skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Working on it, bro.
Ctrl-Backspace isn't a good shortcut for deleting items. That's the shortcut to delete a word to the left in Windows.
"We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. As of today, there are significant performance and battery life gains to be had by disabling Flash Player on Mac OS X."

No, we won't "cross that bridge". Colour me skeptic, but I've yet to see DF admit to any of the insufficiencies of HTML5 over Flash.

When confronted with contrarian proofs, the average Steve Jobs allegiant will cite other FUD grab-bags (ex: security issues, battery life, etc.). It's tiring to watch intelligent people pushing HTML5 based on fallacy after fallacy. Everyone wants HTML5 to evolve, but not by the hand of bullshit.
Isn't Flash 10.1 GPU-accelerated? Maybe that was just for videos. Though I recall the Mac version using one of the Core libraries for vector graphics.
I think you provided a great breakdown of grappling - the decision tree analogy was great.

I think the opportunity to practice something with the analytical element discussed here is great. Really, all martial arts are highly analytical, but different martial arts afford different opportunities to use these skills. I think all martial arts (or martial art sports) involving competition have similar levels of analysis, but lots of martial arts instructors require you to reach some sort of physical foundation before teaching you any true technical aspects. So, as said, it all depends on what you want.
The hack is to print FIRST on your boarding pass. The person checking whether or not you are allowed in the priority line does not have access to the reservation system to check that you are actually in first class. You keep your real boarding pass in your pocket and show that to the TSA and gate agent.

Note: untested. I get to use the first-class lines anyway :P
I dispute this:

>The energy is absorbed mostly in the skin, NOT throughout the volume of the entire body as with other types of ionizing radiation. Also, the dosage is delivered in a few (under 30) seconds. You have to consider dose per unit time; the figures often mentioned for long flights mention the total dose, which is distributed over a period of HOURS.

First, your comparison is misleading. The dose of a backscatter x-ray is about 0.02 uSv [1]. The dose rate at 40,000 ft is around 6 uSv/hour [2]. Simply sitting in an airplane exposes you to the equivalent of a backscatter x-ray every 12 seconds (not "hours"). The dose rates are comparable; the flights last hundreds of times longer, hence give hundreds of times higher doses.

Second, your emphasis on "dose per unit time" (or dose rate) isn't actually important. For low doses (and these are EXTREMELY low doses), there is no difference between fast and slow exposure [3]:

>When you are asked whether there is a critical time period over which 1 rem of dose may have a greater biological impact than it might otherwise have, the answer is "No." One rem of dose is sufficiently low that whether it was delivered within one second or spread over a year or more, we would not expect any difference in biological effects.

(Note 1 rem = 0.01 Sievert (Sv) -- 500,000x higher than a backscatter x-ray).

[1] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1268330...

[2] http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/info/RadHaz.html

[3] https://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/q8325.html
You are being way to alarmist.

I fail to see how this is bad. If Salesforces wants to access Google contact information, then it's only fair for Google to be able to access Salesforce contact info.

And this access isn't some automated way for Google to suck all your confidential data out - it's only on your request that the data would be accessed. Just like when facebook asked for your permission to access your google contacts to see if other friends are already using facebook.

Whilst Google is doing this to protect their market, it should nevertheless be applauded for 'encouraging' others to be more open.
generally speaking you are worth 5 times your annual revenue ($1M) however with the growth rates you are experiencing I think you would not be out of line asking for $1.5-2M maybe even more if ou can prove the growth trend over sevral months with hard numbers
I have tried Judo, Aikido, Kendo, and Muay Thai, and done Karate and Tae Kwon Do extensively.

Personally, I'm doing it for the physical training and the sense of accomplishment more than practical fighting abilities, since I don't plan on getting into a street brawl.

Aikido didn't really feel like exercise to me (I barely broke a sweat in training), but it's a lot more focused on energy and focus, which is also cool. Judo is great if you are short and stout, but I'm too tall and skinny. Muay Thai was a little too harsh and physical.

For me, Tae Kwon Do and Karate combine strength/stamina/flexibility training with the calm, focused side of things that I also like about martial arts. Tae Kwon Do focuses almost only on kicks, while Karate includes both kicks and punches. I have really stiff legs, so Tae Kwon Do actually turned out to be great training.

The beginning can be the hardest part to get through if you start in really poor condition, so my advice is don't give up! You will get stronger and surprise yourself if you stick with it.

Overall, learning to have control over your body and move swiftly, powerfully, and efficiently is a great feeling. Martial arts groups also tend to be open, supportive, and a great source of stress relief, in my experience. Good luck!
It's almost impossible to know until you try it. It depends a lot on how good your offer is, and how good your site is. A rough guideline would be: expect between 2 and 10% of people. Which in your case would mean that the cost to acquire a customer would be between 20 (2 x 10) and 200 (20 x 50) US$ per purchase, which is fairly typical for, say, a consumer subscription product.

It all depends though, on what you're renting out etc. You just have to try it.
Is making a site or a business around other people's data (YouTube's, Vimeo's etc) a bit risky in the sense that if YouTube changed their policy or terms, or just got arsey, and blocked your access you might be left high and dry?

If I were an investor (which I'm not - no experience or skills in that area) I would be interested to hear your answer on that. What would plan "B" be if something like that were to happen?
You're over thinking it.

You still have full control over connecting to Google. If you don't want two-way syncing, and you don't trust it, then don't connect. The clause reads "agreeing to enable your users to"; i.e. you get to decide when data is transfered.

Giving permission to Google to share your Google contacts with Facebook is an inherently different action from giving Facebook permission to share your Facebook contacts with Google. This clause simply ensures that you have the choice to go either or both ways.
A good way to review a dojo is to search for it online, particularly on bullshido.net:

e.g. site:bullshido.net dojo_name_here
That's the perfect description.
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Not really. If they arrest you, you still have to be arraigned within 24 hours and have to be given a speedy jury trial.

It's really only the search-and-seizure business that does not apply. They think.
5% growth monthly (if you can manage to continue that growth) means you're just about doubling the value of your company annually. ($16k sales this month will be $32k in 15mths).

If you keep the company growing at this rate for another 3 years you'll have an annual income of over a $1M.

So how many years are you planning to run the business for?
What is the likely sustainable growth?

Do some maths on that.
Not myself being a lawyer, I don't mind hearing this at all. What I mind slightly is not knowing why I'm wrong. Help me out!
3 to 5 times annual revenue is indeed typical. From there on it's all handwaving about "exponential growth" and "strategic value" to get more than that.

You are "worth" what they are willing to pay, it's that simple. In terms of money, you're worth about a million dollars. But it wouldn't be that weird to get much more, depending on how good you are at handwaving about "strategic value" and "exponential growth", and playing the negotiation game.
I believe that established businesses sell for 3-5 times their annual revenue. Your situation sounds different. With practically no costs, steady growth, and the claim that you don't advertise --- well, that can make you quite a premium company to acquire. And the fact that you are being courted allows you to try pitch for even higher $$$.
I should mention that I seem to be one of the substantial fraction of the population who's immune to exercise. I went to a gym for a year, spent two hours three times a week, aerobic and weightlifting. I didn't gain any muscle. I didn't lose any weight. It does nothing for me. Yes, I know it works for you. This is not because of your superior mental discipline; it is because you have different genes, sir.
um, all he's saying is that we should wait for animated ads to show up in HTML5 and see what they are like before deciding how to disable them or even if it's required to do so.
Gee, where have I heard this elsewhere recently?

Oh yeah.... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-carnes/advice-for-jammie-...
The general rule for brick and mortars is:

Assets - liabilities + 5 X last years profit.

This is a starting point. Then you add in all of the confounding factors. Web businesses are nothing but confounding factors! If I were you, I'd take a hard conservative look at my 5 year growth potential based on the growth thats already happened and use that as an average for your 5 X profit.

If your buyers are serious this will open negotiations, if they were just pulling the handle, hoping for a jackpot, they'll leave in a huff, trying to make you feel as though you'd demanded an unreasonable sum.
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I do it three times a week. Still.
You're missing the point. I don't think anyone believes that HTML5 does everything Flash does. That said, for the things that people use Flash mostly for these days, such as video, audio, and animation, HTML5 does just fine.

What people like Gruber are reacting to is the craptastic Flash ads that permeate websites today, and the negative effect that they have on performance and battery life.
The compiler and interpreter aren't pre-compiled. Use the --resident flag - it will keep the F# compiler running as a service.
> * how much they follow through with projects

Hmm, how would you measure that, though?

Enumerating these attributes is fun:

* How long they take to fix bugs
* What ratio of their pull requests are
actually pulled
* What's the average size/number of files
touched by each commit?

You might even be able to guess at development methodology by looking at whether branches are short-lived (feature branches), how often they merge, etc.
I like San Shou kickboxing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanshou) for a hard workout.

It's more diverse than american kickboxing. I didn't want any of the other martial arts philosophy, just a hard workout for the body.
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just learned that Google stopped making Diwali doodle since 2008. That's really sad. Google makes billions of dollar from Indian sub continent and yet there's no doodle for the largest festival of the region.
I had this thought 2 years ago with a blog that had very little traffic. Over the course of a year I probably made $5, obviously far below the $100 payout limit.

I kept it open and now that I DO have a site that makes money, I eventually got that money from Google.

In other words: keep the account open if you care about what happens to the money advertisers pay google?
If running a long-lived institution matters, then I think a backup service run by the Catholic church would be a great success.
+1 for Google.

When I used to develop Facebook apps, long ago, the primary was blow was no access to full contact data.

Glad someone with weight is finally standing up and showing them the wrongness of their approach.
Fun fact---I discovered "Open Source Cook" on facebook while I searched for Cooks Source. I was thinking today that there MUST be an open-source set of recipes or something similar out there.

Silver lining to the cloud.
Why would you provide such a definitive advice on the arts to avoid?! I can't even believe this answer was upvoted. I'm not a big fan of Kenpo Karate myself or of capoeira-under-the spotlight but I wouldn't say to avoid them, there is interesting learnings in any martial arts. You don't even know what this guy is exactly looking for and you make a selection of very MMA oriented arts.

I don't understand how you got upvoted on this one.
Systema - the martial art practiced by the Russian Elite Force (Spetsnaz) and since taught to many military special forces. It combines breathing techniques and relaxation techniques with the ability to disarm and kill an individual. I cannot say enough good words about how Systema has helped me become a better athlete and person.

http://www.russianmartialart.com/
Xmarks: Alive and Kicking
I doubt an Adsense account has much value by it's age. I would close it. Another option would be to run it on some site, or rotate it on your current one, until it breaks $100, then cash it out and stop using it.
When I was younger I stayed with a friend of mine at his house while his mom was away in Germany for 3 weeks. He would smoke weed in the bathroom with the door closed and the fan on. Eventually the dogs started sniffing under the door every time he went to the bathroom. Even when his mom came back if anyone went to use the bathroom they would run to the door and start sniffing. Now i'm not going to say that it's hard hitting science but it's enough to convince me.
As others noted, you need to form a business entity. Along with that, you'll get a TIN from the Feds. When making your business arrangements with the App Store, you'll use the TIN, rather than your SSN. Thus, all income is credited to the company, rather than you personally.

Of course, the company has expenses. Maybe it needs to buy you a new computer? Perhaps a couple iphones for testing. Whatever; the point is, you want to use the company to spend money "pre-tax" so that the net amount left is hat's paid as income. Consult your tax professional on the different ways this income can be paid from the company to you.
I've only missed the point if Gruber's points are agnostic. I know they aren't.

> video - kinda. The RTMP equivalent implementation isn't quiet as easy as RTMP.

> animation - this is the kind of bs I'm talking about. Having done complex timeline animation in Flash and JS (with WebWorkers) I can say with all honesty that it is not just fine with HTML5+JS. JS-based timeline animation is clunky at best and incredibly time consuming.
That is ridiculous.
We don't need to wait to see. We all know that advertisers will demand horrible HTML5 ads. Pretending they won't is embarrassingly hopeful.
Can you say with confidence that any of them will address these three needs well enough, and for enough developers, to ensure a steady supply of quality software?

If one of these tablets supports flash in its web browser, then it will have access to the biggest app platform of all: the world wide web.
If you want people to click on links they should stand out. That's the only real rule. Blue and underlined is not the only way to go and if for example your text was blue those links would not stand out.

Underlining on mouseover is fine, but it detracts from the ability of your links to stand out - I'd suggest balancing that by giving them a good contrasting color, and possibly making them bold as well.
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Xmarks is a prime example of why it's better to be lucky than good sometimes. Had these guys bothered to ask for money before simply deciding to pull the plug, they may simply never have raised the necessary funds and gone under like a ship in the night. Perhaps the only reason they don't have to pull the plug now is because they decided to throw in the towel too early, generating loads of buzz and getting their users on board. They tried their best to fail, and fate would have none of it :)
Ah. I'm in 3.5, and I was baffled at how to exit the video and start the site.
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i use their imap server as well and rarely, if ever, log into the gmail interface. it's nice to know it's there if i'm on the road and without a phone and using someone else's computer. but generally the performance on imap has been great.

another benefit is that most of the time when the rest of the world is complaining that they can't access gmail from the website, mine access is just fine.

of course, if everyone sets their accounts up as imap this may no longer be the case, though i'm thinking that imap is likely a lot thinner of a protocol than what they gave going on with their web ui.
I've been having this problem lately, manifesting itself thusly:

* Loading GMail takes up to 20 seconds. That was only one time, but at least once a day I see "Loading <myemail>@gmail.com" for >5s.

* Sometimes conversations take seconds to load.

* I usually see "Sending..." for a few seconds when I send an email. Occasionally, I get server errors when sending.

* Searches are even slower than they've always been.

And I'm not even close to hitting my space limit: "You are currently using 708 MB (9%) of your 7515 MB."

Another issue: I have 4 Priority Inbox "sections": Important, Starred, a label, and Everything else. The sections with Starred and the label are often stale. Right now, the label section just has nothing in it. There's plenty of email from that label.

If anyone from Google is reading this, my email is in my profile, but not the one that's the problem. Email me, and I'll be happy to tell you my @gmail.com username that is problematic.
He stated arts to avoid based on his personal preference of the martial art being practical, which I take to mean as being practical for self-defense. Modern karate-like martial arts tend to optimize for point-fighting, which won't do you much good in a physical self-defense scenario. OP implied he wanted to train for fitness with no comment on self-defense, so the practical nature doesn't apply, but regardless, the parent comment is valid.
He puts forward a good argument about exactly what is required for a platform to have a developer rush, and then undermines it in the footnotes but saying that Android & Blackberry meet the requirement, but don't meet an additional, undiscussed requirement: easy payment procedures.

I think his three requirements are good, but I'd include two more:
4) Easy development tools
5) Path to profitability

iOS and Android both meet those too. Android may (or may not, depending on who you ask) be less profitable than iOS apps, but there are plenty of people making good money, and I see just as many people developing for Android now as for iOS.

WinMo7 seems to be similar: good developer tools, a few possible methods to profitability and I'm seeing more & more Windows/.NET developers looking at it with interest as a way to get in on the mobile gold-rush they have been left out of.

Blackberry I don't know about. Apparently their tool support is going to be better, so maybe they have a chance.

Nokia.. pfft. Maybe in a couple of years they'll be back in the game. I'm not seeing any one rushing to develop for either Symbian or MeeGo at the moment, though.
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yes, a platform where nobody want to pay for anything... while people using iProducts are "trained" by iPods to buy digital content.
While I don't agree with many of Facebook's privacy decisions, this seems quite heavy handed on Google's side, to me. For google to say - if you use our API, then these are the features you have to provide in your own API - I'm sorry but who is Google to dictate what other companies do with their own data?
Who gets to decide what's "Substantially fast", or "Easy"? Google I guess.
How is this going to affect us - the small startups and independed developers - what happens when our 'export contacts' function doesn't work fast enough (at Google's sole discretion) and they shut down our access?
Sorry, but this sounds borderline evil (disguised as altruism) to me.
Yes. You can look really good on pads, but when it's time to get in the ring, your technique and endurance goes to shit.
Okay, here's the thing: That's not actually what your example seems to be doing. If you have
a
b
a
Then the second a should go in the first column, right? If not, then this is trivial. If so, then the input is all appended to the list.
Social network for sharing fitness activity
News flash - developers write apps for the iPhone because it's cool, there are tons of users and they can make a crap-load of money.
Hmm, encouraging commenting as a means, not as an end, is engendering a culture of under valued contributions...

I've been a member since late 2009, but I've made 2 or 3 comments so far. My case is not atypical. Maybe there's a better way?
Ask HN: Camp Fire alternative? 
I like and use Camp Fire, however, its missing one key feature I would like. I want to be able to see in the lobby how much text has been written in a room since I last visited the room. Represented by dots or small squares.

Also I don't like that it clutters up the room pages with who entered the room and when.

Any way to enable these features in Camp Fire or any alternatives to Camp Fire that have these features?
That's really horrible :( It sucks to train with someone who is also a beginner as chances for getting hurt are much higher! I was rolling with a guy who was also new (and twice my size) who loved to lean on me when in my guard. We weren't going that hard but I started to notice a pain in my side and assumed it was a cramp. Turned out to be a fractured rib :(

To answer the OP's question, I take a mixed martial arts class that combines muay thai/kickboxing with bjj and has a cardio class as well. It's very well rounded, and our instructors compete in some of the smaller MMA leagues like Bellator.

Overall, it's a great experience and amazing workout when you combine kickboxing and mid to high level bjj. Just note that early BJJ (your first 6 months or so) will not work you too hard until you can start to free grapple.
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Well, the choice was between having 'z'++ go to 'aa' vs. '{'. In most cases when you are comparing strings you want to do so alphabetically, not by their underlying character code. As mentioned in the thread there, Perl made the same decision. If you want to compare by character code, use ord() on it.

Writing a loop like that is also a bit of a weird edge-case. You would typically just call range('a','z') to get an array of a through z.
Life isn't fair but it should be.

I won't be bothered by the eternity that occurs after my death.

Would you mind if you died tomorrow? What about in a year? 10 years? 100? 1,000? If you had a choice in the matter, would you ever want to age and die? Would you condemn others to the same fate?

I want to be alive tomorrow. Tomorrow I will want to be alive the next day. And so on. So I want to be alive indefinitely. This may or may not be possible, but it doesn't change the fact that it is desirable.
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Ahh, Tom Vu. Whatever happened to him and his late night infomercials? I remember his great quote - "Do you think these girls like me? NO, they like my money!"
Awesome idea, doesn't work so smoothly yet.