skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, I suspect its some Googling, but also a lot of phone calls. For example, getting in store stock info usually requires calling.
I am a cyclist who was run off the road by an suv while training for the Westchester half ironman. Was fortunate to walk (ride) away with only one broken bone (4th metacarpal). I've been riding my entire life in NYC without ever having an incident (thankfully) and the one time I go ride in the 'country' I get my ass handed to me.

My gut tells me that drivers in unpopulated areas are less aware and less able to 'share the road'.
The beauty of this is that it's a way for them to let people try Ubuntu Server quickly and easily. While I don't remember the articles, we've all seen the ones talking about how demand isn't linear. Lots of people will try something free that won't try something that costs even a cent. So, Canonical will pick up the 2 cent tab (the cost of one hour of a Micro instance). Many will try it. Heck, if a million people try it, it will cost Canonical $20,000. That's a lot of exposure for a small amount of money. Companies are paying way more than 2 cents per click in advertising. Booting up an instance to try it out is a lot more engagement and investment in the process than an ad click.

Canonical is getting smart people to engage with their product for several minutes (if not the whole hour) for a mere 2 cents. That's one of the best campaigns I've seen and far more effective and cheaper than AdWords for what they're doing.
"Plus, the dream is completed by being offered to flight to Zendesk headquarters in San Francisco for a couple of days." - sounds to me like he will be working remotely.
You can spend less than that $300 until you get going if you use GoogleAppEngine, where you'd only end up paying if you get higher levels of usage.

Rackspace cloud will cost $10 a month for the basic server if you need to not use java/python, as it sounds like you might need to. You theoretically can do Ruby on GAE via a java implementation, and php I think...

If you need web design, you're going to be a little short there likely to get it done, but you may be able to learn enough to get going there.
Privatization usually does not translate in to 'the people that use the resource will own it', it usually translates in to 'big-corp' in 'some other country' now owns a resource you depend on and will make you pay through the nose for it.

If the situation were such that each of us gets to be responsible for their little chunk of the planet then I wouldn't have a problem with it, in practice that is not how it works. Hence overfishing and all kinds of other issues that could have been avoided.

One of the major problems seems to be that there simply are too many of us, that's a very harsh thing to say according to plenty of folks but it may very well be that the only real long term solution leading to better stewardship of the environment is to reduce the number of people that consume resources. Not a very popular point of view, that's for sure.
Google Should Spin Off Its Robot-Car Division Give Engineers Piece Of The Action
If they're doing this correctly they could also tell you your blood oxygen level. Blood Ox would be much more useful to a larger range of people.
this is on the front page twice already.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1775584

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1775570
That's only true of subscription cell phone plans. Prepaid obviously requires no credit score, and can be substantially cheaper depending on your usage patterns.
Dissent is a sterling asset: An economist on Groupthink
Forking Java, not a good idea at the moment
I agree that the customer is the ultimate measure and I'm a fan of this whole lean startup thing. You're right that the only thing that ENDS UP mattering is what customers think. But to use that as an argument against having a co-founder seems strange.

Co-founders disagreeing doesn't result in a flip of the coin to see whose opinion they go with. There's a heartfelt and intelligent discussion. Logic, experience, and a bit of intuition. One co-founder might say, "I know the team over at CompanyX who struggled with the same thing. They chose Y-- let's see how it worked out for them".

If the OP had a co-founder who was smart about marketing, design, and conversion funnels-- there'd be very few arguments in those areas, but there'd sure as heck be better decisions made being there.

In short, I agree with your point but I don't think it applies to this discussion.
GNOME Do Ubuntu 10.04 crashes on login
Relationship Advice: Women Faking Orgasms
Microsoft uses Angry Birds Icon without permission on Windows Phone 7 site
Not only that, but also at 10:10 UTC
What women want in shopping
Turning off and on GPS i configuration helps. Yay like windows!
> Private ownership is not the cause of all of the political wars over water. It is their solution.

Is as untrue as it can be. Currently water conflicts emerge around the situation that there where no (or only a traditional) market exists, a market for multinationals is created forcibly . IMF and World Bank connect loan conditions directly to water exploitation rights in developing countries. This looks very much like interventionism to me: creating a "market" and installing it's major players at the same time. I can't see the "invisible hand" here ...
Today is 42 Day
My car automatically throws on the brakes if it thinks I'm about to hit something (tested accidentally, once, and it stopped me with about one car length to spare.), and my cruise control watches for cars in front of me, so it will go the speed I set, unless there's a slower car in front of me, in which case it leaves a safe distance.

The future is now, man :-)
Micro instance will only make them disservice.
It will freeze and scare potential new Ubuntu users.
This just proves that you shouldn't allow others to run unsigned code at your console in the beginning.

A basic DRM has to exist, otherwise nobody will buy any games and just copy them.
Because programmers are expensive, but sysadmins are free.

If you're a programmer working for a large organization, despite sitting in an open plan office surrounded by dozens of other programmers, and knowing that there are hundreds in the building, you probably nevertheless believe that yours is the only code running in production, and the entire operations staff exists in order to support it...
I completely agree with you. But then, I have to trust only the bookmarklet provider not to do malicious stuff; here, even if I trust markup.io, I still have to trust others who are going to view my markup.
Try a debugging proxy like fiddler or paros... infinitely handy as well, and more general purpose.
For a design / template start out by using something off ThemeForest.net, then once you're making some money, hire someone to redesign it!
A technology doesn't have to be recent to still be applicable. INI files have been around a long time but they are a well understood mechanism for storing confuguration settings and have mature, well debugged, components for handling them. Not that I don't think that sqlite isn't mature but it seems like overkill for storing simple configuration settings.
I concur - it's worse than being married.
Yeah, I thought everyone was still all hot for yaml.
Have there been any surveys done to see what CC licenses are in use?

I mean in any case it seems a little silly that one would ban all of them and not just ones marked "noncommercial."
I'd say you posted in the right place because lots of people here have the opposite problem - too many ideas, not enough time. Here's my list of random ideas that I feel can make some money each month if executed well: http://bulletxt.zetabee.com/share?n=1548888784&h=SHdydmJ...

I haven't updated it in a few months because I've been busy with an interesting project. Maybe something on the list will inspire you. You're welcome to take an idea directly too if you wish. Do let me know so I can move it down to the baked list :)
System | Administration | Additional Drivers
Second this, GAE is the default platform for almost all of my side projects because of how quickly you get up and running, and due to the generous limits.
One possible reason is what you just pointed out: If you have a 20 minute commute and you could trust your robotic driver to take care of it, that is 20 minutes you could be on your smart phone interacting with google advertising.

(personally I think the other comments about google doing it mostly because it is a hard, cool, worthwhile challenge are most on the money though)
Where I recently moved to there are a lot of one way streets. I feel stupid looking to see if anyone is turning down the wrong way, but what you described is exactly why I do.
He then added "...but playing games from outside your region will remain a pain in the ass."
This also has to do a lot with the western ideas of efficiency, and with high labor costs. But maybe there will be a split between efficient self-service done online, and more experience-oriented services handled personally
Two gripes.

1) If I hit Ctrl-D - it says "* Type qui[t] to quit."

If you know what I want to do, DO IT.. don't argue with me. Why would you write special extra code that specifically recognizes what the user wants to do and then tell them to do it another way?

2) putting a character in [X] usually means X is the character to hit. The help text is difficult to parse compared to what's normal....

Oh - I like the tool BTW - very handy otherwise.....
Greg Mankiw: I Can Afford Higher Taxes. But They’ll Make Me Work Less.
Here in Kansas City, 87% of our electricity comes from coal. 11% from nuclear. Wind makes up the lion's share of the remaining 2%. One of the Sierra Club's members had his soul crushed when a friend of mine pointed out that he was, in fact, piloting a coal-powered car.

That's not to say the tech isn't cool. But it's not any more sustainable than a good high-efficiency gasoline or diesel-only car.
WHere I live the govenrment is putting up big fences in the middle of the road to prevent jaywalking, because people sprint across roads at night, even the highway, and there are lots, lots, lots of car -vs- pedestrian accidents because of people running across the street to catch a bus instead of using hte pedestrian bridge or crosswalk not far away. At night. Wearking dark clothing. (No, I'm not making any of this up)
I don't really know why I said that, just, you know, don't cost them money if you already know Ubuntu Server. Support Ubuntu by not using this!
Lessons from starting a dot com business in Nepal
I agree, but I think that's something they grow into, rather than something you can enforce/influence. I have a feeling we agree, though.
TC Teardown: 13 Ways To Get To $10 Million In Revenues (Part I)
> And places that hand out IP numbers to unknown MAC addresses should get a better network administrator.

What about coffee shops, hotels, libraries, etc that offer free wireless?

Hm. Build one with a solar panel and get it onto the roof of your local starbucks.
Not sure what the Ideapads use for wifi, but there is an issue with the iwlagn driver (what my Thinkpad X61 uses) that disables 802.11n modes. Not a problem if you're using not using 802.11n, but something to be aware of. Check the release notes for details.
I faced the same issue a couple of years back. As I did my engineering from a not-so-reputed university, it was hard for me to even get a "monkey-coder job". I eventually joined Infosys, learnt some good stuff and now I'm an independent developer working on an idea of my own.

Two good things came out of my working at a big company were money and a better understanding of what I wanted to do. Also, the thing about service companies offering only boring coding jobs is not entirely true. Most of the work they do is boring, yes. But, they also work on some cool stuff. You might also get an opportunity to work on huge applications which can be a great experience.

Personally, I would be reluctant to spend more money on formal education in India. The top-tier universities are good, but the rest of them are not even close. As you are interested in hardware/networking design/maintenance, you should probably look for a job at indian managed hosting providers like netmagic.
> And the concept of paid apps are pretty damn nice...

I've got nothing against paid applications, but I'm rabidly against non libre applications. So this is definitely not good as is.
I've had a Diners Club card with concierge service for a couple of years now, and have used the service only once. Based on talking to people who work in a concierge company they can in most cases only do the things you could've done with a little Googling yourself.

It is nice to have somebody look for flights, hotels or restaurants for you, but in general by doing it yourself you get it done a lot more quickly. 5 minutes to findband book a hotel using the phone browser, vs. about the same time on the phone, and waiting them 12 hours to get it done...
Same feeling here when I saw the top "new" feature the link lists is a new wallpaper. sigh
Or buy/lease a car (unless you have cash up front). Or if you're unluckily enough to want to work for an employer who runs a background check.
Very funny ... I'm in Thailand right now myself. So hey :)

And I actually have more ideas than time myself. The hard thing is picking the things that will payoff the most over time, knowing what's most important to tackle first. The best step, I guess, is just to get started and see how it pans out :)
You should see if one of these works for you - http://www.sixmonthmba.com/2009/02/999ideas.html
Essay Ideas – Topics and Interests
Selecting the right essay topic is a difficult task for many students. However, most essay topics will be similar. Selecting the right topic for your essay paper is of utmost importance. The essay can be written well, only if the ideas are interesting.
"-r" is the revision flag for the revision to push out. "." is a shortcut that just means "the revision that the working directory is at" (same as hg identify would show).
[video] China's Got Talent Winner: Feet Pianist
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11106935

This boy won China's Got Talent Finally about 30 minutes ago.

2 quotes stood out to me, loosely translated from my memory:

"Nobody told me I have to play piano with hands"
"Die quickly or live spectacularly"

Props to him.
Ask HN: Mobile-friendly version of mouseover?
There's a lot of cool stuff I'd like to do on my site with mouseover effects. Mouseover a character and get a longer description. Mouseover a control and get a tooltip. All that kind of jazz.

However, more and more of my users are using mobile browsers like iPhones that don't really have a concept of mouseover.

How are other people dealing with this? Do you add the mouseover effect anyway, knowing that mobile users will never use it (and probably never know it exists), or use another control?
Ask HN: Need help to raise capital for my education venture 
Hey,

I got referred to this site by a friend of mine who is now a considerably long time user. After his recommendation I started going through the back posts (occasionally using searchyc to search for some posts of my interests) and discovered some gems. Let me give some background of myself...

I am a CSE graduate from a II tire uni. in Gujarat,India. After seeing the dismal state of affairs of engineering education in my state I decided to cure the system from within. After teaching for almost one and a half year as a faculty at Aptech Computer center (and occasionally doing some side projects of my own), I left Aptech and started my own education center and incorporated it under the name of Cypher Inc. But now I am struggling financially as the initial batch of students were taken at a very low fees and that is not even sufficient to pay for the resources. I want to act early before I am too much in debt.

I am looking for some small work I can do to raise some more capital. I am well versed in java, with expertise in web development. I have done work for some national customers before and am very professional. You can contact me at, cypher.incorporated@gmail.com. I can send you a full resume if you require.

Please help me to keep my startup afloat.
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Pay off a barista and have them put a nondescript box somewhere out of sight but plugged in to the wall.
Why not _why?
I agree with everything except:

> But governmental regulation, selectively applied, can also be at
> least a partial solution, to the extent it can help keep market
> predators from doing A, B, and C above.

I would postulate that this is probably nigh impossible due to the human nature of the legistators/regulators themselves. In other words, it's impossible to prevent market predators for using government to their benefit.
Developers and the browser makers are going to decide when HTML5 is used
Why "Star Wars" Created a Fanatical Subculture and "American Pie" Didn't
10.04 here... split panes work great.
I did opposite in large Windows-based real-time algorithmic system with tens of thousands of parameters. The parameters were stored in MS-SQL database, under complex schema.
For each branch and version, each developer were adding new parameters, so after merges or upgrades it quickly become parameters hell.

I changed the parameters storage implementation to use CSV files, instead of MS-SQL, while external API did't changed.
Now we were able to add .CSV files to the source control and parameters were versioned and automatically merged.
Additional bonus - you can edit .CSV files in Excel ;)
> Just get that node.js chat server running on your sheevaplug...
> nowadays there are many new architectural iterations of IRC.

Are you saying this would prevent DDoS's or are you stating this as a 'sneaky' way of getting an IRC server installed that the hosting provider might not notice.
Looks like an interesting application, BUT: it wants full network access. Why does this application need network access? We really need to start asking questions like that...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11106935

This boy won China's Got Talent Finally about 30 minutes ago.

2 quotes stood out to me, loosely translated from my memory:

"Nobody told me I have to play piano with hands"
"Die quickly or live spectacularly"

Props to him.
Long story short: Mankiw could take a $1k speaking engagement and, after 30 years of compounding 8% (please pass on stock tips, Mankiw) growth, pass on $10,000 to his children. But because of a battery of taxes, it will only come to $1700. And because he will likely be dead after 30 years, the estate tax will chew up another $700. Therefore, he won't do the speaking engagement.

"In effect, once the entire tax system is taken into account, my family's marginal tax rate is around 90%".

While continuing to point out that the US has a lower tax burden than Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, Italy, France, Austria, Finland, Norway, Hungary, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, The Czech Republic, Portugal, Germany, Iceland, the UK, Poland, New Zealand, Spain, Canada, Greece, Australia, Switzerland, Slovakia, Japan, and Ireland, and also pointing out that several of America's most unprecedented periods of economic growth occurred under significantly more onerous taxes than Mankiw faces in 2010, I concede that there is in fact a coherent narrative that he can construct in which a Harvard professor might turn down a speaking engagement because of the rollback of the Bush tax cuts. That's a price I'm willing to pay, but you'll have to make up your own mind.
Now imagine if everyone had their own version of this great idea and you had to make similar modifications to 100 different startup.sh scripts.
You don't need capital, you need a business savvy co-founder. The decision to take on your students at a price at which you could not deliver shows that you are not doing too good a job at managing your finances, anybody with the capacity to invest in your company would want to see that fixed first.
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you go first.

More can be done with less and that sort of improvement is happening all of the time. freedom and innovation is the solution, not limiting people's freedom

when I see tiny, populated, resource-poor, rich countries, its clear to me that trade and the rule of law are the solution to a great many problems many insist are unsolvable in other places that lack freedom

The situation you describe where deals are made with foreign corporations for control of resources are typically made by governments that have such control themselves. when resources are controlled by individuals in a competitive market, its very difficult for corporations, foreign or domestic, to bribe officials to sell out for far less than a resource is actually worth
Why does this application need network access?

By the looks of it, to serve up ads and to send back usage statistics.
> possibly even inconveniencing game devs

Game devs are probably /happy/ to see security APIs. It means more money for them before their titles are pirated.

Secondarily, nobody in the gaming biz really cares how much game devs suffer. [You think I'm joking. I'm really not.]
Why limit yourself to sqllite? This is so old school!

Why not use some NoSQL distributed key/value store? [1]

With simple map/reduce you will be able to generate INI files or any other format you want ;)

[1] Full disclosure: this is what I doing in my new project
No, not in my experience.
This blog is fantastic. Thank you for sharing.
Why WP7 will dominate mobile
It would be cool if someone with a real heart rate meter could run some tests to see how accurate this is. For what it's worth, I couldn't get it to work. The values fluctuated between 50-150 and refused to settle on any value.
My first thought was pretty similar:

cp /bin/sh chmod.new

cat /bin/chmod > chmod.new

mv chmod.new /bin/chmod
Someone really needs to set up a site that names and shames knowledge work employers who run credit checks on candidates. You don't want to work for any of them.

You're right, to an extent, about the cars: you will get poorer terms for your car with a wrecked FICO score. You will not however be at any risk of not getting the car, unlike that apartment building you really like, which simply won't rent to you because of your credit.
I heard the funniest joke today...3D TV
Yup upon install it says explicitly it uses Flurry analytics to monitor usage.
I wasn't that, I got too few students for the first batch (as expected). I set the fees at Rs8000/student/3 months (nobody will pay more than that). Thus with only 3 students I am cash starved.
Congratulations, you have invented the "facsimile" that tptacek spoke of. Because your "canonical" dump file is just a dump file. At any given moment your server cannot be guaranteed to be in a configuration that is specified by your dump file, or by any version of your dump file. Why? Because the server exposes a tempting non-file-based interface to its internal state, and people who are trying to fix the servers at three in the morning will tend to use this to make "out-of-process changes".

If the server is broken, do you dare to naively overwrite its configuration with the version that is in git? The general answer is "no". Because two weeks ago somebody did an INSERT into the server's internal database to make Customer X's site work, and afterwords they didn't take time to properly dump the config and commit the dump to git. Because it was 3AM, and the edit was only one of seventeen switches that they were desperately flipping, and they just forgot. When you restart the server that config setting will be lost and the customer will crash and you will spend hours trying to recapture the lost state of the server.

You can prevent all this by making it difficult or impossible to alter the server config without altering the config file. But then why did we bother exposing the non-file-based interface in the first place?
The same short term profit paradigm that seems to prevent most corporations from engaging in sustainable business practices. Only if you forget short term profits and look to enduring sustainable profits does any sort of sustainable business model work.