skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need something that runs deeper in your life than she did. That isn't necessarily a new woman, though it can be. Then it really won't much matter anymore what she said.

Let me recommend the movie "Beyond Rangoon" as a place to start building a mental model of what I mean. Bite off more than you can chew and all that.
2 Great Quotes -
"What if CEO stood for "chief enabling officer"? What if that CEO's primary role were to nurture a breed of intrapreneurs who would grow into tomorrow's entrepreneurs?"

"The greatest thing about this form of enabled intrapreneurship is that often everyone becomes so immersed in what they're doing that they feel like they own their companies. They don't feel like employees working for someone else, they feel much more like ... well, I think the only word to describe it is "belongers."
Yeah :-) I thought I'd Google some of the quotes given and nearly every result is to a site that scrapes or republishes the Mail's material. The only unique one that stood out was from the Sunday Mirror, another British tabloid (better than the Mail but not exactly highbrow..)
What was the other major reversal? I'm a bit out of the loop.
I would suggest publishing an RSS feed for your posts, because I probably won’t remember to check your website again. Either way, please keep submitting updates to HN.

Looking at your site, you seem to be using a custom blog engine. Any details on your setup and how it came to be?
OkCupid is free and has railed against paid dating services for ever ... To see them sell to one of them (notably their main rivals) is just mindblowing.
pretty sure this is to slow/stop crawlers.
Apple Store Down. Verizon iPhone Coming
I can't help but feel like not having data while using voice would be a bigger annoyance to me than Gruber found it. I often look up maps while on the phone with someone. Also losing wi-fi during a call could be frustrating.
Heh. I was just thinking about creating something similar and calling it 'status,' but apparently Ubuntu has gobbled up that very generic command name for upstart.
Care to explain that further?
Nice! This reminds me of a similar sieze-the-moment kind of situation: When pluto was no more recognised as a planet, someone printed a shirt that said, "Pluto is still a planet!" (and several variations)...
I think most people outside of Egypt (and especially in the tech scene) THINK that Twitter is whats fueling the protests, when in reality it is the mistakes of the current regime. While I'm sure social media does have _some_ impact, I doubt its anywhere near what western media is playing it out to be.
I'd imagine that a good portion of the people who would buy the counterfeit copy after reading this article already have their iPod jailbroken and would just pirate the app.
Call for nominations for the 13th annual Free Software Awards
From an article I read a few weeks ago, the Atrix is just the name of the version they're selling AT&T, while the Bionic is the name of the version they're selling Verizon. One has more RAM, the other has more ROM, and the Verizon version supports LTE, but otherwise the same phone...
I'd veto the auto-tweet, but give it tweet & fb buttons.

Also, I second the comment suggestions. However, I do like the simplicity of the whole thing. That actually might be the selling point.

As much as users want more & more & more features, you could just do the opposite, keep it the simple display for writing & see what happens.
Woohoo - Australia's back on top!
You mean New Zealand, right?
Anything you'd do will offend at least one person on earth. This time is you, next time will be somebody else. Get over it.
What would be cool, and a nice courtesy gesture since HN gave you so much traffic, is if you shared actual numbers with us. Data we can use. I'd like to see:

Cost price of your tshirts, how many you sold over X time, conversion rate on the site, main sources of traffic, highest conversion source, lowest conversion source, fraud levels if known yet. Thanks.
I completely agree. I use data fairly regularly when I'm on the phone. That is enough of a factor for me that I don't think I could switch until it gets resolved with Verizon's network updates.
edit: i mean: normalize(!), check if it is textually the bad magic number, then either use builtin conversion or use your solution. a? :)
Mona Singh, Mahie Gill Looking hot at Premiere of Utt Pataang
Oh, come on. Even if it's totally untrue, it's still a hilarious story.
I know, I just feel like I've seen 5 stories in the last 12 hours on it...seems a little excessive.
Does the world need Malcom Gladwell?
I thought more people would get the reference to Sharon Angle's "Second Amendment remedies" quote.
"safari 5 or chrome 9 on a mac"

How did you manage to make something that only works on a Mac in Chrome?

Looks messed up under Windows...

Bravo!
It didn't offend me, dickhead. I was just offering my opinion about something that might lower sales conversions. Why piss off a potential customer just for a weak joke...?
Mixpanel is also crazily expensive. I am using mixpanel to track email sends and app opens for iphone apps, and at 1.2 million events a month, this would cost $350 a month. That's just insane for a graph that shows daily opens.
I totally agree with you, it's the least I could do. For now, some of these rough figures are in my other responses scattered around here. In the next day or so I plan to do a detailed writeup on my (currently blank) blog http://madebyloren.com - and I'll post on HN when the writeup is available.
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The second half of this article reads like it was written by Bell or Rogers.

Indeed. There were a few lines which particularly stood out to me as having been written by someone who doesn't really get the situation:

> To encourage competition, major telecom operators that have spent heavily on infrastructure are required to lease bandwidth on their networks to small providers.

I get that the system is maintained by these large companies, and I'm sure they have spent a lot on the infrastructure, but (and correct me if I'm wrong) I believe the system was built largely with taxpayer dollars, and it continues to be heavily subsidized by same.

> Although critics say the CRTC ruling will lead to lower download limits and higher rates, major Internet service providers say usage-based billing based is fair because it means heavy users pay more than those who just surf the web and use email.

There are two problems with this. First, internet isn't like electricity. Electricity must be generated at a cost, and those who consume more cost the generating company more (perhaps not directly, since unused electricity is simply lost, but at least indirectly by requiring higher generation to accommodate peak usage). With the internet, however, the lines are already laid and it's merely a matter of sending the information down the wire. There is almost no additional cost associated with higher usage (see next point).

Second, the 'incremental cost" of bandwidth appears, from what I've read recently, to be somewhere around a penny per gigabyte, if any exists at all. Let's give the companies the benefit of the doubt and say that it's actually 2.5 cents per GB. Now let's give them a 100% markup to be nice. So now we're calling a "reasonable markup" on this service to have a price of 5 cents per GB. Bell wanted $2 per GB for folks who go over their limit. They wanted 40 times what I just gave as a reasonable number. Even if you want to use the most conservative estimate I found, which was the CEO of TekSavvy who said maybe it could get as high as 30 cents per GB, then Bell would still be asking us to pay 666% (<obvious joke here>) of the actual cost. That's one hell of a markup.

Also, and again using the 30c/GB estimate, Bell's offer in Ontario of a 25GB limit would equate to a $7.50 cost? Anyone want to take a guess at how much the service actually is actually priced at? I'll give you a hint: it's not $7.50.

Sorry for the rant, but I've been worried about this decision and I have a lot of pent up anger about it. It's nice that the government has actually stepped up to support the small, reasonable ISPs and the consumer.
Just last week Cory Doctorow did (I believe) a really good analysis of Morozov's Net Delusion: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jan/25/net-activis...

As for Gladwell, I believe it's just too easy to take shots at "Social Media" in general when clearly nothing can be proven. To me the mere fact that actual people believe in it and feel helped and moved by it, constitutes enough evidence of real value. Whether it makes a measurable difference in the outcome of the Egyptian crisis is something that cannot really be proved one way or the other and to me it almost feels like Gladwell wants to somehow draw attention by arguing the point, which he already had taken on in a back-and-forth argument with Clay Shirky some months ago.

Edited to add: That Egypt's government felt compelled to censor the Internet and the use of SMS messaging is also powerful evidence of the value of these ways of communication.
WiFi and calls work simultaneously, it's only 2G/3G data that's affected.
Scalable, and automated SEO processes and systems
I really found what this guy did http://seohimanshu.com/2011/01/12/enterprise-level-competitive-keyword-research/ on his blog interesting.

He took 3 different tools and created a system to research keywords. Xenu Sleuth, Google Adwords, and WordTracker Keyword Grouper.

Anyone hear or know of any other techniques like this?
Its funny too because they thought it would generate some $44,000,000,000; which of course now will have to come out of something else.
I think Gladwell might be making a classic error in understanding twitter and communication in general. Most communication is noise, or at least redundant. Whether it's twitter or literature or conversation people do not generally reserve communication for just those things which are important or profound. A lot of communication, of all sorts, is a sea of triviality. People look to twitter and they see this and then they write it off as itself trivial, unknowing that they are judging twitter on different standards because it is unfamiliar and novel. Even literature is predominantly trivial, but it is not of itself entirely trivial.

Within the sea of triviality and banality there are nuggets of profundity. More than that there is meta-contextual information that can be important and profound as well, leading to the formation of a zeitgeist, which can solidify further into outright culture.

So yes, twitter, on average, is not terribly interesting or profound. No more so than an average telephone conversation or even the average news paper article or book. But as a whole it is no less profound than literature or the press.
Nice use of unbounce
I don't think it did that even this morning!
As long as critical infrastructure doesn't go down

That's the whole point. Critical infrastructure is the only thing the bill covers.

It certainly doesn't warrant a military-level response.

The bill has nothing to do with the military.
Hope everything works out for the best, and you're all shiney soon. If you're having stomach issues though, maybe a burger and fries isn't the best meal you could look forward to? Maybe celebrate with some sushi!
I think that yesiamahuman meant the hotspot tethering functionality by 'WiFi.'
I don't believe in the Chinese model, too. But I think it is hard to say what is right or wrong. A lot of really succesful people were forced to work (z.B. Andre Agassi, Paco de Lucia, Mozart ...).
Probably you need both for exelence:
1. you need to absolutely love what you do
2. but sometimes you need some preasure to stick to it.
Video of the Big Think search panel with Google, Bing, and Blekko
Why the LLC is the Ruby on Rails of legal entities
The most important is missing:

Ctrl-shift-t: reopen last closed tab
How to contribute to open source. Is re-inventing the wheel a good idea?
I care very much about the hardware I use, I just don't care very much for the iPhone hardware. Your phrasing makes it seem like all those ruffians that don't care about hardware are relegated to the Android bin. In practice, I would say those that care about their hardware are more likely to choose an Android phone as they actually have a choice over their phone and its hardware, not to mention the better customization of their phone if they're into that sort of thing.
> The bill has nothing to do with the military

The president is the commander-in-chief and this bill is about preventing 'cyber attacks' from outside of the country. That seems to be encroaching into 'military' territory in my book, even if there isn't a particular branch of the military involved.
I'd push for the accounts, and almost prefer no Author/title/etc. - as in, have everything in the text. Maybe make them optional fields?

This way I can copy paste something to share instantly. But I might be thinking of a social pastee/pastebin
Very succinct analysis, thank you. Living in Australia, which has an entrenched monopoly cable co. and a steadily consolidating comms market, I find this whole story very relevant. Let this be a warning to anyone who thinks integrated media distribution and network infrastructure companies can self-regulate.
Health is a much more long-term thing than 6-8 weeks. I'd wait at least a year to pass judgement on any health proposal, unless it's clearly not working, and if you can't keep it up for a year, well...
Am I the only one noticing an important omission in the list of the award winners? Namely Linus Torvalds.
This looks very polished for a 4 hour effort. Congrats on being profitable. :)
By learning to appreciate boring. ;)
Nokia takes its MeeGo theme code offline, likely preparing custom UI
ProFlight Simulator Review
As an aside, selling t-shirts is how Peter Shankman (creator of Help-A-Report-Out) got started with his own advertising agency. He saw an opportunity (Titanic) and capitalized on it by selling t-shirts that said "It sank. Get Over It."

Brief story here: http://www.collective-e.com/how-tos-and-advice/how-did-you/a...
Of all the companies I've worked for that use Rails, almost all of them currently use jQuery and not Prototype -- this includes quite a few of them who are on rails 2.x.
Some people on HN might be interested in the points that Rich Skrenta makes at 31 minutes in, and then the follow-up (which finishes at 32:25).
I like to think I'm intrinsically motivated, because I don't like to do the boring, repetitive things at work. On the other hand, I haven't done anything creative myself either. Jeez, I'm confused.
I'm annoyed that I didn't even know about UBB until earlier today, when I stumbled across Reddit Montreal and saw something about the organization of a protest.

Then again I'm getting all my news from here and Slashdot these days - haven't watched any TV in ages.

My ISP already posted up new rates conforming to UBB - if it does get overturned, I hope they'll return to the old rates: $29 a month for unlimited bandwidth (soft capped at 100GB). I'm due for renewal at the end of this month, so there's not much time to figure out if I need to be switching to TekSavvy.

Somewhat offtopic - I never visited Reddit except when it was linked via posts on Hacker News, and I'd always heard complaints that HN was becoming Reddit, but finding out today that they have forums for my city and other interesting things like a fitness subforum - why did I never go there earlier?
This fits into my "hipster is a gimmick run by groupon" theory...would love to see them (or anyone, really) pull off an epic trolling of tech crunch
Intership to work Gimp UI
I'm interested in this kind of thing, but I found that article quite unreadable.
Switch to TPG unlimited.
I definatly agree, wrote an article about it already - http://adamdomoney.posterous.com/bandwidth-problem-metered-g...

To sum it up - Extra bandwidth does cost money, but $2 a gig is outlandish. If the crtc is to be involved, it should be involved in regulating the price - maybe a $20 access fee and $.25 per gig.
You misunderstand how language changes. New forms always start out as incorrect. Incorrect usages that catch on eventually become correct usages. If everyone stuck to "good" usage, language would stay frozen, which would be a disaster for us humans. Fortunately, we can't control this. Language, as Heidegger said, is the master of man, not the other way around.

Educated people often perceive themselves as defending proper English or whatever against the uncouth hordes. One can see this in the arts, where the same people usually want to perpetuate classical forms. But once a form becomes classical it rarely produces much of lasting worth. Today's classical forms were yesterday's popular (or culturally marginal) forms, while yesterday's classical forms are mostly forgotten today. There are exceptions, of course, but this rule is remarkably stable. It took centuries for Shakespeare to be recognized as classic.

It's fun to note that this rule enables one to make some reasonable guesses. For example, it's more likely that our science fiction, comic books, and movies will be remembered centuries from now than it is that our literary novels will be. (Remember that the novel itself, at the time that the great European novels were being written, was regarded as a guilty pleasure - the way we regard, say, TV. Proper writers wrote drama in verse.) Ditto for rock and roll and hip-hop over orchestral music. And so on.

Once you see that railing against new linguistic forms is just one of those get-off-my-lawn complaints that are forever with us, much as the old always say that the young are ruining civilization, you become free to enjoy how things change. Real intellectual culture is closely connected to the marginal, lowly, and popular; it's pseudo-intellectual culture that wants to erect a wall against them.
Thanks for the D, no need to be aggressive, my point is just that if you offend a very few and get attention of the mass, somewhere, you win.
Piss off a potential client isn't a big deal when you got hundred other to laugh!
I also think that making fun of dramatical situation might help to get over the trauma. But I guess you are to sensitive to follow this.
like a coach who constantly pushes you

Analogies to sports come up a lot, but the difference is playing football / soccer / tennis / whatever is fun and that's why you are there; eating crap from that coach is just a side-effect of you wanting to be better at something.

On the other hand in the child / parent relationship described in that article, the kid doesn't have a choice. He cannot change coaches, he cannot pick another sport. Some children endure and in fact may turn out better. But others become depressed adults.

And if there's one thing I know: I'm not a father that wants his boy growing up to be miserable. So I'll try pushing him when he lacks purpose, but whatever he likes doing I'll encourage him.
Only losers go to CWRU. People like Paul and Donald Knuth.
Well, let's humor this idea and goto the other extreme: that Twitter etc. had very little impact.

Now, let's remove Twitter and the media completely.

What do we get? So we had a revolution in Tunisia that was very well televised and communicated.

Remove the modern means of communication and media and Egyptians would have no where as much of an idea or source of inspiration, certainly not within days of the Tunisian revolution.

You can always retort that without mediums such as twitter news would still spread even if at a slower pace. And similarly, a revolution would also occur even if at a slower pace.

Then the pace at which a revolution is occurring becomes a major point of contention in this debate. I'd argue that twitter, cell phones etc. have significantly increased pace of communication and thus the time to revolution. To, then, belittle them is like saying who needs cars when we could still WALK 5 miles; it'd just take longer. A lot longer.
I have to wonder if the whole thing was just a big political maneuver to make the Conservative Party look good right before calling an election.
I agree that the caps were low and the overage rates seemed high, but it's not actually about the incremental cost of delivering the next gigabyte, it's about the cost of building an infrastructure that can handle hundreds of thousands of people using Netflix all at once at peak capacity. That's an entirely different calculation.

Also, at Bell you can buy 40GB extra for $5 if you pay in advance, which equals $0.125/GB.

http://www.bell.ca/shopping/popups/personal/internet/usage_e...
Id Tech 5 Engine To Be Open-Source?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
Shaloc is a location sharing application that lets you control
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Slingshot: A New Launcher Created By The Elementary Team
I find this interesting -- yours is the second reply I saw to mention GPL being incompatible with App Store licensing requirements.

Did I miss something? ID Software released Castle Wolfenstein to the IPhone with it being GPL licensed, and I thought Carmack was actually encouraging people to use the engine to create other games for the iPhone. Obviously folks other than Id Software can't relicense the engine under something other than the GPL, so if GPL licenses won't work on the App Store, how could he expect them to use the engine for iPhone apps?

How is it that the GPL is incompatible with the App Store's licensing requirements? This is the first I've heard of that.
CSS 2D Transforms - yes. 3D - nobody knows.
Right, so this decision changes nothing for Bell's own customers, who will still face UBB, unless competition from 3rd party ISPs forces Bell to change its billing structure.
In fact what Google users are really clicking in searches are "google.com/url?" URL's which are also disallowed in robots.txt(while the url they redirect to aren't).
I run into that quite a bit. It generally happens when you sit on a page for a long time - somewhere between half an hour and an hour, I'd guess.

How should this to be fixed (if it does)?
5 second timer on the 'Unknown/Expired Link' page that redirects to the front page?
I love Chrome's incognito mode when developing. Let's say you're logged into your site checking things. Then you want to login as the admin without logging out and logging back in. Just pop open an incognito window and away you go!
spideroak has a cli linux client.
No need to be envious, threat of an election is a powerful motivator. Liberals are itching to bring the government down and have a new election, there are rumors that the opposition is gonna bring the government down in late-march/early April. Conservatives don't want to be on the wrong side of the public opinion on a populist issue like this going into a potential election. This is pure politics at work. I hate to be cynical but if an election did not look imminent I doubt the government would have acted so quickly.
I'm confused how you can say that Rails 3 does not depend on Prototype.js, when if you generate scaffolded views they make heavy use of Prototype. I _do_ understand that you can use Rails 3 without prototype, of course. But it's definitely a dependency of the framework at the moment.

That's great about Rails 3.1 supporting jQuery -- I'm certainly excited about it. I'll go check out your commit...

Interesting about Cinco, I hadn't heard of it.
Farsight 2011
This debate starts off heated with Matt Cutts from Google taking a direct aim at Bing
I wrote the blog engine from scratch with Ruby on Rails. I wanted something really lightweight and suited for my needs, plus I figured it would be a good exercise. It's not finished yet, however. Sidetracked with instantly gratifying opportunities :)
Mesh network for voice communication using open source technology
What I'm trying to say there is it's ok to ignore what she said, not that he should magically forget about her in an instant.

I get the impression that he takes her criticisms seriously. She doesn't like certain things about him and he sees those as absolute faults. I doubt he is so flawed (at least compared to everyone else) and I don't think he should look at it that way.