skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well, you've just slighted both Violet and kinda myself without any real substance or explanation - it comes across bit troll-ish to be honest.

It's a shame cos I quite like the Crowdvine product and being in that space I'd have thought you'd be more considerate of constructive + meaningful contribution to community discussion.

If you have something to add or ask on this original topic, vb.ly, I'm happy to participate and respond.
Well not python but Mediawiki is always welcoming to new people, check out the irc channel on freenode/#mediawiki
I've been using a 7 port powered (but not enough power to max all 7) hub from Monoprice for some time and am pleased. Product ID is 5328.

As for the mass problem, double back tape is your friend. There is a weighted hub available from Belkin, but they charge a ridiculous price.

Just remember the Monoprice shopping philosophy:

• When placing an order, get a couple of every cable you are likely to need in the next year plus some for your technically challenged friends. You probably can't beat these prices. That amortizes the shipping cost.

• Don't expect the same product to be there the next time you shop. (But I stocked up on $1 iPhone cables and $2 headphone/mic sets when they were there, see above)

• Prices are low, quality is generally acceptable, but won't be top notch. On the other hand, making a Cat-5 cable is not rocket science.

• CAT-6 is cool, but by the time your gear goes to 10Gbps+ it will need something better anyway.
A charge card you pay in full each month. A credit card lets you spread payments over time.

So, you tend to optimize for different things (features, rebates, discounts vs. Interest rates and payback optiins (generally))
From IGNobel to the Nobel Prize
In technology, billion dollar markets and opportunities are usually only recognized after they've landed. Its hard to predict or foresee markets, and even if you can, you have no idea what will work and what won't.

There are actually billion dollar opportunities opening up all the time with every new platform. Look at how many companies the Facebook API spawned; Zynga is valued at billions of dollars and is 3 years old. They make dinky flash games for gods sakes. Playdom was acquired for around $800 million by Disney.

iPhone and Android apps have made millionaires out of small teams of developers. The makers of Tap Tap Revenge, a series of iPhone games, were grossing millions in revenue.

There are ALWAYS opportunities. Obviously fewer billion dollar ones, but who cares otherwise.
I'm glad to finally be able to use C# 4.0 and dynamic types in Mono. That's a huge improvement!
Tension in White House Over Woodward's Mention of 2012 Obama-Clinton Ticket
Yes, as several people have mentioned, I should have said block scope. JS does allow for blocks, but they don't work the way the parent was thinking.

You can toss extra curly braces in the code and it is a "block" but unless they are preceded by an "if", "for", or something similar, they don't do much. They do not return values and they do not affect variable scope. Functions do both, hence my last example.
May be it's just me that I'm not so impulsive buyer as Sachin. But here is what I do when I see the Groupon deal - ponder upon if I want to buy this or not. Of course, the % discount is always incredible, there is no question about it, so I know I'm going to get it at lot cheaper price than I usually do. But the pondering is always about - do I need it? So the moment I see a Groupon deal, I can't decide right away that I want to buy it or not. I keep pondering over it till afternoon, and most of the times I purchased the deals in the late afternoon or evening. So it takes some time for me to see the deal, and then make the decision. I can't think of myself making the decision within few minutes after I see the deal, and that too before sleep after a tiring day of work. So I actually don't mind getting these emails in the morning, when I'm fresh and ready to get started for the day. So not sure if the pattern Sachin wrote about is most common or the pattern I'm seeing is common. Yeah, that's when A/B testing will help.
Motorola’s Windows Phone 7 plans “open” despite recent patent suit
Yea as facebook becomes more mainstream the hip people will need a new place to go.
And here I thought I was just lazy.
They sold 70,000 tickets in the first three weeks with $3 per ticket in revenue from Orbitz. A million in funding seems entirely justified.
Good stuff. I've used maptimize.com in the past for dealing with ad hoc geographical visualizations.
Quebec court upholds $873M judgment against Facebook spammer
It could be they have so many emails to send out and they don't wont them to be flagged as spam so they stagger them.
That piece of news was widely circulated back then, if I remember correctly it even spawned a few RMS == Chuck Norris posts.

In a more recent article[1], Stallman voices his opposition to web-based SaaS applications, as they take away your basic ownership of the data stored there, limiting your freedom etc.

I can understand him in this regard. I'm not that idealistic and love the convenience of some web apps, so right now that wins in the end. I think that's one of the reasons why a lot of people seem to be annoyed of RMS – we never like to be shown that we maybe compromise a bit too much. But I digress…

So you don't like webapps. You do most of your discussions in usenet or email lists (this might sound sacrilegious here, but we I don't think reddit/HN/4chan is a step up from moderated newsgroups). You can just download news, either via the above-mentioned wget trick or via RSS. That does eliminate most of your web-browsing needs, or am I missing something really important? Especially if you live in Emacs, an don't care too much about rounded corners, gradients and typographical text.

He's basically like the guy you know who tells you that he doesn't watch TV and rather reads a book. You tell him that there's quality programming and you read enough books, too, but then you remember this conversation and feel kinda guilty while watching Castle.

[1]: http://bostonreview.net/BR35.2/stallman.php
No pay, no spray: Firefighters let home burn
And ridiculous, at this point they should all realize it's not a win-win for anyone and create an open patent pool of some sort not like mpegla but more like an open pool of patent they can use, sue anyone who has patents in it and everyone goes after you.
I won't argue with you as I don't have any real world business experience (at least any that could count as something to back up my point) but I think it's an extraordinary gamble, but that's how you make money I guess, big risks mean big rewards...
No recommendation on the multiple bitrate settings? Anybody?
The paper:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone...
Funny coincidence that Mono and LLVM both had 2.8 releases on the same day, and one of Mono 2.8's new features is a stable LLVM backend.
The New Facebook Groups: All You Need To Know
Kind of funny there are responses to the downers, but no thanks to any of the people who responded and helped out. I didn't feel like asking for money was a big deal like the others, but it's also nice to see appreciation (I'm a poor startup founder too :P). Ah well, c'est la vie.
I used one of the approaches, Marker Clusterer, recently for a quickie map of 500+ orgs: http://appealforcommunities.org/networkmap

The InfoWindows were particularly tricky. I wish we could have had the time to do custom marker logos, but the nuclear-like ones work well.
The last I had heard, researchers believed that cell phones were at least partially to blame, but the article doesn't seem to mention it at all. Does anybody know if that has been disproved?
from 2007, in English (in spite of the .de domain):

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,477804,00.h...

Another:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2007/apr/16/ifmobi...

more recent:

http://www.pattayadailynews.com/en/2010/10/01/the-sudden-dis...
As a physician, I'm tempted to just respond, "No." But, of course, I'm biased and that isn't very useful.

The problem here is that "the plural of 'anecdote' is not data." Many people will tell you things like, "My Uncle had that, and it was X."

That said, despite the title, the article ultimately comes to the tame conclusion that expert consensus (particularly when it's based on a review of the available literature) is usually the best choice. Surprise.
Just want you to know, I really appreciate your post and for mentioning Aikido. Of all the martial arts I know, I find it to be the most profound and wise in its philosophy.

There is also the interesting practice of Tonglen that I was recently introduced to. It is a meditation technique (endorsed and practiced by the Dalai Lama), that teaches you how to train your mind to effectively and healthily handle the issue of suffering:

http://www.naljorprisondharmaservice.org/pdf/Tonglen.htm
The public could always pitch in. It worked for broadcasting when broadcasting was hard for private companies to pull off, it might work for local news.
To me he seemed like a primitive cyborg. I'm having fun imagining what we'll see in 20-30 years.

Also it's the hidden the gold makes panning fun. These guys are using fancy tools to strip it out and leave thrift stores with piles of leftover dirt.
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Skimming through the paper ( http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna... ), I don't know that the mass spectrometry they did really required a military-academia connection, as the article seems to imply. While the machines certainly aren't everywhere, I would imagine that there are quite a few in the hands of researchers who aren't paid by the DoD.
Economic Enlightenment in Relation to College-going, Other Variables [pdf]
The reason water is added is because it brings out the aroma in the spirit. Putting one's nose in to sniff can cause irritation if not done right.

The following is a very comprehensive writeup as far as tasting whisky goes.

http://www.whiskymag.com/nosing_course/
Nice article. Another good resource I found is this Google I/0 2009 video on performance tips with google maps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI8at1EmJjA
Well, after watching the video, I have two notes:

first, putting the ad after the video is a brilliant idea. :)

now about the talk, I don't believe in controlled psychological/sociological experiments very much, the real world is way too different from a room with 30 people working for one hour, the conclusions just don't scale to the real world.

In the real world, people don't generally accept your goals or congratulate you on them. Like if you tell someone that you want to quit your day job to start a startup, they would think you're crazy.

Also, in the real world, people will call it out on you if it doesn't look like you've achieved anything after a while.
Ask HN: recommendations for domain registrars
I need to register some .com domains, and it seems like a service I should be able to get very cheaply. Currently I use 123-reg.co.uk but I'm sure there must be something better out there. I'm also sure going with a cheap provider will likely turn out more expensive in the long run...
In case it makes a difference, I'd also like to migrate over a .name domain, to keep everything within one account.
I worked in a wetlab or for a bioinformatics company writing software for 4 years. One of the things that completely shocked me when I started working there, and I think most people don't appreciate, is that taking a liquid and figuring out what proteins are in there is a very hard thing to do. Then the next step -- how much does my sample have of the things I've identified -- is also hard to do. Doing either of them inexpensively is harder still. People still work hard on those two questions today, and there is still room for significant innovation around those two questions.

Also, CSI style science, where you drop a sample into the magic machine and an answer pops out is... nonsense. These are some of the most finicky machines you've ever encountered -- you always end up doing baselining / calibration runs, etc. Often they involve skilled lab work to set up, calibrate, run, and determine whether answers are significant.
OpenStack infiltrates Ubuntu's cloud diet
I wonder what his insurance company will say. Do they require you to pay for the firefighter tax?
Google plays coy on Google TV ads.
That's when one is comparing different styles of whiskies. If one is tasting 3-4 of the same type (single malts or blends etc.), sometimes the differences are subtle. Also, the aroma of the whisky (or whiskey depending on the heritage) do give out different notes. That's the reason water's added. Not to dilute the spirit but enhance the aroma.
Sounds like a business opportunity. If someone wants to sell a bunch of books, they hire you to come scan it for valuable ones, sell them on Amazon and split the revenue. Then they can donate the rest or sell them for 50c. It benefits the seller, because they get into the Amazon market without investing in learning/equipment. It benefits you the arbiter because you get exclusive rights to the books, shutting out your competitors.
Actually, it just continues to show the naïveté at the top.

The article has him saying "Media Center is Big Buttons", as if media center could solve their problems. I want to give them points for trying, but really the needs of an interface that's ten feet away and controlled with a remote are vastly different than one at your fingertips. Yes, they both need to be bigger in certain ways. But the similarity mostly stops there.

I hate to keep dragging out the Steve Jobs quote, but I really can't think of a better way to put it. "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
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Any mono users here also familiar with .net? how compatible are they? What works and what doesn't? What sort of applications is mono best suited for (server backend? desktop? mobile? web front end? systems programming?)

Would be nice to dish and get real insider info.
"Never forget that what Tim's books do best is promote Tim and explain what a really fantastic fellow he is."

You hit the nail right on the head there buddy!
Unfortunately, most of the time, we are not the decision maker, especially if the requestor is of high rank (either from internal or external user with ranked M - SM,GM,MD etc). Even though I explain this and that, in the end, they will just say "Can do? When will you deploy it?"
It should be noted that this is for v2 of the API (which has been deprecated). For a more recent post about lots of markers on a v3 map, you might want to check out Redfin’s post on their solution, MultiMarker: http://blog.redfin.com/devblog/2010/07/introducing_multimark...
I don't think you need a login for the printable page - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/science/07bees.html?_r=1&#...
The 2nd Great Satan strikes again.
Load the sites side by side.
>We were lucky in the last 50 years, classifieds paid for our journalism.

In what way are classifieds + subscriptions not possible with websites? Any kind of hyperlocal website can have everything any newspaper can offer, the only downside is that they've got competition, which they may not be able to succeed against.
I totally believe that water opens up whiskey, but I think the real reason to do it is that whiskey is just too strong to taste --- especially early in the evenings.

If you're new to whiskey, taste scotch, bourbon, and rye together first; then taste different single malts. You won't need all the ritual.
W3C: Hold off (2-3 Years) on deploying HTML5
NoSQL without web-scale
Even more baffling is the notion that leadership only influences a company through "atmosphere".
Exactly. Just as tumblr is to blogger and Vimeo is to youtube, Diaspora will become the hipster alternative to Facebook. Totally called it.
I went to the University of California, Los Angeles. I found it very easy to navigate, but I had an advantage. As a Los Angeles native whose dad is also an alum (UCLA Dental School '75), I spent much of my youth here. We always went to basketball games at Pauley Pavillion, and since my middle/high school was right down the street, UCLA was the closest library. It also didn't hurt that Westwood was the place to go see movies back in 7th/8th grade (usually followed by all-night arcade free play at Ackerman Union).

But for people not that familiar with the campus, I guess it could be a little confusing.
http://godaddy.com/ - Cheap (esp. for just a year, renewals are a bit more) but their interface sucks.

http://namecheap.com/ - Almost as cheap, and has a much better interface.

Those are the two I use exclusively, minus some for ccTLD-specific domains.
Migrate your Linux application to the Amazon cloud, Part 3: Building scalability
really? if someone sends me a long message and I respond with a few lines, it's quite difficult to not come across as rude. If you have a four page essay, if I am to reject or accept it in a few lines, I'm only addressing a few of your points.

How do I respond politely to a four page essay without spending a significant amount of time on it?
Yes and he has done it numerous times.

Ballmer talking shit about the iPhone - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So7qrFO_p44
I've heard police say that they're suspicious of people driving exactly the speed limit, since it appears they may be trying to be extra careful about getting pulled over.
I prefer gandi.net
Unfortunately, it still asks for a login.
There's every chance that article has been written by the world's greatest whiskey expert. He still gets it wrong. He says to sniff. Don't sniff. You don't breath through your nose. As I said before, place your nose above the glass and then gently breath in with your mouth. Your mouth will just breath in normal air, but it will create a draft through your nose that pulls in the vapours that are evaporating into your nose without creating eddies in the glass, and without quickly sucking the most delicate and lightest of the vapours past your nose's sensing cells and into your lungs, which misses the most interesting parts.

Don't take my word for it, try it instead. Seriously, try the expert's "sniff with nose" method and compare to the two-orifice with nose close to the glass edge method I have described. You will detect much more of the bouquet with the two-orifice method. Perhaps I have invented it, I don't know, that seems unlikely, but for some reason the so-called experts don't know about this and aren't doing it right. Just try. You'll see, it will be really clear. You can use the direct sniff too if you like to get the heavier vapours.
Silverpop offers this as a feature, though I think the algorithm is pretty naive. Basically, it aims to send around the time you normally open messages.
Logitech unveils Revue, a $300 Google TV set-box
John Allspaw slides: Releasing all the time at flickr & etsy [pdf]
Check in with the folks at SUS for the schedule. As for the shuttle, depends on whether or not you'd like to eat in the city or in Palo Alto. As we reserve individual seats, they are not exchangeable, sorry. See you soon!
I don't think so. If I was to claim that more people will buy Macs than PCs, then you could say "the customers have spoken" and that I was wrong. But I never claimed that.

Ballmer here is claiming that nobody wants the iPad form factor. That's just patently false and you only need to point to sales numbers to show that.
The party runs until 12am. If you'd like to take the shuttle back, it will leave at the end of the party. Head out earlier on CalTrain.
A agree, but there's a tendency among some these days to tout the boogeyman of sharia law. And there's an implication that there's something alien about Libya, that being restrictive of sexual matter is somehow unique to sharia law, that without sharia law Libya would be just like the US, and that Christians wouldn't do anything similar.

Which is just nonsense. Conservatives are conservative. Libya did this thing, and John Ashcroft covered up a statue's tit.

Bringing sharia into it is just buying into the latest thing pants-wetting wingnuts are using to scare themselves.
Unfortunately space is limited, so the shuttle is reserved for badged members only. However, we will be doing a pick up at CalTrain at 9pm for all.
I saw that Stackless threads can be run, It means that the actual Stackless Tasklets (http://www.stackless.com) can be created? Any doc about the implementation?
Why does this get up voted? It's a 2 years old tutorial on a deprecated Google Maps module that most HNers will never use. Am I missing something?
Why Facebook's New Groups Will Change the Way You Use Facebook
Maybe I’m foolish, but I think that denying the involvement of sharia law buys us nothing, but recognizing similarities with other conservative censorship tendencies (e.g. in Christendom) — as you have — can be a enlightening.
Did Jobs prepare those statements? Probably. Caching is the secret to articulacy. I think the human brain is just too damn slow to come up with really good things to say on the fly. You have to know about it, think about it, talk about it. Again and again. You have to know what people will ask you.

I think that even if you are a bad public speaker you can compensate with good preparation. You can fine tune and cache your answers. It’s hard work but it pays off.
More:

- http://www.tgdaily.com/consumer-electronics-features/51902-l...

- http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2010/10/logitech_revue_...

- http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/logitech-grabs-google-tv-spotl...

- http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/technologybrierdudleys...

$299 preorder via Amazon:

- http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Companion-Google-Keyboard-Con...
We're self hosted (craigslist.org) and the cost is pretty much what you see if your price out the Fusion-io gear (I'd have to go dig that up).
I use moniker, they're pretty good. They got bought out by oversee but the oversee people have seen fit to leave moniker to run as independently as possible.
First of all, you must share your past and feelings with your wife. If she's the right one for you she'll support you until the end. You're partners in life, when one of you falls down, other one is supposed to help him/her get up. I'm sure your marriage bond will be stronger when you open up your past to her.

Talking from my experience, I strongly advise you to take up some sports or martial arts training. Not to beat some bullies up, but to empty your mind and get rid of that stress clogging up your spirit. Sports also helps with low-self esteem as you will be able to see yourself making actual physical progress throughout the experience.