skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I didn't say that everyone in the 1930s was a pacifist. Obviously plenty of people weren't.

Wikipedia on 1930s pacifism: The British Labour Party had a strong pacifist wing in the early 1930s and between 1931 and 1935 was led by George Lansbury, a Christian pacifist who later chaired the No More War Movement and was president of the PPU. The 1933 annual conference resolved unanimously to "pledge itself to take no part in war". "Labour's official position, however, although based on the aspiration towards a world socialist commonwealth and the outlawing of war, did not imply a renunciation of force under all circumstances, but rather support for the ill-defined concept of 'collective security' under the League of Nations.
Not to defend Expedia, but if Google puts their own travel results on the front page, improving Expedia's website wouldn't help them. It could be made of gold-plated strippers, but no one would ever find out because they'd just use Google's flight search, even if Google's flight search sucked. Not that Google would make a crappy flight search (especially with ITA), but the point is that even if other companies did innovate and did make a better flight search that is theoretically better for the consumer, that still wouldn't be able to beat Google putting their own thingy on the front SERP. Don't get me wrong, Google's move is probably better for the consumer and Expedia does suck and deserves to get crushed on its own merit (or lack thereof), but despite that, "just do a better job" is not a viable option, and Expedia's complaints that Google has an anticompetitive advantage are legitimate.
I actually do that at home with my laptop on the backside of a kitchen bar area but at work would rather have a setup that fits in with the current furniture arrangements. If I can't buy such an adjustable desktop surface I guess I'll put an adjustable computer stand in a corner.
Extrasolar planets are one of the major discoveries of the last century. I don't understand why most people don't consider that as one of the most awesome discoveries ever.
"What pg speaks about is some kind of utopia."

More of a limit. By historical standards you're approaching it fairly rapidly. A couple decades ago you might have been using Cobol.

Someone has to work on the stuff at the limit, in order to generate the ideas that the "real world" stuff copies.
IMO Unity is just, appalling. That being said, I like my Linuxes with a small footprint windowing system and a decent colorscheme. I find this pretty desktop Linuxes stuff meek.
6 or 7. I'd love to sleep less than that, but i'm worried it might damage my health.
I'm at a sort of double cubical setup with one wall in front of me and someone on the other side. I think the only setup that could work would be a flat surface that is only an inch high when at lowest point but has folded legs that can hold the surface at various heights when it is lifted.
I like the service. Helps keep me on track. For some reason I use this differently than paper journals.

I think there may be a market for online coaching for independent, creative / solitary workers. A 10 minute phone call each day with a coach could have gone a long way for helping me stay focused when I was working by myself on projects. Journal entries like this could be a natural "entry" into this space.

If they gave me the option of paying a monthly subscription for a qualified, trustworthy coach to read my entries and help keep me on track I might go for it. Knowing there was somebody who would read it would motivate me to keep going and put more thought into my life.

(Of course, I'd change the way I wrote the entries if I knew it wasn't totally private. It changes the nature of the service.)
That's not really an effective way to compare the two.
From the tutorial:

SELECT * FROM things WHERE name="mongo"

================================================

> db.things.find({name:"mongo"}).forEach(printjson);
{ "_id" : ObjectId("4c2209f9f3924d31102bd84a"), "name" : "mongo" }

I am having a hard time finding the benefit of that except you can do it programmatically and not step out of your language of choice and into SQL.

I am just looking into this...so maybe the lightbulb will get brighter as I go through the docs for MongoDB.
"Because I screwed up" as a reason for a bug existing doesn't seem specific enough to me. My impression is if that's the best reason you can possibly come up with, then you should probably either think harder, or, if it seems to be just a case of "I made a typo," and it's one that's not similar to past mistakes you've made, you should forget about that particular bug unless a similar bug surfaces in the future.
I still don't see any evidence that it will scale - especially in the US. Most areas still have signs, so the areas without signs remain exceptions that put people on the defense.
I love that they're fast enough to use in hardware. Some of the newer schemes for hardware-accelerated transactional memory use Bloom filters to probabilistically detect when two transactions are using the same memory addresses. This is so much easier and more efficient than previous approaches, which had to use content associative memories and expensive broadcast operations.
This runs Android v1.6 and at least according to Maylong's (the manufacturer) support you can't upgrade to the latest Android due to hardware requirements.
Quite interesting - List of emerging technologies
You mean guerrilla (thanks, edited the original).
Yeah, there's over 10,000 feeds in the queue in front of all new users right now. I fixed a bug which was causing all new feeds to queue, instead of just new feeds that the user is activating. (New feed = feed never before fetched. So most feeds have been seen more). That 10,000 would've been a 2,000, but it still would've been too much in a single hour to handle. (That's 10,000 OVER the 14,000 feeds beings fetched already, so it's catching up quickly.)

Give it a few hours and it'll catch up and all will be well.
I was under the impression that good PR firms cost 10k/mo or more, which is much more than one should be paying for stuff like this.
No, no, I'm not saying that. Sure, anyone can get debit cards for their company, but you still have to have people deposit money into that account. And why are they going to do that? You'd have to have merchants. Credit cards work because they are widely accepted. If no merchants accepted credit cards, they wouldn't be as useful.

> Certainly sounds like the necessary infrastructure is in place for whoever wants to take a shot at being a PayPal disruptor at least.

The infrastructure is there. That hasn't been the problem for a long time now.
You could also send them a DM from their own account.
Why would it be real money in there? It's not hard to fabricate bills that would look like real money through the ice, but not once thawed - not to mention cheaper. Say, using over-size, laminated cardboard and not printing the back.
I tend to put laptops in this category.

Like any good nerd I spent countless hours trying to figure a way to remove and use the screen on one of the broken laptops piled up in my closet. There's no good reason for that level of waste.
Same here, configuring my KDE desktop used to be a hobby for me. With OS X, besides setting the desktop background, the only customization I do is hiding the dock and mapping caps lock to control.

I also prefer built-in software to 3rd-party alternatives – Safari over Chrome/FF, Terminal over iTerm, Spotlight over Quicksilver, etc. It took a while to adopt Apple's way of thinking, but it has made my life easier in the long run and saved tons of time to do more important things (eg. spend time with my kid^H^H^H^H^H^HHacker News).
If you explained this concept to me, I would probably have been "meh". But I atually found it incredibly enjoyable! It's like the new tech version of the old spin the globe and stop it by pressing your finger on it to see where your finger lands. Fantastic! I would love if this were somehow self-playing, rotating the view automatically and loading a new view every minute. edit: derp, there is! Love it! I'm going to make this my new screensaver.
Damnit Amex, Give Me A Credit Card
Fostering free software education
I see your point crystal clear. But what happens when I don't make you choose a max of 64 feeds? I still have to fetch 100% of your other feeds, which could be in the hundreds. And I have to do this for every single user, which is currently in the thousands (ohh, my poor server). It just doesn't scale with my economics. If I were Google, sure, I could just throw money at more machines. As it is, I'm stuffing envelopes full of cash and sending it to Linode.

Ideally, I'd make all feeds free and updated every 5 minutes. Realistically, if I force you to choose, I can perform that much better for everybody else. It's a trade-off which I try to stack in my favor by giving the user an easy-to-use UI to activate different feeds as they choose under the standard account.

You could pay $12 a year and get unlimited feeds. That would make both of us very happy. :-)
Whenever someone uses the word 'respectfully' it is invariably followed by something that indicates a lack of respect.

Respectfully, you could have probably gotten the point across without resorting to that sort of writing.

Disagreeing with someone does not automagically mean that they are misleading.
My guess is that they're not talking so much about the broad market as about being able to predict individual stock returns relative to the market. Having access to search-, browsing-, and click-streams of most people doing research on stocks could give them a strong indication of the realtime supply of and demand for stocks before individual and institutional investors execute transactions. My search history is probably the single best record of what I've been thinking about, and any competitor with access to it would have an excellent idea of what trades I have planned. If all Goldman Sachs traders were even stochastically telepathic, they'd have an unbeatable edge in the market.
Here are the specs, since the walgreens page was made by an idiot:

http://www.maylonggroup.com/M-150_MID.htm

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CPU	ARM9(VM8505+)

Memory	RAM	256MB DDR

Flash	Built-in Flash

Display	Touch Panel	7" TFT LCD

Resolution 800 X 480 Pixels

WIFI	802.11b/g

Input/Output

Touch Panel
Resistive type touch panel

Speaker	Built-in loud speakers

SD/MMC	T-Flash card slot

Network/USB	Dongle for RJ-45 network and USB connection

Buttons/Switches	Power On/Off, Volume adjustment

Battery	Built-in Li-Polymer battery

Charger	Input	AC 100-240V, 0.5A

Output	9V, 1500MA

Physical Characteristics	Dimension	7.5" X 4.6" X 0.3"

Weight	12 OZ
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I think this isn't aimed at paypal end users but at the application developers, or am I misinterpreting it?
Yes, that may have been why I included the 'take this with a grain of salt' bit.
Might make a decent car computer, with some add-ons.

It's kind of crazy you can't buy a discreet touch screen this size for less than twice the price.
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More than anything else, javascript programmers need a way to structure large codebases. Very few frameworks (including backbone.js) help with that and the build process of complex RIAs.

That said, I do like the simplicity of backbone.js.
What does "talent" look for in a leader?
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So what's your advice for the time being? Keep on shoving cheeseburgers to our pieholes?
I think a few of them are different versions of "My Happy Meal doesn't dissolve into green ooze!".

It seems to be the "Coke dissolves this penny, think what it does to your stomach!" of the 21st century…
The Genetic Algorithm. It totally blew my mind when I read about it's successful application to evolving satellite antennas for JPL, and the automated design of an analog->digital signal converter that relies on a component that isn't actually connected to anything else.
What happens is someone will read 30 blogs on blogging that say "hey lists are awesome," then whip up a random list without much thought, expecting fame and fortune.

It only works if you're either exceptionally clever, or are passing out some original information.
Interesting. I would suggest anyone considering a tablet of any kind, buy one of these.

I bought the K-Mart Augen tablet on a lark. I figured it was a good way to gague how much I would actually use a tablet.

Mind you this thing is an utter peice of shit but what it showed me was that I could justify buying a Galaxy Tab. With both the B&N and Amazon clients on there and the native Android applications, a 7" tablet is really the perfect size for me and has the exact functionality I want (youtube for the kids, google web apps and reader clients for me.)

EDIT: You will be UTTERLY frustrated by the resistive touch screen on one of these tablets. That's one of the major reasons I'm looking forward to my Galaxy Tab.
This is great. One of the barriers to entry for me into haskell hacking was finding a useful app to look at. Yi the editor was what finally got me over the hump. It's great that more people are recognizing this need and meeting it.
VC = Venture, Vapor, Vulture & Vampire Capital?
Exceptional (about exceptions)
> sometimes its about timing, and at this point in time, there are a lot of people who are really angry with paypal.

"At this point in time" has been for more than a decade. People have always been angry with PayPal.

> in what way do you think wepay right now is disruptive?

I don't think it is. It's not at all disruptive to PayPal. And I'm not even talking about the biggest limiting factor right now for WePay: lack of support for non-US payments.
Looks amazing to me, don't know yet if I'll be using it since I kinda prefer desktops apps, but I'm definitely going to try it for a while, and that's something that I almost never do regarding rss apps. Overall great great job. Best thing I've seen all month.
A water hose is all you need.
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Anti-creepy things that Eric Schmidt has said, but don't get press:

Q: How does Google think generally about leveraging user data, both to better target ads and how to stay competitive with those like Facebook and Microsoft and Yahoo that are leveraging data possibly more so than what Google is today? And I think this is particularly relevant for using search data for your display business but, would love to get your thoughts on that.

Eric Schmidt: "We have a pretty strong opinion that we're not going to do very much of it. The reason is that we take our end-user data privacy incredibly seriously and the trust that people have with respect to giving us that information, both their search histories as well as other pieces of information, they get very upset, very, very quickly if we, in their view, misuse it.

"So, what we typically tell people is we're not going to do the kinds of things that you could do with this, in particular use it to generate sort of strange ads against your history and things like that, without your explicit permission. And we probably, in many cases, won't do it forever."

--Q3 2010 Earnings Call, October 14, 2010
http://www.123jump.com/earnings-calls/Google-Q3-Earnings-Cal...

And this was a conversation with investors, not privacy advocates.
Same article as here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1834234
TELL HN: Lessons learned B2B Advertisement
For those of you who do not know the history. Here is the question I asked a while ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1744517

Then I went on to try a couple of things, and there are some lessons learned. I want to share it with the rest of the community.

1) Forums: Signed up to a series of forums for Accountants and Dentists and posted a couple of messages. Traffic generated was < 20 visitors over 3 weeks.

2)Facebook Ads: Thanks to a Facebook sales exec who saw my startup and was interested I got some traction and ended up generating 100 clicks with about 50,000 impressions which is not too bad, but generated no sign ups.

3) Direct Email Marketing: Contacted a sample of 100 businesses who are potential clients in different industries: doctors, accountants, dentists and cleaning services. Zero replies.

4) Contacted a specific newsletter for CPAs however the advertising costs are well over $10K. Didn't try.

5) Contacted a local radio and was asked for $10K budget for 10 airings of the ad + $750 ad production fee; off the table.

6) Directly contacted my own circle of professionals in the health space with one sign up.

7) Google Ads: Does generate some traffic but the visitor pattern on the site suggests that it's my potential customers' customers who are coming to my site not my potential customers. Still ongoing.

8) Currently In Progress: Bought special purpose vertically focused domains such as appointmentForDentist.com, etc and managed to show up on the first page of Google Search. Some traffic being generated but too early to tell if there will be any sign ups.

9) Currently In Progress: Printed out brochures with information on the service and will use snail mail to send it out to potential list of customers.

10) Next: Will show up at local business events and try to market the product personally.

In order not to spoil the post I did not give out the name of my startup, if you made it thus far here you go: smartpointment.com
I don't get it? Wepay and Paypal are different. Paypal markets itself as a sort of online bank account, whereas Wepay markets themselves as a place to get money from your room mates. Their comparison page includes DonorsChoose, why would I (assuming I'm an online retailer looking to accept payments) care for DonorsChoose?

They need to change their product and/or marketing direction if they want to compete with Paypal... Paypal are not a place to pay your room mates.

They should have somewhere I can compare them and Paypal like for like, feature to feature.

edit: oh and it gets worse, they ONLY allow US payments. Seriously who thought they're anything like Paypal or are suitable as a replacement? https://www.wepay.com/about/faq#thirteen
God in heaven, in the history of technology there has never been a more transparent, honest company that is openly willing to admit its mistakes and the gravity of the role that it plays. And all we can focus on is a bunch of sound-bites that a few rags have tactfully culled from the man's message. If you have ever seen Schmidt speaking, the man has a professorial manner. He gives full, well-rounded answers to questions. And when rags pick up the sound-bites, Gruber conveniently jumps in and calls him a creep. Give the man a break.
Awesome guys. Good work
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But, Java does suck!

I prefer a utopia where we don't need to write horrible complicated enterprise applications. They're not fun anyway.

The enterprises don't have a clue what they need anyway, I bet python can replace Java in all enterprise applications and do a better job, but the managers are too thick headed to accept anything unless it's mainstream and backed by a mega corporation.
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Strange. At these companies inception they presumably had no issue shoving 'middleman' travel agents out of the picture. They are now the middleman. Innovate or be disrupted.
Could it be that you're burnt out from this startup plus your other commitments? Is it possible for you to focus on the startup full time?

Since you're one of the founders, can you get rid of your current team and build the team you want to work with?
A more interesting observations is that since he processes search through Yahoo's (bings?) BOSS, and BOSS keeps logs...
You don't need to trust Assange, he's only providing facts.
Win-win?
$ python idiocy.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "idiocy.py", line 2, in <module>
import getopt, sys, pcap, dpkt, re, httplib, urllib
ImportError: No module named pcap

I'm not a python programmer. I don't see anything the equivalent of 'gem' to install modules. Googling isn't helping. Here's what I thought to try so far.

$ easy_install libpcap python-pcap python-dpkt

Searching for libpcap
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/libpcap/
Couldn't find index page for 'libpcap' (maybe misspelled?)
Scanning index of all packages (this may take a while)
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/
No local packages or download links found for libpcap
error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('libpcap')
Wow, really dude? Paleolithic or fast food? Nice.
Indeed. They are pushing full screen apps where it makes sense for them to be full screen (iPhoto, video editing stuff, etc) not everywhere. Web browsers, like you pointed out, along with stuff like: iTunes, terminals, text editors, ftp clients, cd burning apps, etc all would be pretty silly full screen.
Ironically, this kind of misplaced self-assurance was what led us (qua 'the west') to trash our own standards on issues like torture and human rights in the first place.

Though Assange has a propagandist air which I find troubling, these leaks basically strike me as a good thing. The accumulated insults to conscience and intellect over the course of the Iraq war have long eclipsed any legitimate strategic interests that were at stake. I think a period of review and self-examination is in order.
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Or perhaps look at the way people eat in other countries outside of America where most people aren't obese and compare notes.
Where is the ideal location to establish a tech start-up? 
If you are real estate investor, location, location, location is your mantra.

Many of us are Co-founders of a tech start-up, and at some point have come across this question:

Where is the ideal location to establish my tech startup?

The internet allows us to be anywhere, but can a start-up really be anywhere?

For example, could your startup be located here?
http://bit.ly/cova1m

Some locations I’ve been thinking for establishing our start-up, www.thekinetik.com include Berlin, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, New York, Rio, Sao Paulo, San Francisco, and a deserted beach somewhere in Brazil or Thailand.

I’d love to know some ideas and opinons on the ideal location to establish a tech start-up…
Ask HN: financial model for SaaS business?
Does anyone know of a spreadsheet for building a financial model for a SaaS business?

I am looking for something similar to @ryancarson's SAAS Model spreadsheet on Google (http://jaxn.me/9KaU4e), but with assumptions that can be changed (like for creating best/worst case scenarios).

I searched HN pretty heavily and couldn't find one, but I could have sworn I have seen one posted here.
master>python idiocy.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "idiocy.py", line 2, in <module>
import getopt, sys, pcap, dpkt, re, httplib, urllib
ImportError: No module named pcap

Is there a python equivalent to RubyGems ?
Ask HN: Cheap android tablets with market access?
Looking to find readily available cheap android tablets running a modern version of the OS, works relatively similar with most apps (as it will be used for development), and has market access.

Any mobile dev shops have favorites on the low end of the scale?

I'm honestly surprised google doesn't run a service pointing to all the different android devices for sale.
I've been considering building a service for this very thing. Would you be interested in having a conversation with me? My email address is in my profile.
I think you should "shoot first, ask forgiveness later". Select just the 64 most popular feeds for the user, and then put a big button on top of their feed list saying "Limited to 64 feeds... see everything for only $12", or some better copy along those lines.

That is, I should go "wow!" before "awww, free is only 64", instead of the other way around.