skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you read Patrick's response you will see it is polite, realistic and nuanced. Your comment: not so much.

Japan has twice the suicide rate which is still not a lot. It's about the same as Finland. This is not a subject that can be (nor should be) easily reduced to a "Japanese people commit suicide a lot" kind of stereotype, so lets not do it.

http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/suicider...
The last time I saw some real time chat app made by an HNer (Edit: http://twich.me), I suggested my followers of the possibilities of using that to reduce noise made of chatting on Twitter. No one seemed to care. People don't like go off the ease of Twitter. They just chat away. Perhaps only twitter can do something for that.
Right. It's not so much "settling for mediocrity" but more awareness of where your fulcrum is and exerting your force to utilize it to best advantage.

There's another analogy in battlefield tactics. Many times, a brilliant general will create a tactical advantage which brings them victory by opening up a tremendous vulnerability in another area.

Another analogy from rock climbing: sometimes you can put yourself briefly in an untenable position to gain a better position right after.
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$1b effort yields no bioterror defenses
pip + requirements file + virtualenv (virtualenvwrapper) makes the setup of an development environment really easy. With virtualenvwrapper you can hook into different scripts, for example when you start/switch working on a project
I think that Facebook has been so successful because it appeals to stalkerish nature in everyone. They want to browse the site, see what people are doing, and what is going on in their lives. That's why I think it's more powerful than what LinkedIn is doing.

I think people are more interested in changes in their personal life (or friends lives) on a weekly basis than careers on LinkedIn. I agree that LinkedIn is focused on business and someone's career, but I think that there is far more potential in doing the same thing but on a personal level (which handling it carefully, as you suggest).

I think that a heat map of friends is a good idea, but it's a one time element that is useful for you and potentially your friends. I'm thinking that the newsfeed aggregator would be better at getting users to come back into the site on a more frequent basis. Maybe it isn't needed as much because so many of Facebook's users come back to the site on a daily basis.

Interesting feedback! Thanks for the comment.
I'm testing to see if there is a need/interest for such a product which is the entire purpose of MVPs.
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This is great! Fantastic to see government get behind innovation like Scala.
Nice concept & designs! I run a startup that makes software for other tutoring companies (http://www.tutortrove.com), including a whiteboard with a focus on math tools (inline equations, drag & drop graphing) and homework help (ability to import images and full documents).

I'm super-interested in these designs & maybe the domain and happy to share them with others if you go the CC route. Also just interested in talking with any edu-startups-- that's what gets me up every morning.

Good luck with whatever comes next & thanks!
Eli (eli@tutortrove.com)
Real Questions Have Answers
Actually the modern GA way is using the async javascript the snippit for which goes before the </head> but hey W3Fools wasn't about being accurate... oh wait, it was.

http://code.google.com/intl/en-GB/apis/analytics/docs/tracki...
> It didn't mention if these protesters were 'the good ones' at all.

I'm not sure if you are purposely using an Adam Curtis-ism or not here.

In Curtis' "Power of Nightmares" he discusses the simplification of news to "good versus evil". This is obviously a huge oversimplification. Sometimes the "good" swap places with the "evil", the victims become the people committing attrocities. This causes a problem: the changeable nature of "who is the goodie?" doesn't fit in with simplified news reporting. To explain the role switch to viewers, a lot of additional information needs to be provided. This would kill ratings. He argues that this change has led to the death of tv news.

You can download the dvd here: http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares
I am getting a 404 page..cached page :http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:05qcOps...
[pedantic]

Topology? AFAIK, all of these are homeomorphic to a piece of paper.

Topography != Topology.
I've used this before and can highly recommend it. It has seamless Twitter integration, and took no time to get setup.

I was participating in a Twitter exchange and one of the participants suggested we use Nurph to carry on the conversation. We were discussing a TechCrunch article about bootstapping startups, and at one point the Editor of TC Europe joined the chat.

It is a great idea, would like to see more people using it.
Support a system of checks and balances, rather than any leader or party, however good or popular. Support a judiciary independent of the executive, a state system that doesn't overtax or subsidize industries, but lets them be. I don't know how you do that really. Tunisia is not extremely poor, and is relatively educated. You have the potential to compete and create jobs rather than just a welfare state that will lead to another clique of cronies.
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Hrefer 2.7 + кряк - сбора ссылок на форумы, гостевые книги, блоги
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The original page is 404 for me.
This is the correct link:

http://sourcefabric.org/en/community/blog/139/Django-Softwar...
It wasn't an overt knock on TSN -- I just don't watch many movies, so I really don't know what to expect. Aside from the geek jargon and a bit of drama, I suppose I was surprised that it was Best Picture material. I think the only movie I saw on the big screen in 2010 was TRON Legacy, which was technically part of the 2011 movie year anyway.
If you add a real word in German after the beatbox text, it will read out the individual letters instead, no beatboxing. Example:

http://translate.google.com/#de|en|pv%20zk%20pv%20pv%20zk%20...
Chatting at the moment, seems like a nice and useful tool. There are some problems (people not being able to speak by default before being followed by the channel creator), which I've already reported to the developer.

For me (been IRCing for 15yrs), this is different from both ad-hoc webchats and IRC. It's better integrated into Twitter experience than your typical webchat. If you're a Twitter user and would like chat-like capability, you don't need to register, invite your followers over, etc (technically, you do need to do all of that, but it uses Twitter auth & profiles, so it's like an extension of twitter).

On that point, maybe it'd be great to provide plugins/scripts for other clients (see Embedly's Parrotfish) to instantly create & invite someone to a room from inside your Twitter (the official web, or some other) client; ie. a shortcut for creating the room and copypasting the url.

EDIT: I don't think it'd ever be a replacement for IRC, but neither do I think it should. I like the "IRC for Twitter" niche (how about "IRC for Facebook?").
I mean, it's a phone OS. Neither iOS nor Android is going to have a monopoly.

Many fail to see how perilously close we actually came to an iPhone monopoly. While work-issued Blackberries and not-really-smartphone Nokias made the chart look less intimidating, from a real consumer perspective the iPhone owned the game completely.

And of course that matters to all of us because mobile devices are the future, and the choices today -- like the choice of DOS in the 80s -- will impact us well into the future. I don't want to live in a world where the freedoms we enjoy is granted by the department of justice.

But yes, just a phone and all that.
How nice for the researchers in Lausanne - especially since Switzerland is not even part of the EU.
I feel very proud when a fellow (or two) romanian comes out with something like this. I love it, and I think I'll use it in the future. Great work!
People in hot climates have been painting their roofs white for many decades.

http://www.pictureninja.com/pages/israel/coastline-of-israel...

http://travelsplendid.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Santori...
The new syntax has no users at all sure, but CSS has far more users than SASS or LESS will ever have. You're asking web developers and browser developers to learn and support a completely different technology, rather than adding an incremental, much needed improvement to something that has been used for many years.
Interesting point that the trackpad will work with anything, not just a finger. My HTC Desire uses a similar optical tracker and doesn't track my finger all that well - but I just found that it actually works quite well if I move my sweater over it :)
Awesome! Romania is a huge hotbed for technology right now! (i'm literally sitting in our offices in Cluj right now) Good luck to you guys.
Does anyone think the debate as to what platform a developer should be targeting (assuming they are trying to earn a living from it) is important?

The reason I ask is I'm currently developing an Android app (as I have an Android phone and no mac) but I keep wondering if it's worth getting hold of a mac and iPhone sooner rather than later.
Why not open offices in Canada as well?
Apple means only good design and strong marketing?
My opinion is that most powerful tool that Apple has, it’s strong marketing.Marketing is stronger than design. When I say strong, I really mean strong. Why I say that ? Because when Iphone 4 was launched and bought like hot bread,
We're probably world leaders in cherry picking. Sorry about that.

EPFL is a quite international school though, the borders get very blurry around Lausanne and Geneva.
Hopefully that's the case :) I've never bought any Apple stocks but the only computers I've ever owned are all macs. Looking forward to more brilliantly designed products.
Check the user agent. Many bot writers never bother to change it. PycURL, Java, urllib, etc. If you only want humans on your website, only accept browsers used by humans. Sure the botter's may clone IE's user-agent string, but you'll still stop the lazy ones.
I try not to get too involved, but sometimes I think people don't realise what they're paying for... If you buy an iPhone, then jailbreak it, you just paid Apple some money. Part of it will be used to sponsor lawyers and lobby who will actively fight against jailbreaking and try to introduce laws which makes jailbreaking illegal. You're additionally sponsoring research on further closing down systems.

So basically you funded some people to prevent you from doing what you've just done. If they succeed with any similar laws, they'll be also extended to other systems, so even if google won't sue someone for jailbreaking Android, another producer might.
Dude, no way. While the iPhone may have had a temporary large majority in the "smart phones consumers actually want to buy" field, they never had more than a fraction of the cell phone market, and they never established a monopoly in the sense that there was essentially no other phone you would want to get. How could it be? It was only on AT&T, and AT&T doesn't have a monopoly as a network.

While the iPhone's very competitive, and while it has a near monopoly in terms of media popularity — I've seen many iPhones in movies, and no Droid — it by no means came remotely close to a monopoly. Just as the iPod was never a monopoly — it had an enormous marketshare, but there were many successful MP3 players that competed with it and served as a viable option for people who didn't want an iTunes lock-in.
Beats me! Prbly a programmer who gut lucky and is now so successful she barely has to do any work anymore, commands outrageous fees, does a lot of drugs, smashes hotel rooms and tends to find underwaer on her keyboard...
I use Nurph. We have a regular Friday afternoon start-ups discussion slot. Last Friday we discussed the idea of a "Get a room" service -- I believe it had come up before. In other words, when a twitter exchange gets too detailed for 140 chars, multiple folk, and filling your stream, you can switch to Nurph.

It's a great tool. Might really catch on with a bit more traction. Could work nicely with HN too.
I dont agree its GUI design is bad, it's clunky but basically the same as all music players these days, an iTunes ripoff :)

Sometimes I long back to the time when music players had a simple streamlined minimal interface like xmms, and the old winamp...
Depends on the chest. Or abdomen for that matter.
There speaks a man of experience!
It's not theft in my book.
I notice that most people implementing CAPTCHA don't even fully realize what they're protecting from.

There are different kinds of spam, each needs a different approach:

1. targetted attack against a site

2. non-targetted attack sending spam for machines

3. non-targetted attack sending spam for humans

To protect against first case (e.g. someone trying to mass-register webmail accounts) you have to have a proper CAPTCHA, and JavaScript tricks and hidden fields are totally useless.

Most sites are only spammed with second type of spam, but choose protection against the first type! However, this spam is super-easy to defeat with content classification, because it has to make spammy keywords/links available to machines.

The third one is common in e-mail, rare on websites, but still can be mostly defeated with blacklists, classification and technical tricks that catch poorly written bots.

There are people implementing protection against #1, and then trying to prove it works, because it blocks #2 and #3. In non-targetted attacks, anything that wasn't expected by the bot writer will work, even if it's totally misimplemented CAPTCHA that has solution in image's URL, or it's a choose-a-kitten test that has 1 in 9 chance of guessing, or mouse movement tracking that can be trivially simulated/replayed.
Context: It's an a a blog called "Web 2.0 Development and Business Lessons".
According to Dnevnik.bg (http://www.dnevnik.bg/tehnologii/2011/01/17/1026425_ekspertu...):

Dancho Danchev, an expert on cybersecurity, is placed in a psychiatric hospital in Bulgaria. The information was confirmed by two sources of "Dnevnik", although the hospital refused to comment.

[...]

[...]

[...] according to reliable source of Dnevnik he was placed in a Bulgarian psychiatric hospital since December 11.
I'll be honest, this is part of the reason that people love Google so much. They're willing to have a little bit of fun with their applications, such as with the Maps and "Swimming" or "Kayaking" across the oceans.
Sounds like a great person to work with ;)
That said, maybe there is some truth to that: Programmers often don't get the recognition and/or salary they feel they deserve. Maybe the "rockstar" expresses the wish to get more appreciation and honoration for their abilities.
It would be interesting to know who actually coined the term. A hacker or a salesperson or who?
Not a programmer, but my guess is that it means someone with 'dazzling' skill that can pull off stuff you wouldn't really expect. That kind of skill usually has qualities/skills that go with it beyond the "normal" skill-set you think of. As you noted, being a rockstar is not really about raw musical ability but involves a number of other things, such as playing to a crowd. Someone who can write amazingly good code and also play corporate politics well enough to get his code instituted, instead of settling for some more prosaic solution, is probably the kind of person that gets called a "rockstar". To me, it suggests unconventional but brilliant solutions, not just solid coding ability. The qualities that lead to those types of solutions tend to be hard to quantify. I think that is a big part of why they get euphemistic labels like "rockstar".
While I'm not sure if there's an actual fusion in the depths of the naval, for practical purposes, the abdomen can be considered homeomorphic to the punctured plane, and treated accordingly.

... "for practical purposes" ...

Sigh. I guess I'll have to turn in my pure math degree.
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No need to be sorry, we're all going to profit when a free software project receives funding.
My perps were never caught either. I identify with a lot of the feelings he illustrated in this letter. It's bringing tears to my eyes.
It is so hard to explain something as controversial as this to people who have never experienced or do not understand it, and Bill did a momentous job.
Rest in peace, Bill Zeller, and I wish for a moment that I believed in some kind of afterlife, because you deserve heaven after all this hell you've been through.
Don't worry; it's been there for a few days already ...
Random but... you could take a few pictures of your hand... and go the classic route of asking how many fingers you're holding up.
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xubuntu became very bloated very fast. From v8 onwards I never saw any advantage over vanilla ubuntu. I think at one point they even announced that they weren't aiming to be "light ubuntu" any more.

Lubuntu, however, is the best thing since sliced bread. I've got a 7 year old 1.2Ghz, 256Mb ultra-laptop that starts faster than my workstation.
The Imaginot Line
foobar still exists.
> I realize I'm in a minority, and that there are plenty of customers still to be wooed by Apple. But competition is stirring. At last week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a resurgent Motorola—which this month split into Motorola Solutions and Motorola Mobility Holdings—trumped Apple. Motorola Mobility's new Xoom tablet computer, designed to rival the iPad, was named "Best of Show," and the Motorola Atrix was named the best smartphone.

Named "Best of show" at CES? That may not be the kiss of death, but it's quite close. As if ordinary buyers know what CES is and care.

Besides mentioning this lackluster distinction, the author forgot to point out that the Xoom is a just announced tablet that only trampled (if that) a one year old one. iPad 2 is also around the corner.

And on to the main premise of the article.

More markets for Apple to expand to?

@ How about digital media delivery, a market in which Apple is already going strong with the iTunes Store, and which is only poised to expand?

@ How about home entertainment --Apple TV might be ho-hum as of now, but it could be as ubiquitous as the iPhone if Apple plays their card right.

@ How about, personal computers? Crazy right? But Apple has gone from 2-3% to nearly 10% of the market in 8 years. Who says it cannot get 20% or even 30%, given that MS is slowing down and Linux does not seem to benefit much from it in the desktop space?
I couldn't get it to work in Opera 11 nor Firefox 3.6.13 (on Windows), it just sat there at "loading presentation..." with a big red "slides" button-lookalike on top.
LXDE now comes pre-packaged: http://lubuntu.net/

I cannot recommend this distribution enough.
Just find a better recruiter.
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I would love to encrypt my phone, I hope Android gets full disk encryption soon.
I wish it was an iTunes ripoff. iTunes has got a lot of bulk but I find its interface vastly more intuitive.

Look at the screenshot included in this post:

http://amarok.kde.org/files/amarok2.4.0.png

It uses a three-panel layout, for information that is not essentially equal. The left panel determines source, the right panel browses through music, and the center panel shows related artists. There's a lot of unused space in the title (now playing) bar and in the lower left corner.

So if I'm picking music to play, I have to first choose an option on the left. Then I skip OVER the center panel and look at the newly-updated right panel, which doesn't seem to be showing me very much music at once. The middle panel only matters if I'm actively looking at similar artists.

iTunes, on the other hand, has a clearly delineated (smaller, different-looking) left panel that lets you decide what sources you're using to play your music (playlists, the online store, podcasts, etc). The bulk of its interface is dedicated to letting you browse as much music as possible. It has an artist recommendation that shows up as a similarly delineated bar on the right, and which is disabled by default.

Also, look at how many untitled icons there are on the Amarok interface. And how many repetitive images there are. That one band's album image repeats five times — is it adding extra relevant information? And in the center pane there seem to be two separate Settings icons. Do they do the same thing, or do they serve different purposes?

iTunes has bloat, but on a WAY different magnitude. Here's a screenshot of what mine looks like right now:

http://cl.ly/191a0U1o411X0O433Q0g

There are only three groupings of unnamed icons. The one at the top right pretty clearly depicts the viewing style; the one at bottom left is all the playing controls (though the Add Playlist and Hide Artwork buttons are a bit ambiguous); the ones on the bottom right (AirPlay, Genius, and Show Sidebar) are the only ones that I think are a little confusing to new users. Everything else is very clearly labeled and pretty much explains itself.

I'm not a big fan of iTunes but it's operating on a different level of UI design than Amarok, currently. That's not to say it's prettier (although I think Amarok is a little clunky), but it's a program that a team of expert interface designers have thoroughly tweaked. I wish KDE had more interface designers working for them; it's one of those fields that sounds like a lot of unnecessary bullshit but goes a long way towards making experiences more enjoyable.
I believe http://www.stashboard.org/ does the same and it's free and open source.
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Looks very nice - Amarok has been my favorite music player for years now. Lately I've been using more and more of the online streaming services, however (Spotify, Grooveshark, Wimp etc.). I hope future music players will have the ability to integrate these services as well. While most of the services have nice interfaces on their own, it would be great to have one application for all my musical needs. I do believe there was an independently developed Spotify client for Linux at some point.
Abstract vs Concrete Approaches to Learning
For older (<=2ghz, 256Mb) laptops I strongly recommend switching to Lubuntu. You'll never look back.
To apologize is the first single thing I was taught during
my 'Hourensou'/報連相 training at the Japanese company I'm working on.
Whenever something bad happens, you first have to put yourself in their shoes,
and just apologize."Moushi wake gozaimasen...".
It does not matter whose fault was it, before trying to explain anything you have to
first apology and then you can explain, otherwise it is going to be considered as rude.
https://github.com/rjrodger/sunnytrail
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