the enterprise desktop space is on the edge of some big changes.

In the past, workers sat in one location and worked in a predictable pattern for a set amount of time. Workers weren't very comfortable with technology and needed major support. Moreover, work was pretty task-oriented -- it could be modeled with workflow very easily.

The environment of today is quite a contrast. The location and work hours of users are definitely not predictable. Furthermore, assistance and limited options from the IT department can get in the user's way sometimes. Also, knowledge workers spend a lot of time doing unstructured work -- analysis, brainstorming, design -- which is something that is hard to model.

Clearly, the old model for desktop has to change. I don't think we can throw a few departmental applications with a heap of productivity applications at people and call it a job well done. The iPad's introduction into the enterprise is a start that signifies different kinds of devices can be helpful. Desktop virtualization and the cloud probably have a role to play in all this too. For sure, I'll be interested to see how it all plays out.
They use a bunch of other unlicensed bands around 416Mhz
That depends on what you mean by "know", I guess... According to the current best estimates of the cosmological parameters, yes, it is infinite. The basic theory could be wrong, of course, and outside the observable Universe the properties could be different.
I use it to read articles while commuting (often in subways where net is unavailable)
Why aren't there women in technology today? Probably because they're smart enough to stay away. Technology today, particularly startups, is an ego driven, fad chasing death-march.

What sane person would want to spend their time with emotional children reinventing the wheel and following every fad that comes along? Instead you could work in pr, or management, or even cabinetmaking.

So why don't we have women in tech? Because they have more foresight than us.
Lack of standards haven't stopped browsers from implementing features in the past.

True hyphenation requires:

0. A property to enable or disable hyphenation
1. Hyphenation algorithm (mostly a solved problem)
2. Hyphenation dictionaries: One per language, and need to be high quality -- OpenOffice has the best open source one, but generally these are not very common

I'm not convinced that 0 or 1 are the blockers here.

There could be another issue: speed. Doing proper hyphenation and justification slows layout.
Please don't post links to the NY Times paywall, such as this link.
Definitely -- but the algorithms are well-known here, right?
90 minutes gym sessions? That's ridiculous. 45 and you should be out of there! You're on the way to over train which will lead to negative results on your body. 45 max and you will feel so much more energized. Not to mention that there is no way a geek can keep up with 90 minutes of gym 3 or 4 times a week without loosing his mind and dropping the idea.

Also dropping carbs is a very bad idea, reducing it is good. But dropping them in the long term is going to affect your bone structure, the muscles will eat themselves for energy and you might land some heavy calcium supplementation in 20 years.

Also the fact that you're german/english does not explain a slow metabolism. Com'on. Have you seen europeans? Do they look fat to you? Generations of cold weather does not dictate your endomorphism. It's the food you eat, with bad habits and a high sugar intake that results in turning into a fat slob. Sure we all have genetic predispositions but it can be kept in the balance. Our bodies were never designed to eat what the american market has to offer.
As someone who went through DreamIt ('09) and is now co-director of my school's entrepreneurship network (Penn State), I think this post ingeniously makes an interesting point.

My experience with DreamIt was excellent and life-changing. It's what really opened my eyes to real entrepreneurship: getting stuff done and shipping.

At Penn State there is definitely plenty of room for improvement and I look at programs like DreamIt as inspiration for what budding young entrepreneurs need to get going.
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And don't forget to use streak.ly for all those habits you want to do daily ;)
I think raising these concerns is fair in a world where nearly all Unix-related source code and binaries is distributed in (g/bzipped) TAR format. Unfortunately, the author does not really explain why this is and what is wrong with ZIP (e.g. why a new format is needed).

I guess that one of the reasons for TAR's dominance is the lack of a free alternative? Apparently ZIP is not free enough (as I understand from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_(file_format)#Standardizati...).

TAR is old however, and if ZIP cannot take its place, coming up with something new is not such a bad idea. I think Apple's DMG/UDIF file format deserves to be mentioned as well: it addresses all the concerns mentioned (it is essentially a mountable filesystem). I'm pretty sure there is a lot to be learned from that.
This can be solved simply by explaining to your management that Change == Things Will Be Late. If your management can't understand this, then it's unlikely that they'll be able to commit to Agile, anyway.
I have to agree.

It is far, far too easy and too tempting for applicants to fire off a resume and cover letter that is ill-aligned for the position, overly generic, rife with mistakes, or a mix of all three.
The humans screening these documents are looking for an excuse to EXCLUDE you: spelling, a sense of appreciation for the role and the business, and professionalism are all key here.
Look, finding a job is work. The courting process is involved and is much more than just a submission of a resume. A gross rule of thumb: treat finding a new job like finding a life partner. There are steps involved, and care and feeding along the way. However, you'll likely find dividends down the road.
The answer to your first question seems to be 33% [+] but that number could be skewed because early downloaders might be well aware of the new features and more likely to try them out.

[+] http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/09/03ping.html
Mac vs PC according to Hunch.com
This from the guy who's suing Google over Dalvik? I really have to wonder if he's that lacking in perspective or if he gets the irony of his complaint and just doesn't care.
I'm surprised the article didn't mention that a ham band partly overlaps the 2.4 GHz WiFi frequencies. In theory at least, anyone operating WiFi gear isn't allowed to interfere with licensed services, including hams. Also, our unlicensed WiFi gear must accept any interference including that which "may cause undesired operation"... from anything, including the neighbors WiFi. (see FCC notice in U.S. WiFi product manuals)

Another related tidbit: Microwave ovens getting water molecules so excited at 2.4 GHz ties in with WiFi performance. It's a tidbit the head tech at a local wireless ISP didn't even know... 2.4 GHz WiFi is particularly prone to fading in fog/rain because water absorbs energy so efficiently at that frequency.

If they really want to get into strange frequency trivia, they should explain why Channel 37 has never been used by any over-the-air television station in Canada or the United States. Hint: little green men
> Imagine how much you would be upset if they decided to start taxing you extra because they thought you were doing too well. It's the ultimate definition of unfair.

Umm, have you ever noticed how people are actually taxed? It's called a "marginal" tax rate and it's a feature of just about every tax system in the world, precisely because it is considered a "fairer" system to have people who can afford to pay more share more of the tax burden.

One might even argue that the "super profits" tax is fairer than marginal tax rates because it takes account of the amount of capital you have deployed to achieve the result (to relate it back to people, if I have a family of 10 people to support I don't get a lower tax rate ... but a company with 10,000 people to achieve the same profit as one with 1000 people will get that taken into account).
In a civil case, why would the police be involved at all? IANAL, but I have been married three times, and I can't imagine a judge in a divorce case wasting time with cell phone records. However, I live in a no-fault divorce state, so my experience may not translate.
NaCl is cool technology, but it won't be ready for wide adoption until it's divorced from x86.
Iceberg Houseboat Hides Its Bulk Below The Waves
Let's Admire the Rich for the Right Reasons
I think that when it comes to the term "spooky action", "nowadays" would be around the time Einstein was working on all of this.
Which should still give off Cerenkov radiation in the old, boring way, even without tachyons.
The cassandra issues were primarily ops failures, and secondarily an older version of Cassandra making it difficult to recover once it was overwhelmed. (Some of the resulting improvements in Cassandra are documented here: http://www.riptano.com/blog/whats-new-cassandra-065)

Cassandra looks to be working fine for reddit now: http://blog.reddit.com/2010/08/everything-went-better-than-e...
I could be - I'm no expert on this either. My understanding of academic linguistics is that there are two main schools of thought: on one side you have Noam Chomsky as the most famous exponent, saying that all languages have a sort of universal grammar that somehow reflects our brain structure, and on the other the behaviorism of BF Skinner, that languages are largely arbitrary, syntactic processing is learned behavior, and complexity is both a result of and a selector for intelligence as an evolutionary trait.

I don't have a really strong opinion, though I lean a bit towards the behaviorist approach. There have been some suggestions from ethnomusicologists that small children everywhere sing the same sort of melody on the same scale, which inclined me to the opposite view for a while, but I think that was more of a theory than a finding and still needs evidence.
Cool idea. It's one of those "cheap" speed boosts which are always nice to find/have.

It'd be nice to see this implemented in Django as well...
Jack Lalanne does 2 hours a day and he is 95 years old.
Short workouts are in vogue but hackers are so sedentary that 90 minutes seems like the minimum needed to offset 10 hours in a chair. I manage to do 45 min cardio + 45 min weights 3x per week, then 45 min cardio + 45min yoga or other stretching type thing 2x per week. Not a big deal IMO.
I thought it was finite but unbounded.
If it was an important case, we'd be hearing it on CNet, slashdot, digg, reddit, MSN...

Hmm, I don't think that's true at all. Since when has the tech press taken an interest in open source legalities?
Here's where I get 90 minutes: stretches, about 30 minutes on an elliptical, another 25 on an exercise bike, then weights, then crunches, then stretches. I mean 90 minutes for the entire gym-going process, not like 90 minutes of flat-out cardio or heavy-duty lifting. That would indeed be ridiculous for someone who isn't a professional athlete. Like I said, that routine works for me; it's what I need to feel like I got a good workout. But I also want to try other techniques. Part of the appeal of CrossFit is that you get a "better" workout in a shorter period of time.

You can find sources that say dropping carbs is bad idea, and you can find sources that say dropping carbs is a great idea. Again: it's what works for me. I'll still eat some whole grains and other "good" carbs.

If you noticed, the bit about the German/English heritage ended in a joke, suggesting that I was exaggerating a bit there. But since you bring it up: yes, I've seen plenty of portly English and German folks, and also some quite fit ones. Like you say, it's all about diet, and that's why I'm being careful about mine.
I'm using http://www.lingoes.net/ for this (unfortunately, Windows only).
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Yeah, but at least ours is massively parallel.
It's the same scenario, except in this case the force isn't you pushing down on your end, but gravity pushing down on the other.
Welding electrode type
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Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
Dijkstra (eventually at least) distinguished between computer science and software engineering, about which he wrote disparaging things.
First off, I work from a coworking space that's a five minute walk from where I live, so I don't have a commute.

Secondly, 90 minutes is probably on the high end for a workout for me. If I'm pressed for time, it's closer to an hour.

Also, I don't know that I always work 9 hours a day. Realistically, I probably work a normal 8. I also often eat lunch at my desk, which shaves off half an hour from your estimated eating time.

As for chores: I pay someone to clean my apartment. I'd rather spend the time on other things.

I don't watch much TV. I also don't spend a lot of time hanging out with friends during the week. My wife and I don't have kids yet, so "family time" often consists of her and I reading or watching a movie together.

I'm sure it'll be harder to stick to this schedule when some of the above changes.
Can you not access it? That's strange.

What country are you in?
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Aha! It finally makes sense. Thanks.

You should edit the wikipedia article, because your explanation is way better than the one contained therein.
The other thing it needs (which I also wish I could use more precisely in Google search) is some concept of punctuation beyond the occasional comma; playing with it seems to result endless run-on sentences. But hey, early days.

I wonder if/how it selects for linguistic quality? While it won't be too useful to the general public if it defaults to the dense academic language of textbooks, I too was a bit startled by the frequency with which 'I'ma let you finish but Beyonce had the best syntactic parser of all time' keeps popping up.
Although the article talks about personal measurement for self-management, my mind drifted immediately to the work place and to jobs that are easily measured. If you work at a job where those above you are trying to measure what you do more closely, be prepared for micromanagement.
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