skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm unable to pair program. I've tried it, and quit where I was working as a result of their adoption of pair programming.

The best way I can describe it is that my "personal zone" for people not in my immediate family is about arms-length. If you're close enough to touch me, I'm uncomfortable. If we're sitting shoulder to shoulder at a keyboard, I'm so uncomfortable that I can't work.
Anyone engaged in military\defense contracting is a legitimate target of war under the Geneva convention.
I just ate a delicious burger at The Counter in Chicago on a Groupon two days ago. This is noteworthy because I bought 4 Groupons to The Counter last year. In 2009 they sold 5,269 $15 for $30 Groupons. This year they sold 6,932 $10 for $20 Groupons (and I bought 4 again).

To me this indicates that some merchants are pretty pleased with Groupon. The lower value Groupon offering this year is probably an attempt to turn more of The Counter's Groupon visits profitable, since going over $20 there is a lot easier than going over $30—especially with two people.

It's only one data point, and maybe the people at The Counter are just really dumb, but my guess is that the first Groupon offered positive ROI, and they expect to do even better by tweaking their latest Groupon offer.
During WWII it was treason for a country's citizens to reveal the activities and movements of its troops, operations and shipments of factories and transport critical to its war effort.

How can you commit "treason" to a country you are not a citizen of? (Assange is not a US citizen. ).

Stuff like "becomes a terrorist act in itself" is hyperbolic and has no real meaning. I doubt thinking people would consider Assange a "terrorist", like say, Osama Bin Laden. At worst Assange is anti-US or anti-war. Last I heard that wasn't a crime.

An action against the US occupation of Afghanistan (which is about as far as these WikiLeaks disclosures can be stretched to mean without breaking down completely - and even this interpretation is very debatable) is not necessarily "terrorism". Hyperbole is dangerous to clarity of thinking (on both sides of this issue).
This same effect explains why people hold onto losing stocks/shares.
Definitely this. One of the real benefits of using Django is that the admin panel is already there. Adding items to be added by the admin panel takes minimal effort, and really simplifies things.

Once you start using the built in admin panel you'll be infinitely grateful that you don't have to roll your own anymore.
Water, especially hot water, is an unbelievably effective solvent (something often overlooked despite the fact that its known as the Universal Solvent).

Still, I'd worry about bacteria growth (which is, in my mind, the value added of soap) - though the author claims he smells better now.
Popularity does not equal impact. Jobs and Gates changed the world in a massive way, and brought something new to it; Facebook didn't, people had access to similar sites long before Facebook. If Facebook disappeared tomorrow, the world would chug on and barely miss a beat; if personal computers disappeared tomorrow, the world would collapse.
I really like this project. It was by far my favorite Django Dash entry this year--I couldn't believe how low it ended up in the rankings.

It looks nice, it works, and it actually fills a real need in the Django ecosystem.
Many do, but in some cases it's poorly implemented and will down-mix from 5.1 to stereo.
There are 44 million 360s in the field. The hacker-to-player ratio on Xbox is never going to be significant.
12 Strong proofs to debunk SEO myths and educate clients about SEO
RTZ: Emergency Breakdown
As a person with hereditary skin issues (both my dad and grandad have suffered for years, and now it's setting in for me), I'm definitely going to try it - my father and I already noticed a big shift when changing from scented to unscented shampoos and soaps - I'm willing to give the no-soap a go to calm down the rest of my skin - cheers. I'll comment again if I notice a sudden down-tick in the number of people willing to spend time with me ;)
Exercise. I'm not sure what it is about exercise (increased bloodflow to the brain?) but whenever I catch myself not exercising enough my creativity also tends to be at a low. I can really think a problem through when e.g. I'm skiing or swimming.

Changing environments/motion. I find that I'm really creative when I'm travelling (mostly by train, driving a car is too distracting and flying is too shitty).
Thanks for the feedback Peldi. I clarified the copy on the demo page, and it should be restarting right about now.

We'll agree to disagree on the "hot" tag: it is my personal recommendation, and everybody who committed to buy AR when I asked them wanted that plan. (The enterprise pricing is mostly because HIPAA is insane -- it is still cheaper than any competitor in the healthcare market. I'll talk at length about that some other day.)
The Ridiculous Race
Steve Hely & Vali Chandrasekaran
http://www.amazon.com/Ridiculous-Race-Steve-Hely/dp/08050874...

Two friends challenge each other to an old fashioned race around the world with one caveat: no airplanes. Starting from the first page hilarity ensues as the two try to outdo, outthink and out race while experiencing as much as they can at the same time.
In the video, from the time you answered the call, until the voice started, it took 5 seconds. If that's normal for the system, I'd be worried my clients would hang up before hearing appointment reminder.
Any anchor text you would particularly like people to use? I do quite a bit with SEO, and imagine you want to avoid too many "over here" anchors!
"I'm getting "Uncaught ReferenceError: Float32Array is not defined" on Chrome on OS X"

This error message is not about missing custom method, it's about missing Typed Array data type:

https://cvs.khronos.org/svn/repos/registry/trunk/public/webg...

All browsers that support WebGL have these data types, older ones can be missing them.

"Not working on the latest Chrome or FireFox under XP either."

Could you please give us more details (exact browser version, graphics card, eventual error messages / warnings in alerts / console), so that we could figure out where is problem?

For example, "latest Chrome" could be latest dev-channel, latest canary or latest Chromium continuous build.
Nagare (http://nagare.org) for Stackless Python
Who Backs Linux, Some Numbers in Perspective
Why we need another domain registrar
That's what I get for not automating that deployment... fixed.
While I'm sure there must be exceptions out there somewhere, that's a pretty good rule of thumb.
This is an announcement of my current project. I have a very good idea of what I want in a domain registrar, but I would love to hear what other people want. Please let me know if, if you have the time.
Additionally, I found there was too much talking in the video. It was at least a minute in when the demo started.
Actually, I think you're saying the same thing. Most people's "comfort zone" is staring at a smartphone, listening to music, watching TV, and playing video games.

It's difficult to turn everything off and just go out in the world without anything to entertain or distract you.
It horks out about the same error in Safari/OS X
Anecdotally, my strictly vegetarian (usually vegan, often raw) girlfriend started bleeding through the pores of her face, despite taking extremely comprehensive supplements which included large B12 doses. When she added fish to her diet, the stigmata stopped.
I'd be surprised if that were true, but things may have changed in 8 years.
If they really loved their users, and their users really loved them, it surely would not be hard to have an ad-free, monthly subscription service.

Look at Angry Birds, why would they even want to sell paid apps anymore with the amount of revenue they can earn from advertising within the game?
Not quite as scalable as premium? I'd argue that premium is far more scalable than free. Open? Maybe not, but scalable for sure.

As for fun, money is money. I'll take it in any form.
I'm impressed that all of this & my hardware rendering are working "straight out of the box". I'm getting ~50fps in chromium 9.0.598.0 under openSUSE 11.3 with a radeon mobility 5650.
It's not a CMS issue, it is the 61 other HTTP requests:

http://gtmetrix.com/reports/onstartups.com/Zxyd9pda
Hey check out this one too. It's personally my favorite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh9IGY2U2dQ
One important issue is polarity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solubility#Polarity. If you are soaked in grease, you want soap. Granted, he's inspired by the whole caveman lifestyle thing, we didn't have Chevron 40,000 years ago.
The Wave-in-a-Box interface is quite barebones. Having to hack together something different in GWT is a pain though.

The big advantage is the Federation protocol. Not only do you get OT between users, but between servers as well. You also get existing gadgets/robots functionality.

With Federation, there will be alternate Wave server implementations to choose from. I'm working with creator of lightwave to develop a very different interface:

https://code.google.com/p/lightwave/

And here are some of the UI concepts:

http://fleetinbeing.net/tensor-v1/ (miller columns for long, deeply nested waves. the top and bottom bars are totally unresolved, and will probably get cut)
http://fleetinbeing.net/tensor-notes-v1/ (more intuitive inline-replies)

If anyone has suggestions, I'd love to hear 'em. I've been trawling HN for critiques of Wave's UI.
Is it in beta? Doesn't seem to work now... and your link has no chart but an img placeholder in the page.
Don't forget that some bacteria is quite normal (and necessary). Soap might kill some of this friendly bacteria.
Why would New York City want to be a "new tech mecca", anyway? They're already the de facto US and/or world headquarters for several huge industries, and the competition for scarce office and employee living space has already pushed prices to insane levels. Why would they want to throw another more-money-than-sense industry into the mix?
Nice work patrick - this has big potential! When possible, get a quote on the front page like:

"I save $320 per month with Appointment Reminder!" - Mrs Smith
Great: https://chart.googleapis.com/chart?cht=p3&chd=s:Uf9a&....

Thank you very much.
Hey Patrick,

Congratulations on having another 'leg' under your business, I've placed a homepage link on ww.com for you. I had to step back and check because it's a .org and not a .com, aren't you concerned you'll end up sending a bunch of people to that placeholder ? (they got at least one visitor more today than they should have....)

I've used 'never miss another appointment' as the link text, if you want another one let me know. And what was that again about there not being a scalable way to build links, it seems you may have found one ;)

Maybe structurally add the .org to the name to differentiate it from the .com ? If you call it just 'appointmentreminder' I think there will be some confusion.
https://chart.googleapis.com/chart?cht=p3&chd=s:Uf9a&...
Why would they want to buy Sun?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1974008
It's a long time ago now (late 80s early 90s), but reasons include:

- I hated the politics/game-playing that seem to be a huge component of getting on in academic research

- It was clear to me that we are unlikely to see any fundamental breakthroughs in general AI during my career

- I had been doing work on the Web since '92 and it was clear to me by '95 that this had a much brighter future than "classical" AI

- I co-founded a Web/Java startup in '95
>Computer scientist Kay was the leader of the group that invented object-oriented programming, the graphical user interface, 3D computer graphics, and ARPANET, the predecessor of the Internet

Overstating a bit? I don't think PARC had a hand in inventing ARPANET, although Bob Taylor did, who was later a manager at PARC. Likewise inventing the graphical user interface? Maybe you are thinking of Ivan Sutherland, another name associated with ARPANET.

Not to diminish the great things achieved at PARC, in the way of modern bitmapped GUI, networked workstations, laser printer, etc.
"up to 45 minutes" presumably means that at least some of the caffeine is absorbed within 30 minutes?

It's actually weird; I have heard that 45 minute thing before, and yet the effect of drinking a cup of coffee feels almost immediate.
agreed, although to note -- the last 3 are likely much better because their plot is so much more set in stone. the middle books meandered because RJ did so much in the first 3 books that he realized he had to let the plot catch up to the action in order to do what he wanted to do with the story.
Talcum powder makes an effective deodorant in my opinion. Much better than the slide on gels in the market. However it lasts only for about 8-10 hours.
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Why wouldn't NYC want to be a ``new tech mecca''?

If the city wised up and killed rent control, ``scarce office and employee living space'' wouldn't be an issue.
Ditto. I also thought it was a nice touch that scrolling out far enough flipped the image vertically.

For some reason, the tutorial pane wouldn't close on Safari.
It sounds like a difficult thing to do correctly for any given language. I'd probably procrastinate it too.
So just between us geeks: Twilio retrieves your MP3 files when the call starts (and caches them), but my Capistrano tasks effectively bust caches on deployment, and since doing that video took a couple of takes with redeploys in the middle, the shot you saw was live with a cold cache. Actual users will almost certainly have a warm cache for that default script, and the voice will start playing almost immediately. (That said, I agree, if I had a team to do video for me it would have been more polished.)
Congrats! Just emailed my dentist to tell them about it. Keep up the good work. :)
Overeating, Like Drug Use, Rewards And Alters Brain
Dave's argument against even a partial boycott:

1) he probably would have done the same thing as Amazon
2) Amazon's got competition so it's not that big a deal if they don't stand up for free speech
3) he depends on Amazon a lot
4) last time he boycotted Amazon (over one-click), some other open tech advocats didn't so he felt his stand was pointless

Given all that, he suggests that now isn't the right time to take "a principled stand" by boycotting
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from Cortázar Blow-up and Other Stories.
Are there any major studies regarding the effect of the increasing amount of chemicals we're taking into our bodies in the modern day?
Prediction-It's the Volume of Information
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Unless there's a backdoor in the S-Box that no one knows about, it's pretty much impossible.
I'll lay 10 to 1 that he hasn't.
Idea : We have undersea fiber optic cables. Why not have undersea foodtubes to deliver food to poorer nations? Developed countries waste bucketloads of food every day.

I'm sure people smarter than me will figure out how to install repeaters to keep the food capsules moving and prevent a cheeseburger-traffic-jam 1000 miles below sea level. :-)
SAP must pay Oracle $1.3 billion
I'm not sure I can trust the predictions of somebody who states that email "was one of the first forms of Internet sharing for the masses". I wouldn't classify sending/receiving a letter as "sharing" so why would sending an email be classified as such?

We will always need an open, distributed, non-instant messaging platform. That's what email is. The underlying protocols might change. Even the name might change. But at the end of the day, we need a system like email. Facebook would be considerably less useful without it.
Sure, I understand. For me, there's only so much empty retweeting of blind praise, along with brittle, white knuckle cries of "douchebag" against anyone with the temerity ever to express disagreement, that I'm able to stomach. Hugh pretty much blows through a lifetime quota in about a week.

Honestly, I feel so sad for this guy I want to puke and sob and nap all at the same time. I've never felt more gut wrenching pity for someone I haven't met not living in abject poverty. He's a useful cautionary tale but not a great follow.
Chrome 8.0.552.215
FireFox 3.6.12

Both are out-of-the box, with auto-updates on. So it's pretty much what you'd get if you were a typical user on that browser.

It sounds like you're targeting the next crop of as-yet unreleased browsers for your thing. You might want to note that on the demo somewhere, since pretty much nobody but you will be able to make it work right now without downloading a new browser.
The more ads people install, the more people install AdBlock, and then to keep up revenues they roll in more ads.

I expect in the near future that it will be 99% ads, 1% content, and that only 1% of the visitors will come in without adblocking of some sort.
Look forward to hearing about this. I switched away from using shampoo and only washing with soap bars recently and that helped a great deal.

I think I would be better served by getting plainer/more natural soap bars than not using soap at all, but I'm still curious about the results of this.
You're looking for Dolby Volume: http://www.dolby.com/consumer/understand/volume/dolby-volume...

It helps maintain consistent volume across commercials, different channels, and different input sources. I have a Toshiba Regza TV that's equipped with it and it's great. It was a deciding factor in the purchase of my TV.
Congrats, I hope this proves to be an excellent source of growth for your business.

I look forward to a post from you about how it went. :)
Ask HN: Whats the Best Advertising Program to Use With my Sites?
Hey All,

I am not new to HN, but wanted to ask a question. I currently own a few websites that generate a few amount of views. More than a Million Page views Daily combined. Currently, Im only making about $5.00 a day on the ads for my websites. I don't know if more can be had, but I wanted to ask before I took the time to change some code and went researching my self.

The Websites Vary, but the demographics are all type of people. More guys than girls by about 80%/20%.

One Website is used by a very popular game which generates the most traffic, but the least amount of clicks.
http://utopiapimp.com

The other few websites generate about 1000 page views daily combined. But a few clicks as well.
http://demotivatedposters.com
http://drinkingfor.com
http://itfeelslike.com

The bottom three websites are still in somewhat active development, so try not to criticize. Thanks All.
People still watch TV with commercials? Amazing.
3 billion a month now, actually.
Interesting. I used to shampoo my hair every day, but found out that the more you shampoo it the more oil your hair produces and thus the faster it gets "dirty". So I switched to only doing it twice a week and I have not noticed any negative effect. I think I am going to try dropping it altogether.

Do you use any hair products at all like gel or wax?
http://dnspark.net/

Not sure how many dns lookups get done a day but I see about 6 - 7 million people daily.

20m lookups per month for $14/year, and they don't actually track or bill the excess stuff, I've asked them about it before and it's not implemented with no ETA.

Been with them for a long time and love them although their interface is ugly.
Do HNers still watch TV?
I stopped paying for TV ~ 2 years ago and find it mildly nauseating when I visit relatives and they want to have it on in the background.
I assume, give there description, that we are only talking terminal transportation at the city level (as the pipeline to get crops to mills is mostly field -> truck -> elevator -> 125 car train / barge).

I can't help but think replacing the current local delivery vehicles with electric would be cheaper and require less infrastructure changes. It would actually work better for electric vehicles since the routes are known and charge times can be scheduled.

If your going to build something like this, then just make it tall enough for autonomous cargo carrying robots so you can transport people, food, and packages year round.
YAOLhoo: Two Rocks Do Not Float Better Than One
We've been promised cures for tooth decay for fully 40 years. None has come to fruition in the USA - dentists are too firmly entrenched to let that happen. It would wipe them out, something pretty useful in general, since dental costs are predicted to skyrocket in the next 10 years.

Two generations of tooth decay _vaccines_ haven't made it to the USA although in some cases they were available in Great Britain and Europe.
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Because cargo ships for food stuff are cheap and well understood.
His title is "Appointment Reminder | Phone, Text Message / SMS, and Email Reminders", but knowing Patrick, he's probably going to start "Hair Dresser Appointment Reminders", "Massage Appointment Reminders", "Yoga Class Appointment Reminders" really soon.
That explains why it was so damn crowded the other day. I had no idea they had a groupon.

For all the Chicago HNers, I highly recommend The Counter for awesome, delicious burgers!
Direct link to the ebooks - http://books.google.com/ebooks
I'm trying to save the image to my computer. It says it saved my image, but at the same time it says I need to login to Facebook to save it. I've already logged in. But the same thing happens. Where on my computer does it save my image.
I propose that places are encouraged to pre-negotiate their candidate and have a legal way to offer up a single candidate, instead of the full choice being available.
If this isn't fiddling while Rome burns, I don't know what is.
Because poor countries aren't hungry due to lack of food, they're hungry for political and economic reasons.
Thanks; some of the free ones look pretty interesting.
Like any post on a social network, a public amazon wish list needs to be vetted and not your default list.
12 programming mistakes to avoid - Computerworld
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It would probably look better with you on camera for the first minute. It's hard to stay on the page when the audio has nothing to do with what's in the video.

EDIT: Now that I've seen the full video, I'd say this would work a LOT better if the whole thing is a video of you doing the demo with the phone and everything.
So would you say being born from rich parents is a talent?
See, I'm coming from the biology side, where layouts can be far more complicated. You also have more, shall we say, technical people submitting to CompSci journals. The only camera-ready submission that I've dealt with was for a ACM conference.
Good catch, thanks! Unfortunately, it's now too late for me to edit, but perhaps someone with appropriate powers can make the correction?
Remember the "last mile" problem in the internet years? Now try scaling it from wire to container.

This is the typical example of something which seems to make a lot of sense, but well, doesn't. Exactly at which level would this be better then the current system?

Long distances - why is it better then rail? It's a lot more expensive, but the upsides are few and far between.

Medium distances - the equivalent of public transport for merchandise. You'd have to set up "distribution stations" for this to work, and you'll run all too often in a situation where you drive the merchandise to a station 1-2 km away, transport it by tube to the next station, maybe 15 km away, and then drive it again to the final destination. It's simpler and cheaper to just drive the damn thing all the way.

As for a "last mile" type of solution... I doubt there's any city which really wants to invest in this.
It is immediate.

Your body is immediately flooded with a warm, familiar, acrid liquid, with a particular aroma. All of this is associated with the upcoming caffeine hit. There is also a certain amount of caffeine absorption from the mucous membranes of the mouth and throat, which goes straight to the bloodstream; it's not the full dose, but again, your body knows what's coming and can shift blood flow, glucose levels, and neurotransmitter balances to compensate.