skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only answer to your question I can imagine would really be "it depends". I'd probably wait for more data to come in on the grounds that I don't have any compelling need to make a decision anyhow, so whatever you're trying to get at this is probably not a great question to do it with. I am interested in particle physics but only as a passive observer.

(Further edit: Oh, you're probably trying to say I shouldn't be skeptical in light of the meta-analysis. The correct thing to do here is to do some more experiments that continue to show the effect shown in the metaanalysis, there's too many ways a metaanalysis can screw up. Particle physics is a really different world than psi research. If it remains, great. I'm actually not too invested in the "time flows in one direction" theory, because in point of fact relativity itself disproves it even before you get to quantum mechanics; it is at best partially ordered and in fact some things happen in quite counterintuitive ways in straight-up relativity even though they ultimately resolve into something that matches our intuitive understanding of time. In ways that would exceed an HN posting to describe, though, I think that relativity ultimately forbids reverse-time information flow even more strongly than you'd think as a result, not less strongly. I'd suggest googling up "Reflections on Relativity" and be prepared to spend some serious hours with it; it is not light reading.)
Saying that Genera was portable because Open Genera was there is like saying that MS DOS is portable because there's QEMU.
I agree that open-source contribution requires a willingness for self-directed learning. But I don't see how you can draw the conclusion that these students are unmotivated.

Incidentally, I first learned subversion from a student-run session on contributing to open-source, similar to the one the author ran. I went on to spend hours deciphering and studying an open source project that I was particularly fond of. I've since contributed to several open-source projects, all by teaching myself the codebase and toolchain as required.
> Britain and Australia got there first with the realisation that foreign students can be conned into going to third or fourth tier universities and paying handsomely for it

In Australia, this is partly because the price charged to domestic students is price-controlled. The "Group of 8" (conceptually our Ivy League) charge the same as distance education universities.

And the amount received is not very much. Fees for international students are unregulated and so it has come to pass that Australian students are largely educated at the expense of foreigners.

It's starting to unravel because the current government have closed a 'loophole' that led from the student visa to permanent residency.
Do More vs. Do Better
Do you really need the smaller display?
Shopify for user registration
Hi fellow HNers. I'm working in a start-up and while we are good web design/UX, we aren't web app geniuses.

Especially with the Firesheep debacle in mind, we're looking to see if there's any services out there that will handle user registration and log in for us.

Kind of like Wufoo + log in.

With thousands of apps all needing this common functionality, surely there's something out there?

Thanks!
I'm building this with a community that meets in SF. It's still at an early phase but now would be a great time to give some feedback. I definitely want to cater to the NYC scene as well, so you can be our #1 there.

Leave your email here if you're interested.

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As another comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1880981) pointed out, this is part of the ANSI standard for SQL, and not exactly due to MySQL's handling of NULLs strangely (there, also fixed the apostrophes for you).
I am John Hugg. I do work for VoltDB. I am proud of our transaction isolaton.

Not sure why this comment was a reply to me though. I've never claimed all NoSQL is EC, not all SQL/Relational is ACID. I totally agree there is a lot of unfortunate confusion, though I wouldn't limit the blame.
- With agressive negotiators it's better to go to the fixed price (adding % of risk to your total).

I tend to be very careful when dealing with aggressive negotiators. Yeah, they might negotiate aggressively up front, then be decent down the line, but I've had so many experiences with 'aggressive negotiators' attempting to change the deal later that I generally price in a lot more scope creep up front, and I make sure to charge them for things like phone calls or emails; things I might do for free for an easier to deal with client. I'm also much more aggressive about getting paid on time when I know I'm dealing with an aggressive negotiator than I am normally.

The thing is, good negotiators put a lot of effort into putting you into a situation where it's expensive for you to walk away, then they ask for more work before they pay you. I've seen guys who are several months late paying ask for another milestone before they send the cheque. The key when dealing with these sorts is to stay out of situations where it's expensive to walk away. Give the person a credit limit, (you are, after all, loaning them money when you do work post-paid) and if they exceed that credit limit, stop work until you get paid.

(I think one needs to be careful here; I don't think it's acceptable to threaten to break things if you aren't paid... but I think it's completely reasonable to just stop, and in my experience, stopping work is ridiculously effective. Every time I've tried it I've gotten a cheque overnight.)
Hardware:

- Dell Studio 14" laptop

- Sennheiser HD202 headphones

- Nokia 5310 XpressMusic cellphone

Everyday software:

- Arch Linux

- Awesome window manager

- GNOME environment

- GNOME Do

- Rhythmbox

- Google Chrome

- Pidgin

- Dropbox

- Nexuiz (open source FPS game)

Programming tools:

- Eclipse Helios

- Java (Sun's JDK)

- Various Java frameworks and libraries (Wicket, GWT,
Hibernate, Guice)

- Mercurial

- TortoiseHg

- gEdit
- VirtualBox

- Windows XP (virtual machine)

- Adobe Flash Builder 4 (running on the virtual machine)

- Gimp
Laptop

- MBP 17"

Netbook:

- Lenovo S10-3 with Win7 (for compatibility testing). Damn, windows sucks.

Dev systems:

- Circa 2004 Shuttle XPC, single core AMD64. Ubuntu

- Via M'Serv S2100 (Via Nano x86_64, 1.6 Ghz). Ubuntu

- EMC/Iomega IX2-200. Linux 2.6.22.18 with customized userspace

- Sheevaplug (Dev box for Kirkwood development (see ix2-200)), Ubuntu

- IMac 27" (quad core, 8 GB RAM), OSX

- VirtualBox, x86_64 VMs running Ubuntu

Editor:
- MacVim (syntax highlighting disabled)

- Sam (http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man1/sam.html)

Browser:
- 99% Chrome

- 1% Firefox

- Cannot stand the internet without adblock

Dev for current project:

- Tools: gcc, make, awk, debugging: printf() and occasionally gdb ...

- Language: C (yeah baby, rockin' it old-school)
But the stuff patio11 posts related to BCC is interesting. I think writing interesting posts and submitting them to HN counts as participating and providing value.
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To articulate my needs a little bit better, I'd like the service to be able to verify phone numbers and/or e-mail addresses.

The service would be white labeled such that, to the user, it would look like a normal registration form and login specific to my app with a custom confirmation e-mail.

The confirmation e-mail part is probably the biggest headache of all and something I'd like to offload.

We don't want to use FBConnect or Google accounts for branding purposes.

Any suggestions are appreciated. :-)
For most research purposes this is awful, though. Usually one's a lot more interested in this or that specific paper than in a random journal edition, as it is well known that both (1) academic journals end up having a low signal-to-noise ratio and (2) compounding that, most academic knowledge is very specific, so most of what's around will feel like uninteresting tripe to all but the most easily excitable reader (and I say this as a wannabe cs academic).

It's easy to forget how I am that machine learning and natural language processing have seemed to neatly avoid most closed-access traps (ACM, IEEE, Springer, Elsevier) and instead rely on open conferences and journals (and the closed-access Computational Linguistics journal is very often full of expanded versions of good ACL papers), and at the same time most researchers do realize that more people reading their work means more influence.
Who is Dave Winer?
Pageant and Plink for the Windows Git user
I'm thinking that you don't subscribe the the idea that people can get a second chance to turn their life around (or that people can turn their life around).
"They'll have a very hard time beating a viral video before they apply to college, and getting into college is going to be incredibly difficult once the selection committee Googles them."

Are you saying that these kids should be admitted into college over kids that don't throw rocks at people and destroy other people's property?
It's a tough question to be brutally honest. I agree there should be harsh penalties for false police reports especially in cases such as this. It shouldn't be an almost walk away, try again experience.
Jim Clark - Founder of Netscape
Jim Clark is the greatest serial web entrepreneur to date IMO. Love the books on him and today's news about Rockmelt made me want to read through his Wikipedia again.
Hardware: I alternate between a Dell 14" XPS Laptop and a home-built desktop. The laptop is run-of-the-mill, and the desktop is a dual Q6600 with 8GB Corsair and a couple 2Tb WD drives, housed in a gorgeous Lian-Li brushed aluminum 12-bay case and 3 24" Acer monitors (cheap). Keyboard is a Logitech G19, Mouse is a Logitech MX-9000. Speakers are the little volume icon speakers from art.lebedev (they were a gift, but they're cool, and don't sound bad at all). I've also got an 8GB Dell Optiplex that I use as a sandbox. It's running ESXi with a single Ubuntu guest.

Looking around my office, I've also got some Linksys Powerline adapters (faster than WiFi), another Dell Studio 14" with 4GB ram running Windows 7.

Software: All three boxes are running Ubuntu 10.something, the desktop and laptop are running 10.10, while the Optiplex is on 10.04(LTS).

Servers: I've got a colo'd VM with 8GB RAM, dual Xeon 1.8Ghz and 200Gb disk running Ubuntu 10.04 with GoNexTek (http://gonextek.com) for some older sites of mine, as well as 2 512Mb slicehost instances for staging (haven't migrated them to Linode yet), and a Linode 512 Slice.

Hosted platforms: I mentioned Slicehost and Linode, but I have a couple of tentative apps on AppEngine.

Servers: I've got some (what I consider legacy) sites running PHP-based code -- mostly forums and the like. Newer stuff is mostly either Django behind either Apache or Nginx or, more recently, most of my stuff is with Tornado/Twister/Nginx (Twister is my management framework).

Databases: MySQL, MongoDB

The newest project I'm working on (Plum) is using the following: Nginx, Tornado, Python, Celery, RabbitMQ and MySQL & MongoDB and Memcache. Steve built a beautiful MySQL / Memcache abstraction layer he calls BPEngine that acts as our ORM, but in addition that, it also populates / expires / manages keeping memcache seeded & updated, as well as kicking off requisite tasks into celery for some of the backend work.

That covers almost everything I can think of.
Desktop - Unknown ABS model. AMD Phenom 9500 quad-core, 2.0GB RAM, ATI Radeon HD 3850, crummy old IDE HD. I found this computer half destroyed at a junk sale and spent a few hours and about $50 refurbishing it to usable condition. Wouldn't have been able to afford it otherwise. The HD was missing, so I threw in an old one.

Laptop - Asus 8JS. Geforce 7700 graphics, 2Ghz Intel Core Duo, 2GB RAM, 120GB HD. 14" screen with 1440x900 resolution (looks photorealistic on some games).

OS - Ubuntu 10.10 as primary. Standard low-maintenance Linux, though occasionally I have to custom install something that has gone stale in the repositories. I also have mostly unused Windows XP and Vista boots.

Code editing - Eclipse or Gedit. I have rudimentary knowledge of VIM and painful memories of Emacs. I code in a whole slew of languages and generally find that I'm either okay with the really simple text editor (Gedit) or want code completion and automated testing (Eclipse). I also like to put SVN repos into a Dropbox. It's a free way to keep my code private but still have it backed up and synchronized between computers. I've used Git and Bazaar, never in a way that convinced me they were truly more advanced than SVN.

Web Browsing - Firefox. Tried Chrome and Opera, and I think I'm just more used to Firefox now and can understand its quirks. I was using Phoenix 0.4 back in high school, and people thought I was crazy.

Phone - was pretty uninterested in phones until Android came out. Now I have an HD2 (that's a WinMo phone) that I'm hacking to run Android.

Sound - anything I can salvage. People throw away tons of audio equipment. I have a huge pair of Tannoy speakers that look like they could power a rock concert. I think I have a usable amp for these, but I'm still figuring out how to wire everything.
Fashion Sheepskin Boots
Fashion is something special in each individual’s life. However you comprehend it, you can not deny to be fashionable becomes a must for modern people.
Are prices on Netflix, the App Store, and Kindle turning us into spoiled kids?
"If [Microsoft] grows some courage (doubtful) they could change the game in a big way – perhaps by acquiring companies like Canonical. Mark Shuttleworth could be crazy like a fox."

That Microsoft would acquire Canonical is crazy like a crazy person. Anything particularly unique Canonical does would be poisoned by GPL code, or copy-able without a buyout.
Not a huge fan. Already in a web browser, no real reason I can't just go to facebook the website, which automatically supports its new features (obviously).

Also not sure I want to see my friends faces all the time beside every webpage I visit. Definitely worth a try though.
Hardware: used Dell Optiplex 745, old 17" LCD, Unicomp clicky keyboard. Kensington trackball, HP GPIB card, Grado SR-125 headphones. Sun Ultra 60 and a Soekris in the closet. Several classic Tektronix oscilloscopes and plugins, assorted HP frequency counters, generators, and meters. Trimble Thunderbolt GPS disciplined oscillator as my 10MHz house reference. (My Rb atomic clock is currently powered down.)

Software: WinXP, VirtualBox, OpenBSD, Cygwin, Codewright, Opera, and lots of weird embedded tools.
Agreed - if there's one thing I don't need more of in my life, it's emails to read.
easy_install weberror, tempita, pygments

add egg:WebError#evalerror into your pipeline. It isn't in the default Pyramid paster template, but, it was mentioned that it will probably be included in in the default Pyramid paster templates. http://goo.gl/EDqNo is a document I wrote regarding the transition of a Pylons 1.0 to Pyramid 1.0a1 application.
The original Lopez-Alt article merely claimed that the alcohol has a lower boiling point, and therefore all evaporates during baking.

Alton Brown's show went further, pointing out that alcohol doesn't just evaporate quickly, it also doesn't form gluten while it's around. I don't quite remember whether he also claimed that the alcohol actually inhibits the gluten-forming action of the rest of the water.

Clearly more data is needed. Or perhaps some primary-source citations, but they don't taste as good.

As for the soup phenomenon: It could well be a temperature thing, and I will put my vodka in the freezer next time and see how that goes. But it could also be a flour thing, I suppose. Every flour has a different protein content, every region has its favorite mix of flours (in the south, for example, you can actually buy the flour that makes Southern biscuits famously soft and tender), so unless we set out to use the same weight of the same flour we're going to tend to see different results. (My flour is King Arthur unbleached all-purpose, by the way. I'm not sure of the extent to which King Arthur is a national brand.)
I don't really understand why these Certificate Authorities exist and need to charge money to sign a digital certificate. Couldn't some sort of user based distributed network be used for authentication? I mean we trust compilers and code patches (which do see many eyes) that we then load onto our PCs. Why can't we trust some similar mechanism of authority that is user based.
emacsclient -c on a new desktop. Done.
The man says that he's in a committed relationship, but that he's scared of the fact that he might miss the "single" experience. If you tell him that he is missing "a LOT" you're giving him encouragement for him to leave that relationship to live the single lifestyle that is completely overblown by the media.

It's easy to tell people they are missing the best part of being in their twenties, when in reality it's not all that it's been made up to be, as the only thing it really contributes to one's life is a false sense of accomplishment.

Here's another golden nugget for the grandparent: Everyone talks about the single lifestyle, but that's a lifestyle suited for a really small fraction of the people that supposedly tell you it's the next big thing. You need a boatload of social skills that a great percentage of people don't really have, you need to be sort of successful at the moment, you need to have a way with women (which is something that comes from a boatload of experience), and you really need to have at least a couple of friends that are living it large as well.

I've seen friends make this exact same statement, that they are missing out and that they think they should leave the relationship they have and try the single lifestyle. It always blows up in their faces. In contrast, the two friends I had that really lived this lifestyle at the same time I did both realized they where going down fast and now one is married and the other one is engaged.

If there is one advice I can give you GP. If you have a couple of friends that tell you it's the greatest thing ever, the threesomes, the challenges, the satisfaction of bedding that model, etc... realize one thing, for every one of those men, there are hundreds (if not thousands) that won't achieve the same experiences, and the one's that do generally burn out pretty quickly. If you were single, I'd tell you to try it out and see what happens, but you're not and it would be a mistake to try to live it up just because. If you're happy with your significant other, don't sweat it, it's a lifestyle not worth your while.

Hell most people that do live it up like this don't do it because of a life choice, they do it because it's the only thing they have ever known, and it's a thing that just happened. You can't artificially become a money spending ladies man just like that.
Who am I: Freelance programmer - mostly web stuff. Also working on a potential startup involving text classification.

Hardware: a Thinkpad W500. It's a very solid machine with lots of CPU, GPU and screen resolution. My only complaint is that the audio ports are on the front. No need for a desktop or any kind of subnotebook, though I do occasionally wish this machine had a couple dozen more cores.

OS: Ubuntu 10.10. Pretty much stock. Gnome, Compiz, etc.... A few notable oddities: I have the WM configured to raise only on title/border clicks; inner clicks focus without raising. That solves some of the same problems as tiling. I also have the whole trackpad set to work as a scroll surface, as I always use the trackpoint for a mouse.

Dev tools: Emacs, Git, Slime, Clojure, Ruby, Common Lisp on occasion, and sometimes I pretend to know Haskell. Occasionally have to deal with PHP, Javascript, Java and other cruft. Other languages on occasion as appropriate.

Other stuff: Chrome, Firefox, Quassel, Thunderbird (I actually like Evolution better, but it got unstable about my 3gb inbox), Virtualbox with WinXP and Win7.

Dream setup: the Thinkpad W510 looks pretty good. It's just like my W500, but with more memory slots, more cores and the audio ports on the side where they belong. It would also be nice to have a big, fast SSD and enough money that I could do all my heavy-duty number crunching on an EC2 cc1.4xlarge instance.
This is typical, and is expected by enterprise customers. Additionally, it's expected that 1 billable day could end up meaning anything from 5 minutes telling a staff tech which wire is crossed, or 15 hours working an exceptionally challenging problem. ymmv, and it all evens out in the end. If you feel like you're getting the shaft over the course of several projects, that's when you know it's ok to raise your rate (or that you need to improve your skills).
Most of the things listed there are not MySQL specific. Here's one that I'm pretty sure is:

SELECT * FROM example WHERE value = 'á';

where "á" uses UTF-8 encoding.

By default this will return rows that match both "á" AND "a", which may or may not be what you want.

If you want to make MySQL distinguish between an "a" with an accent and one without, then you need to specify a collation either in the table creation/alter statement, or in your query directly:

SELECT * example WHERE value = 'á' COLLATE utf8_bin;
What I do: all form of web devel.. 40% 'building' 60% 'maintaining'.

Desktop: generic dell dual 2.66ghz 4gig ram, dual 22in wide screen displays. I do most of my 'work work' here.

I use a kensington 'expert mouse' in lieu of a real mouse.

Laptop: Lenovo T410.. never use a mouse for this. i turn off the touch pad and use the little nib.

Software: (not much compared to most people)

Ubuntu for my linux distro ,
xmonad for window placement ,
vim for coding ,
git for source control ,
ff/chromium for browsing. ,
grooveshark for listening,

I use a couple vim plugins, mainly nerdtree. My vim is heavily customized.

My ff is heavily customized with vimperator, i also use firebug, measureit, and adblock

I have a nice pair of pass-through headphones, I don't remember the make or model.

I have a crappy razr-era cell phone and a couple old digital cameras.

I am pretty happy with my setup, I don't do too much cranking and neither of my systems really lag unless there is some serious javascript going on in FF.

I do virtually all of my work through a shell and spend more time in vim than anywhere.

I occasionally run windows inside a virtual machine to hack on flash.

I'd like to move my OS to a SSD. I also wouldn't mind a headless badass private server.

Vimperator and learning to customize vim have been the best things I have ever done for my computing environment.
He is the guy that set back RSS 10 years with his constant whining.
I can understand a possible flaw in a websites attempt to provide secure transfer of data, but just disregarding encrypted communication makes me question their title of web developer.
Additionally, if someone is hiring a contractor, that contractor may have a rate of $x/hr, but the customer is most likely going to pay them monthly because it's so much easier to work larger numbers into a fixed budget.
Perhaps it's because our community is more interested in self-improvement? The argument that, "oh, this happens elsewhere, so we shouldn't give it any special attention" is moot because we're supposed to be smarter, more open and more enlightened than the average.

We should all be affected when women can't go to a conference now without feeling that they can't act normally without fear of (at best) having to fend off unwanted advances, or worse.
Yeah, I don't understand why he even went to the meeting. Let them take him to court. Which they can't do, because he did nothing other than helping the police investigate a crime in progress.

Their "pedophile" is my "model citizen", and I think most people are on my side :)
I'm really interested in how he Macbook Air goes for you, as a programmer. I've been eying that exact same one, but I'm not sure I can validate the price since most of my life and work resides on a Linux server somewhere in the "cloud". If you want my email is in my profile. Thanks.
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