skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We know what's going on in Ghana do you?
www.theideascout.com - join us to find out.
By the way, we have not officially launched.
Send me an email if you have questions. eric@theideascout.com
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I am looking for someone with extensive software experience; I am working to create a data normalization/affiliate sales e-comers platform. We are a startup located out of Raleigh North Carolina; currently we are working to prove our concept and simply need to have more people on the platform. Recently, we have been granted permission to sell inventory for a company that does 100 million a year with very limited web presence and no online purchasing options. So, we are looking to move quickly and provide them with a solution that is sufficient. Please contact us with interest: GreenViewVentures@gmail.com
A similar (but much simpler) anti-piracy feature was built into Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2. The game would appear to operate normally, and let you start playing; however, after 30 seconds, all of your buildings would explode and you'd instantly lose.
Privacy policy? About info? People must trust you to sign up. Link to them in the footer.

Not signed up yet, but it looks professional! :)

(On Ubuntu with Chrome 10.0.634.0 the homepage rendering is OK)
I added some more content on the homepage to show off the main sections of the admin area.
Ummm...do you have a reference for that first claim? Jobs founded NeXT right after he left Apple and in interviews I've seen he's praised his time at NeXT
Effects can have more than one cause, my friend.
Anyone got any recommendations on where to best donate the money? Red Cross?
The less-sick Jobs is, the more likely he is to have left for other reasons and thus for him not to return for those same reasons (assume those other reasons are more permanent - things like wanting it life, having accomplished "his task" or whatever).

That said, cancer has many complexities and variations. It's possible to have very worrisome test results but be completely a-symptomatic. That the cancer and treatment were obvious in 2004 doesn't mean that they would be today.

Also, repeated bouts of uncertainly are certainly bad for Apple's stock.
Don't question TechCrunch, it'll boggle your mind.
The best method I've come across is writing code, constantly. Just keep writing and eventually it will stick. Maybe in your time away from the computer you can write some flash cards to help you remember function names or something.
Further north there were reports of crocodiles swimming into people's homes. But not in Brisbane.
I think that in 2011, checking referer headers can be considered an acceptable form of CSRF prevention. Some very old browsers and plugins allow referer headers to be spoofed, but by now so many other vulnerabilities have been found in all those that if you're still using them then CSRF is the least of your problems.
Though snakes that live (or just hang out) in water are not dangerous, the really bad snakes are the ones that live in deserts. (I think I learned this from NatGeo)
Images also exist for:
http://city-images.usehipster.com/boulder.jpg
http://city-images.usehipster.com/losangeles.jpg
http://city-images.usehipster.com/newyork.jpg
http://city-images.usehipster.com/boston.jpg
http://city-images.usehipster.com/miami.jpg
http://city-images.usehipster.com/chicago.jpg

but not Portland or Seattle? And it's called "Hipster"? Phhhhfffttt
Also relevant to this is a submission I posted last week which didn't get any attention unfortunately: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2096644 about a site - http://FightTheFloods.com which my partner and I created to try and help those who are in need of assistance (volunteers, supplies whatever) to get the message out to people who may be able to help. Since I launched it last Wednesday, it's reached 350+ people registered, and I've personally seen a number of the requests for assistance be fulfilled, so I think it's made at least a bit of a difference to someone, so therefore it's been worthwhile.
Timothy Cook in Apple Spotlight as Jobs Takes Leave
Is Apple weaning its shareholders from a perceived reliance on Jobs?
The question I have is whether this most recent leave of absence is a calculated move on Apple's part to draw attention away from Jobs and towards Tim Cook, who is widely regarded to be Jobs's future successor. Cook took over daily operations two years ago when Jobs was on leave - that lasted for 6 months. And while there is every possibility that Jobs will be back at work in a few weeks or months, some have speculated the wording of this most recent announcement suggests it may last a year or more.
Dry testing at its best.

1) Landing page with email capture + vague promise of something cool

2) ???

3) Profit!

I wouldn't be surprised if they don't have a product yet and are still figuring things out...

EDIT: Just realised I am a hypocrite... http://littlecosm.com (I assure you that there is a product behind this, though!)
Illustrates how much tech adoption is driven by hype and bandwagon behaviour, and not by actual content or usefulness.
Donation link: http://www.qld.gov.au/floods/donate.html
The last flood in 1974 reached higher levels in Brisbane, but I haven't seen anything explaining to what extent (if any) the flood levels were lower this time because of the dam? Would it have been even worse without the dam?

At the very least it let them control the flow a little bit so we didn't just get hit by a massive wave all in one go.
Must... fight... the envy. Seriously though, congratulations to the people behind it. I'd be so excited if I got that kind of response and I'd feel a lot of pressure to not let all those interested people down.
Well, that is a scarier result of a flood than the flood itself. I hope nobody gets attacked by them.
Except that a Queenslander is built on stilts primarily for heat-related reasons, and flood avoidance is only a byproduct.
So the real question is how do we separate signal from noise?
Great to see what you learned from Intuit and why you cut the cord when you did. It's been a thrill watching CompanyLine come together!
At the moment people seem to be more interested in helping out their mates and getting the place cleaned up. I'm sure the questions will be asked soon. It's been good to see the volunteering and general good will surrounding this event, any politicians who have tried to make political statements in relation to the crisis have been widely condemned.

After the 74 floods, we built a dam (Wivanhoe) to prevent it from happening again, and yet we came not far from the 74 levels - amazing to think what would have happened without that dam!
I'm shaving my ironic moustache.
That shortened URL points to http://blog.pinggers.com/2011/01/8-tips-for-your-business-to...
A Royal Commission has been launched to investigate. In Australian law these are the most powerful forms of inquiry. An RC is completely independent of the government, cannot be influenced by Ministers or Parliament, has very broad powers to find evidence and even to compel witnesses, can decide independently what to investigate subject to its terms of reference and can draw any conclusions it wishes.

Generally they are led by respected judges with technical experts in support. So sweeping are their powers that they are only ever appointed in the most extreme situations, such as massive natural disasters (Victoria bushfires, now Queensland floods) or revelations of severe maladministration (corruption in Queensland and NSW police forces).

The Royal Commission into the Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria did point to individual as well as systemic failures. Some of these individuals were seen as being close enough to the government that the Royal Commission's findings contributed to the downfall of the government at a subsequent election.
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> Would it have been even worse without the dam?

This is part of what the Royal Commission will sort out.
So TechCrunch is now promoting themselves as a critical component in the substanceless promotion of a pre-launch website whose purpose is undetermined?

Their mothers must be very proud.
Piracy is again reusing a word. Piracy is the act of taking over a seagoing vessel.

By overloading it, you get past connotations of the old word
Brisbane has been in its present location since 1825. If the "green" answer to "how can we stop floods in Brisbane" is "well you shouldn't have built a city there in the first place, so nyer" then I don't think that's the kind of attitude that's going to do wonders for the cause of environmentalism.

Seriously though, to the extent that there's fingers to be pointed they should be pointed at the folks in charge of the Wivenhoe Dam. But hey, I'm not a dam engineer, so maybe we really do need a second dam.
I dunno, it's kinda intuitive when you have it halfway across that the left side should be "before" and the right side should be "after".
Yes, and the reason is that raised houses with wide verandahs and 'wind tunnel' halls from front to back door are excellent for keeping cool during boiling hot summers.

As for the dam management, the principles of operation are deliberately not subject to political whim, so were considered appropriate at the time. There was also more water then in 1974 AND a king tide, so there are some mitigating factors. Only the full inquest will really tell for sure.
Yes. It's worth it.

Don't jump into charting plugins. Just dump the data you need on some admin screens and start watching it. If you need a chart, add it later when it hurts to not have it. Just like any feature, add it only when there is a need for it - your dashboard is an MVP for you.

You can create enough to get started in a couple hours, not a couple days.
I think the fact that she was genuinely emotionally upset helped.
Posture affects self-esteem more than management responsibility
Except for Bob Brown. Who is now widely perceived as being a heartless loony.

(For O/S readers, the leader of the Greens party claimed that "The Coal Industry should have to pay for the cleanup as it was caused by climate change, which is their fault" (Paraphrased). This is not only unproven, it's also a cop-out... PEOPLE used that coal Bob, they're to blame as well if we believe your causality logic. It's a good thing there were no floods before this year, and certainly none in the 19th century to disprove your theory that natural disasters only happen to naughty planets whose inhabitants mine coal)
Well the political hierarchy is something like:

- Campbell Newman, Lord Mayor of Brisbane
- Anna Bligh, Premier of Queensland
- Julia Gillard, Prime Minister of Australia

I think it's pretty unlikely that you could pin the blame on any of them and they all responded well once the crisis happened.

The operating rules for the Wivenhoe dam (which is supposed to mitigate this kind of thing) decide how much water can be released and when, and that is set at the state level (i.e. by Queensland state government), so probably Anna Bligh is the easiest target in that respect.

I saw an official describe the dam operating rules as "conservative", but I'm not sure in which direction they are conservative - in the direction of minimising releases or minimising risk of overflow.
No, only bull sharks.
Coincidentally, this weekend, we launched a dead-simple feedback solution at Garage48 Helsinki (http://garage48.org/ ) based on our pain with complex & expensive feedback services:

http://wehearvoices.net/

It's a simple, embeddable widget for getting feedback. The beta is free, final pricing will be inexpensive and the full "Show HN" thread is on it's way...
Learning 12 new programming languages in 12 months
I wouldn't be surprised if it's all a massive hoax to see how many people you can get, with a little clever marketing, to sign up for a site that doesn't even exist.

Though now that it's been so successful, it'd kindof be a waste not to monetize the hoax.
I think it's funny that the dog's recall outpaced the researcher...

The article mentions the fact that humans can use context to help remember words, but the dog has to use rote repetition. It's interesting that the reliance on context that helps us learn stuff in general could mean that dogs may actually be "better" at building a vocabulary of 1000+ unrelated names.
Mind without language
OSQA - Free, Open Source Question & Answers System
OSQA is the free, open source Q&A system, OSQA site is more than just an FAQ page, it is a full-featured Q&A community. Users earn points which are called “karma points” and badges for useful participation, and everyone in the community wins.
A stable and open economy that offers opportunities is more important than an immediate democracy. People in the west seem to think that democracy is some mythincal "fixall" for the world's problems- it isn't. Democracy is worthless without a stable state- the backbone of a stable state is a large middle class, a middle class can't be created without a vibrant economy. Look at Russia in the 1990s, Iraq now or a myriad of other examples that demonstrated that democracy by itself can't create stability.

Democracy is an excellent goal to shoot for in modern society. But take a look at China- they modernized their economy and saw the population's quality of life rise, they have a way to go, but opening up the economy has done much more, quicker and with less pain than reforming the political system without economic reform, or reforming both at the same time (once again look at Russia).
That was their story last week. This week their story is "We're going to leak a bunch of folks' Swiss bank account details because some of them might be avoiding taxes!"
Heh one of the comments posted this link:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:suTSLVu...

Which shows it to be another Q&A site.
Write Screenplays in the Cloud. Good luck with the production part.
Head of Galileo program removed over a wikileak
I've been in the fitness industry for 26 years now. I can tell you there are better ways to achieve results, but good or great long term results require consistency and dedication.
20 - 25lbs of lean mass per year in an untrained 18 year old is very reasonable but quite an accomplishment. What he claims is extremely improbable if not impossible without chemistry.
A master at taking the next suckers money selling half truths. The number of people buying into it is frightening.
"We humans define intelligence in such limited terms." How would you define intelligence, then? Being able to correctly respond to human emotional cues has been evolutionally advantageous for dogs. They've had thousands of years of coexistence to refine their instinctual abilities to "interpret" our emotions, which leads to more attachment on our part, which leads to better reproductive opportunities for those dogs which we are more attached to. For all we know, dogs responses to human emotions, gestures, and nonverbal cues are a completely autonomic behavior.

I love dogs, I think my dog is super-smart, funny, and very sweet. I've heard her particular breed referred to as "the dog with the human brain" on some dog TV show before, and I'm sure she's not even as smart as a collie. That said, I can't help but feel like your comment is a bit... overwrought. Dogs clearly understand parts of human language and judging them by their ability to understand it seems like the best way to determine their intelligence. I would hardly call it "remarkably arrogant". You have to consider the fact that humans have likely had spoken language for as long as we've had domesticated canines.

In the end I can't help but feel like over-sentimental and hyperbolic (would you say we've "underestimated the intelligence" of, say, jellyfish?) declarations like yours really set us up only for disappointment. Our dogs are great, and probably do actually love us, but they're not furry little geniuses held back only by their lack of proper speaking ability.

All that said, they're still way better than cats.
Isn't that the whole point for the practice of lean startups? Where you validate that there is a market by asking people to give their email address before you go and start spending time and money on it.

Still feels a bit "icky" to me, but then I like the act of building stuff itself.
Whenever I meet anyone who works at facebook, my first instinct is to extricate myself from that conversation.

Otherwise we might get to know each other, and become friends, and I'd never be sure that they weren't looking me up. My strategy for avoiding the prying eyes of facebook engineers is to be personally uninteresting to any facebook engineers.

This might not work so well if I were a chick.
We borrowed the same sign up process for http://torbit.com and are seeing the same viral results, even though our product is a lot less consumer facing than theirs.

I wouldn't be surprised to see this become standard functionality for startup landing pages.
Hey Pan69, the video is a screen-toast I took of my screen. The software, screencast-o-matic, uses an annoying Java plugin to play the video. hope that helps
Thanks. I am also reading this http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/intro.html
From what I remember, the copy protection on Eagle was conceptually simple and seemingly effective. Basically it put the license ID into all saved files. Updates to the software would include an updated blacklist which prevented loading of files from old pirated versions. Crackers wouldn't bother with fixing the load functionality as everything would work fine for the current iteration.

There were of course ways to work around it (load then save with the same version under the free license, or export the entire design as text using a ULP and then import in the new version). But on the whole, it struck me as frustrating the process just enough to encourage users who would possibly pay, to pay. (I wonder if Cadsoft made even more from unlocking design files. "You are having trouble opening that design because your fly-by-night consultant used a pirated version of Eagle. We'll happily unlock it for the cost of a deluxe license.")
That one was a bitch - sometimes it'd happen to my legally bought and paid for copy of the game.
jMockups Has a Fresh, New Look
This was done by @jimwhimpey. His (brief) write up: http://log.valhallaisland.com/post/2785174890
Once you signup it tells you to invite 3 more people and says the more people you invite the sooner you'll get access. Not to take away from all the signups they've received but I'm sure a good percent are people just entering fake emails with their referral ID considering you don't even need to confirm your signup.
It proves to someone's bosses that they get this whole social media thing.
VeriShow: Live Support and Real-time Collaboration with Multimedia Tools
Well, I guess we could call it copyright infringement, but most people will come up with their own terms for it.

I feel that the only reason you don't like any of these words is because you don't want copyright infringement painted in a bad light. It's a bad thing and it does cause software developers to eventually lose business, the words we use to describe it aren't going to change that.
Ask HN: Review my startup "FlingMix - Anonymous location-based flirting"
It is, although normally with a Dry Test you are a little more specific so that you know what product the hype is or is not being validated for.

Hipster's hype simply validates that people like hype (and pictures of cities).
Using GET to submit a shopping cart can be "idempotent", but it is not "safe" since it changes state on the server. GET should always be both safe and idempotent.
tokyo has a big ass green belt around it's river http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=35.738057,139.824747&...

edit: for a positive comparison checkout south bank http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-27.478211,153.023704&z=18...

edit2: another example of green belts along rivers is Curitiba in southern Brasil see: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=-25.45894,-49.191552&... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curitiba#Hydrography_and_Pluvio...
Here's an answer I gave to a similar question on programmers.se that I think is applicable to you: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/32754/how-to-...
I'm on an iPad and can't find any way to view the flood images. And it would probably have taken only one line of code to enable it to work on all touchscreen devices by adding an on click event.
I guess it means that all who signed up are not currently hipsters.
Isn't that just another way of saying, 'Illustrates how much tech adoption is driven by marketing'?
Turns out Hipster is Q&A for places:

https://twitter.com/#!/yongfook/status/27198058643066880
privatise the profit, socialise the costs.
There is a Basic syntax error.

But obviously that is not it.
> The Australian media doesn't run on a 24-hour "outrage" cycle.

We do have bloggers who don't mind slipping the boot into each other. Two sites I host (catallaxyfiles.com and larvatusprodeo.net) have been sniping from both sides of the standard political divide.
It's like a pyramid scheme!
Every company with developers should be in the business of productivity tools for their devs. Even if there may never be a real money-making business there, those tools can be contributed to the open source ecosystem.
JS novice question: is it really a copy in the sense of a deep copy or is it a reference to the function that is bound to the object?
I disagree with the idea that this is new. The thing that is new is we're designing incrementally better experiments (but I would still argue that this experiment is flawed).

In the past, we would have said that this was an excellent trainer and the dog just does it for the food. In fact, this has been our default for hundreds of years.

For all we know, many dogs know or understand thousands of words, gestures, expressions, and even smells. This border collie probably understands even more than the words associated with the toys its supposed to pick up.

I call this a Jurassic Park problem. We ask bad questions and so we get the wrong answers. We continue to ask if any dinosaurs are missing instead of asking how many dinosaurs there are.

It's of no small amazement to me that we're so quick to treat revelations like this as a surprise. They're not.

I'm all in favor of the results of these experiments being spread as widely as possible in the hopes that it creates doubt about the way we treat all animals. We might treat them better.
MDMA is not harmful by any reasonable definition. It's possible for overuse to cause problems, it's possible for certain people with specific preexisting conditions to have problems. That's true for asprin as well.

You can't OD on MDMA. You can OD on water.
Assuming you are actually referring to buttons or JavaScript triggers instead of honest hypertext references, it doesn’t matter a lick what element you’re using, as long as CSS styles apply `cursor: pointer;` to it (and possibly consider ensuring it has a tab index). I don’t see why you need to make needless criticisms.
I agree. For a non-coder like me, I've been working intensely with CSS and html and some PHP the last 4 weeks. Things that got used over and over again will gradually stay in your mind after a while.
Luckily the floods washed away some of the drop bears, so the city is actually safer than it was before.
This will have no impact on the American Goldman client who's eager to invest in Facebook. US Goldman investors with the ability to put several million dollars into FB won't mind: they likely own existing foreign investment accounts/vehicles, and are excited that the SEC won't have any control over their investment.

I applaud the NY Times for their scrutiny over the past few weeks, but it's naive to think they're stopping US investment.
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21 days to IPv4 exhaustion (+widget)
Why high resolution screens matter for Apple's iPad 2
Perceptive is right. Dogs are used to assist epileptics and can alert them when they are about to have siezure.
Apple Needs a Stronger Transfer of Power
Is that a bad thing? Besides, I suspect the subject in question will never be "entertaining" enough for some.