skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's something you rarely hear, grandparents having better technology than the HN folk.
Bulla ki jana main kaun Rabi
Basically, medicalese for cavities.
Perhaps we could set up a system where "tribes" each get n votes based on existence in one governing body, and each of a tribe's villages gets a vote in a different governing body. Then both have to agree before a final decision is enacted.

Tribes and villages would be responsible for their own internal politics, and how to assign voting rights.
Just to clarify: All sources I've read claim it is anycast.
Yes, thank you! Amazon could've easily told them they're going to wait for a court order since that is what's needed to prove Wikileaks was in the wrong here. Clearly, they shouldn't have rejected them as fast as they did when it was sucha controversial issue.

Even the paedophile book lasted longer than Wikileaks on Amazon. This should speak volumes about the political pressure Amazon was under when Lieberman called.
When I had LASIK done 8 years ago, it was by an ophthalmologist, an MD specializing in the eye, not by the optometrist who prescribed glasses and contact lenses.

Optometrists would probably have to go back to school, become MDs, specialize, and then go for additional training in laser eye surgery.
Much like the advent of the antibiotic era put most doctors out of business?
I was scrolling the comments wondering if others saw that as well. Maybe their internal designer won his bid for the new design by making the ads more prominent.
Do you work for them?

The design of the website is visually quite appealing, but a total no-go in today's world is a business website totally based on Flash. I'm no flash-hater, but the webpage in question is excluding a lot of people by using flash-only.

I also made sure to navigate around the page, which proved particularly difficult because the navigational elements are very hard to find within the flowers (same color, same style). One should not try to find navigation elements, they should just be there and pop out.
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Be sensitive to what you really want/need. If you pay enough attention, most of the time, there won't be a products/services that 100% satisfy your own want/need.

Write your idea down, start your sentence with "What if..."

Then try to forget about it. Great ideas tends to come back and haunt you every day and night.

When they do, you know what to do (or find out how!).
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Why is there so much emphasis on finding something new when there are a lot of successful businesses out there that you could copy and compete with?
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> I don't think syntax is relevant to the way most people use search in general and autocomplete in particular.

I thought about this, but I wondered if it was true for most people/phrases. One is more likely to type "smart phone reviews" than "reviews phone smart". So, at the very least, autocomplete is going to be working in one direction a lot more often than the other.
A major pain point for me is not being able to use https with my App Engine apps that have their own domain names: http://code.google.com/appengine/kb/general.html#httpsapps

Honestly it's pushing me to look for other hosting options (Rackspace, AWS), though I'm really really hoping I won't have to do that. I've invested a lot of effort in various App Engine APIs, and it would be a pity to have to re-do all that work.
At Braintree we pair program almost all of the time. There are some small tasks that people will do solo, but 99% of the development on our payment gateway ( http://getbraintree.com ) is done in pairs.
Not entirely, no.

But this is a caution intended for people who a) bought a (relatively small) can, and b) desire to drink it. How many do you think will heed this?

So I chose to take it literally.
This plugin has been a god send for me. It works well for most basic command and some complicated ones. The developer is very quick to respond to bugs and issues; and is accessible via twitter.

Interesting side note is that the developer works for microsoft and as a result he cannot accept external patches. Which sucks because this is written in F# and it would be neat to learn some and help out.
Makes sense though - older folks probably watch more broadcast/cable TV the old fashioned way, with commercials, as opposed to using a TV to watch movies or streamed episodes.
Internet Explorer actually has this through the (almost standardized) text-justify CSS property. It still doesn't do hyphenation, but Hyphenator.js (http://code.google.com/p/hyphenator/) fills that gap pretty nicely.

Performance isn't a good argument in my opinion. The algorithm isn't that expensive. The most expensive part right now is retrieving all the text metrics, but you would get that a lot cheaper in the browsers rendering engine.

I briefly looked at hacking it into Webkit, but then gave up due to a lack of time.
So is there a userscript for HN that provides Reddit-style "collapse this thread" buttons? I think that's all we really need to keep everyone happy here.
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Short essays are standard essays which provide students the ability and the knowledge to compress their ideas in a short narrative. Although termed short, short essays will have to be written in the same manner as any other standard essay.
If it has anything to do with Mind Game, I'll buy it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU4EfF85u60
All well and good except for the fact that it locks up my entire computer for several seconds.
Will Google OS appear tomorrow?
Yup, same here. DME additional query & overage fees are killing me.

Has anyone tried this out though? My impression is that R53 is exclusively API driven, at least for now. I'd kinda like to have a web interface to fall back on.
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Maybe just visible from Android devices?
As far as I know, this is the only implementation in JavaScript. It might be possible to turn this into a jQuery plugin at some point, but there are probably quite a couple of bugfixes and changes needed to turn this from a tech demo into a drop-in plugin.
And their ads could be really loud to get the extra attention of people they're trying to reach."THIS COULD BE THE LAST LOUD COMMERCIAL YOU HEAR!"I suspect this feature may have been in some TVs, but unless it's in all TVs from a company, other features may win out. Sure I wanted "smart sound" but I wanted PIP more. I also suspect that VOD, Tivo, torrents and others mean that fewer people are actually watching commercials anyway. This move is about 15 years too late.
You do have a very valid point, but your tone is rather harsh. I'm guessing the downvotes are more about how you're saying it rather than what you're saying.
Like this one, I am learning for typography it is available only in Google Books no other online or physical store. http://books.google.com/books?num=13&id=zpfgAAAAMAAJ&...
been here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1905399 and around comments for months

still upvote
I went back to read the year-old post he links to at the top, and it seems like his issue wasn't with pair programming, but with pair programming with poor communication skills and a crappy programmer partner.
Getting "Could not initialise shaders VALIDATE_STATUS: false, gl error [0]" on chromium 10, I think it might be related to the probable lack of shader support in the graphics card of this computer.
I set font family to Times, and, indeed, I can see hyphens.
How have merchants, who participated in a Groupon deal, reacted? I hear merchants are doing quite badly in Groupon deals and it's not what it's made out to be in terms of immediate and/or future revenue. Any data available?
I'd say disclosure of classified information presents a greater risk than distributing copyrighted materials. I really don't think "copyright" is the issue at all here.
completely misleading since it can take up to 45 minutes for body to absorb caffeine. so what's the point making tests merely after 30 minutes.

and by the way, it's proven that caffeine decreases reaction time, improves memory and focused thought.
Just make sure a little piece of your brain always think about it: that little piece will then convert real life problems into problems to be solved or solutions.

Walking 2h daily used to be my main creative time. Now that I live in a big city is a bit more complicated to do.

Get a good note-taking app on your phone. Whenever you get an idea, write it down there. I use catch.com.
Where are you getting service now? I'm paying something like $2.00 per million at Dns Made Easy.
Nope. I can commission when someone I have refereed pay commissions to freelancer portal.
Good article, but I don't agree with the use of "this kind of wholesale sociopathy" for leaking. WikiLeaks plays hardball, but I see no reason to suspect their good intentions (which may or may not be misguided). Assange may enjoy the fame at some level, but that's not sociopathy either.
For me, the Google Reader works better in the browser on my incredible than it does with the native app. I would like a setting on the native app to make it behave like the web app when you click on an item. I much prefer the "expand in place" behaviour of the web app than the switch to another screen to display the detail action of the native app.
As long as you document your style, I totally agree.

Nothing like it, if you're lucky enough to be blazing the trail.

The problem is for engineers who come in after you've left for greener pastures. If you don't document your style, design decisions, and over-all development process you're leaving behind a legacy... of miserable programmers who will make up stories about how awful you must have been.
it seems to work out with advertising, as it is for more and more app developers because you just get so much more installs without a pricetag on it. Most devs dont have any marketing muscle, so free apps with advertising often is a good approach.
Simplicity and risk exposure. He's clearly doing quite alright with ad-driven applications.

I doubt he'd get higher profit with paid apps.
I believe that was in the email announced under planned features for the future.
I have servers at that location, but why would I ever go there? To interact with the handful of ad sales staff? To visit my rack?
"Little, Big" by John Crowley, a fantasy novel about several generations of a family connected to a hidden world of magic within our world. Could not be less like Harry Potter (even though I'm also a fan of that series). People who appreciate the sentiment that "cellar-door" might be the most beautiful word in the English language would enjoy the experience of reading this book - the only way I can describe it is that I literally wanted to eat the text I was reading. For example, character names include 'Daily Alice' Drinkwater, Grandfather Trout, and Smoky Barnable. People obsessed with typography or copy would probably enjoy this book because Crowley seems to always pick the 'perfect' word or phrase. Outside validation - "Little, Big" appears in Harold Bloom's well-regarded Western Canon.
You're right, I don't believe that's a good website. It's all gimmick.
Not just a reasonable reply, but also quite timely for a hosting company.
It would be more likely your friend has gluten intolerance - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermatitis_herpetiformis

If this is the case then cutting down on cereals would be standard medical advice rather than a wonder effect of an unsound diet.
> What?

Parent is just exercising parent's scrupulous vocabulary. It's enough to drive one inane.
I think there is plenty of bad programmers and bad managers. I don't think either profession is a lot better than the other. (I am a coder and manager)
In other words, a Soylent (Green) transportation network.
You'll probably like also "Touching the void". The movie/documentary is fantastic too.
Not working on the latest Chrome or FireFox under XP either.

I can't imagine how it would work anywhere, actually, since the error it's throwing says it's missing that method.
To extend my comment, there are dozens of citations for the 1970's era paper that assert that the "brain growth spurt" extends from the third trimester to the first few years of life. It is then equated with synaptogenesis or "peak synaptogenesis", even though this association may be unclear. The papers then further equate peak synaptogenesis with the period of vulnerability to anesthesia. Many then postulate mechanisms for anesthesia-related neurotoxicity in infants related to mechanisms of synaptogenesis. Not being an expert in the field, I can't refute this argument, but I do find the links between these phenomena to be rather shaky, especially when based on a throwaway reference to a decades old paper.
"Convert your photos into amazing paintings! Psykopaint is an online photopainting application which uses the color of an image to paint. Very easy and quick to use but very elaborate at the same time.

Unfortunately It lools like your version of flash player is too old to see this website. Flash player 10 is needed

You need to download the latest version of flash here : Flash player 10"

Too bad, interested in online design/paint tools
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The main text of the article says "As always please report in if Tumblr is down where you are – either the main Tumblr site or your personal Tumblog," so it's not just the commenters who are confused.
Pair programming just seems creepy. I can't even read when someone is looking over my shoulder. You might as well be sticking your finger in my face just far enough away so we're not touching. "Two sets of eyes are better than one," may work in the field when you're on stake out looking for the enemy, but in programming I don't really see how that translates. Aren't bugs caught in the code-review process?

Eliminating bugs up front is like asking human beings to be perfect.

In other words, good luck with that.
sorry to offend you.
It's like their PHB said "you know what's never been done before? a ROUND website! Make it so!"
On the other hand it might be hard to convince patients to come back every 6 months if decay were less of a problem. That seems to be when they talk to patients about about cosmetic and other more expensive procedures.
Not really a startup (and has changed quite a bit since selling it), but my site http://iPadCaseFinder.com/ (Used to be a case finding resource, which aff linked to Amazon) was profitable from day one.

Bought a template of ThemeForest, customised it, and created a filtering plugin, then launched it. Received 50,000 uniques in the first week through blog posts. Earned around $6000 from it in 3 months.
Works in Firefox, but not in Safari. Even after installing the newest Flash. I reckon this is why we're heading away from flash and towards something more standardized and open :)
Interesting. In French it's the regular word for cavities.
Firefox 4 on Linux gives a message at the bottom saying something like "WebFonts not supported, falling back to image fonts", meaning that the scaling examples look horrible and most examples are very fuzzy. Shame, looks neat otherwise :)
Dunno. Maybe _The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet_, by Thomas Mitchell, a novel set in the Dutch trading post at Nagasaki, ca. 1800. Maybe de Tocquivelle's _Souvenirs_ (of the revolution of 1848)--but that I am re-reading. Maybe the NYRB edition of Thoreau's journals, but was that this year?
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That slicer "brush" might just be the most interesting tool I've seen. Really interesting effects.
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That number has already doubled in the last 20 hours. Only 298 people to go now!
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But it's google! They might buy your company and make you rich beyond your wildest dreams!
Sounds great, but why limit ourselves to food? If we are going through the trouble of building a pipeline all around the country we might as well use it for any type of cargo that will fit a 2m by 1m container.
Works for me too, about 10FPS in Chromium 9 on 64-bit Ubuntu, 2.4GHz C2D, Nvidia 8400M GS.
I once attended a "creativity" workshop, and one of the tasks was coming up with a solution for an everyday annoyance.

IIRC the process was something along the lines of...

1) Decide on a task or something that you do regularly (e.g grocery shopping)
2) Detail all the steps involved in completing the task (e.g walking round the store, finding items, comparing prices, putting items in cart, queueing up at checkout etc etc)
3) Rate each one in terms of annoyance/difficulty level
4) Start to brainstorm how the high annoyance steps could be easier.

I can't remember the exact steps - there was a bit more to it than that, but as a team of 4 we had some pretty cool ideas after an hour.
I am a strange loop by Douglas Hofstadter - fascinating exercise in 'thinking about thinking' that radically changed my perspective on the concept of 'self'. Lots of mathsy and techy overtones, great stuff.
The number one key to cultivating ideas is minimizing distractions.

Did you ever notice that some of your best ideas show up when you're in the shower? It's because your mind has nothing to distract it.

When you're going from one place to another, turn off your MP3 player or car stereo (if you're walking / driving). Put your phone on airplane mode so you're not interrupted by texts and calls.

When you're at home, do one thing at a time. If you're doing the dishes, just do the dishes. If you're talking with other people, just talk, don't put on the TV in the background, turn off the radio.

Cultivate as much stimulus as possible overall - but do it one at a time. You should watch the movies you like, read that books you find exciting, explore just to explore. But you also have to take time to focus and just be.

The other important thing is to always have something to write on. Get yourself a tiny notebook that can fit in a jeans pocket, and even a golf pencil if it means you'll always carry it around. No idea is too small to jot down - they all add up.
New Cupertino: Norman Foster to build 'City of Apple'
Considering that Google already has ~2000 employees in this building, then by this logic shouldn't they have already turned NYC into a "tech mecca"? This is silly.

Anton says once Google buys the building, businesses will clamor to get in, if only for a chance to make that elevator pitch to CEO Eric Schmidt

Quite a bit of hyperbole here. The building already has lots of big companies as tenants http://www.111eighth.com/
You can start chrome with --enable-webgl on the command line if you are using the latest stable build or as was pointed out, use the dev channel version. (On the chrome download page, right under the huge button for download there is a link to the development version download.)
Nice answer, and makes sense, but was that last line really necessary?

Parent sounds like genuine curiosity and not condescension, and when in doubt, be charitable! :-)
Joe Lieberman called Amazon and said [something] to them.

Late that evening, Wikileaks was cut off.

The next day, Lieberman put out a press release: "This morning Amazon informed my staff that it has ceased to host the Wikileaks website. I wish that Amazon had taken this action earlier based on Wikileaks’ previous publication of classified material. The company’s decision to cut off Wikileaks now is the right decision and should set the standard for other companies Wikileaks is using to distribute its illegally seized material. I call on any other company or organization that is hosting Wikileaks to immediately terminate its relationship with them."

Lieberman's spokesperson added: "Senator Lieberman hopes that what has transpired with Amazon will send a message to other companies."

The next day, Lieberman introduced a bill in Congress that would make it a Federal crime to do what Amazon was doing, hosting the Wikileaks material.

You could characterize that as "pretty clear that Amazon didn't roll over because of Lieberman", but that characterization would be utterly mendacious.
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I would have said exactly the opposite. The way to get random new ideas is to pay attention to the world around you. Get our of your comfort zone.

However, if you're looking for useful idea, the solution is to have a problem. And then fix it in a way that other people can benefit from. And then charge them for it. They'll thank you.
People drink Redbull to avoid feeling tired, not because it will cause them this awesome skill to press a keyboard key when a green thing flashes on their monitor. Also, Squirt doesn't have the color nor the taste of Redbull. What's the use of this if the test subjects probably could identify which was Redbull and which wasn't?
Did you use fpdns (http://code.google.com/p/fpdns/) to finger-print Amazon's service? If so, I've never heard good things about djbdns :( NSD (http://nlnetlabs.nl/projects/nsd/) seems to be the new hotness as far as authoritative DNS servers go.
The term "idealized free-market theory" refers to the study of a mathematical model, much like "group theory" refers to the study of groups. It's not a falsible scientific theory that asserts that the model matches reality to any extent.
Don't repost that comment again; it's wrong. 67 of 127 comments on this thread are about Wikileaks; just as importantly, the first 40% of the thread is dedicated to a pointless political argument ("Did Joe Lieberman shut down Wikileaks? Did you know government documents can't be copyrighted?") that have nothing to do with the story.
Nice to see some success with advertising revenue.

It always seems like HN and several other places are heavily skewed towards charging end users directly. But that's only one option open (And IMHO, it's not quite as scalable and fun as advertising income). If you look at what business models 'power' the web, it's still majority earning their revenue through advertising.

Well done :)
As with most things, being exposed to different influences tends to make you a better programmer. So does fairly routinely getting a grasp of a big or otherwise alien codebase.

It might not work for everyone, of course, but it is probably beneficial for 90% of working programmers. So do not use this as an excuse to not try pairing (or working in larger teams, others' code etc.) with an open mind.
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Python book author: "I am boycotting Amazon over Wikileaks".
At these rates, it looks like the minimum cost per year per zone is $18 ($1.50/month, $1.00 for the zone and $.50 for the first million queries). This is extremely competitive for folks who only need to manage a very small number of zones. For those with many zones, one of the existing services from UltraDNS or VeriSign would be more appropriate.
Well, somebody on Flickr has it: http://www.flickr.com/photos/typeoff/3867449610/

If it is as rare as it appears to be, I suppose I'd put photos of my copy on Flickr, too.

Seriously, though: this looks like an ideal candidate for "Inter-Library Loan". Go to your nearest library, and ask them to get it for you from one of the (few, large) libraries that has it.
Maybe you should try it with someone you get along with well first?
Limitig volume (decibels) has little impact on the perceived loudness of sound. This is easily demonstrated by listening to a sine wave and white noise at the same volume. For a practical demonstration, see http://www.propellerheads.se/substance/discovering-reason/in...
TL:DR;

Instead of just stating that overeating causes our obesity, we should be asking ourselves why we overeat, which is a much more complicated question.

I was disappointed it took that long of a post to reach that point. I was hoping to learn something interesting about thermodynamics in the body.