skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a little added clarity, said organic demonstrators who happen to possess police IDs charged into the crowd and started beating people. On horseback. Some are throwing molotov cocktails into the crowd indiscriminately.

Like you said, the goal is chaos, which can then be blamed on the demonstrators.
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Can you name some of the mistakes/omissions he made in the last article? It didn't seem too far off my (admittedly extremely limited) experience.
In the UK Orange sell a rebranded version of the Blade on Pay As You Go, called the Orange San Francisco. Several people in my office have bought one, since they're only £100 here and can be trivially unlocked to run on any network. It's a little slower than high-end Android phones, but appears to be very usable.
> The problem is that it wasn't wrong, and nothing has changed.

It's certainly not wrong, but something has changed. OkCupid now reports to match.com, which is among the largest paid dating sites in the world.

edit I don't know the specifics, but IAC owns Match.com, and also OkCupid, but does that mean that Match.com oversees OkCupid? My statement above might be wrong on that alone.
I wonder, can't you buy a anonymous credit card from a department store?
You may not benefit from the indexing of your link, but you certainly benefit from the indexing of other people's links. Unless, of course, you don't use search on the internet.
they're just people. there's plenty of countries out there
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I felt myself being urged to type on a non-existent keyboard as well. If it was a person near me at the keyboard, I would have felt compelled to tell them to move out of the chair and let me do the work.
Approximately 50 million things have changed.
Thanks! I am on Sprint with the SERO plan now - its $30 a month - but i have a very old windows mobile phone - I could upgrade my device but then i also get $20 extra tacked on a month on the SERO plan. Maybe this is a better option.
I'm not sure it's the end of the world it was deleted, it was a conflict of interest and leaving it up would have been something they got criticised for, but on the whole I don't think the article was that bad. It just pointed out that paid dating sites are tricky with their marketing.
"auto fill with what" >> URL completion

Forcing me to use my twitter account stopped me from going any further. I understand your logic though.

I see someone posted a link to tldr.it - that's kinda what I was thinking as far as showing recent/approved submissions. But you could do better if you do break it down to a tagging/category system. I'm just one voice, so maybe you'll hear it repeatedly.

This is just my input - again, congrats on doing something!
It's almost as if the dictator they want to overthrow has been one of America's closest allies in the region. Why, to hear them talk, you'd think America has made the dictator's continued reign a linchpin of their Middle Eastern policy.
I bought my wife an Optimus-T for Christmas and, though it may not be as fast as my Nexus-S, it's a solid, well-built little phone that does everything she needs and a lot more. In fact, I tend to think the build quality is higher than the Samsung. I loathe contracts so we just paid list price for the phones (the Optimus-T seemed like a bargain at 240) and we're on a contract-less family plan with T-Mo.

This is really the beginning of the low-cost Android revolution. With more users able to jump into the pool without having to sign up for a ridiculous contract, it'll make what might have otherwise seemed superfluous (Android instead of a "dumb" smart phone) accessible to just about everyone, which is going to be a Very Good Thing for us app developers. The market is going to expand dramatically in the coming year.
Apocalypse Soon?
I didn't know about it, but it failed formidably on http://tldr.it/summaries/13805
In-app purchase recurring billing is coming to iOS.
ReSharper: Reflections on recent news
Rapportive (YC S10) adds Facebook: like, comment, and add friends from Gmail
the book's political themes - the pro-market forces vs the evil socialistic Emergency

I enjoyed that in the books, but I'll point out that his Realtime books are much more explicitly anarcho-capitalist.

As an aside, I think you're wrong to characterize the economics as politics. It's very common to assume that such as "minimum wages increase unemployment at the margin" as a direct condemnation of minimum wage policies. But that presupposes a given set of values. It's quite quite possible to make a political statement in favor of minimum wages (for example), while acknowledging the economics of it.

Economics and politics are two separate things. They are related, they inform each other, but there's always a case to be made for things like "I accept that doing X would have a negative effect on total economic efficiency, but we have a moral obligation to pay that price."
Oh, I meant nothing changed in their original analysis of match.com.
I'm 15.
No, that's what views are for.

A sane approach would be to do all your table access via views, and the view definitions have the 'where is_deleted = 0' or whatever. Then your database handles it.

Updates to the view work as well, in pretty much every database system, including MySQL even.
I tried that once; it's obfuscated.
It always stings to have to pay for something you used to get for free -- basic human nature.

On the other hand, Reflector is either worth $35 or isn't. At a price that low, the decision is pretty binary -- is the tool worth the cost of a decent dining-out dinner or not? If not, live without it.
If I've understood correctly, JetBrains are building Reflector functionality into ReSharper.

(I've been paying JetBrains money for ReSharper licences almost as long as I've been programming on .NET, and I don't intend to stop.)
I went to a Christian college in Southern California. One of the things that I thought was interesting was how often professors in the Apologetics/Philosophy departments seemed to feel a kindred spirit with the world's Muslims. Whatever you think of either religion, (and certainly, this is the exception, not the rule, I'm sure) it is sometimes fascinating to see them ally with each other, especially when it seems to fly in the face of conventional wisdom. They have a lot more in common than either group would often like to admit.
Both commonly used OS's (Windows and Mac) have OS-level services to play H.264. No need for browser to license anything.

In this instance, Mozilla has gone out of it's way to not use the OS-level facility, forcing Microsoft to write a plugin to make that happen.
> A big chunk of upgrades on paid sites come from people who were driven there from free sites.

If this post is correct that the free sites provide a better user experience, why would people move from them to the pay sites? Just out of a lack of information?
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I'd bet dollars to doughnuts this is true even with s/aerobic exercise/exercise/. "Cardio" is overrated; if you do one kind of exercise, it should probably be strength training.
I love MailChimp. They're branding is so friendly, their people are so friendly, and overall they just love their customers.

I'm a fan of their model. If you have more than 2,000 subscribers, you can most likely afford to pay without issue.
I have a BlackBerry on Virgin and while the device is pretty atrocious, the coverage is great in SF. (The customer service is not quite up to par, however.)
A possible reason: nobody buys it when Russia says they support democracy.

Another point worth bearing in mind: three days of supporting protestors probably will not compensate (from a "hearts-and-minds" perspective) for three decades of supporting their tyrant, quite irrespective of any realpolitikal justifications that may exist.
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"The Daily" already uses that, I have just installed it. Here's all the proof you may need:

https://img.skitch.com/20110202-q7bd765qnjpwjb7c8bm89q7g6.jp...
Fact is that the Egyptian regime (and many others in the region) have been supported in many ways by the U.S. government.
Fair enough. I try to avoid that world like the plague, so it's hard for me to relate. I prefer to cultivate a very unlaced, slightly insane but very intense, offbeat, quirky and eclectic profile that no sane person working for a "top tier firm" would look twice at.

To each his own. :-)
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leaving it up would have been something they got criticised for

I don't think that strategy has been working out for them very well so far.
In Canada I have unlimited data (with fair use policy), unlimited text and unlimited minutes (North America) for $40/month. The existence of such plans is quite new.

Concerning the introduction of "mandatory" metered internet in Canada: it appears the big guys may have been so greedy they over-reached. The consumer backlash is strong and the decision is now under review by government.
Also of note, Apple used to disallow any subscriptions less than 30 days. This, too, seems to have changed with Daily being a weekly subscription.

The changes are only for Murdoch for now, but it seems to me they will be introduced to general developers as well, perhaps with the next SDK release (iOS5).
If I had a timer on it, I'd sign up for Focus in a heartbeat.
Responding to merely two points, one hopes Daniel isn't as stupid as his writing. "This is the company that indexes blogs, newspapers, and both digital and physical books, and then makes all this information available without consent in the contexts of its ads and paid search space, and is dismissal of anyone who objects to Google’s ultra liberal sense of copyright. "

robots.txt and noindex
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...

And "Install the Google Toolbar and do a search of Bing, and Google actually directs your clickstream back for its own analysis"

Google/Matt Cutts have been very open about what they do and don't use that information for, and they aren't using click tracking.
I don't think Google or anyone here is arguing about competition. The key issue is that MSFT seems to be stealing search results off from Google. That's like Gartner publishing and selling material with sections taken from research from Juniper, etc.
With a powerful API suc has Cecil ( http://www.mono-project.com/Cecil ) It doesn't look too hard to create a clone.
Well, I have a few topics that I watch closely. I've set up Google Alerts for relevant keywords and then send those to an RSS reader. There's quite a bit of overlap, so I've been paring my words down. Now I've got a limited number of keywords that provide the most relevant results from Google Alerts. That's how I get news on topics specifically important to me.

For general news I usually just stumble around on Reddit, Hacker News, and Fark. That, and I still frequently buy various science and business magazines.
> Your search "A Deepness In The Sky" did not match any products in: Kindle Store

Oh come on. I'm thinking about selling my kindle. Not one of the books that really interest me are available for it :/
Yea, the cheap device part is nothing new. Just look on ebay for "unlocked android phone" and you'll find tons of G1's and other low end devices below $100.
ReadyForZero (YC S10) goes live to help trim credit card debt
In 2.3 (Gingerbread), SIP is baked right into OS and integrates seamlessly into Google Voice & the regular phone UI, so you don't even have to run an external client.
The Emergents were socialists? I've always seen them much more as fascists. For me, the sensor network plus 'focused' monitoring was a pretty terrifying exploration of a technologicially perfect fascist state.
Nobody breaks even on day one, it takes time and resources to get there. Why shouldn't any of it come from investors? YC's premise is that there are good potential founders who don't even have enough capital to live on for the first few months.
Do you know what kind of network they are? Could you use an iPhone or GSM Android phone on Virgin?
A fraction of the money is still more than zero. Android may not pay out well, but iOS is a gamble as to whether you'll even get to sell your app.
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The information flows one way, from Google to Bing.

Google is careful not to do this.
Just want to point out, that the reason he cites is NOT, at all, the reason why most sci-fi sucks.

The real reason that most sci-fi (and fantasy and romance and most 'genre' novels) suck is that they focus too much on the "stuff", and not on the things which actually matter in narrative fiction writing.

The things that really matter in a story are characters, strong motivations, good dialogue, plot, conflict, etc... techniques of the writing craft. These are what make a book good or not, but they are kind of an afterthought to all the "STUFF" in Sci Fi books.
When Irish Eyes Are Crying - Michael Lewis
Can I counter recommend this? If you're good enough at SEO or online marketing to have a chance in hell at a broad online dating opportunity, there is more money available for less work and less competition elsewhere. The space is competitive, the incumbents are some of the savviest firms online, they have gigantic warchests, the fight will be dirty, and there is easier money elsewhere.

Plus you're competing with OKCupid, which is to linkbait as AirBnb is to PR.
First, if it's important, then by definition it's not a waste of time.

Second, most of my news comes from listening to Public Radio on the drive to work so it overlaps my commute.
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Yahoo: nonstandard IMAP implementation to blame for Windows Phone 7 data leak
Yeah -- something along the lines of "create something of value, and then never stop working on ways to make money from it until you hit on something that works well."

Not just "create value and the money will come."
I agree, the 'golden age' narration was a great inversion, where the spiders seemed more human than the humans did.
Virgin Mobile USA is a Sprint MVNO - in fact they are wholly owned by Sprint. So that means they're CDMA.
It's not obnoxious; it's an idiom, or a potential idiom, that wouldn't have caught on if it didn't fill a niche. Your suggested alternatives aren't the same thing at all. A naked quotation doesn't communicate what the quoter is feeling; you can't stick "!" at the end of a quote without changing it; and a free-floating "!" would be still more nonstandard and harder to read than "This."

It's just language evolution at work.
Was doing some reading on the company and came across this:
http://www.quora.com/How-much-revenue-is-MailChimp-doing-the...

If that's really true, I don't imagine they will have to worry for a while.
I consider it an advantage to have a certain workload every week, but for this it is helpful to have a blog where you keep ppl up-to-date about your work if you have the time to blog. It also helps interact with others who may give you brilliant ideas who would otherwise maybe not have thought of before
I've accidentally done this more times than I'd like to admit:

rm * .png
Get ready to have your OKCupid profile sent to Match.com current and former customers.
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Initially, I also thought the spiders were a bit too "human"... however, in thinking about the way Vinge portrays them, it was important for me to realize there's a point later in the story where he reveals that the focused translators are heavily anthropomorphizing everything they relate to the rest of the crew. I think this is a really strong suggestion that everything told from the point-of-view of the spiders is passing through the same narrator. There's a point where he specifically mentions that the translators seem to know about events and conversations they shouldn't, and we can infer this is because they've been covertly communicating with the Underhill for a long time and he's given them the back-story.

Also important, I think, is that a huge contributing factor to events and technologies developing similarly to those of human civilization, is that the humans were actively manipulating information and events on the planet from the moment they arrived.

I agree with you about Stephenson being fantastic; his books make you think. While I've enjoyed what I've read from Vinge, in some sense it feels much closer to the fantasy genre.

I'm curious as to what folks here thought of The Baroque Cycle. I loved Snow Crash, Diamond Age, and Anathem... but Quicksilver seemed to drag, and I didn't have the heart to pick up the next one in the series.
Name one acquisition in the history of business that has maintained their "culture and spirit" to the degree you're describing.
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Last time I played with Twilio (more than 14 months ago, IIRC); i just created a repl for it and started using it instead of the web or naked API. It's a good idea to get in the habit of creating mini shells that expose just the command you need.

I think Norvig's PAIP has a utility for generating shells, if not, write one.
NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Discovers Extraordinary New Planetary System
Maybe so, but since they didn't in any conceivable reading of the phrase "bank statement" make that clear, I think ffffruit's point stands.
Scary, Scary Mobile Banking Code
http://xkcd.com/397/
Nokia has devices very much like this, just not in the USA.
You pegged me perfectly. I've been reading Ian M. Banks since I was a kid. Love most of Stross's novels, not just Accelerando. I thought Rainbow's End was weak writing at best. Fire was decent, as was Deepness, but overall Vinge is hit or miss with me.
It's not like that for VMU, you can reach any site on the net afaik. The "unlimited" is 5gigs/mo, after that they will throttle you. I've read complaints that they add extra jitter to SIP protocol traffic, though.
thanks - I was thinking about jersey city or newark.
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I've long been a skeptic of the global warming alarmism out there based on the dire predictions being made. People are acting like this thing is going to be the end of the world.
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I'm not really understanding the second method. I don't see how a rival "dating" site would have any incentive to get a customer to pay for a rival service. Are you saying that once affiliates drove a user sign-up, they would engage the user via messages to get them to sign up for a paid plan so they would get a greater payout? If so, how did they find the specific users that signed up via their affiliate links?

Just trying to understand who other than WooMe would have an incentive to spam on their site.
?? It's there, and also on the B&N nook:

http://www.amazon.com/Deepness-Sky-ebook/dp/B002H8ORKM/

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Deepness-in-the-Sky/Vernor-...
Yes, I understand, and it's the right approach to go with you are and play that angle to the max. I wish I was that guy sometimes, but being somewhat uptight and button up has its perks. There tends to be a lot of immaturity in the professional world, and extra trust is rewarded to us boring types. In your world the exact opposite could be true :)

Well, I would still love to hear thoughts on this. I'm thinking that for me I really need a 2nd profile. However that means building one from scratch, and also making sure it's OK with LinkedIn's TOS.
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Printing custom stickers is a tough task. It must be handled with care and skill.These are a sure way to get proper advertisement in the market.
I think it's fair to say it was never free. It was only infinitely inexpensive.

BTW, shouldn't the title make the distinction between free software and freeware?
I'm the developer of Direct Mail, if you have any questions. We have several customers using Direct Mail with SendGrid and they seem to be very happy with the setup.
The GR program (I guess it was vaguely BASIC?) on the Apple IIe back in elementary school.

It was fun to do, mostly because of the instant gratification of actually seeing a line draw across the screen. We even got to making crude animation with for next loops (it pretty exciting for us kids!)

I can't find too much about it, but this site has a list of some of the commands (in the Graphic section):

http://www.landsnail.com/a2ref.htm
Ask HN: How do you read Hacker News?
When I want to read both the article and the HN comments (and without losing my place on the HN front page), I usually resort to some mess of opening links in new tabs and end up with 25 tabs and 3 windows... There's gotta be a better UI, right? This is like Hotmail, which works for a lot of people -- but I want Gmail.
It's a matter of choice. I've taught music to both children and adults. The majority of adults who haven't had childhood exposure to music are operating with a tremendous handicap. If they later decide to pursue music, they will wish they'd had the early exposure. I have yet to meet such an adult who doesn't wish this. Conversely, I have also never heard of someone who has felt their thinking was hampered by exposure to music as a child.

By all means, if you have children and wish to foster the diversity of "non-musical thinkers" go right ahead. My children will be getting this exposure when they are young, then the choice to do what they will with it later on.
Can you buy a phone somewhere else and sign up for their plan?
Microsoft has stated in the past that they pay more into the Pool each year than they get out in payments for the patents they have in the Pool. I forget how many patents Microsoft has in the pool, but it's more than Apple, who only has one patent in there, which implies that Apple is getting even less money out than Microsoft.

In other words, I doubt either company is directly making a profit on h.264 licensing payments.
what is the difference between the fridge and facebook groups?
Nasa scientists discover planetary system
AFAIK Reflector's been that way since before Red Gate got it.
The evidence does not seem overwhelming to me. It is well known that girls love horses, so it doesn't seem that surprising that he is flooded with messages if he uses a horse avatar.
"They're trying to kill me," Yossarian told him calmly.

"No one's trying to kill you," Clevinger cried.

"Then why are they shooting at me?" Yossarian asked

"They're shooting at everyone," Clevinger answered."They're trying to kill everyone."

"And what difference does that make?"

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Joseph Heller - Catch-22
Facebook plugs gnarly authentication flaw
It may have been part of the terms of the sale. Would you turn them down?
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it's equally possible to come up with other non causal correlations. Sometimes things just progress and are utterly unrelated. Seeing patterns where there aren't any is a human survival characteristic.
You are speculating. My example was to prove that information leaks for a variety of reasons. You on the other hand are working with a foregone conclusion based on prejudice.
Since Israel and Egypt made peace in 1979, the US has sent Egypt over a billion dollars per year in military aid. (http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/02/us-aid-to-e...)

The Egyptian people have wanted a more democratic government for quite a few years, and the US only started throwing its diplomatic weight behind the opposition after it became likely that they would win no matter what.
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