skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I generally go out of my way to not follow "proper" etiquette while dining, but this is because I think that "etiquette" is a piss-poor reason for me to be uncomfortable while dining as a left-handed individual.

Screw old english ladies' definitions of proper, I am going to rearrange my utensils and plates.
Ask HN: Is the "SEO is Snake Oil" Myth Dead?
I've noticed a considerable drop in the "SEO is Snake Oil" meme this last year.

Will the myth die totally in 2011?
What about skinny ... umm... wannabe hackers like me? I am not underweight, my weight is fine according to my height. But I just look too skinny. Any of you have faced that problem? Any suggestions as to what I can do to gain some respectable muscle.
Hah! I hadn't seen that before. Thanks.
I think you need to realize that life is not a competition in any way, life is not about being best.

Life is not like a RPG where you gain experience(points) in skills to increase your overall level. It doesn't matter how much you improve your external life, it's how you think that really matters. A poor person can be much happier than a rich and externally successful person, it's how the person is thinking about the beauty of life that really counts.

"Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within."
- Helen Keller

"The person who lives life fully, glowing with life's energy, is the person who lives a successful life."
- Daisaku Ikeda

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
- Unknown

No man is happy who does not think himself so.
- Publilius Syrus

Look inward and find the peace within. As you do so, the outer world will reflect the peace you feel
- Unknown

You might be seeking external validation from other people. I've been there myself, I've improved greatly on certain things and when finally been awesome at it realized that it didn't really matter and that there were more important and way more simpler things I should have focused on to improve my life instead.

Improving your mind can be really hard even though it's damn simple in theory. The best way to be happy is to be happy. How do you gain happiness? By being happy.

You'll have to find a way to realize that you're happy in order to be happy. You can't say "I'm happy" without truly believing it with all your heart, it won't work. You have to KNOW that you're happy in order to be happy.

Granted, archiving external goals (being successful with women, socializing or work/business for example) is a great way to to convince yourself that you have everything you need in order to become happy - and happiness follows.

However, you must realize that happiness can not be gained be archiving goal after goal, it must come from within.
"Exclusive LendMe™ Technology"

Looks like Marketing really had fun with this one :)
The last quote isn't intended to be of you, and the last statement isn't in reference to the last quote.
I'd assume that the actual data is kept in a column in a table (one that's only 1000 characters long) and only output in the XML format.
Best Singapore Hotel Photos And Pictures Collections
The Pan Pacific Singapore Hotel in 800 deluxe guestrooms and suites providing some of the city's most spectacular views. The Pan Pacific Hotel won Executive Traveller's (UK) "Best New Hotel" award for 1990 .InterContinental Singapore Hotel Review From the lobby to the intricate wall tapestries and finally. InterContinental Singapore was first established in 1995 and located strategically in the heart of our local cultural hub, Bugis. There is always the 24-hour Fitness Centre on the third level, featuring a gymnasium, sauna, Jacuzzi and massage services. The Mandarin Orchard Singapore Hotel (formerly known as Meritus Mandarin hotel) stands in the heart of the main entertainment and shopping districts on fashionable Orchard Road. Raffles Hotel as a place one should visit in one’s lifetime – placing Raffles Hotel amongst the world renowned seven wonders of the world, alongside the Great Wall of China, Taj Mahal of India, Grand Canyon of the US and the Pyramids of Egypt.
Must be imaginary then. Don’t worry about it.
What about a 256-color theme for 256-color terminals (or 88-color for 88-color terminals for that matter).
China Declares Skype Illegal
Interesting problem that we face everyday. Knuth assumes that people are either big or little choosers. I don't think this is the case, e.g. my strategy is dependent on the size of the rolls.

When the roll is really big (i.e almost brand new), the low quality toilet paper (that my company thinks we're worth, if you're working in a better place this is a moot point) tends to tear, so that I can't get a piece of adequate length. This is because the tension on the paper is proportional to the moment of inertia of the roll and larger rolls have higher inertia. So, given a choice, I avoid these rolls.

On the other hand, really small rolls are annoying, too, since it's hard to estimate if the amount left is enough, i.e. while pulling a piece of paper they may finish unexpectedly, which is annoying.

So, my strategy is: avoid the very big and very small rolls. Around medium size, go for the smaller roll. I wonder how Knuth's analysis could accommodate such dynamic strategies based on roll size.
A simple yet brilliant idea, but my worry is, Will adults let kids play on that staircase? :)
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i give to Save The Children. i'm not a religious man, but i am deeply saddened by the thought of children going hungry.
Call it "News" Call it what the content is, not what format your content is in.
No problems. I get the point, and understand your take on the publisher's views. As someone else mentioned, it's the same growing pains we had to go through with digital music, and there is some frustration that we'll have to deal with the same issues over and over again for each new industry.

My girlfriend and I have already solved the lending issue by sharing a single Amazon account for just our Kindle purchases. Then we both just registered our Kindles to that shared account. The only problem we run into is trying to remember not to "sync to furthest page read" for anything we're both reading at the same time.
Jeff Clavier on Beating the Odds for Irish & European Entrepreneurs
ASP.NET isn't a language (but considering how few people on HN use the MS stack, I don't think it's going to throw off your results by much).
Wonder if they allow single-letter domain names. I'd love to get i.ng and just go nuts with it. ti.ng would be pretty good too.
I don't know. I think that Apple has their 'shit together' a lot more than AOL ever did. I don't know if the parallel between them fully applies. Though it's very possible that the 'fall of Apple' is that their success has always been reliant on the leadership of Steve Jobs. Without him (death, retirement, etc), the ship might be sunk.
unless the search capability is excellent, having 24/7 videos on the computer would not be useful. Without good search, you would have to know the time that you wanted to review. If it was just video, then it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Depends on the task so I'm not sure how useful the responses to a poll like this would be. I tend turn to these:
PHP - codeigniter, Drupal
Perl - usually a custom framework
Python - Flask, Pylons
And some sites just use Email instead of Username :)
Getting the data with Mixpanel and iOS
"They took their hard earned money and opened a pizza parlor or a garage or a gift shop. They never really wanted to be on the Internet."

There it is. That will be right up there with "They never wanted to be an accountant" and "They never wanted to be a marketer" and all the rest.
Reminds me of a health insurance form I filled out where it asked you for your gender, but never your sex.
This is really cool! I would like to be able to have an easier way to view a specific date. A calendar button would be nice.

Also the ability to see the most popular results for a date range?
I don't think there's any dodge there.

He could have said "we don't care, we don't have to". In a lot of ways, that is what he said. It's just appalling...
I don't see any colors other than black and white in the theme on Chrome 10 on Snow Leopard, but I do see bold, underline, italics. I see the colors on Firefox 4 beta on Snow Leopard.
At some point, Kindles are going to get cheap enough (~$50) that I'm not going to mind lending one out indiscriminately. I'll just load one up with the ebook I want to lend and then let my friend borrow it for however long it takes him to read it.
I recommend using senny's theme-roller.el [1] to automatically apply your color theme to any new faces. Brings some sanity to the number of colors that need to be defined.

[1] https://github.com/senny/theme-roller.el
Oops, I did assume that you could re-lend them after two weeks. Wow, that's a crappy way to do it.
>Just remember that you are a more desired candidate if you are actively employed

This doesn't apply in all industries.

>and that other available jobs might be just as bad or worse than your current one

This also only applies if you aren't the one in control. I could get a substantially better job, and I knew it, not fearful if I could get any job at all.
If you haven't already read Atul Gawande's New Yorker piece comparing medical care expenses in McAllen, TX vs El Paso, TX, then here you go:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_...

Obviously it covers more than just this particular topic, but the odd behavior of markets for health care is a central concern he addresses.
If he isn't making money with an app like this, he has nothing. Ohh and millions of people understand facebook credits. I can tell you with pretty good knowledge that the 1-credit transaction is a good idea for this kind of application.

Certainly this hasn't been proven with apps off of facebook. It's an excellent experiment though.
Can you point out somewhere that it says the number of lends is set by the publisher? I only saw that the publisher's were in charge of whether it was lendable or not, and not the individual terms of the lend.
One step further is to make email as the username. This removes a field from the form and also improves the chances that the email given is really used.
what is bi .ng? nigerian bisexuals association?
These services will be in place for years and more and more institutions will depend on them. The computer systems we design for health care will shape health care service.

Add Joseph Weizenbaum's Computer Power and Human Reason to the list of books that the developers of these systems should be required to read.
> Tech is not a meritocracy, and it does not run on the right thing to do.

This is never backed up. I agree with the 'who cares' message though.
Here's a couple more:

http://alexpogosyan.com/color-theme-creator/

http://inspiration.sweyla.com/code/
If your cutting don't send the fork all the way through the meat to hold it against the plate. The tines will drag across the plate as you cut and you'll get that high pitched screeching. Just thinking about that sound is irritating. Take your time and let the knife do the work.
My understanding of the traditional drug development model is basically that companies spend millions of dollars testing large numbers of substances in vitro, then in animals then finally in human trials to find a very small number of drugs that work. Once such a drug has been found and approved by the FDA it is fairly trivial for a competitor to reproduce, which in the absence of patents, would allow the competitor to essentially appropriate all the R&D the initial developer did.

This development model is extremely different from that seen in software and related technologies where many small ideas are combined to form compelling technological solutions. I suspect this difference in development models is the main reason for the much slower (linear) progress seen in medicine compared to information technologies (exponential). I also suspect that as our understanding of biological systems improves, the pharmaceutical industry will evolve towards a more information based development model.

In any case, it seems to me that in the present, IP policy needs to accept that different industries have different development models and that a one size fits all IP policy is not a good solution.
Agree, title is misleading, may be put up to attract eyeballs. It doesn't include few other prominent conferences also such as USENIX conferences FAST and LISA.
Doesn't matter to customers though - most will not do this research themselves (as evidenced by comments in this thread).

Companies like Amazon basically are caught between a rock and a hard place. Either implement the sub-par experience which is what publishers let them (the Nook experience) and have customers complain about your draconian DRM - or don't implement it and have customers complain about not having the features of the Nook.

Considering the Kindle is the market leader in this space, I'm not sure it was the right choice to follow Nook into this space with a sub-par experience. Now the feature and it's limitations are more highly visible, and DRM is front and center on people's minds again.
My understanding is that in CouchDB you can't guarantee that older versions of documents will still exists (they might be there, but they could have been removed by compaction or not replicated).

However, there is a fairly nice way of storing older versions of documents - hold older versions as file attachments on the document. See:

http://jchrisa.net/drl/_design/sofa/_list/post/post-page?sta...
If your post had been informational rather than insulting, he probably would have taken the time to read it and learn.
My current analysis led me to the following current (!) conclusion.

A lot of "software" patents are invalid, because they are no real invention in it. They are nothing more than an idea ownership claim. They are never put in application in any business. Their purpose is to be land mines, hoping for a big $ company to accidentally step on it.

On the other side there are patents describing really innovative procedures and software technology requiring a significant investment to be applied in an industrial process. The investors would logically want to secure their investment until break even.

If you feel yourself in the second group, patenting is still questionable. By blocking competition, one is cutting out the possibility to benefit from it. A good example is Groupon. A german company copied the unpatented idea and developped it Germany. They had the skill, they got the market by leveraging the cultural advantage they had regarding german marketing. 9 month later Groupon bought them 50M€. Groupon bought a proven team and market without initial investment and risk. It is a win win transaction. If Goupon had pattented their idea, they wouldn't get this.
I'm toying with the idea of getting another Kindle just to user borrowed books from friends.

1. Give them my "Lending Kindle"

2. Have them register it against their account

3. Download the book(s) I want to borrow

4. Turn off wireless

5. They can deregister my Kindle right away and I take my good old time reading the books I borrowed.
congratulations! nice PR and a useful little app. now, if you can do one for Home Depot, i'll be the first in line to get it.
This is cool. Can't say I'm sorry to see the sidburns gone though...:)
Your domain name is subject to seizure no matter where you register it, and that was proven to not be theoretical recently in the US.
I think the answer is yes -- because people who grew up with one business model find it very, very hard to give it up, logic be damned.

I'm at the point now where I have a lot of money invested in my kindle e-books. E-books that Amazon says that they really own and won't let me share with folks (until now)

Wonder how much abuse the average user is going to take before they decide that a book is a book. You buy a book, you read a book, then you give or loan it to somebody else. No amount of DRM and legal contracts in the world is going to change that. It's the common sense and natural way of doing things by billions of people versus the state, custom-made laws, and digital jails.

Same game, different channel.

So yes, we're still going to go down that road.
I don't know if GMail itself is "research", but I'm sure there is definitely a lot of systems research going on behind the scenes. I don't know that they use it for GMail, but the Google File System paper was interesting. Allowing their users (millions?) to quickly search their email (tens to hundreds of thousands?) must have some interesting networking/distributed systems research questions.

That said, some more publications/insight on those systems would be nice to see.
I think what he meant to ask was if you have a personal blog where you explain what you exactly do.
It looks like the robots.txt on those translation sub domains is disallowing all crawlers.
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How to Install Ruby 1.9.2 and Rails 3.0 on Ubuntu 10.10
For those of us forced out of our warm, comfortable Mac OS X Rails development environments here's a nice screencast from Peter Cooper on installing Ruby, RVM and Rails on Ubuntu. Hang in there Windows users...you're not forgotten...
It looks like the same terms as the B&N Nook lending. So it looks like a publisher restriction instead of something Amazon designed themselves.
You seem to assume everyone can get anything they want, any time.
Glad to see motion here... but there's a lot of little usability opportunities remaining. A few of note:

• wiki is hidden from search engines and non-logged-in users by a login prompt

• clickable links are green, while unclickable headings are blue; links don't show visited/last-click styling – really important when working through documentation

• a stronger link from Docs to wiki – for example, one wiki page per doc page, or starter wiki pages for anything thinly covered by docs – would invite more user doc-improvements
I only accidentally upvoted you. Now everyone is going to think this is worth upvoting since people already started to. I wish we could take our votes back.
I just clicked and found only the Blogger newsletter in spam folder. Wtf?
I was hoping HandlerSocket would be in here. If you don't know about it, check it out http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1886137
Pictures: Moving and Otherwise.
I think we need a new name for these type of jobs, then. They're not actual programming positions, since development tends to be about solving problems.

Maintenance and production are two lexicographic options that somewhat relay the scope of the position: higher than data-entry, lower than engineering. Much in the same way that a front-end is not necessarily a web developer.

Maintenance is what the current discussion is about, but production should be considered as well: it's about interfacing with the existing tools to extend without fixing any of the serious architecture issues. As in a web producer. Or, someone who produces plugins for a given architecture, requiring extensive knowledge of the system but with no access to improve or modify said system.
Next thing you know people will stop forgetting confidential documents in the printer.
I wanted urm.om, but Oman didn't seem like the kind of place that go there.
I think that some degree of copyright protection for a person's intellectual works is fair and probably necessary within the current socio-economic system. A person should definitely have the right to profit from their hard work. However I don't think it's fair that an author can continue to receive revenue from a work 50 years after authoring it. It seems even less fair that the investors in large corporations like Microsoft can continue to profit from the intellectual work of that company's employees indefinitely.

It seems to me that a fair solution would be to maintain copyright but limit copyright protection to say 5 years. That should be enough for authors to obtain a reasonable revenue from their works while greatly improving the common good by eliminating artificial scarcity after a fairly short period of time.
I thought it was kind of funny that the blog post said that the site would try to better document/explain what Pinax IS and yet failed to do so in the blog post. I clicked "Downloads" and that failed to explain things, so I had to click to the main page to find out.
thanks. latest version of the article is here now http://blog.couchone.com/post/632718824/simple-document-vers...
two of these relate to code.pinaxproject.com which hasn't been redesigned yet (but will be)
Coderific.com
thanks for your input. a calendar is in my to-dos. At this moment you can use the archives link top-right
Wait - what kind of person would draw from the big roll?

The goal isn't to use them both up simultaneously. You use all of one and then the stall still has the other one during the period it takes the janitorial staff to notice and replace the empty.
Is it bad that when I saw this I thought it was gonna be about git.
Looks like Dyn.com will be managing the .ng TLD. (old press release)

http://dyn.com/open-dialogue/press-releases/nigeria-chooses-...
Previous discussion on this article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1955717
Phovide or Phoveo or some other mashup?
Images (indicates moving or still)?
Media (ditto)?
Camera or In Camera or On Camera?
Through the Lens?
A little weird, but getting good feedback on your performance sounds like it would be pretty nice to me. I mean, it might not feel great, but at least you'd know what needs improvement.
Well, the point of the blog post wasn't to explain the project, just announce the new site; but I like the (implied) suggestion that the downloads page could have a blurb. We could put a blurb on each blog post at the side too.
I don't know that one yet, but I promise I'll read up on it! Thanks!

K.
I dare anybody to tell me that it’s bad manners to hold the knife in my left hand. (I’m left-handed.)
It would be interesting to see what projects within Pinax are available in Django limited by having non relational databases.

This is a selfish request as I'm working on a GoogleAppEngine django app right now :)
Github is home to a whole lot of hardcore forking action.
"They need a good solid website that has been created with SEO principles in mind and they need to be able to easily update it."

What small businesses really care about is cost effective customer acquisition.

A new website without a marketing engine attached is a tougher sell and is a crowded marketplace - you'll wind up selling against Intuit, Yahoo and other giants that have a virtually unlimited inbound flow of leads (small biz that buys QuickBooks etc).

SEO is effective, but slow.

Google's new hyper-local search features are perhaps a faster payoff for SEO but there are plenty of localized SEO / SEM companies already out pushing that pitch like Real Local.

All that naysaying notwithstanding, there's a great opportunity to build something incredible in the small business space but it's not unconquered from lack of trying.
Having worked from Twitter's office in late 2009, I'm privy to a bit of their financials from that time and onward. They're definitely profitable since then.

Profitable companies often raise money... I don't see why this is out of the ordinary. It lets you scale and make more money more quickly. Another startup I worked for did the exact same thing as soon as they became profitable.
I was pointing out that we don't disagree. But I guess I misunderstood what you're trying to argue. Let's just agree to disagree and be done with it.
Can someone please summarise SOX in layman's terms?