skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure what you mean. I've tested transitions in Firefox 3.6 and they are not supported - http://jsfiddle.net/qPdeV/
Sorry for the perhaps silly question, but do you make money off it and if so: how?

I'm asking because I've been on an iPhone since this was posted and won't have access to a real machine until tomorrow so I cannot check the game out.
That works, but you should keep your MacIvory at arms length. The debugger will often pop up on the main console and not the X11 window Console.
I think you're underestimating the importance of leading by example - assuming of course that the purpose of the website is to do something about the problem.
Why should we judge?
We are simply amazed of how that community grew, and take my words about Hacker News with a grain of salt too, just kidding.
We are so amazed that I thought Hacker News had to know it :P

About the rest, I really think that what happened and is happening with Italian Startup Scene can be an incredible case study (but we'll see what it's able reach).
Facebook had a key role in this all, it acted as amplifier of each move.
Revisiting is the key
You can build keyboards with arrow keys. IIRC the keyboards from TI for their Explorer Lisp Machines had arrows, etc. Even with Genera you can use arrow keys. You can configure a new keyboard layout and use that for your keyboard. Genera can for example be used over X11 or on the MacIvory. There keyboards typically have arrows and Genera knows about them...
> I've known several individuals more affluent than myself whose lives, at least in my estimation, are much more difficult.

What are you talking about? This guy takes the false and insulting stance that poor are so because they're lazy (implying they somehow deserve it, somewhat further implying that there is some immanent justice in this world).

We should carefully, as usual, avoid anecdotes and concentrate on general trends. The overall figure is that poor people don't choose to be poor, and that they would live better if they weren't. The people who got rich chosed their fate, the fact that they're happy with it or not is largely irrelevant here. That's the difference between being alienated / exploited, or not. These problems are of different scales and call for different remedies.
Before CIDR it was all class A, B or C addresses. Big companies probably needed a few sites and subnets so they needed a class A
Hasn't there been instances where two YC startups working in a related space end up merging or one acquiring the other?
Python's lxml can do CSS selectors. I've used lxml for scraping and find it quite nice.
As always, Italians are not able to do something properly.
And this is an Italian writing.

The level of Facebook addiction in this country is really scary. I see fellow engineers constantly on Facebook during free time, instead of actually building something.

Sad, really.
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When your choice is between having a shitty job and no job, maybe staying at home simply is the easiest. Or sometimes your choice is working late and letting your children alone, wandering the streets.

You apparently still live in the wonderful lalaland, where human beings are perfectly rational and do not suffer from segregation, humiliation and other social problems.

I'll suggest that you try to see life from a less privileged person point of view from time to time, instead of the Chicago school of economics only. That may make you a slightly more charitable person.
I think you missed a spot there Max. It's called Video Games. :)
Why are people voting down the people who are saying that it is a great group? (I'm not a part of it. I'm Australian)
Apparently speaking of pi's digits, article says: "pi, which is believed to go on forever ..."

Yes, there is a strong and widespread belief that pi and all other irrational numbers go on forever.
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IBM Centennial Film: They Were There
>It's like going to get a PhD without researching what that makes your life like, etc, just because you like ______ topic.

Funny, because that's exactly why I got mine. :) -It's worked out fine.

I think there should be an antithesis to the Dunning–Kruger effect: exceptionally-intelligent people don't achieve their potential, because their ability to see all possible roadblocks kills their confidence.

Bertrand Russel put it more succinctly: "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."

Sometimes you have to dare to be stupid. :)
Beware: The free development account is allowed a maximum of 2,000 calls per month
MRI shows meditation changes brain structure in 8 weeks
Just saw this, and it doesn't seem to have come up here. MRI scans show

"Mindfulness meditation training changes brain structure in 8 weeks"
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2011/01/21/mindfulness.medi...

Submitted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2130351
Ah found the answer to my own question in the reddit thread about the same thing: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/f6xto/_/c1dr729
Sounds like there might be a market for installing one way mirrors in people's car windows.
You can use:

from __future__ import print_function

And then print() should work as expected in Python 2.6+. That is, print(1, 2, 3) will print '1 2 3' instead of '(1, 2, 3)'.
Drupal might not be what you're looking for in terms of sexiness, but it is the most mature, flexible social plumbing framework I've seen and you can do pretty much anything in it.
If you confronted Glenn Beck, what would you ask him?
While I don't follow your thinking about google, I think that the "special" algorithm for search, at least the original one (pageRank) is not that special. Other people had the same ideas even before - what really made it so successful is their use of commodity hardware IMO, and that was only possible no sooner than late 90ies because linux became good enough (licensing any proprietary unix for 1000s machines would have been difficult). This and the corporate culture - it seems they manage to hire a lot of very talented people, not just engineers, from early on. That's pretty hard to do.
Is there a similar link for surgeons? They spend all day cutting people up.
Cyborg Beetle Developed by DARPA
Apple App Store hits magical 10 billion app download milestone
If they're going to offer a commodity service, they should probably come up with a better pricing structure than "call a salesman".
It is a mystery to me. In Australia if you only have carry on luggage, there is no queue even for international flights. Perhaps the author should fly with Quantas, the airline where all passengers are invunerable and cannot die.
When army ants lose the pheromone trail, they march themselves to death
EULAs are not even legal in Germany [1], I see no moral or legal obstacles to trying to install OS X on a PC, at least if you are in Germany. (The procedure described in the linked article is obviously also in Germany illegal since it involves torrenting a copy of OS X. I see no problems if you can do without that, though.)

[1] That’s always the case if the EULA is not readable before buying the software. Disclaimers (“You have to agree to the enclosed EULA to install the software.”) or URLs (“Find the EULA at http:// …”) don’t count. The full document has to be easily accessible to you before buying, EULAs inside the box or displayed while installing are automatically void. Even if the EULA is legal, such asymmetric contractual agreements are severely limited in their scope by German law.
of course ... it's called generating traffic.
You're probably right, but consider your average wolf has a bite strength of 1,500lbf/in^2 (compared to 750lbf/in^2 for German Shepherds), which is enough to bite through bone, and would stand around the same height if not taller.

A dog would bite for this things head and neck, which is what has been selectively bred into dogs for thousands of years as most of the big dogs are related to bulldogs. However a wolf generally bites at the extremities to bring an animal down.

Given the deinonychus is very likely to be a proto-bird, like the velociraptor, it likely had little covering its legs and given its scales would have been replaced with feathers, then it would be very vulnerable to a wolf biting for a take down.

It'd be impossible to tell what species would win such a fight, given we have little idea about velociraptor and deinonychus hunting habits. However, give me a pack of trained English Mastiffs (AKC register-able above 150lbs and below 250lbs) and even the deinonychus would be no match. These dogs were used for lion-baiting, even back to the Colosseum in Rome, but were known for winning.

I think the "oh no they might escape and destroy the environment" front is extremely naive to human nature and history. Our ancestors wiped out the wolf in the majority of Europe before the Chinese had even invented gunpowder. A dinosaur is no match for present day mammals.

Even if we collectively bred a few hundred T. Rex and they somehow all escaped when fully grown, it still wouldn't be a huge deal. They'd likely starve to death through the inability to hunt modern prey. Or, you could just get the military to shoot one with basically anything they have to kill it.

I mean unless we're talking Godzilla here, anything the military throws at any dinosaur will kill it. Whilst on the subject of Godzilla, the military could have simply got a SeaKing to drop a frigging nuclear depth charge on it and vaporize a hole in its head... but that would have made a rather boring movie.
What I was thinking when I read the title "Uhh, twitter didn't start in 2010".

A well established company (IE surviving the first 3 years where most companies fail miserably) is not a startup. It may behave as one, it may act as one, but if it doesn't have the massive impending doom of simply being a brand spanking new company, then it's not a start up.

By the logic demonstrated here, I vote for best startup for 2011 to be Apple.
I have found the Gil Fronsdal lectures mentioned elsewhere in the thread extremely good and helpful. I recommend meditation to people I think would benefit from it, but have difficulty in convincing them to do it, especially when their perception of meditating is "doing nothing".
There are a lot of anecdotal evidences supporting your arguments.

Most of us agree that some of the Mac computers are a benchmark for buying PCs. I personally think MacOS is a fantastic OS.

BUT the core argument here is regarding iPhone and what I think as a downside to buying it like its markets policies, objective-c, hurdle to develop an application in my PC. And why buying Android makes it more appealing to developers like me. I love my custom hardware, I love the ability to develop application that I want and just run it, I love interfacing Android to my Arduino, I love running my friends hacks on my Android.

1. You claim the reason why vast majority of proficient system designers use Apple because the designers would somehow not want custom hardware even if he is displeased with the product and would find such a task of customizing worrisome. The only user statistics you provide for such a claim is from the pool of your friends.

2. Then you go on to say Apple makes the "best tools out there" because "iPhone just works". Like they say define "works". I think no designer is all knowing to encompass every user base out there. That is why you have customizations, extension techniques and abstraction layers. The language layer extension is a amazing abstraction. You agree that "You can't run custom, unvetted code on there". For some of us that is a HUGE deal. My friends and I write apps all the time. Imagine a device that is packed with a good processor, a camera, bluetooth, touch screen, accelerometer, compass, runs on Linux and can connect to the Internet. It has an open source SDK, open source OS, open source VM. Fuck how could you NOT want to tinker with them? Sorry I degrade to emotional arguments. But seriously, this is a HUGE aspect of it.

3. "you can run on it does what it says on the can and does it damned well." Well so far what you have wanted it to do has been fulfilled and never had a need for extension. Maybe there were times when you thought of improving something but just let that thought pass. What it says on the can is a phone but we all agree it is more than that. It is a freaking powerful computing system.

4. You then argue for system reliability by comparing Macs with Dell PCs. I can't speak for either but can you make such generalizations on iPhone vs Android phones?

5. Then you ended up with what made me write this long rant. "Plenty of people don't get this. One day they will. Therefore this doesn't matter." I would argue that most of the people who buy iPhone would never be excited from the things I can do on Android. I would trade all of that "apple experience" to what I can do on Droid. Man you should really see what this shit is actually capable of. If you are still into hacking, you will have tons of fun.

I majored in electrical and telecommunication engineering in my undegraduate and I went to grad school in order to study computer science. I too understand the computer system abstraction layers and appreciate a good stack.
In Japan there are a lot of love hotels where you 'check in' using a ticket vending machine with a touch-screen interface. Cheaper than having check in staff and you get the requisite anonymity.
I hear IBM came third. (At 99 years old they squeaked in). They almost had as much revenue as Apple in 2010. Nintendo (at 123 years old) is no longer a startup and is no longer eligible.
すっぽん小町口コミ・効果・評価なび。
Right - but I think you may have slightly missed my point.

You're weighing the iPhone against android - they're similar devices, but with significantly different philosophies. My point is that apple's devices appeal to people who want to use them simply as tools to achieve a task. Android is bloody fantastic, as is arduino - and they aren't going to go anywhere, and you're going to be able to tinker on them 'til kingdom come.

Apple do things their way, because they can - and it's a philosophy that works very well for them, and so long as there are other, open, devices, I don't see how apple's design and market philosophy is any hurdle to innovation.

Also - I'm not talking about my friends (although plenty of them are), I'm talking about well known, well respected, extremely proficient industry leaders.
heh, epic alum?
Yes, very nice. What I've learned about C recently is that while the default language and standard library has no type safety and is generally horrible, it has all the tools you need to build something that is type safe and not horrible. And, most of the time, it doesn't even incur a speed hit.

Now I just need to teach the people writing 99% of the C programs I encounter to not do it so horribly :)
Not going to work. "One way mirrors" aren't -- they're just glass with a partially reflective metallic coating. Turn back 90% of the incident light and you've effectively got a window tinted about as much as a pair of mirrorshades (which isn't going to help with night driving). But the jackasses can just use a more powerful laser for their potentially-lethal lulz. Up the power tenfold and they can deliver the same amount of energy to the driver's eye.

The only really appropriate response is to enforce criminal sanctions against -- people who shine lasers into other peoples' eyes. Assault should cover it; no need for any new legislation. The issue is detection and enforcement.
We shouldn't generalize. We can have different opinions about Facebook, but this all is about how Facebook can help a community to grow.
If you are Italian, try to follow Italian Startup Scene for a while, and try to feel how high is the quality on it.

About 'building something', I can assure that it's the true spirit of the group, that's focused on doing things, much better than spending time to discuss ;)
I wouldn't call it 'programming language suicide'. Are developers who are working on Perl 6 intent on killing Perl 5? When generics were added to Java, was that done to eliminate the Java language?

Nah, people are just progressing. Over time, certain deficiencies are recognized in programming languages, and they get repaired. In the case of Java, generics were sorely missed, so they got added. In the case of Python 3, unicode support will be much better streamlined, and standard libraries get a bit restructured; some names are cleaned up. It's not like half the language changes. Not even 2%, is my guess.
You can buy OS/X directly from Apple for a fairly small fee.

So if you're not bound by any licensing terms then that would be one way to get it done legally.
> If you define 'an artist' as someone who's able to move the state of the art, create bold new visions -- well, not everyone may be capable of that. But I think that's an unnecessarily narrow conception of art.

Agreed. I don't think you can 'train' someone to be a cultural revolutionary. Look at Stephen King, he spent virtually his entire life writing stories, the education he received only served to skip him past mistakes he would have run into and figured out by himself sooner or later.

There are however countless thousands of people out there writing nothing more than pulp fiction, entertaining people and probably only making enough cash to help put their kids through college or to pay for a nice vacation next year.

I used to play bass guitar, I used to write my own songs, I knew a few people who genuinely liked them. If I'd have put as much effort into my music as I have writing then I would probably genuinely be a musician right now, but I want to be an author because since I could talk I've been telling stories.
What is Wolfram Alpha's business model?
Please explain: if it keeps you alert, you also have to concentrate your thoughts on this. Isn't this in contradiction to let all thoghts go?
Thanks for an answer...
I like the school idea. Maybe you can ping Khan (academy), for his interactive portion. I'm still fuzzy on the integrals and derivatives: are they for a predetermined set of functions?
Very interesting, I'd like to see if this is backed up by similar studies.

I'm encouraged that all this information about mindfulness is appearing just as I'm getting interested in it. Perhaps it's a form of cognitive bias.
I've helped build rail control systems that run on Java, so you're probably trusting your life to Java daily without knowing it.
Damn bastards. I heard its very common at the Dubai airport too.

Presumably a couple of frequencies are favoured by these devices, so can't they kit out the pilots w/ safety goggles for approach? Sure its a band-aid fix, but its a start.
I suggest taking a look at node.io (https://github.com/chriso/node.io) - a scraping framework written for NodeJS. It uses htmlParser rather than jsdom and scales nicely. It also has support for handling timeouts, retries, etc.
Here's a good book on the subject: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Full-Catastrophe-Living-Mindfulness-...
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So I write a diatribe about selectively picking and choosing data points to spin your argument and you choose to reply by doing just that?
مشاهدة مباراة الاهلى ومصر للمقاصة
مشاهدة مباراة الاهلى ومصر للمقاصة مشاهدة مباراة الاهلى ومصر للمقاصة مشاهدة مباراة الاهلى ومصر للمقاصة
Of course you can write a link aggregator in a weekend, but you can't write HN in a weekend - there's a lot of complexity in the HN source around controlling voting rings, spam, etc. When you're dealing with complex issues, it's a net win to use a language that enables you to think at the highest level of abstraction possible.
I use that to generate my regular expressions and test them :

http://www.ultrapico.com/Expresso.htm
I love drupal but be carefull about performance in social network.
JSR 292 Goodness: how to implement named parameters with invokedynamic
Well, to be fair the parameter problem is common for all kinds of local search and is an interesting research topic. That being said, I agree that GAs are seldom the most efficient, other kinds of local search are typically better.

For problems where there is a natural way to express chromosomes, mutations, and crossover that captures interesting and relevant information GAs can be useful as an additional meta-heuristic.
Thanks, this cleared things up, especially the checksum-hack is neat. The original author's description wasn't really clear for me.
Nevermind that, at least one study showed that if someone with view X is presented with "evidence" that it's indeed true, and then later presented with a full debunking of it, view X will be reinforced.
Got to see a 1 Watt blue, handheld laser recently. I cannot think of a much more dangerous item for $300. I won't link but it's easy to find online.

If one knows how to use it, the risks can be minimized. But you package something to look like a flashlight and have 1 Watt of 445 nm light coming out of it... that has bad idea written all over it. 10 microseconds of exposure is much greater than the max permissible exposure (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IEC60825_MPE_W_s.png).

100 mW is sufficient for star-gazing purposes. I can't think of any good reason for someone to have a 1 Watt laser on public property. As much as I hate regulation, I think a reasonable law at minimum is the battery cannot be in the laser during transportation over public property. What you do in your own home is up to you and your cornea.
more

[Psychological Functioning in a Sample of Long-Term Practitioners of Mindfulness Meditation](https://webspace.utexas.edu/neffk/pubs/baermeditators.pdf)

[The Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Cognitive Processes and Affect in Patients With Past Depression](http://www.openground.com.au/archive/Effects_of_Mindfulness....)

[Loving-Kindness Meditation Increases Social Connectedness](https://www.stanford.edu/dept/psychology/cgi-bin/drupalm/sys...)

[Attention regulation and monitoring in meditation](http://brainimaging.waisman.wisc.edu/~lutz/Lutz_attention_re...)

[Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation](http://ppesports.com/uploads/MBM_Short-Term_Impact_on_Perfor...)

[A Randomized, Wait-List Controlled Clinical Trial: The Effect of a Mindfulness Meditation-Based Stress Reduction Program on Mood and Symptoms of Stress in Cancer Outpatients](http://shamrockdesign.com/sitesOffline/sp/pdfs/Med_The_Effec...)

[Effectiveness of a Meditation-Based Stress Reduction Program in the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders](http://www.gsas.columbia.edu/itc/hs/medical/cp4/client_edit/...)

[Mental Training Affects Distribution of Limited Brain Resources](http://brainimaging.waisman.wisc.edu/publications/2007/Slagt...)
The reason this model is not ideal for software is that whereas a movie is a static thing, a single shot that then reverberates for months or years or decades depending on how good it was, software is an evolving product. Good software is not static. It keeps up with the great many changes in its operating environment to remain useful.

Because of this, the best model to extract value out of your software-making skills is not to create multiple pieces of good software and flip them, but to create one piece of good software and keep improving it. Where would Bill Gates be if he'd flipped Microsoft MS-DOS instead of keeping his hold on it?

Another big difference is, movies are art. People don't want 100 versions of the movie, they want one, with the master's touch on it. Software is utilitarian, not art. It's there to solve a problem. Most people care only about whether it solves the problem well enough.

Sorry, but this analogy doesn't work at all.
Correction: Make that 15 hours per month, equivalent to approx. 4 hours per week.

I have no special formula, I was just fully prepared with all the right skills at the right place at the right time and worked my ass off.

Actually, I'm more worried about not having a backup 2nd income.

I'm not sure if I should continue in the web startup / IT world. Seems like everyone is getting into this bandwagon, maybe it's time to jump off this wagon and try something entirely new...