skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Smoothies! I bought a blender (after I quit drinking, go figure) and get frozen blueberries/strawberries, go to the farmer's market and get papaya, mango, pineapple, dates, whatever. With or without ice cream, raw eggs, ground nuts, protein. Eating/drinking fruit seems to bouy me up mentally, emotionally and physically.

Cafe Bustello or Cafe Pilon -- bottom shelf grocery store, 1lb vacuum sealed fine-ground espresso roast for $5. I think it's really good. Makes two mugs in two minutes in a $12 Mr. Coffee.

Then I have about half an hour of kickstarted clarity, and an hour of weird chemical jitters. I guess I drink it for the flavor.

Gallons of Brita filtered water from the fridge--tap water here is warm in the summer. I would drink Fiji water, but with the amount I consume I could buy a plane ticket to the South Pacific.
Anecdotally: I never plan on subscribing to any traditional TV service (Cable, Satellite, etc). I can watch all of my shows online, between Hulu and Netflix. Also, I never plan on getting a traditional landline, as my cell phone coupled with Skype and Google Voice does the job quite nicely.

The only way I will get either of the two above mentioned services is if it's bundled inexpensively in a home data package (ie. Verizon FiOS or AT&T Uverse), because bandwidth is all that I really want/need.
In the UK the max you can charge is £10 and I assume their is a time limit but not sure about that.
Dutch Professor predicts the ups and downs of the stock market via Twitter
> - have a duty to protect the earth god gave us

One thing that has always baffled me about American Christians is how apathetic they are towards the environment.

At its core, I guess, the issue is that many are suckered by the right wingers and propaganda from large corporations to vote in their camp, by always bringing up other, more "pressing", moral issues.

I think as long as there are only 2 main viable parties to vote for, many of those folks will still vote along the traditional party lines.

So I agree with you, but it is an uphill battle.
It looks like I will finally have enough motivation to finally switch to Ubuntu. I just don't know if I can handle not having full control over my machine.
> I think the bigger picture is that this is a major transition in economies, and it is very good for people.

Oh, I agree. We're leaving the industrial age and that's a good (and big!) thing.
UPDATE 24/10/2010 @ 6pm: I have been informed that the change was part of a security update & that TfL are working on restoring the service immediately and are also fully committed to open data.
In solar science, the reason we get so much money is that satellite-launching agencies would like us to produce a "solar weather forecast", because solar eruptions can severely damage equipment in orbit. The top scientist I mentioned earlier had a paper that basically said:

"Solar weather forecasting is much more complicated than anticipated. The medium-term prospects are grim."

He bitterly complained that his paper was ignored. All the other scientists were busy making (possibly hopeless) predictions and applying for more grants. See also: the AI winter.

Yeah, so in that field, if you're one of the 5% guys and you're actually right, and can make a convincing case?

The issue here is that in a complex field, with such incredible uncertainty, when do we ever have a truly "convincing case"? Who's to be the judge on that? Hacker News readers? The government? So that leaves us with the other scientists. If they are any good, they'll graciously acknowledge the challenger's criticism. But if they are heavily invested in the status quo, they might find it easier to just ignore you.

I love science. But I'm uneasy its politicization. We've discussed a prominent scientist's resignation from the American Physical Society before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1775143 The top comment was great.
At the moment it looks like you will have no more or less control than on Snow Leopard.
Yea, I'd like to port it to windows and chrome, but this was just my MVP.

Do you know if the Windows built-in text-to-speech is any good?
I didn't see much difference in readability either. But its fascinating, the variety in viewpoints regarding something that most of us would not even give a second thought about.
great question

go check out the comment thread on the post

great discussion on that exact issue
You'll probably forfeit your one month bond (aka $200 - $400) if you leave that soon.

Staying safe is pretty simple - be smart. An iPhone is a month's salary down here so don't wander around talking into it or wearing those pretty white earphones. Don't carry a satchel around that says Dell, and generally don't take more than you need when you hit the street ... if you're getting a carton of milk you don't need your wallet or the credit cards and $500 in it.
I don't know where, but when you get there, I wrote an SPI HTML5/JS Goban for iPad/Safari that supports single capture and capture five on various boards:

http://github.com/raganwald/wood_and_stones

If you want other games like 2-capture or 3-capture, I can file an issue and add the games. And nothing's stopping you from forking, making the changes, and sending me a pull request :-)
Perceptiveness and luck are all you have in a situation such as this. You would need an extremely rare caliber of at least one.
Socialism realism is a bit of doublespeak, though. Here's Wikipedia:

> Socialist realism held that successful art depicts and glorifies the proletariat's struggle toward socialist progress. The Statute of the Union of Soviet Writers in 1934 stated that socialist realism "is the basic method of Soviet literature and literary criticism. It demands of the artist the truthful, historically concrete representation of reality in its revolutionary development. Moreover, the truthfulness and historical concreteness of the artistic representation of reality must be linked with the task of ideological transformation and education of workers in the spirit of socialism."

Read that twice if you missed it - it must be truthful, and also must take the task of ideological transformation. That is, propaganda.

"Socialist idealist" might be a friendly way of describing that style of art, or "socialist propaganda" would be a less friendly way. But either way would be far more accurate than socialist realist. As someone whose spent lots of time around the world, the socialist countries have had absolutely terrible taste outside of a rare few well-done landmarks. Soviet housing in Eastern Europe is still brutal and cold and spiritually oppressive, and the older people there simply don't smile and look proud like you see on the banknotes.

Actual realism in art positions itself against romanticism. The socialist propaganda art is highly romanticized. The name's very much an Orwellian-style misnomer that hasn't been appropriately discarded yet.
http://isshort.com

I wrote a blog post about it here: http://sjstrutt.com/is-short
The decentralized, anonymized web definitely helped get those videos out...but I don't know whether the social networks really had much effect. Even if they had, you're assuming that the Iranian gov't cares what a mass movement of its citizens thinks, which by all indications it doesn't. Things like Wikileaks, Cryptome and YouTube, which are not social networks in the sense that "social" is understood by the Valley, have far more potential to influence events on a government-to-government level -- or between other parties with power parity. The social nets are just a bunch of squawking parakeets that governments like North Korea and Iran are free to ignore at will.
This might not be such a wise idea. I think tablets as a form factor are going to remain confined to a limited section of the market, mainly due to ergonomic factors rather than anything technological. Tablets aren't great for typing. When placed on a table or desk the viewing angle and viewing posture isn't ideal, and holding one limits you to one handed interaction only.
There is also responsibility toward employees, customers, and partners, and to leave a reputation for building great companies and products. It's only a pure exit if none of those things will carry on and the investors get only cash, which would almost never happen. These other responsibilities are unfortunately not respected by many investors, which is why founders try to keep control, a la Facebook and Google.
Despite the conservative naysayers, the federal government is heavily invested in climate research. Take the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab (GFDL) in Princeton, NJ. This is a NOAA facility involved with sophisticated climate models. Raytheon, a major defense contractor, was involved in day-to-day operations and public relations.

A defense contractor is involved with public relations for this facility, not Indymedia.

Typically, climate models require the resources of high-performance computing facilities with thousands of processors. These facilities cost tens of millions of dollars to implement, and millions to maintain.

Why is climate research a matter of national security, involving the oversight of defense contractors and personnel with security clearance? For at least two reasons. First, it is of strategic interest to the United States to know how the planet will be affected by global warming. If large parts of China or the Netherlands are going to end up submerged under 20 feet of water, and millions of people will have to be evacuated, this U.S. would not want to outsource the ability to forecast this to, let us say, non-allied countries.

Another reason is that with the increased likelihood of hurricanes in the Gulf (to mention one case of extreme weather) it is a matter of national security to have better models for predicting the likely trajectory of a hurricane as it approaches land. A wrong guess can cost billions.

Despite the global warming deniers among politicians who are loyal to the big energy lobby, you can rest assured that funding for the development of sophisticated climate models and the elaborate high-performance computing systems, scientists and operational support personnel needed to design, run and maintain them them is provisioned by the federal government as a matter national security.
There is no single optimum, however there is value beyond merely surviving. Our quality of life is better than it was in the past, so why would anyone be happy at the prospect of that going down due to climate change?
Also Italian.

I really don't care, either, except that it can lead to discomfort when one is browsing a mixed shelf, say at book sale.
The index.php file is the install file.

The actual system is re-routed using mod_rewrite. After installation, it never uses index.php again.

Also, don't you use any template system?

No, actually, I use a different approach. Using simple_html_dom, I target the dom within the controller. The views are layout skeletons that are then populated with data. Check out the example component's comments for more info.
It all comes down to "smaller piece of a bigger pie".

http://www.paulgraham.com/equity.html
Pink Politics
"If he really wants to scare the crap out of them he should..."

... automatically turn every API request into a FOI-based official inquiry e-mail :)
The point isn't that the governments in Iran or North Korea care about tweets - they don't - but that the people there and here can find common ground, rendering the governments less relevant. Not "superfluous" - but less able to influence things for the worse.
I was sold on social media when I asked a friend about Square's encryption via twitter (he was ecstatic about it), and got an answer directly from the top in response.
Many folks still vote along traditional party lines even when you have 3 or more viable parties, as is the case in most of Europe. Tribalism is rather persistent.
This should be at the top of the post, rather than right at the bottom... (Another case of malice or stupidity--stupidity wins a lot of the time.)
It's a lot easier to say what's not a start-up than what is a start-up.

IBM: not a start-up.

Your side project that makes $2 on adsense every month: probably not a start-up (but it might still become one).

You and your buddy working hard together on some web-app that nets you $2K per month and has your eyes locked on the 'growth' stats: most definitely a start-up.

Things like location, funding and so on have little to nothing to do with it.
The Age of Perception
I don't think you can say "after supplier releases own commercial app" without being a little dishonest:

I have been using this successfully for more than 6 months for both London Bus (now called London Travel Deluxe) and London Tube Deluxe Pro for iPad.

The blogger (and many commenters) jumped to conclusions way too quickly here.
This NYT story speaks for the overpowering importance of Assange's actions in regards to the war. He might be a shady character, a dictatorial wikileaks leader, or even a rapist but leaking the documents he did leak will undoubtedly be the most important action of his life. You might disagree with the actions of this man but debating over his personal life or the way he manages wikileaks is moot. The important fact here is: he may well have changed the course of a couple of wars and the course of America's relationship with its military. That's what we and the NYT should be talking about.
Yes, however I think the changes being made are definitely putting Mac OS on track to become a lot of more like iOS in future iterations.
Cassandra at Twitter
I also love to drink fruit smoothies in the mornings. I used to work at a Jamba Juice so I replicate some recipes as best as I can remember.

Try getting a plain yogurt to blend in, if you like the taste of dairy. Also, using a fruit juice as a base to blend into makes a huge difference. My favorite is apple juice because it is just sweet and not overpowering/citrus-y.
Dear Gowalla, It’s Not You, It’s Me
Wrong do-gooders are more dangerous than evildoers.
I was reading about this when I cranked out http://www.emptyfridge.org/
It's all about the order of the lines. Let's assume the following is printed on two lines:

> 1: Fear and Loathing
> 2: In Las Vegas

If rotated to the right (considered top-to-bottom), line #2 is to the reader's left when viewed on a book shelf. This is opposite the traditional left-to-right reading direction we use in west.

Whether or not this impacts you individually isn't as significant as the difference in reading direction outlined above.

I tend to side with the "local" belief that "when the book is lying face-up, its spine is of little value, because you can read all you want on the cover."
Desktop apps? Hmmmm I dont remember them
You sound awfully cynical about this. I see the data collection as part of the service.

They provide a way for people to communicate easily, refine searches and ad displays to interests, and they get to sell the aggregate data.

It's not exactly a bad deal. I certainly don't miss the days of poorly targeted everything.
Ask HN: What do you think of F#?
Looks pretty succinct and expressive. Good IDE (VS) and nice framework (.net). Easy async programming, units of measure, quotations (as far as I understand it's similar to lisp macros). Though running on linux is pretty painful, it still can be done using mono.

So what do you think?
1. Stupid question, but are runners allowed to run out there in foul territory?

2. The most usual cases where speed matters are two and three base advances--double, triple, second to home on a single. I'd think the advantage would diminish in proportion.
For me, it was first to identify all of my/our expenses. Amazing what amount of money can flow through one's hands.

Compare income to that expense, and you know if you are positive or negative.

To go from negative to positive, or to set aside "fun" money, I decide if any of those items could be dropped or paid off sooner, rather than later.

This is also a basis for allocating an amount to stash for savings - I like to have between 6 months and 1 year's living expenses set aside - You never know what's going to happen, and I feel so much more secure.

Once the safety net goal is reached, that same amount, when not directed to fun experiences, can also be directed at retirement/investment income.

If you've ever played the game of Cashflow (Robert Kiyosaki) you come away with the notion of having passive assets generating enough cashflow to cover your expenses - Very powerful idea.
My friends and I always talk about how cool a site like this would be, awesome work! This is pretty much exactly what we were thinking of; we referred to it as "Pandora with music videos."
For an absolute beginner I'd add that the computer should give you a 9 stone handicap. Dial the handicap down as you start to get the hang of it.

Move to a 13x13 when you want the game to get more complex. Raise the handicap again when you do so.
It amazes me how easy it is to get distracted from the basic definition.

For instance, I've read tons of articles that talk about young teams as being so great because "they don't know enough to know what is impossible." The implication is that a young team can change the world and do great things.

That's a wonderful point, and I agree with it. But it's not a startup. The whole reason for the big-idea, change-the-world observation is that ideas that change the world tend to scale very rapidly. And that's the definition of startup.

Easy to lose track of the main goal in all the bloggery and such.
I know that's the positive view of the situation... but if it makes governments less relevant and makes Facebook more relevant, all it's doing is shifting the power locus somewhere else, not actually enabling people. Spreading the word is worthless without power parity and trust. I.E. social networks don't threaten governments any more than a mob of people in the street would; empirical evidence in Iran does suggest that the rest is hype. After all, it's not like the US population started pressuring their government to invade and save the Iranian resistance -- or the Darfurian resistance, or anybody else for that matter.

And empowering Facebook isn't such a hot idea, is it? Facebook isn't a democracy, either; it seems to care as much about the will of its constituents as does the Iranian gov't.
On the payment page, I was confused by two things:
- "Regime Length"
- HOW MUCH I'D ACTUALLY PAY

It actually seems that they might be tied together? Is "regime" in your context referring to the months of subscription that I can sign up for, the max length ahead of time I can set a goal...? I did not recognize its meaning in this context.

Also, it was not clear how much I'd actually pay you if I signed up for a paid plan. The sub-heading of the "Cost per Month" shows that I can cancel, but am I paying monthly or per year? Anyway, that's what I thought reactively. It seems that cost per month multiplied by regime length is the sub-heading cost amount for each subscription.

That makes no sense to me.

And as someone trying it out, I'm not sure if I'd sign up for a free plan that I'd be afraid of upgrading.

Cool idea. But I am afraid to sign up for anything besides the free plan based on the payment matrix.
I've been using a Kinesis for ten years, and while it took some time to get comfortable with it, I've never lost my ability to touch type on a regular flat keyboard; probably because I've had laptops around the whole time, and have done plenty of coding on the sofa/train/&c.
Care to share little more? Where traffic come from, how you built it, estimated revenue...
Social Network Movie -- Luis Buenaventura (Part 1)
"Hopefully apple doesn't miss the social boat",

I use social media tools as much as the next guy, but I don't believe that a company like apple really needs to get 'inside' the whole 'social media' movement.

I think they're playing the right moves focusing on allowing their platform to be a great base for these newer forms of media. All their new products and updates lend themselves well towards being a good base to build robust simplified online interactions on.

The iPad + App store are a prime example - it's almost the perfect tool to build easy, simple, social interaction software on top of.
I've always looked at what I do as building helper robots for people to make their work life suck a little less.
I had no idea what it was. For those similarly unaware: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/projects/fs...
Facebook Disconnect – By a Googler Surprised? [Chrome Extension]
Tracking user information without their “knowledge” isn’t funny! You know what funny? Employee of a company,
I constantly travel to Latin America, speaking at conferences and recruiting talent. I've lived/worked in Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Peru Colombia and traveled to Honduras and Guatemala.

If you want to go to central america let me know. I can introduce you to the tech/startup community there. They can hook you up with the best/safest placest to live, work areas, and the whole thing.

My personal experience is with Guatemala and Honduras, though I know top notch developers and entrepreneurs (all bilingual) throughout the whole region.

If I were you, I'd pick costa rica to live in if you want to live in Central America. Bigger expat community, great nearshoring tech talent. Though Chile will give you $40k to startup in Chile.

When I go live/work at a LATAM country my process is usually:

1. Stay in a hostal for two days, those two days I check out places to rent
2. In south america, you can find great stuff on craigslist, furnished rooms or studios from $200-$500/mo
3. Meet local entrepreneurs, and find coworking spaces/become an office guest.

If you need more tips/intros for living in LATAM, my email is in my profile, or @andresbarreto
How can targeted advertising be a service? It would only be a service if you wanted to buy something but you didn't know what until you saw an ad for it.

I think it's bizarre that anybody who grew up after the '50s would buy anything based on an ad... and yet... I make a living in advertising because it's true.

I'd rather live in a world where it wasn't.
This is the heart of why every startup founder should learn Steve Blank's customer development.
They made out well before the social wave hit.
Once I learn AJAX, I'll definitely implement that.
For breakfast, some fruit if I'm feeling healthy. A bacon or sausage bap if I'm not.

For lunch, chicken or prawn sandwich from a local deli most of the time. If I have money I'll go for lunch to a bar or restaurant with friends.

For dinner, pasta and tuna (so cheap and easy to make) or a pizza if I'm lazy. I try to avoid takeout but working late means this can easily happen.
The Impact of the WikiLeaks War Logs
This reminds me of two important things:

The #1 thing you need to do is find a way to sustain yourself and your energy through the long slog - Paul Graham's "How Not to Die"

The #2 thing you need to do is build relationships with customers and understand who's problem you're solving and how you're going to do it.

Figuring out how to make forward progress is easier than figuring out how not to give up and how to get anyone to give a shit.
But there is a reason. Plenty of reasons, in fact, some of which the article explains.
Office coffee maker would require $2.5 million sewage treatment facility