skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Just created a twitter handle so we can keep in touch and share updates with everyone who's interested.

http://twitter.com/locationmmorpg

We'll come up with a better name real soon.
You gotta admit those dogs are pretty cute though.
@locationmmorpg on twitter
This is well worth checking out. I have symptoms similar to yours and I was eventually diagnosed with hyperparathyroidism. My PTH and calcium levels were high all along, but they ruled out hyperparathyroidism because the radioactive and ultrasound scans they did failed to show the inflamed gland.

It turns out the scans can be very hit and miss. The parathyroid glands are very small and the reliability of the scans depends largely on the experience of the person carrying them out. Hyperparathyroidism is the only known condition to cause increased PTH levels. If both serum PTH and calcium are high then it's almost certain to be hyperparathyroidism. A simple test for PTH levels can confirm or rule out the diagnosis.

As for treatment, here in the UK, most hospitals still perform the 'old' style surgery (open parathyroidectomy) which is risky and has a long recovery time. I'm saving for an operation at a hospital abroad which performs a minimally invasive procedure - much safer and quicker.

Good luck and keep us posted.
What’s Hiding in Demand Media’s Finances?
What is your goal?

Is it to learn a new technology?

Pick up chicks?

Be featured on RWW, Wired, HN, Reddit, etc, etc?

It seems like a good formula for hit and run success is popular new feature/gimmick from facebook, twitter, google, youtube add your own twist to it and then watch the traffic come in for 2 days and then die off.
…Of course a modern vehicle will probably stand up to an attack a bit better. Compromises.
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Just created a twitter handle. @locationmmorpg
Holding someone up from reentering his own country because he didn't tell you all about his trip to China is rather thuggish behavior in my opinion.
Sounds like something people used to say about the GPL itself before it became boringly normal for megacorps to use it.
Perhaps a bit too simple, the site is hanging?
Lying to a federal agent. You're tired and angry dealing with the border security, but responding "great" or "fine" is technically 5 years federal prision.

I'm not sure how they could actually prove that, save you telling someone else you're tired and angry.
How did they choose these #1's? The range is "Quality of Life" - "Bananas" - "Intestinal Disease". It would have been more interesting to see the positive and negative best-at's shown separately.
The unlikely life and sudden death of The Exile, Russia’s angriest newspaper.
I was playing video games. It was the afternoon in France. When I switched off the PS2, it took me a few minutes to realize I wasn't watching a movie. I kept watching TV until late that night…
"Regardless of whether the police have a right to search you, anything you do to obstruct a police search can be used as the basis of an orthogonal criminal charge."

No--you cannot ever be charged or convicted on the basis of asserting your rights. Saying "you may not search my house" is not grounds for a search warrant, and exercising your fifth amendment right against self-incrimination in a trial is not grounds for conviction.

Physically or otherwise obstructing an actual police search in progress can be illegal or serve as probable cause, but asserting your rights never is.
In my opinion, much more useful than the real google instant. It would be cool if you added a way to manage your safe-search preferences too.
came here to post that. been using it for a few weeks now on my mac. very satisfied.
Thanks for this recommendation. As a Bloglines user for years who has tried and failed a few times to like Google Reader, Fever seems to be exactly what I am looking for. It took some time to get everything up and running on my server and configured, but is a solid application and agree it is more than worth a one time $30 fee.

Particularly interesting is its concept of Sparks (a.k.a. RSS feeds with a high volume of posts that you wouldn't subscribe to normally.) Fever uses them to help "feed the fire" and surface the most relevant/interesting content from the publications you do subscribe to.

Also works very well on the iphone. These are just first impressions but so far I'm pretty impressed.
Relevant: once I signed up for Boingo. Never again. The only way to unsubscribe is to pick up a phone and call them.
While I'm not a fan of premature optimization, I don't see nothing wrong here even if I like the Unix philosophy of "Write programs that do one thing and do it well". Why run an external program when the same thing should be possible by calling functions from a (well written) library?
Instead of just voting me down, please say why you disagree with my opinion of pragmatism.
Perhaps that's because where you see "asserting his rights" I just see an attention-seeking lawyer lording himself over low-paid fellow human beings with a dull and thankless task to perform.

You can "assert your rights" all you want, and those include the right to be a douchebag. If I meet you at a bar and I say "Hi, how are you?" and you say "Screw you, I don't have to answer your questions!" you're well within your rights but still a douchebag. It's nice to know you have the legal right to do something stupid (burn a koran or stand on a street corner in Harlem with a sign that says "I hate niggers") but putting those legal rights to the test may still make you a douchebag.

Also, I'm considering it from the point of view of the hundreds of people who were no doubt stuck behind him in the line while he threw his little hissy fit.
I was in NYC, less than 5 miles away. I have never seen so many people running because there was simply nothing else to do with rush of unknown surging inside you.....
I'd have to disagree that "marketing" is what accounts for the pattern of Google leading web technologies into ubiquity. I think the very precise engineering they put into making a great product, then the massive user adoption that follows, is what allows for other websites to use similar technologies with confidence. In other words, the fact that Google implements something gives that implementation both massive social proof, and user familiarity.

Granted, it's not all about engineering and a huge user base. If you replaced the word "marketing" with "buzz," I would tend to agree with you. If there's one thing that's become apparent to me recently, it's that nearly any idea, product, person, place, tv show, etc, can be validated by generating a shitstorm of buzz about it. I suspect there's some reptilian instinct that changes the way we view things if we see others accepting it, and media attention, though often a misrepresentation, does the trick. For companies like Google and Apple, buzz is almost too easy.
Please don't use spouted user agent strings on third party sites if you can avoid it. Reported UAs affect which browsers they support.
I'm disappointed with myself, but in a trivial way. :)

Awesomebar + apparent severe lack of caffeine. Here's the working link:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6600185/cfa/cfademo.html
I guess "unshaven hippie with long hair" isn't the best look to pull this off, huh? If I faked a military bearing would they assume I was one of those military intelligence types that doesn't shave and has long hair just to throw people off from thinking he's a military intelligence type?
exactly. people committing fraud and getting away with it are well aware that the government can say one thing and do another. Because they're doing the exact same thing.

Many people should have to prove they are still alive periodically. How hard can it be to send in a video holding the newspaper of the day?
It's a money pit because the only way to get spares is to find a junker (and even then all the rubbers will need to be replaced with whatever you change out) or to machine them.

This is a 60 year old car, it's not like you can walk in to your local car part store and order some parts. You're going to be buying your parts from places like this: http://www.willysjeepparts.com/ which will happily charge you a good sized premium for the parts because they're being made in much smaller series than for cars that are still 'current'. And that's assuming you do the work yourself, if you let someone else do it for you it'll cost quite a bit more still.

They also need quite a bit more maintenance per mile driven than a modern car because the engine clearances are not to be compared with modern stuff.

But if it came to your 'prius' or that 60 year old beast and we had to cross 50 miles of bush I'm pretty sure which one I'd pick.

A prius is not a rugged car, not even a little bit, it's a delicate piece of beautiful engineering.
Read this recently on Mashable, had some good tips:
http://mashable.com/2010/09/09/vogue-redesign/
have you seen nowmov.com?
That's more what I expected when I clicked on the 'original'. I think a 3x4 layout would be more user friendly, I might add.
'He' is part of 'us,' so why wouldn't that follow?
Why Foxconn isn't opening factories in the US
doesn't sound like you'll really 'always be a windows guy'. per the article, if you give up doing IT support and move to development, you'll probably be just a mac guy, at least for a while.

I was a windows guy, then a linux guy, now a mac guy, and am considering investing in a windows setup next year, as well as a new mac. i like playing in all of them, but right now, if I have to choose just one machine, it's my macbook. I can run the stuff I need to, even if it's virtualized and not 100% fast as I'd like. Even so, it's portable and gets the job done better than other laptops I've have over the past 10+ years.
Great story, but I definitely dislike seeing financial projections with such unnatural jumps - August to September 2010 has a $500K+ jump in monthly revenue, which would appear to be the largest month-to-month increase in revenue (as an absolute and I'd say as a percentage too).

Not saying it's impossible (maybe the September numbers so far support this), but the jump from ~2.1 million to ~3.7 million in 4 months feels a bit unnatural given the historical data.
Drinking the Node.js Kool-Aid
What sort of positions are you look to add to the team? Anything that makes it's case?
That was pretty obvious (that it had been prepared), you can see how plenty of the parts are just popped on/in and not bolted on, but that does not change the fact that it drives in and drives out and is disassembled in to it's main sub-assemblies in a ridiculously short time.

If they did the same thing having to drain fluids and so on it would likely be a lot more messy, and more risky (and a bit slower) so I can see why they didn't choose to do it that way.
This is a hillarious post. An officer's job is more than push people around and show their powers over the rest of us. Imagine for a second that you are the officer instead. Your job may be to get certain information and determine if person may be hiding something. She asked you a question, not because she'll forward the details of your business trip to your competitor. Of course you could lie to her and she won't know or care any different. Her job is to guage whether you seem nervous, or deceptive. That's one way for them to figure out a. if you might be dangerous, or hiding something in your luggage like Drugs, weapons, bombs, rare endangered,illegal animals etc. We blamed a lot of these people for letting 9/11 hijackers in the US and on the planes on 9/11/2001, but idiots like yourself are making their jobs are lot harder. Believe it or not, no one can make a machine that can detect a terrorist or someone that is up to no good 100% of the time. Its human interaction that prevents such events, and only that. If every moron like yourself gives these officers a hard time, and they have to check EVERY bag, it would be impossible to do so. Chances are someone that deserves more attention, oh I don't know someone like a fucking terrorist, will slip by.
You and most idiots that are giving you kudos in the comments are making things a lot worse. Just because you can be a dick, doesn't mean you should. There are a lot of things you can do legally to your wife and loved ones...but I bet you don't. Maybe treating police officers and customs officers and airport personnel with some respect, understanding why they might do things a certain way, would help us all.

I hope EVERYBODY treats you like shit, legally, and because they CAN, and let's see you complain about how tough your fucking job is, numbnuts!
I completely agree and am thankful for the professors who take their teaching job seriously. To look at it from the opposite perspective, I dropped out of (a very good, top five in my field) grad school because I realized I wasn't brilliant and realized if I entered an academic career I would basically be a teacher. And I suck at teaching. And I had little interest in getting better.

I had other reasons for dropping out and have sometimes considered the above to be just a bad justification for a bad decision, but more and more I think that whatever my true reasons, it was a valid reason and a good decision. It would have weighed me down knowing that I was actually pretty bad at my primary productive role in society.
But how is this so different from the index servers? No map/reduce was required to lookup a query in the index servers, it was only used to /build/ to index servers. I can see that this new method allows for more rapid modifications of the index servers, but I don't see how it is related to Google Instant.

Furthermore, if you look up an article TFA links to: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/09/google_caffeine_expl... , you see quotes like this:

"Google distinguished engineer Ben Gomes told The Reg that Caffeine was not built with Instant in mind, but that it helped deal with the added load placed on the system by the "streaming" search service.

"Lipkovitz makes a point of saying that MapReduce is by no means dead. There are still cases where Caffeine uses batch processing, and MapReduce is still the basis for myriad other Google services. "

I can't wait for the technical papers on Caffeine either, but to me it does not seem related to Google Instant in many ways, it's just part of Google's desire to be able to respond more rapidly to changing content on the internet. Which is totally OK with me. But then people shouldn't claim they dumped Map/Reduce in order to implement Google Instant.
Was it legal to round people up like that without even probable cause before the war? Current law can be changed and even constitutions ignored when it becomes convenient.

Maybe those committing fraud believe that if they NEVER disclose something, its pretty much a sure thing that it can never be used against them.
You may have lots of users and I wish you all the success, certainly looking at the Foursquare leaders in London either they are cheating or they go to a hell of a lot of places and check in everywhere.

Also games and trip creating location services like SCVNGR and Gowalla seem to be picking up speed, so maybe you will have a market.

However personally I will only checkin for the following reasons:
[+] I want share a place I like such as a restaurant with friends and this is an easy way
[+] there is some discount e.g. free coffee in a place I like and go frequently that I can build upto by using something like checkmate for iPhone

I certainly do not have the time nor inclination to go around lots of different places and checkin for a game. And that maybe a problem for you if more people are like me because I like world of warcraft and used to play it quite regularly.
And he's still wrong about being polite. You can be firm without being rude.
Sounds cool. God speed. I don't play MMOs at all tbh though :(.
Henceforth, these decks are called Joffe decks.
Isn't being suspicious of everyone the rational response? You see thousands of people per year and your entire job is to identify the few who are doing something wrong (smuggling, using a false passport, whatever).

If you're not going to be suspicious of everyone, which subset of them should you be suspicious of?
The Psychology of Loners and Introverts
I was in a high school chemistry class. Something was clearly happening since teachers kept leaving their classrooms and talking in hallways. Us students didn't know what was up.

By the time that class ended and I moved on to a history class, people were talking and everyone knew something happened with a plane flying into a building. The history teacher pulled a TV cart into her room, announced that what was happening would be in history books in the future, and had us watch CNN for the class period.
I guess they're complimentary. These maps are awesome for people like me who live in places where it's quite rare to meet fellow founders. Thanks, guys!
Ask HN: References to study marketing?
Any quality books/sites that teach basic (not necessary tech/internet) marketing that is not a university-level course or trying to choke me into buying $150 newsletter?
That was a sensible case, if I recall correctly. The "right to remain silent" means exactly what it says. It has further been extended to mean that if you tell the police you're exercising your right to remain silent then they have to call off the interview.

What this guy did was just to sit almost-silent in an interview room for a couple of hours until eventually the cop managed to prise a confession out of him (for what it's worth, the charge was murder and there was a lot of other evidence in addition to the confession, you can look it up). What the murderer's lawyer wanted was to have the confession deemed inadmissible (and hence a new trial, which was unlikely to result in a different verdict due to the overwhelming other evidence but would at least line the lawyer's pockets a bit more) on the grounds that sitting there and not answering questions for a couple of hours should oblige the police to stop asking questions.
This is a great example of teamwork and practice, but, I don't get it. Why is this engineering? Why is the ability to take a Jeep apart and reassemble it in 4 minutes "simply great design"? Is that what Jeeps are for?
What is this page telling me? Mine says: "Samsung Galaxy S". So nothing relevant to me. Move along.

But, giving it a second chance, since this is HN, I go to Product, which is in fact a "What is swype" page. And it kind of tells me stuff, but it's confusing.

Then, on the partners' page it says: "Swype’s primary business model is OEM licensing."

So, here I sit with my HTC Wildfire, happening to know what swype was, and wondering whether it is relevant to me.

Frankly, I have no idea.
That it's being viewed through a polarized filter is key. If you were to view this unaided, you wouldn't perceive the colours.

My guess is that this caused by internal reflections in a slew of similarly sized water droplets. Much like a rainbow, except that this is backlit.
Site is hanging for me too.
Wow, so it sounds like even once you're diagnosed via lab tests, you still have to fight to get it "fixed". That really sucks. parathyroid.com says that if you have the high Calcium and PTH, you "have it, and need an operation". I dunno how reliable that site is though.

I've read that even getting a positive lab diagnosis can be tricky, as Calcium & PTH levels fluctuate fairly rapidly, and you sometimes have to get the test repeated many times over a period of weeks.

Good luck in finding a good facility. If it turns out that this is what I have, maybe we'll end up comparing notes on that sort of thing.
Just awesome, hope your travel in future is without incident.

I thought it was ridiculous that even in transit where you are actually not entering the US customs fingerprint all your fingers.

I was very very tempted to refuse but in the end I was too scared that I would just miss my trip
In the university I studied, students organized different games played trough the year. It is a good method to help people socialize and know each other in the first year.

One of these game was called hitman. Every student who wanted to play had to provide a picture of himself and was registered as player. Then each player was given a random photo of another player and a small trumpet in paper that rolls out when we blow in it. So evry player was a hitman and a target of another hitman at the same time.

The hitman had to "kill" the person on the photo that was given to him. Killing was done by blowing the trumpet and touching the person with the rolled out paper.

Of course it was forbidden to kill anybody during lessons. The task was made more difficult by allowing someone to be immune to killing by holding an open umbrella above his head.

The hitman had thus to first locate its target, spy him without beeing recognized as his hitman and find the best moment to kill the target. Witnesses must be present to attest a valid killing. The last target to survive was the winner.

I didn't play the game so I don't know the details, but it was very funny to see these students walking around with open umbrellas, even inside buildings, and all the trumpet noise. It was also funny people talking to each other trying to figure out who is ones hitman. There was enough players to make it very hard to know, even at the end of the game

This is an exemple of game that was socialy usefull and fun. Organizing, providing the equipment and managing the game could be a business. Sell it in a box, one box per player. The umbrellas might be a bit dangerous for the eyes, so funny big umbrellas without metal in it, just for the game use, could be better and even more fun as well as justify the rent fee.
kinda scary knowing this...

I guess people should start implementing dual cuts or something. Or maybe another way to alter the deck by a 2nd player that makes it incredibly hard to cheat.
I would love to see stats about the queries of the first 24 hours!
Ask HN: jobs in St. Paul or Minneapolis?
after 12 years in silicon valley, I would like to return to Minnesota to be closer to my family. Unfortunately, the job scene looks grim. I see a large number of want ads for depressing jobs containing keywords like ETL, COGNOS, and CRYSTAL REPORTS. I've seen zero job ads for anything fun. Ok, i'm old and washed up... maybe I should forget about fun. But...I've seen almost no ads for jobs I know how to do... I'm your standard startup douche who does ruby, unix, java, SQL, NOSQL, 'scaling' and has a couple apps in the app
store, etc. do people need guys like me in minnesota? should I just join the dark side and become a Business Intelligence consultant? Give up programming and rent out canoes at the lake? please advise.
I think even if people were willing to let go of some features that require additional parts, just getting a car made that would conform to modern security and environmental regulations would probably be an impossible task. It's not like we forgot how to build like that or that car companies want to waste money with superfluous parts.
Light bulb factory closes; End of era for U.S.