skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. My bad - I frequently get confused by that.
I don't believe one of those cheap one's will work as they are only for one domain. The wildcard won't work as it's only for one domain with many subdomains. I want many domains with many subdomains.
In real life speech, people don't say such things in Chinese, just as English speakers don't say "Suzie sells sea shells by the sea shore". If they do, they'll say it slower to avoid ambiguities, maybe rephrase it as well, e.g. "You remember Suzie? She's into sea shells. She sells them by the beach."
More dispatches from the smartphone front
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Apples and Oranges

Apple/itunes doesn't show the download count for apps. So switching an app from free to paid wouldn't cause any confusion. App-store rankings are based on downloads from the past three days. However, these rankings (and the last-3-days-counters) are reset when the app is changed from free to paid. The total number of downloads (since day 1 for the app) doesn't really matter.

My understanding is that Google wants to indicate the total download-count for apps. In this case, an app that changed from free to paid will have a misleading count. That is probably why Google doesn't let anyone change their free app to paid.

Now Google could obviously make things a bit more complex and use two separate counters (one for free and one for paid), but for now, it looks like they don't want to do that.

So I think I understand why developers can't change a free Android app to paid (and I also understand why some developers can find this annoying :).
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Btw I didn't design the system and I'm not defending it. I just tried to explain why free Android apps can't be changed to paid.
This is one of the reason I have found the Android app market horrible when compare with the iPhone market.

and

This rule is so arbitrary and non-intuitive.

right, because apple's never been known for arbitrary and non-intuitive rules when it comes to their appstore...
It's never cheap to hit 0-60 in 3.7s or less.

My Kawasaki 650R does 0-60 in about 3.8. I paid less than $10k for it. The ZX-6R can do it in about 3.1s. A Ducati 1098 will do it under 3s.
It's true :/
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First, I would have to thank you for your first comment:

"I think you're going down a rat-hole by trying to frame things in terms of "points of information". There's a lot more to "experience" than the simple collection of data points."

After I replied to it, on examining my own reply, I found out your comment was the perfect example for a good enough analysis to find a good enough solution to a problem of mine. Now my challenge is to practice that solution enough to make it effortless.

Coming back to "judgment" and "wisdom"

What is wisdom, but accumulated knowledge, hopefully filtered through the sieve of common sense? (irrespective of whether that knowledge is factual or purported to be factual)

What is judgment, but a decision based on that accumulated knowledge, once again, irrespective of whether that knowledge is factual or purported to be factual?

I believe that, whether one is conscious or not of them, we are predominantly slaves to our beliefs (while still being capable of modifying them, and of course, the beliefs themselves are subject to change because of stimulus, whether it is internal or external stimulus). So I think it is worth to keep developing beliefs that are 'good', 'strong' and 'reason' based.

This development of the "meta-belief system" is sort of an experiment of my own, based on certain observations and personal convictions, and also inspired by TPS (Toyota Production System), the Zero defect goal (impossible to achieve, but gives rise to the right actions), COS, (Cummins Operating system, people don't follow it all the time, still it gives rise to the right efforts more often than not), the mission statements extolled in six sigma classes and big corporations.

All these are simple set of words that are not meant to put out in detail what one should do in each and every situation, but still are remarkably efficient in ensuring that most actions in particular situations are in particular direction (hopefully the right one) more often than not.

So that's how a "meta-belief system is supposed to work, at least in my definition of it. Its supposed to be like a substratum/foundation for beliefs on which other beliefs can exist on the basis of reason, or like an equation in maths or physics from which one can derive more practical equations that can be applied to different practical problems.

Well.. if you check with me in 10 years, I think I would have collected enough wisdom to know if this judgment to develop this meta-belief system and try to live by it was right or not. And you can tell me then if my judgment was skewed or not :)
> I want to be that rich.

Are you working on it? What are your financial goals for 12 months from now, 3 years, and 5 years? How much active cash per year, passive, and how much in the bank over those timeframes?

Start with the numbers, then figure out what you'd have to do to get to the numbers. Nothing's stopping you. Really. Start now. How much do you want in the bank in 12 months?
But that's exactly my point; we've already done a lot of work on that front. You can see the results everywhere else. Are we really sure that after decades of work on this matter, work that has obviously come to fruition in field after field after field, that there isn't something other than "social bias" at play? At what point does the field get to stop self-flagellating?

I guess part of what I'm saying is that at this point I reject the idea that the burden of proof is somehow on the field to prove that it is open to women or that girls are somehow being excluded in a special way, after these decades of work. I'd say the burden of proof at this point is on those to demonstrate that somehow computer science has specially somehow failed to solicit woman in a way that the other fields didn't, in an environment in which this stuff was becoming cliche even by the time the women entering college today were being born.

Twenty years from now, are we still going to be having this exact same conversation and making the exact same accusations of entire fields, if it does indeed turn out that women of their own free will don't want to go into computers on average as a career?
It was a rare 286 indeed that came with 2MB of RAM!
Congratulations, you just found a fixed point attractor.
he was until he bought that zonda.
I'm genuinely curious - what's the main reason you discount codeplex? It doesn't have any restrictions on the languages/frameworks/target platforms etc, and you can choose any license you want. Is it that Microsoft just have a lot of banked hate-debt?
hahaha. this should be THE top comment but i sense a google bias on HN. do you?
And that would be your Part 97 divide: amateur radio.

Your consumer gear runs under Part 15. You cant generate interference, and you accept all interference. It's cut and dry, as in you have no recourse.

Amateur radio, on the other hand, have legal powers to stay on air, and even kick you off. Legally, a ham can command under Part 97 and your Part 15 to turn off your receivers (a good receiver is also a weak transmitter). Now the common courtesy in the ham community is to troubleshoot their problems so everybody benefits. But prior is the law.

As per H2O attenuation, that's way up there in Spark Gap frequencies... around 100GHz. What you're facing is perhaps at most +12dBi from your antenna and -40dB loss due to the good ol inverse square law.

The Water heating in the microwave and associated to 2.4GHz is false. When you have a polar molecule (liquid water) and expose it to alternating EM fields, they gain kinetic energy and warm up. Any polar molecule will exhibit this behavior when exposed to an alternating EM field.
I think you think you are disproving my point with those numbers, but I think it reinforces it. In what exact manner has the computer field failed to be accepting of women in the way that somehow math and the other physical sciences haven't? In the strongly-politically-correct environment that all women entering college have grown up in (and I reiterate my parenthetical in my first posting for those who may have forgotten), can someone show me exactly what it is that computer science and engineering have somehow failed when the evidence clearly shows that efforts to reach out to women have been very successful on the whole?

Is tarring thousands of people with the charge of rampant sexism really the only hypothesis we can discuss every time this issue comes up?

You ask me what "natural disinclination" I think women have, but you're getting the logic backwards. I'm suggesting that if you look at the data that it may suggest the idea that maybe there is a natural disinclination, not that I axiomatically assert that there is one and therefore it is the explanation. Can we at least consider that hypothesis, rather than implicitly and rather frequently accusing engineering of being somehow the sole holdout of troglodytes and evilly conspiring to hold down the little girls, who have somehow managed to transcend all the other evil conspiracies in all the other fields but just can't seem to shake this one?
Ask HN: Daily Available Startup Domain Names... Interested?
It may sound totally ridiculous but coming up with a name that has an available .com domain name is the part I despise the most about new projects. There is just something wrong with trying every single permutation at a domain registrar only to end up with a crappy, "settled for" name hours later. Naming tools kind of suck too in my opinion.

So, a month or two ago, I got fed up of this and decided to use my programming skills to tackle this problem. Using drop lists, algorithms and quite a few metrics, I finally managed to produce something that gives interesting and available .com domain names as results!

The daily quantity of both suitable and available domain names varies, but I generally get 20-40 without a problem.

To give you an idea, here is the list I generated yesterday:

arcticpack.com
basetable.com
bashtracker.com
bulletstocks.com
campusrally.com
carbongenie.com
chilltree.com
codesmell.com
crowdcome.com
earthunit.com
extrasmiles.com
fiberoasis.com
filmshout.com
foxyflyer.com
gatorhire.com
geekimpact.com
goodprog.com
mailshaker.com
metafollow.com
ownerfind.com
phonemama.com
calltap.com
racerapp.com
rubycoach.com
snappyapp.com
sourcefully.com
stripspots.com
targeteyes.com
topicbased.com
writerslate.com

Not the best I've seen (there are good and bad days!) but it sure beats looking at the 86000 domains expiring everyday, or even worse, trying your hand at coming up with something that isn't already taken. All of them where available yesterday and could still be right now... As a bonus, the names generally also give startup ideas! ;)

I'm imagining I was not alone having [domain] naming issues and am simply wondering if this is useful and/or interesting to anybody else. I can easily do it everyday if I get a good response. The important thing for me is to keep it in the startup/hacker community. I don't want the domainers/squatters on these too. I would also like ideas on how to potentially monetize this a bit if you have any. I was thinking of making a daily newsletter with the names and maybe sell 1-5 at a very reasonable price like 30-50$ or not selling names but charging a small yearly fee to get on the newsletter.

Anyhow, I'm waiting for your comments and ideas. Bonus points if you register a name from the list!
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Yes, I was being a bit generous and assuming that perhaps Microsoft Money didn't have to run on the absolute minimum spec for Windows 3.0. I couldn't find the exact specs Microsoft gave for the original version. Considering that I can chew through 2MB in my programs nowadays if I accidentally sneeze wrong it still makes the point, I think. :)
You can't send the headers unless you know if the person is authorized or not (and other common things you check in the before filters). So yes, this stuff would have to be checked before rendering a view.
Not a word I have ever used. Here are some of the definitions I discovered:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/socialite
socialite: a person who is or seeks to be prominent in fashionable society

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/socialite?jss=0
socialite: (Word Origin & History) 1928, probably a coinage among writers and editors at "Time" magazine, perhaps as a contraction of social light, in imitation of words in -ite.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=socialite (n) A person who is rich and unemployed. Must be in active contact with the media and other rich and unemployed people
Are we still talking about WiFi? The one with coverage limited in fractions of a kilometer? Achieving 20 km coverage radius (or even targeted coverage) sounds like a sisyphean task to me.
"Soon, you won't want to buy a TV without a browser." Hello, WebTV of 1995…

Love the browser demo; you can’t read a single word shown on-screen. Massive UI fail in trusting normal websites to be TV-friendly! This is why AppleTV has had its own YouTube browser for years now. Heck, the Google TV demonstrator has to manually start fullscreen mode on YouTube. She mentions LeanBack as an alternative UI, and describes it as "intuitive." Have you tried it? I have. I couldn’t figure it out. It is exactly the opposite of intuitive.

Edit: Irrelevant comment: The demo starts with Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, a terrible movie based off a great book? Interesting Google chose an antithesis of (Jobs-founded) Pixar for their demo.
I have difficulty imagining an agile process worth following where standups don't reveal that people aren't doing worthwhile things, where retrospectives don't reveal that estimates have gone horribly wrong, and where pair programming doesn't reveal that some people shouldn't be writing software.

What exactly do these high-ceremony agile projects practice?
Can't wait for Adblock for TV...
This has "don't do it" written all over. If i were mapmyride, i'd find your screenscraping to be dodgy and opportunistic. If i found this thread and saw you contemplating how to avoid their cease and desist and not get caught, i would be royally pissed off.

When you piss on business people, especially the ones with 5 mill in the bank, dont be surprised when they come after you on grounds of principles.
I am willing to errantly send a 200 with a js redirect upon auth fail if it means faster load times.
Reminds me of the way NASA blamed lisp back in the day
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Congrats Cody! This is an awesome idea … for all the reasons you laid out in your post and for the sheer audacity of the thing.

Your 'F* it, let's just do it' approach, bodes very well for this project!
Being knocked off my bicycle by a car door finally convinced me, after too many uncomfortably close encounters, that I was somehow invisible to drivers. Today I believe that for my well-being the risks of biking far outweigh any potential benefits.
It's a difficult look, but some people like difficult things.
I guess it’s nice to mention Disqus a using for MongoDb folks. They are not the first company to mislead on the internet.
Dipshit company refers to flippables, not this.
As one of those elusive women in tech... I don't know. I have mixed feelings on the whole issue and usually try to avoid it, mostly because I just don't see it as a big deal. I've never felt like an outcast or that I didn't belong in this field because of my gender, nor have I ever been made to feel like the center of attention because of it (thank goodness). It just is.

Of all the women I know personally, only one other works as a programmer. The others seem to have no interest, and not because of some social pressure or stereotype, or the long hours, or some perceived gender bias, but because the work itself just doesn't interest to them. So I don't see why it should be a big deal that they're not doing something they don't want to do.

I guess the question then becomes could/should the industry be made more appealing to women? Maybe. I have no idea how that could be accomplished, though.

Maybe it's not the industry that's the problem, but the lack of exposure to it. Mothers are big role models for little girls, and with less women in tech to begin with, there aren't as many of them to spark that interest in their daughters. Maybe more encouragement from female teachers and geek dads would do the trick.

I was a perpetual tinkerer as a kid, always building, creating, experimenting, and what have you. My father encouraged it. He kept me in a steady supply of lumber and nails, bought me chemistry sets, erector sets, a telescope, radio kits, helped me build my first computer and bought me programming books. By high school, I was a licensed HAM radio operator who was writing programs, designing circuits, wiring houses, and training search dogs.

I guess I never did fall into the stereotypical gender role I was supposed to, but it was never pushed upon me, either, nor was it discouraged. I simply followed my interests and was encouraged and allowed to do so. I try to do the same with my own daughter and, yeah, she's a bit of a geek in the making.

Anyway, this is getting kind of long and rambling. I'm not sure where the problem lies, but I'm still not convinced it's as big a problem as it's made out to be. It's kind of like asking why there aren't more 20yr olds in the folk music industry. Answer: because they don't want to.
Hi Pg-- were you going to do this soon? we're looking to close on a small round this week...
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I'm not sure I'd use tech crunch as a reliable source.
At Google, doodling is real work
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Sure people will game it, but doesn't seem like a particularly difficult problem to solve. Introduce the concept of promotions, and don't count downloads during the promotion period.
I've used MythTV on and off for years but what will impress me is interoperability. I want to be able to hook this into my current set-top-box and for it to work seamlessly. They seem to have that with Dish Network.
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User powered will always turn into lowest common denominator if the user base grows beyond a niche
>>the names generally also give startup ideas! ;)

That was a good one!

The newsletter can work well as a brainstorming tool in coming up with names for ideas one may have.

It sure was tough to come up with names for some ideas that popped up a while ago.
ok, but you're comparing the acceleration time of a 2700lb car to that of a 400lb bike. a $50k ariel atom or caterham r500 can do 0-60 in under 3 seconds but each only weighs about 1100lbs.

nobody is buying a pagani zonda to drag race between stoplights.
The Pinging Makes My Ears Bleed: Apple Succumbs to Synergy
"Social is a feature, but only if you’re a middle manager"
Please inlude a date somewhere next time. 2 years ago this was releases.
It's a pretty good idea though I usually am able to find a decent name using bust a name.

I'd consider doing it woot/groupon style and just selling one a day. Based on your examples maybe categorize/tag them ("green" "travel" "hacky/geek" "mail" etc).

I personally wouldn't pay to be on a mailing list but I'd probably try and jump on a good one here and there.
Reading it a day later, I agree, it was unnecessarily strong, and your interpretation is correct. I am attacking the use of the "invisible hand" to mean "greed benefits everyone", a quite common (and frustrating, to me) abuse of the concept, but you are quite right that the specific use in the book does match the context - that users seeking their own benefit, unwillingly and unaware contribute to the good of the community. I am no longer permitted to edit the comment, but I offer my apology.
Imagine the Internet riot that would break out if this was an App Store policy? I don't think gaming the Market ranks is a good excuse here. Google is a search company. They know how to make a good search/rank. They should be able to figure this one out.
I'm not a doctor. I can't help but notice that when you mention the things your Father eats too much of, the problem may very well be the high refined carbohydrate content, not the saturated fat. It could very well be that the combined presence of both is more detrimental too.

In any case, it would be wise to actually measure arterial plaque over time, and other risk markers (Lp-a triglycerides, C-reactive protein, homocystein, etc.), especially if he's starting into a dietary change.

Track these variables over time, and this should provide a good assessment of whether you've put him on the right path, or not.
What Does Beethoven's Ninth Symphony Mean?
Out of all of those problems, I'd say the fact that you can't get a web address to point people to your apps is the worst. I almost don't believe this is true, except that I still can't seem to find a web address.

Also, if you lose your Apple developer certificate, you can at least download a new one.
you know maybe I need to take a second look at this whole SaaS business model, hmmmmm..... ;)
every time ive thought about setting up mythtv, i never did because i knew it would take me hours, it would cost money and time to find the right tuner cards, and there would be no particular guarantee that i could actually get it to all work in the end.

Are there many non-techie users of XBMC/MythTV?

And anyway, ideas are worthless if execution is poor. if google creates an integrated seemless product then it doesn't really matter if XBMC has been doing it for 10 years or not. Its like saying that the (original) iPhone would be useless because other phones had had browsers/email/whatever for years. Apple executed better, thats all that mattered
It's unfair to use supporting material out of context.

The first article mentions "widespread dehydration" ..that's an exaggeration at best of what's being discussed here.

People do get dehydrated. We, as a nation, have the means of staying hydrated and therefore we don't have a major epidemic. But, dehydration is definitely an issue--and always will be.
I could swear an admin said it with some pretty fair definitiveness; I thought I remembered that it was ketralnis, but this was the best I could find from him, and it's not nearly as definite as my memory says.

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bcqhi/reddits_n...
That would be me, and you're misquoting me.

I screwed up our Cassandra deployment, and wrote about how I screwed it up. We were under-provisioned, and the version we were using didn't deal with the case of being overloaded in a graceful way. We're no longer under-provisioned, so I don't know if more recent versions deal with it better.

We've never claimed to have performance issues, I don't know where you're getting that one.
Probably won't be coming to the US (though wouldn't it be fine on a track?):

"Heinemeier Hansson is based in Chicago, but since the Zonda was never homologated to U.S. specifications, reports indicate that the owner bought a vacation home in Italy just so he could drive the thing. Now that's dedication."
I just heard a story about this on the PBS NewsHour podcast. It's a nice overview of the project!

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2010/09/gov20-kundra-cho...
> > They are planning to transition to Cassandra as the primary database.

> do you have a source for that ?

Yes. Me.