skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NWS -- according to rumor -- deliberately keeps their pages nerdy and undesigned due to pressure from commercial providers (AccuWeather, etc.), which don't want a government-supported a "rival". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service_Duties...) Forget that the government rival was there first. It's been awkward to get XML-ish data feeds from NWS, because private industry is trying to make money selling the same data which is freely available from NWS.

The private weather services don't provide much value. Most of the local current conditions data (METAR) is gov't sponsored, not to mention the satellite imagery. The government forecast algorithms are just great -- the gov't has a mandate to do this & does it well. It does make sense to go to a private provider if you have an oil rigs, agribusiness, etc. which needs tailored weather advisories.

The only place for good local weather which isn't cribbing or catching up with NWS is local meteorologists in difficult to judge regions. For example in the hill country of northern Vermont, the Eye on the Sky forecasters will call the weather valley by valley, a luxury which NWS computers won't give.
There are some user-scripts/extensions for Chrome/Firefox that beautify Google-Reader. I find they help make it suck less. YMMV
'One major problem is what I'll call "balls." Do women really want a guy who's too fucking timid to just come right out and say they like them? No.'

I've had lots of crushes on shy guys. Problem is, I'm shy too, so I don't say anything -- and end up with the not-shy guys I crush on, because they ask first. Most of my female friends have had crushes on shy guys too, but the same thing usually happens. In younger crowds (I'm guessing the main demographic for these sites) girls who ask out guys can be rejected pretty harshly so its usually not worth the bother even if you aren't shy. In HS, one of my friends had her crush throw food at her from a car window after she wrote him an anonymous (but fairly obvious) note admitting she liked him. This even though they had hung out lots and she considered him at least a friend. It was more than a little discouraging for all of us, especially since his aim was so bad we ALL got covered in it. Ugh.
After spending one's life with one worldview, how many people would just up and trade it for another? You're asking the wrong question.

For instance, it's said that 99% of Japanese who attempt living abroad end up returning to Japan. Is it because their way of life is "superior"? The vast majority of foreigners who try living there end up returning from where they came from, as well. Is it because we're all superior to each other?
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This is surprisingly powerful. It personalizes people who (I assume) lost their lives asking for freedoms that we take for granted.

"Martyr" is probably the wrong word to use, given its religious connotations and the political spin around that at the moment. But this is a minor point.
As one commenter put it; Typical sign of quack science, calling for a press conference before publishing a peer-reviewed paper.
Maybe it's downloading code that then manages the download. The same code. Every issue.
10" is already too big...

A4 is fine for paper because you can fold it if you need.
Would it be possible for you to use Dropbox (not collaborative...) or Google docs (not for design...)?
I (or, my employer) use PrinceXML, but I don't think it would work well for collaborative work as it takes too long to deliver an actual PDF document, which I assume is a problem for most PDF generators.
I assume it's a reference to Facebook's "poke". If so it gives a frequent FB user a pretty good idea of how the site works at a basic level.

I didn't even consider the "dirty" meaning until you brought it up and I hardly use FB.
use to find that way of thinking mostly in perl hackers.

A pity that people choose to sacrifice a lot of readability just to save a few characters in the source... it's not even justifiable in a interpreted language... in a language that you have to compile it's criminal
Ask HN: How much time a week do you spend managing your FB pages?
More information:

http://techland.time.com/2011/02/04/site-steals-250000-faceb...
i'm finding the documentation extremely interesting... but wonder how much it would be improved with properly named variables :)
Would love to get an idea of how the traffic is going - as soon as you are comfortable with that, of course :)
The thing about program verification is that everyone knows that of course it is in general impossible. However, I am not writing a simulator. Most of the code I write does not actually take advantage of the power of a Turing machine.

The fact that the general problem is impossible does not mean that the entire area of study is useless.
What is Kodu Gamelab
all that it's doing for you is just thinly "papering over" the syscalls

But wasn't that the whole point of Node - to expose the lower layer of nonblockingness while still allowing a high level language for everything else?

If you really want to see a well-done papering over, take a look at Gambit Scheme, instead of BEAM

That's interesting. What are the distinctive points that make it good?
It depends on what kind of a computer user you are. If you are a pure online person then Google Reader is perfect, if you never want to be bothered by new RSS feeds, and just want to check them whenever then there is NetNewsWire, which will sync with Google Reader, so that if you have multiple computers you won't have to redo your RSS Feeds every time. If you like notifications for whenever new feeds come in, then Sociolite is a good app. If you like everything built in, just in one place. Outlook and Mail.app both have the ability to add RSS Feeds.
I'm pretty sure that Pex [1] does the static analysis on these things. It's C#, but should be close enough for you to get the idea.

[1]: You can play with it here: http://www.pexforfun.com/
Creating encrypted filesystems on Android with LUKS
I was responding to a post about 'holding back 6 months salary' as a safety measure, with a simple example of how to do so. Obviously, this is something to do before you go and start a family. My point was not that it's possible for everyone, but rather that it's not as unthinkably hard to do as one might think, even on minimum wage.
http://blog.lifeasparesh.in/2010/07/what-social-skills-i-lea...
Student at Penn State majoring in CS. Anyone else???
Thought he quit working for Facebook, too. Thoroughly disappointed when I found out he was just complaining that his life was so pathetic that it warranted 5 full-trackpad swipes of self-righteous douchebaggery on why he is single.
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As others have said, task queues (look into Celery, which is in Python), Mark Pilgrim's feedparser, and make sure you don't fetch more often than you need to. A few thousand feeds is fine, but if you grow in the hundreds of thousands of feeds, if you want to update them more than once a day, you're going to have to pass in the cache controls (etags and last-modified dates). Even then, 50,000+ feeds is straining the limits of a single DB.

If you were to reach that point, then I recommend moving to a nosql db (like mongo, which is what I use for NewsBlur), and sharding it so you can read/write to more feeds without a problem. All of your analysis will have to be in a MapReduce, so it can be sent to different shards, but that's not too difficult to learn how to do. NewsBlur has a few examples of how to do this.

I used Python, but Ruby would also be a fine choice. Although I'm not sure what Ruby libraries you would use.
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Nice idea, especially for $11 USD. :-) It will be interesting to see the turnout and MVPs.

Wish it was offered in my area.

Sidenote: Some relative links seem to be broken (#/contact, #/ideas...)
i played with gizzard for one of our services with redis as backend. twitter engineers on #twinfra IRC channel helped me a lot on understanding gizzard and flockdb src code. Not yet using in production though.

You have any questions ?
There are different fields within CompSci that different kinds of people, from Math-backed to social types would be required.
Indian students GPS tagged in California.
The url does the topic justice. Having applied for a Masters degree here myself, I'm familiar with the various universities that do this, lets just say Tri-Valley university isn't the only one. But these universities do have legal status as a university and these students came in after interviewing at a US consulate, by US officials.

Blaming the students for an immigration lapse and tagging their feet with gps-es and a US official saying it was a "hip" thing to do, is just disgusting IMO. They deserve a little more respect than what they're getting right now.

I'm not sure if it's a relevant HN article, but I haven't seen it posted here, so I thought it should be something that people know.
To add insult to injury, the quality of the cover flow images is horrendous. The JPEG artifacting makes the sub-headlines difficult to read, so it's not just an aesthetic complaint; it is yet another usability problem.

PS - I decided to open up The Daily to confirm that the JPEG artifacts do not go away after further loading. They do not. However, it is a little after midnight for me now, so when I opened the app, I hit the "A new issue of The Daily is being delivered" wait screen. How poetic.
From what I heard, the end user agreement for Analytics says it won't affect rank.
It is a bit presumptuous to assume that India or S.A. would not have made progress or exchanged "intellectual" information without a country sailing over and lording over it for a hundred years.

Disclaimer: I am an Indian.
Or they could go, "Oh, wasn't that weird!" and then forget about it.
No kidding, it's spectacularly easy to get one if you want. The only pitfall is not getting one quick enough for a trip as they can take some time to arrive in the mail without extra fees.
It's hard to determine the value of many (great?) ideas from the start. hence we have various ways of idea risk management: customer development(for market risk), prototyping(for technical risk) and market research(which is the weakest form usually, for market risk).

Ideas passed through this methods are worth much more, but still most of them can be copied without good execution.
I noticed that Amazon has (relatively) recently changed their results pages so that it preloads the first 4 results of the next page. When you click next, the next 4 results show immediately, and then the rest of the results start loading. I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of dollars that small change is earning them...
I agree with you. I think he should have elaborated on those points.
Awesome .. i tried "can't access your account" thing, and it allowed me to provide a new email address to get the password provided I verify the dns entry.
Thanks a ton dude !
My intention is not piss anyone off, but my first exposure to atheism was because I watched Chris Hitchens speak at Google. He lead me to Dawkins who literally blew my mind away. That lead to me reading a quite a bit more about the human condition in general, so, just for influencing my life so much, I'm going to pick Chris hitchens. Here's the link if anyone wants to watch it -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD0B-X9LJjs
Yes, because no matter how insightful, wisdom must be ignored if it comes from a disagreeable source.
What a stupid analogy. You can't interview a hurricane. But you can interview the people involved in a revolution. Isn't that a reporter's job?
Netnewswire http://netnewswireapp.com/ for mac
or Feeddemon http://www.feeddemon.com/ for windows
I think this is a great idea, a bounty system.
Yup. And people out there care about the ipad2. Amazing huh?
Thanks for the clarification Todd - this makes perfect sense.

I think what confuses the issue for many people, myself included, is that other frameworks(Sencha) are trying to recreate a pixel perfect iOS/Andriod UI/experience in HTML.
I played it in Windows via Winboard (http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=5...), which has Micro-Max set as the default engine.
Here's the 404 ;) https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/marketingweb?cmd=_home-x&...
I think its great creativity, but its important to train yourself to spend that creativity on one project / business. After all, Facebook didn't get developed by anything other than laser focus on dogged work ethic. If you can't put blinders on to build and grow a company, you will forever be busy yet not achieving much.
It's for backwards compatibility, like most of the HTML5 spec. If browsers suddenly start becoming HTML5-compliant and as a result most of the web stops working, then they've failed.

I agree with the reasoning. But damn, it makes things suck going forwards. This is why we can't have nice things. :-(
The only ad that it shows is "promote with us", so that is really relevant. They should choose some ads networks that has real ads already, may be running alongside with this one.
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Absolutely no robots.
I didn't mean it as a negative comment; I don't see being isolated as a bad thing, but definitely (at least) mildly mind-blowing. Honestly, I don't think I've though about this level of isolation (not used negatively here either) from other regions and cultures. For the majority of my life I have been connected to people via different networks and this is a culture that I, also a highly plugged-in urbanite, can't relate to much (again, not in a bad way).
I think that other people who see this on HN share a similar viewpoint - we're so far removed from isolation that we don't see this as "valid" or "invalid" but as a completely different culture that doesn't relate to ours except on very basic levels.
This is true. At Techcrunch we started with four 125x125 squares in the sidebar:

http://www.crunchnotes.com/2006/05/11/new-techcrunch-site-ad...

The rules were no animated GIF's, no promotions and just a company logo. If you look back at archive.org you will see that it was nice and clean:

http://www.crunchnotes.com/2006/05/12/new-techcrunch-site-la...

(the banners came in 3-4 months later)

They sold out within an hour. The next month, we increased the price to 10k and they sold out again, with some companies buying 3 months worth. Then we increased the price, and again they sold out.

We went from making 1.5-3k a month on AdSense to 40k+ a month and the site was cleaner.

Federated Media came along and promised more revenue. I can't remember the details at the time, but we agreed. Before too long we were getting requests for very large ad spends but they had specific requirements - square ad spots, flash, rollover, the works.

Once the site traffic reached the levels where the ad buyers were interested in dealing with us direct, the entire game changed. We now had 2-3 middle-men between us and the advertiser, and we had to implement the old school ad system (although we did get some concessions such as no autoplay or rollovers).

Steadily over the next few years the site went from nice and clean to top banner, square banner, skyscraper, 12 square units, etc. You all know what it looks like now (well I dont, thanks to adblock).

Those squares are everywhere now (you can blame me for that - they even became a standard IAB unit). They were quickly picked up by all the other blogs but the meaning has changed from what they were supposed to be (ie. just company logo's and a clean way to do ads instead of the traditional), but everybody, including TC, ended up hitting traffic numbers where the old banners were thrown up as well - causing all the sites to look terrible with ads (if your competitors have the banners, you have to have them as well, so you can keep up with revenue, hiring people, etc.)
Yeah, that's all fine and dandy. I'm just going to enjoy watching the game, drinking beer and yukking it up with my friends.
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$100 says there's a car battery in the blue box.
just enter source and dest, e.g.: d2d4 to move the pawn at d2 to d4.
You're being nitpicky. The point is that they won't form a religion around it and it won't have any major "The Gods Must Be Crazy"-style impact on their culture. Yes, it will have some effect, and so will a butterfly flapping its wings in China.
I wouldn't be embarrassed. You just demonstrated one of the most crucial traits for crossword puzzle solving.
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Let's think about, say, American slaves in 1835. Only some slaves risked their lives trying to reach free states or Canada and escape slavery. Therefore any slave who remained must have been happy with the way their life was?

Curiosity only has a little to do with it. Maybe the curious ones left and never returned. That doesn't mean those that remain enjoy their lives.

I mean, I could be wrong and they're the happiest people on earth, but I bet some penicillin could make their lives even better.
If this is real, Evernote should buy them and sell it as the Evernote pad. Would be amazing.
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http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/maximax.txt
International comparisons are hard to come by, but here is one which is US vs Sweden (one of the richer "other countries"):

http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/03/income-distributio...

This attempts to include the value of assorted government benefits (health care, education, etc), ignores deadweight losses (e.g., $1 in govt costs providing only $0.90 in benefits), and ignores the value of employer provided insurance (all of which favor Sweden).

Americans are still considerably richer (though the bottom of Sweden is better off than the bottom of the US). The gap gets even bigger if you restrict the comparison to Americans of Swedish descent.

http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/03/super-economy-in-o...
I can't find any such term. It's definitely not in the 'Google Analytics Terms of Service':

http://www.google.com/analytics/tos.html

The 'privacy' link from Analytics leads back to the general privacy pages, and their overall privacy policy says Google may use any information they have (from logs, cookies, etc.) to "[p]rovide, maintain, protect, and improve our services (including advertising services) and develop new services".
I'm missing the point, so I hope the HN community can enlighten me, but: why do you need Cassandra and all that jazz, if you're just incrementing counters?

A decent memcached instance on modern hardware can easily push several 100K updates/sec . Couldn't you do the same with a pool of sharded memcached servers? Compute the MD5 hash of the string you want to count (which can be 16 strings, from the top-rated comment above), and just use that as the key.

We've seen people push 750K QPS on an InnoDB via HandlerSockets http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1886137 , so imagine what you could do with a sharded pool of 20 InnoDB servers.

Again: if I'm missing something, I'd love to learn.
You should look at India's share of world GDP before the British came and after they left.
Take it easy! I don't see any marketing speak. The guy's just talking about a lot of features. Like any idea, it could do with some polishing but it sounds pretty good to me.
Actually I was thinking about both situations. Others as well but the sex slave trafficking and migrant slavery are two of them.

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2010/mar/03/farmworker-slaver... and http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/modern-day-slavery-m... are some articles about recent situations in Florida.

There's also domestic servant slavery and even factory worker slavery, such as the slaves that are imported to US Territory Saipan to work in Chinese owned garment factories. (http://articles.sfgate.com/1999-01-22/news/17677080_1_garmen...) Workers there are raped by managers, kept in guarded chained enclosures, and have to undergo forced abortions when they get pregnant from the rapes.

There's also legal slavery, such as prison labor, which is explicitly permitted under the Constitution, although many legal experts believe that it actually has to be part of the sentence as punishment for the crime, and not just something that applies to all prisoners without a judge's approval during sentencing. To simplify things we'll skip those as being "OK" slavery since some believe there is legal justification for it even when not part of sentencing. Don't want to confuse the issue.

By slavery we mean you are not free to leave and you are not paid wages for your work. Many workers in the US are even shackled up and beaten.

Gosh look I even just now found a new book on Modern American Slavery.

http://www.amazon.com/Nobodies-Modern-American-Global-Econom...

Of course there was also slavery of black people in the US that lasted until the 1940s. Oh, didn't know about that? http://www.slaverybyanothername.com/

Most people prefer not to know why the goods and food they buy are so cheap.
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You can take NOLOCK out of my cold, dead, hands! That one is a lifesaver for reading from terabyte-sized OLTP tables with 100/sec inserts...

I really like what the guy is saying in the article. However, it's the perennial idealism vs pragmatism argument. And, i'll put my hand up for pragmatism: I've needed hints in the past, because like everything else in this world, query planners simply aren't perfect.
There's also MonoDroid, currently in Beta, and will cost money. But it lets you program for the Android in VS2010.
Time to send Missionaria Protectiva to spread the Panoplia Propheticus among them!
I love the tenacity, Best of luck boys!
I can second the nomination for NetNewsWire if you're on a Mac. It is one of my favorite apps. NNW syncs with Google Reader (which I also despise) if you're away from your own computer and need to look up something in your feeds. I haven't used FeedDemon, but am told it is similar to NetNewsWire in quality. [Protip: I use a script with NetNewsWire to automatically back up my flagged (saved) feeds into DevonThink (http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/devonthink/index....), and it has saved me a great deal of time on research. The DevonThink AI helps me find connections I might otherwise miss. I have a ridiculous number of feeds I follow, though.]
This is what I assumed all code looked like before I started programming.
Does the index include the dictionary too, in your calculation? I'd be interested in seeing this indexing/retrieval program of yours, I hope you release it soon!