skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That makes sense, and it's kind of a moot point, right; either way, Blockbuster isn't in a strong position to enforce a fine, and can simply refuse to rent to you again.
I'd put the odds over 80% that it's just because the VM wasn't fast enough. You then have two options. One is to get a faster machine, the other is to run the VM in slow motion while you save. Obviously the second isn't an option for realtime viewing.
You guys should check out http://startuptools.pbworks.com/w/page/17974963/FrontPage
Nice collection of links there, I'll definitely be looking through these when I find the time.
no, chicken fried steak is beef cube steak breaded and fried. it's "chicken fried" meaning fried in the same manner as chicken. That said, like fried chicken it doesn't have to be made in a deep fryer it can be made with a good solid layer of very hot oil in a pan.
No, he probably agrees that they are functional analogs and is just making the point that if you are brought in as expert in an article, you should strive for as much accuracy as possible.

While I agree with her general precept that MSG allergies do not exist, and I personally have no more fear of glutamates than of sodium, I'm bothered by the level of inaccuracy in the statement: "Broccoli, mushrooms, tomatoes, inosinate, guanylate, and autolyzed yeast extract? Give up? They are all sources of monosodium glutamate."

Guanylate and inosinate are comparable to glutamate, and often used in conjunction with it, but I don't think it's even colloquially correct to say that they contain it. Am I wrong? In the same vein, it also seems fair to point out that the naturally occurring form is different than the purified salt. Would you say that corn on the cob 'contains' high-fructose corn syrup?

I'd normally just assume she was misquoted, but in the comments she attacks the discussants for "carrying on with this technical mumbo jumbo and further confusing the issue". Maybe she's a good chef, but I sure don't trust her science.
Partial solar eclipse and transit of the Space Station from Oman
Depends on how you define "generation"...consider the ticket sales referenced above and this list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_music_arti...

Most of the other 90s/2000s artists on the list are pop/country acts like Mariah Carey and Shania Twain that I wouldn't consider to be artists "of my generation"
The Connective, a citizen-owned internet.
You make a good point, and I probably was being tendentious with my comment, but note that your point is slightly orthogonal to his; I'm just reacting to the implication that glumatic acid might be OK and MSG might not be, which rankles.
Ask HN: What's the best way to handle full-text search with MongoDB?
Micron releases half-terabyte laptop SSDs
And Then Along Comes Larry...
Godaddy-specific instructions here: http://help.godaddy.com/article/422
I'd like to believe this story (haven't found an authoritative source yet) that I heard once from a professional speaker of the FedEx main processing facility in Memphis.

One day it completely stopped dead - usually it is controlled mayhem with the packages and machines running - the silence was deafening - thousands of dollars lost every minute. They brought in the best expert they could find. He investigated and went to a single box in the plant, opened a door, and turned one bolt with a wrench and everything restarted. The plant came back to life. He sent them a bill for $10,000. When FedEx protested the bill - "You just turned a single bolt! Anyone could have done that" - he itemized it and sent it back. They paid him.

Turning a bolt $ 1
Knowing which bolt to turn $9,999
I'm sorry to see the non-critical acceptance of punishment, even a time-out, as an appropriate or effective parenting option.

The Case Against Time-Out
http://www.naturalchild.org/guest/peter_haiman.html

22 Alternatives To Punishment
http://www.naturalchild.org/jan_hunt/22_alternatives.html
Venture Capital Outlook 2011: Washington DC and beyond
Websites are composed of two parts the frontend and the backend. There are various tools to make each part easier.

The front end is composed of html, css, and javascript. As far as the html and css go, you can get started very quickly with a framework called css blueprint ( http://www.blueprintcss.org/ ). You probably don't need javascript for very basic sites.

The backend is composed of a programming language and often times a framework. I'd recommend Google App engine + python. Google supports a number of frameworks, but I recommend going through the tutorial found here: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/gettingstarted/

Let me know if you have any questions. It'd also be useful to know what type of experience you have.
Great to hear Miguel, sorry we never got to really catch a proper meal together last summer... (can you guess who this is? ;) )

Let me know if you are out NYC / Boston way.

To chime on on this subject: Several internships at Google have offered tremendous learning experiences and network-building opportunities, and the subtleties picked up by immersion in the communities around the SF Bay area - or wherever you might fight yourself - are truly valuable. Internships are great, if you are a student reading this - go forth!
'I would also consider artistic/theatrical type shows, like The Residents use to do --things that are not tied to the typical "come to hear a band playing their same ole songs live".'

I've been contemplating that as well. For ideas on performing don't involve many live musicians, and I'd like to make the overall experience more engaging and memorable, ideally involving the audience in some not-too-gimicky way.

Creating something that people can't help talking and writing about for some time, even after it's well over, could get the buzz of more frequent gigs, but with (I hope) lower overhead.

And yeah, The Residents are a good example in that vein.
Windows 8 to introduce ARM; First Public Demonstration Expected This Week
How much of that do you think depends on location? How critical is having a local (e.g. tri-state) scene?
You outsmarted me in a game of words with flying colors. I can't wait till the day that a country without political correctness bullshit like China finds (or disproves) a link between intelligence-race and is able to determine from DNA whether blacks on average are in fact less or equally intelligent. Funnily enough, I can't help but picture foam in your mouth if they do find a link. I can't say much until then. Believe me when I say that I wish from the bottom of my heart that they find no correlation.
You can do useful mental exercises for Google interviews, or other interviews, by working through "puzzle questions" and similar problems. But if a world of limited time, this might not be the best use of your prep time.

A good source for the history of these questions and interview style, as well as a bevy of sample questions, can be found in "How Would You Move Mt. Fuji?" http://www.amazon.com/Would-Move-Mount-Microsofts-Puzzle/dp/...
Right, but then they'll hit your credit report, and you'll have to spend far more time than it's worth (at the least) to fix it.
If you're an aspiring painter, you buy brushes, paper, inks, etc. If you're an aspiring CSS guru, you buy the CSS editor that makes you more productive. For me it's Vim (whoa wait... free!), for some it's Textmate, and for most it's CSS Edit. Also in CSS Edit's defense there is no better visual CSS editor, and there hasn't been one for years and years. If you're into CSS I'd reckon buying CSS Edit is the best way to go. If you're going to be into programming also, I'd say take a look into Vim, Emacs, or Textmate and never look back.
http://www.kottke.org/08/05/gladwell-on-the-mismatch-problem

"One subject in Outliers is what Gladwell calls the "mismatch problem," which refers to his idea that the qualifications which people look for/companies require in candidates when hiring often do not necessarily have any correlation to successful job performance - and often leads to poor hiring decisions."

He's also written on the problems in scouting athletes & picking teachers in the New Yorker.
If we repeated the experiment here, publicly, we'd all know whether we were in the control or experiment group just about immediately. The results wouldn't be valid, would they?
Well yeah, but that's the whole point of the original article we're linking to, right? They're not the biggest band of a generation, they're not the current KISS-FM darlings, and they're still raking in the money by touring non-stop, building a dedicated fan base, and giving a good show.

I think if you asked most people, even the ones who aren't old and 50, to make a list of the top ten tours this year... It'd be easy to guess the expensive shows for the baby boomers (Eagles, etc) and the hip acts for the kids (Lady GaGa, Black Eyed Peas). But I don't think many people would peg the Dave Matthews Band.

That's why I thought the article was interesting. Not because Bon Jovi is awesome and Dave Matthews is lame or vice versa...
This makes me wonder about net neutrality. If you had the jump on the announcement by a huge data carrier of site specific charging then wouldn't that give you a similar albeit smaller advantage?
It doesn't matter what the solution is, but Google need to prioritise UI responsiveness above all else. Until that happens, the UI on Android will suck.
Yeah, basically what you do is configure how often you want Redis to sync to the disk. You define a period of time and a number of records, and if that amount of time passes and that number of records have been changed, it saves to the disk.

This is the default:

save 900 1
save 300 10
save 60 10000

After 60 seconds, if 10,000 records have been changed it will save. After 300 seconds, if 10 records have been changed it will save. And so on.
Does your solution support: ifconfig down except (site-a.com, site-b.com, site-c.com, site-d.com, site-e.com)
I wonder if they've rewritten it somewhat; the headline now has a comma, and most of the post isn't too far from being entirely grammatically correct. It's closer to conversational English than many blog posts, but that's no crime against language.

They could use a few semicolons in place of some of those periods, though; especially where it starts to get period-heavy near the end.
Right. I'm saying Google is a platform company (among other things) BECAUSE they're building a mobile platform. I'm disputing the fact that he doesn't think that. The logic I used is this...

- Apple is a platform company because they charge people money for their platform

- That defines a standard of "A platform company is a company that creates a platform and trades it for something of value [in Apple's case money]"

- Google creates a platform [Android]

- The only difference is Google's "something of value" is attention. They then trade that attention for money in the case of Ads

So Google does compete with iOS. The only difference is they're deriving value differently (one directly from payment the other from Ads).

But if someone buys an iPhone they aren't seeing the Ads Google's trying to deliver through Android and if someone buys an Android phone Apple isn't getting that person's money. So they're most certainly in competition

(On your last point to say Google doesn't care what OS the user is running doesn't track for me. Apple has demonstrated their intention to dominate the iPhone "App Ad" market and muscle others out of it if they can)
I've always found the best way is to set out to build something, and then Google all the various little bits along the way.

Scratch out your rough website design on paper and figure out the important components. Do you need to handle user logins? Scrape data? Display funny pictures of cats?

Take each core function and google around for similar examples, look at sites like miniajax.com and so on for sample code and go from there.
Photo Tagging and the News Feed are possibly facebooks two greatest inventions.
They also have: 2 way relationships, some measure of privacy, simplicity of use, Integrated Chat/Messaging, ubiquity, inertia
FTA:

This helps explain Google’s motivation for Android. Google could, of course, just extend their search advertising to mobile phones, Adsense for mobile devices and build mobile versions of their web applications so anyone can use them. That might make for a fine business, but it’d also be a rather weak position to be in compared to where Google is now. Phone makers could change the default search engine on their phones to something other than Google; mobile devices might change how people find information—they might switch away entirely from using a search engine, and in that case, Google would be dead in the water; or, worse, perhaps mobile devices could move people away from using advertising-supported web applications, and toward primarily using paid-for applications; in that case, Google would really be screwed.

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The thing is, Bing is already the default search on many phones, including Android/Droid phones on Verizon, who is ostensibly Google's partner.
When I opened it, I didn't realize it went to my toolbar. If you want this to be used by a broader audience you should have a "run once" to let people know how to use it.
I don't know wolfram alpha, just thought I'd point out something interesting: if ^ is the xor operator, then -2^2==(11111110)xor(00000010)==(11111100)==-4
Ok, then let's funding psychology like we fund physics. I would love to run 1000+ patient studies to test psychotherapies, and in fact we'd be able to answer some really interesting questions if we did, but there is currently no way of doing this.
I'm assuming his generation was in the subset of all generations that I am referring to.
Really good idea, whatever format you publish it in. Will save many searches of hacker news archives.
Not at all. I'm arguing that taking your design decisions from IE based on IE's popularity is illogical when looked at in context.
Oh, thanks! Steak, fried 'chicken style'. Hah.
Found a small bug:

I set the default minutes to 15, yet when I go to start focusing the default appears to be 60.

I thought maybe they'd go into effect after restarting the app, but no, it still defaults to 60.

It does default to the last value of the Start Focusing form, so long as you keep the app open.
Some hosts are better than others (parody)
I blame Jeff and Joe for making me think of this. (to the tune of Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others, by The Smiths)

From RackSpace to 365 Main

there is but one concern

and I have just discovered:

some hosts are better than others

some hosts are better than others

some hosts' admins are better than

other hosts admins

some hosts are better than others

some hosts are better than others

some hosts' admins are better than

other hosts admins

As Zuckerberg said to Brin

as he opened a page that failed:

Ooh I say...

some hosts are better than others

some hosts are better than others

some hosts' admins are better than

other hosts admins

some hosts are better than others

some hosts are better than others

some hosts' admins are better than

other hosts admins

Send me your IP

the one that you stream on

Send me your IP

the one that you stream on

and I'll send you mine..
this is already available, SelfControl, its open source and I use it all the time: http://visitsteve.com/made/selfcontrol/
This is a fantastic idea! Will make remote collaboration much more simple (at the moment we forward ports on the firewall etc. and have dyndns setups - much harder to do this on an ad-hoc basis especially if you're not at home!)
Why do you quote this, what is your point? The article's next sentence continues just like your own: "But how are they going to make money from it? All of those things listed above could or are happening-" and goes on to further discussion.
And for all I know, maybe this is what 'tingletech' meant, but I figured I'd give him the benefit of doubt. I also gave this benefit to the Chef in the piece until I read her comment on the commenters, where for me at least she 'removed all doubt'.

But agree with you completely on the conclusion: if you are allergic to MSG, there's a lot else you should be avoiding. It's wild how many traditional 'seasonings' like Parmesan, fish sauce, ketchup, and kombu are effective because of naturally occurring glutamate/inosinate/guanylates.
What's keeping you from getting any coding experience?
"There was nothing surprising about the results of the psychological experiments conducted by Dr Bem. The porn used was OURS"

A (future) message from <your favorite porn provider name here>
That's how you learn, though.

XMPP is much better than most people realize, anyhow. Most people do not realize how much of the messiness comes from the problem and not the protocol. IM's easy, right? Just message here, message there? Yeah, sure, the first iteration of IM in the mid-1990s was. File transfers are easy, right? Yes, when both clients and the server are on the same LAN they're trivial. On the real Internet? No, actually they're quite hard. Conferences are no sweat, right? If you're hacking together a Node.js demo that simply shovels out messages to everyone in the conference with no further features, sure. If you want like features and stuff in some sort of standard way, it gets harder. And so on. I'm not saying it's perfect in every way, in particular the oldest parts of the protocol are a bit crufty (like the overloading of the presence tag to mean too many things), but there's a lot of people who rag on it for really misguided reasons, or who failed to read the core standard and got tripped up on the connection process. (In fact, there's a lot of people who don't even spend enough time on it to realize that the standard is modularized and you don't have to take every piece for every purpose.)

If I were designing it from scratch today, yes it would be a JSON datagram protocol. But XMPP is many years older than JSON as a distinct thing.
It is time now to talk about The Wheel: http://www.metafilter.com/58583/Youre-so-smart-you-probably-...
I didn't know that. It certainly sounds reasonable, but is that what happened at Microsoft, after their IPO?
Intriguingly, he suggests that the Google App store kind of sucks because Google wants to push developers toward using advertising in apps, feeding their core business.

In his argument Google doesn't really want awesome pay apps, they want awesome ad-supported apps that use AdMob.

Interesting idea, and possibly true. I have so far considered the crappy Market to be a result of Google's internal algorithmic-search-is-better-than-human-editing approach, and their lateness to the game, and their subpar graphics performance for developers, and the comparatively poor UI culture at Google.

Given all these complaints, it's amazing there's a market at all!

If his take is true, then the worst thing the Android team did last year was screw up the patent situation on iAds. Mobile ads truly suck right now, the same sort of UI re-think that Google did in the late 1990s for web ads needs to be done on the mobile platform. So far, I think Apple is leading this charge.
I don’t think that’s the case. Taking the data at face value it’s even doubtful whether the browser ballot had any effect at all.

StatCounter shows a pretty steady decline of IE since July 2008 (that’s when their data starts), down to about 45% in March 2010 (that’s the month when the browser ballot came with a Windows update) from about 58% (that’s about 0.6% per month). Since March IE has lost 7.8 points (that’s about 0.8% per month). All that loss since March was at the expense of Chrome (Firefox and other browsers could merely hold their March level).

That decline was a bit more rapid than the past average, but that extended decline is nothing special and also not particularly steep (there have been eleven month of near constant decline between August 2008 and June 2009 at an average rate of about 1.1% per month).

Firefox had more than 36% of the browser share since December 2008. The browser ballot doesn’t seem to have helped it so at least Firefox is in the position it is without any help from the EU. Chrome might have been helped by the ballot but even that is doubtful. North America which didn’t get a browser ballot shows a similar rise of Chrome.

A superficial reading of the data doesn’t show any effects of the browser ballot. You might be able to tease effects out with more analysis but I would bet that those are miniscule.
Is "generation" a global term or country specific?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_music_arti...

DMB doesn't appear (Implying that they have <50 mill sales (but they have 32 mill US Sales).

Linkin Park / Rihana / Coldplay all appear in the global list. Not to mention artists like Ayumi Hamasaki (Which from 1994-present) operated in roughly the same time span as DMB.
I see where you are coming from. Our thinking was that RSS was not designed to create an embed from a url, but for feed syndication in a standard format. This is definitely "repurposing" a standard format into an oEmbed type response for embedding.
My friends and I are big fans of the website - it is hysterical yet sweet. I am really looking forward to reading and gifting the book!
maybe TMI; but I have high blood pressure and am on a low sodium diet -- for me the tasty umami amino acid is okay; the sodium in the MSG not so much.

But my main gripe was about the technical accuracy.
A secure dashboard for my websites or projects where I can see data pulled from Google Analytics/Mixpanel, sales, domain expiry alerts, pingdom uptime, server load, monitoring stats etc. To quickly check all these things requires a significant chunk of time when really my intention is just to "glance" at them to make sure everything is still ticking over.

Eventually I will build and self-host something like this but its a significant development investment for an internal tool.

I would pay $5 a month for this.
Unfortunately, this is likely just a modified version of a (almost certainly also fictional) anecdote about Picasso. I've heard this one from several different places:

A woman walks up to Picasso, later in life, as he sits at a cafe table. "Could you draw me a sketch?" she asks, thinking she'll make a quick buck. "I can pay you for it."

Picasso shrugs, says "sure", and quickly scratches out a little something on a napkin. "That'll be $10,000," he says.

"$10,000! But it only took you a few seconds!"

"Just the drawing of it took a few seconds," Picasso replies. "Learning how took my entire life."
Unemployment up in two-thirds of metro areas
An introduction to the Haiku OS
Yeah, well, I for one hope they do have to publicise results, but they do NOT go for an IPO any time soon.
Use SOLR for indexing your full text. (By all means store your data in Mongo, but when it comes time to search, search SOLR instead.)
Just do it.

That is probably the best advice you can get: start. If you want to learn how to program, pick a popular language (PHP, Python, Ruby, &tc.), and duckduckgo "<language> tutorials." All you need from there is determination.
Right, RSS is definitely not dying.
Are Facebook apps worth it?
I've been toying with the idea of developing a couple of facebook apps. I think they are decent ideas and initial feedbacks been good.

I'm just wondering if they are worth it? How are developers monetizing these apps?

I think at the very least I'll buy a couple of domains, throw up a landing page and collect interest, but would enjoy hearing your feedback.
Thanks in advance!
Reminds me of JXTA with its Pipe abstraction, which works in environment where the only thing allowed is outgoing http. Are you familiar with it? It has the burden of XML though. I like the JSON approach.
Why look back when you can look forward?
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