skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://imgur.com/NE3Ax

The apparatus is not connected at the red line in this image. The part to the left (the wheel) is on the ground and farther away, the part to the right (the start of the track) is in the air and closer. They just happen to line up due to forced perspective.

The water just seeps down into a hidden reservoir in the left part, and is pumped up at the appropriate time from another reservoir in the right part.

Edit: see below, it looks like the discontinuity is at a different point.
You've been able to do this for a while now with CloudFront serving your S3 buckets - I'd suggest the few extra cents per month for the CloudFront CDN service is probably a better way of managing static Amazon hosted sites...

(curiously, the domain name I experimented with this on late last year is strangely appropriate here: http://www.damhik.com/ )
> And I was dealing with all walks of life. Holiday makers of all kinds. From backpackers, to ... they were all affected by the truthful claim that almost everybody bought the package from me.

Wow, everybody falls for the pitch? Gee, I guess I'm convinced that social proof works.
That's fine. He just marginalized a few billion people. It's like only hiring men. Those competing with you will eat your lunch.

Edit: I should say that your competitors will have a larger, thus more talented, pool to pick from. That's what eat your lunch means.
Bell & Ross Replica Watches
I have Disconnect and there will still a lot of categories. They seem to direct you to the IBA extension to permanently opt out. There's another that supposedly works on more sites, but last time I tried it, it and Disconnect got into a race and crashed Chrome immediately, even after restarting it several times.

IBA Opt-Out: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gbiekjoijknlhijd...

Keep My Opt-Outs: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/hhnjdplhmcnkieca...

Do I need both?
Sure.

-- The 'request' module --

is mixing concerns (network protocol, caching, serialization, model) that you probably don't want to mix that way in a real app.

It's pretty trivial to roll the polling part yourself (setTimeout), if you really need a plugin then PeriodicalUpdater[1] might be a candidate (although there are many others, and the cool kids use comet/websocket now anyways).

I didn't quite understand the purpose of the caching part; the browser already caches for us after all. It seems like a misnomer for some sort of bridge to the localstorage, but I didn't quite get in what situation storing the verbatim server response would be useful - as opposed to storing the deserialized result (or part thereof).

Anyways for the serialization part JSON2.js[2] is your friend.
And for models there are various choices, backbone.js[3] being the most popular recently.

-- The 'store' module --

doesn't seem to provide anything interesting over jq-store[4]. And if you really want your data to stick around then there's evercookie[5]

-- The 'pubsub' module --

was a little hard for me to understand the purpose of.
Since it isn't actually about server messaging(?) but rather only a way of passing events inside the browser it seems like what you'd really want is either JavascriptMVC[6], Backbone[3], perhaps knockout[7], or the older chain.js[8], or maybe one of the other two dozen data binding plugins.

Admittedly on this last one I may very well just be missing the point entirely. PubSub inside the browser? Huh?

[1] https://github.com/RobertFischer/JQuery-PeriodicalUpdater
[2] https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js
[3] http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/
[4] http://medialize.github.com/jQuery-store/
[5] http://samy.pl/evercookie/
[6] http://www.javascriptmvc.com/
[7] http://knockoutjs.com/
[8] http://ajaxian.com/archives/chainjs-jquery-data-binding-service
Microsoft Bans Its Own Licenses
So now you could build a pretty serious web application with frameworks like Backbone.js and host it for pennies, very cool.
Mr Beam - Guy uses Projectors to Paint Things
The downside to the simplicity of using Disqus for comments is that you lose all your SEO effect from the iframed-in comments - for many blogs the Google-friendlyness of the comments is what drive most of their non-family-and-friends traffic.
Ubuntu One isn't just music. It's primarily something like MobileMe, the music thing is only a piece.
The shadow cast on the yellow water wheel is not from the pillar you think it came from.
Nice. All good points. Liquidity is important in a crunch, short of total currency collapse. Metals are simply too spendy for most at current prices. Bags of non-perishable staples may be a good move. BTW, Shell is already reporting that Peak Oil is now, with the revelation that the Saudi's and other M/E oil producers routinely overstate their reserves. On the up side, this will seriously launch a bunch of alternative energy projects.
Clever, but maybe perhaps too clever for people who don't have that much time to look through all those photos right away.

Add a link as a caption for all of those photos to a nicely formatted resume created with LaTeX or something similar and you've got the best of both worlds.
While I appreciate your enthusiasm, you'll likely find the HN community appreciates rational discussion over marketing spiel from accounts with 1 karma, 1 comment and no submissions.
Google IPO? No Thanks (2004)
There are many cheap 5" and 7" tablets. But very few 10" tablets. ViewSonic gTablet or viewpad10, Archos 101. They all have pretty good hardware with many of them with two cameras and comparable price with low end iPad. Processor manufacturers like nVidia gives them good frameworks to start with. In addition to several things mentioned in the comments, these tablets had problems like,

1. Almost all except Samsung Galaxy lacked direct use of Android market.
2. Some had software problems with bad out of box experience. (For example: http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/18/viewsonic-g-tablet-pulled...)
3. Regular apps built for Android phones did not give good experience on the tablets

For the future tablets, waiting for Android 3.0 may not be a good reason. They always can release the hardware and then update the software later. HTC flyer is following this approach. There is a risk of users turning away if the first impressions are really bad. Announced prices for several of them are on the very expensive side. Among the announcements I also notice that very few come with wifi only option which is another reason for high price.

I collect tablet information at tbltpc.com.
When he walked towards the camera at the end, I was really hoping he would change the perspective to reveal the illusion.
This is targeting someone trying to employ him for a digital marketing position, if they didn't have some sort of Facebook account I don't think that's where he would want to work.
I think if you are familiar with the domain that API applies to (Aspect Oriented Programming) then you will instantly understand how to use them.

If every API is a new language then you are doing it wrong - the API should respect the conventions of both the computer language it is in, and the domain-specific terminology of the domain it serves.
Isn't that good though? He's not projecting some type of censored/ideal version of himself like what you would normally get from a resume.
I don't excuse Wall St, but I do think the government is as much

I absolutely agree, the problem is determining who is who, the relationship is so incestuous that who is the government and who private enterprise is sometimes vague when it comes to who they are acting for. When it comes to being weight in the balance I think the general public is the least wanting. By no means am I saying lets intact laws and retroactively throw these guys in jail, but the reality of the situation is that given the cozy nature of business and government in this sector nothing is going to happen until the general public starts calling for blood. They are embolden by all they have gotten away with it will not be reduced and no laws will be enacted until there is a fear of the general population. I think the mid-terms helped to stoke that fear. I don't want to get into the politics of the change but a mass flushing of Washington should send a signal. As well I think the general public has paid for their sins, I think the government has paid some with the mid-terms. I don't think the banks have covered their part of the tab yet. Which is why my tone reflects them being the most accountable.
Ask HN: How to find local investors?
What are the best websites to connect with investors?
If you're a startup entrepreneur how would you begin to raise capital?
Thats a bit unfair on NearlyFreeSpeech: the first gigabyte is a dollar, but the second is $0.870, and it drops from there.

From [2] in the parent post:
After you've transferred	You get
up to 1 GB	1GB / $1	($1.00 / GB)
10 GB	2GB / $1	($0.50 / GB)
100 GB	3GB / $1	($0.33 / GB)
1,000 GB	4GB / $1	($0.25 / GB)
10,000 GB	5GB / $1	($0.20 / GB)

Check out https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/services/bwcalc for a calculator.
In your local timezone:
http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/?t=7:00pm&tz=PST%20(...
How is there no prior art for that? I thought extrusion was a concept that had been around since the dawn of 3D modeling.
Plus, Amazon doesn't say "unlimited" and then turn around and say "haha oops there are pretty low limits after all!" when you get Slashdotted. Their pricing is transparent. The cheapo shared static hosting providers are now officially the living dead.
It does, however, have a moderate amount of humor content. This is not unexpected, given that it is a joke.
Mobile Phones, Educational Apps, and the Digital Divide
Google will launch iTunes music store competitor with upgrade to Android
The deadline is indeed approaching. I felt that was a valid clarification. I rephrased the comment to make it more neutral.
How's www.mydomain.com vs. mydomain.com handled?

Do I need to create two S3 buckets with duplicated content?
Moveable Type has support for multi-site deployment through rsync (see the MT docs on rsync target, etc). After that the job queue finished MT will call rsync to upload the files to remote locations.

Didn't take that much work to make it work with rs3sync instead (see http://rs3sync.net).
Google Unveils Delicious Bookmark Importer
Ask friends who run local startups to introduce you to their investors.
Its pretty easy to redirect mydomain.com to www.mydomain.com (or the other way around) through your domain registrar these days.
http://imgur.com/z2FU8

It looks like, given the reflection from the water, that section of the track can't be more than an inch above the floor. If thats true then wouldn't the break have to be somewhere after that point?

If I'm missing some huge detail can someone explain it to me?
Actually you could run wordpress with WP Super Cache enabled to generate static files.
It's blank for me - looks like AdBlock Plus is doing its job.
I am guessing that was a reference to Woodstock Nation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_Nation)
Yes, we are working on expanding, especially NYC. No announcement yet, it's tricky but a very big opportunity.
Speaking of finally, I wonder when they're going to add proper support for "Content-Encoding: gzip". Last I checked, people would upload gzipped content and add the Content-Encoding header on top, which is inconvenient and doesn't support browsers that can't handle gzipped responses.
Does the bus have Internet while it's traveling at 60 mph in the middle of nowhere? If not how would you expect to get anything done w/o extensive planning ahead of time?
Doesn't bother me. Is this paranoia or something? I mean, who better to know how to block advertising beacons than a former advertiser?
Here's a recent net@nite interview with Greg Bettinelli, senior VP of HauteLook, recorded Nov. 30, 2010: http://twit.tv/natn179 (Interview starts about halfway through)
Startups on a Plane.

Who's with me?
Once Google integrates Chrome bookmarks with 'Google Bookmarks', I'll start paying attention to this. At the moment they're hard to find, and while useful (priority in search results), not worth the hassle.
Automatic hardware acceleration with jQuery animate
Is it just me, or does this sound like the plot line of a B-rate Thriller?

I guess it could also be the basis for a reality t.v. show. Either way, I hope they record at least some of it for some ancillary income - who knows maybe webisodes of this could be popular.
It would solve the problem of people using an MBA, complaining about the lack of ports.
Not everybody. But my percentage hovered between 90% and 95% for two years in a row and I was regularly in the top three in Australia.
It would be cool if Sandra Bullock had to keep the bus going over 60mph or Keanu Reeves's internet would shut off.
If you hire for a fee, doesn't that make YOU the employee?
Ah, but the beauty of "This sentence is false" is the self reference, which of course breaks when you make the subject anything else. What you could do is say "this is not a waterwheel", and attempt to get at the whole "This is not a pipe" fun-ness.
Wow, what's with the comments section in the article showing like 5 copies of each post?
because nobody wants to re-create microsoft's mis-steps and it's clear that tablets are entering mobile territory.
Uncharted 2 is one of my all time favorite games. The art and story are amazing.
> Sometimes I just want to create some static pages, but I was forced to use either CMS or things like wordpress.

Wtf?! To create static pages, I open Emacs and type there. No need of a CMS or Wordpress to create an HTML page!

Then to host it:

scp page.html me@srv.com:~/public_html/

and you're good to go.

Hosting a website on S3 is nice, but it's not simpler than what is already possible if you own a server. If you don't already own one, I'm not sure setting up an AWS account + client code is easier than creating a new VPS account. I surely would prefer to set up a Linux VPS, which is an environment I'm confortable with.

Regarding the costs, I rent one private (not virtual) server for 20 euros/month, and host several (static and dynamic) sites on it, so it's actually cheaper than going the AWS road. Uptime last time I logged: 560 days (aka reliable enough for me).
After reading a few comments I feel like there might be need for some clarification. The following is taken from my Quora post in the thread that I already linked to:

---- snip ----

The StartupBus is a powerful filter for people.

Participants are under pressure to communicate and work with a limited toolset and random strangers; most importantly they can't back out and leave. On top of that they must deal with mundane things like overflowing bathrooms, snoring people and all kinds of other muff.

The people that are comfortable with all of the above constraints are almost always interesting, intelligent, successful (in many different ways) and exactly the kind of people that I'd like to work with. The other people don't even bother applying.

Last year all participants got along great and the real value (e.g. this year's bigger, better event) was created only after the bus.
Yeah, I found the link on a forum I read but haven't found the story on any major newspaper yet.
The risks are often masked. This is an extreme example, but imagine a fund of ultra safe bonds and an investment in Zyanga, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Depending on the make up of the fund that particular funds risk profile may look similar to what might be called a moderate risk growth fund.

Now, a fund buys that fund and puts it with a bunch of other funds and now the risk profile is under another level of obscurity.

Now a manager buys that fund of fund and puts it with other financial products and that's your pension. Basically, the further you get away from the actual investment the more diluted the risk profile becomes. What could potentially happen is that a particular manager is buying products that somehow are invest in a particular sector (perhaps too heavily, and it is masked via the layering) and the sector pops and what he thought was diversity is actually concentrated risk.
http://angel.co/ could be a good place to start looking for them.
Can you explain why it is you think that the knowledge part is confounded? If Watson is fast but incorrect, it's a failure.
Ask HN: Putting knowledge into imperfect containers
Files are the recording of observations and also contain the product of thought and instrumentation. They are a History. Because of software dependencies many file formats require periodic ports to new formats. Many of these translations can be lossy. What amount of knowledge is being put into formats that are certain to suffer gross or meaningful loss of fidelity during future format translations?
Stomach lap-bands now for everyone
It also doesn't run on the latest Ubuntu- some sort of Boost versioning issue.
Fair enough. But in that case, the entire argument is moot. After all neither Java nor Scala (as far as I know) are formalized. :-)
New Ideas at Startup Riot
Probably not the greatest in case things don't work out the way you expect. I agree that we are in for some real pain, but I am not confident enough to max out my cards on the off chance that it collapses hard enough that credit is of no use. Instead converting capital into tangible investments is probably a more pragmatic approach.
Good catch, thank you.

I also noticed that I'd stated the storage cost as $1/GB whilst it's actually $10/GB (specifically $10.24/GB or $0.01 per megabyte per month) which means that S3 is really far ahead if your site has any substantial amount of content.
1. I wasn't referring to him learning how to code. You missed the analogy completely. I was arguing that he wouldn't want to work with you if you didn't know how to code so why are you working with him if he knows nothing about business. Each partner needs to bring a certain level of skill set to the table.

2. He thinks wrong. A good business cofounder, even if he doesn't know something, would strive to figure it out and get things moving. Not wait till you should have something to do.

3. You should do this part asap. You'll regret it later if things go sour. Look up vesting if you're not sure what that is.
Really impressed with how they work on people.

I did a facebook auth and retweet, a couple of minutes later I had two new private followers and a personalized email with "Hey Daniel, I vouched for you to apply for the StartupBus this year. Go here to find out more and definitely apply so my vouching for you isn't wasted."

I know it's all automated but the feeling of being kind of important still stays.
Huh, that does get around that problem. Interesting!
It looks to me like the break is at the first bend - on the HD version, the water coming in doesn't appear to turn a corner there at all, and then on the other side of the tower support it's flowing straight outwards.
If you think of an nxn matrix the set of all paths containing one element from each column has cardinality n^n. This is also the set of all functions from a set of cardinality n to itself or the set of all sequences of length n where each element is an element of a set of cardinality n.

Below is a procedure that generates it. The number of operations is actually sum from k =0 to k =n ( n^(n-k) ) but asymptotically that's still O( n^n ).

def allFunctions( s, i = 0, count = 0 ):

F = []
if i == len( s ) - 1:
return ( [ [ x ] for x in s ], len( s ) )
(G,count) = allFunctions( s, i + 1, count )
for g in G:
for i in range( len( s ) ):
F.append( g + [ s[i] ] )
count += 1
return ( F, count )
I'm not saying that the singularity isn't some kind of "nerd rapture", but it may a bit disingenuous to say computer systems haven't gotten much more sophisticated. Sure, we're still using Von Neumann architecture and transistors, but software has gotten massively more interesting in several different directions.
You forgot to add that NFL owners will likely lock out the players when the CBA expires in March. Dooms day!
Come be a co-founder, No Thank You...
Sure, but at the same time I think it's worth also taking a moment to think about this number. 10% of the world's population has an active Facebook account. That's staggering. The best number I can find for MySpace is 100 million active users. It's easy to misrepresent the scales involved just because they're so very large, but the difference between 100 million and 600 million is huge. 17 year olds are fickle consumers. 53 year old Aunt Sue is not. How many people still have a paid AOL account simply because they don't want to lose their email address? AOL's stayed alive for YEARS on them. I don't think Facebook is particularly overvalued: it may not be what all of your friends are using 5 years from now, but it's going to be a very, very big and profitable company for many, many, many years.
So, who is going to be the first person to create a new static hosting provider built on top of S3?
Launching, Quitting and Life
RailsInstaller 1 Month Anniversary: 10k Downloads & Counting
I don't doubt it. I was just tickled by how the evidence that social proof works echoed the use of social proof.
"...I thought it might be worth discussing as it relates to the Apple marketplace restrictions."

How exactly? Not everything has to do with Apple.
Human-computer interaction? More of psychology than math..
About Economics essay
In order to write a successful economic essay, students need to be familiar with what is happening in the world. The economic essay written should relate to the type of economy studied by students. Only then will they be able to select a good topic to write a good economic essay.
I agree, I found that a bit misleading. I would reshoot that slide with different wording (unless Apple does indeed have some product called TextPlus, then go with it!)
He can delete unhelpful comments…
Should be good! Hackers on a Plane seems to work well, for four years so far. http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/08/hackers-on-a-plane-... (Seems main site, hackersonaplane.info , is down currently)
wow great read, especially liked the last part, just goes to show how easily I give up when acquiring new clients
FTA : "The current method of fundraising is very broken. It’s offline, it’s inefficient, it can takes 12 weeks or longer to raise a round. Why are we in 2011 still raising money offline? You market through Facebook or Twitter, get customer service through Get Satisfaction and host your servers on Amazon, why shouldn’t getting funding for your company be serviced through the web? The whole process has to move online."

I disagree, funding a startup is unlike any other commodity or service you might just buy online. Yes the web makes it more efficient to process and transmit information (startup pitches, prototype products/mockups), but if a VC is going to put in 7/8 figures into your startup, you better believe he's going to want to meet with you and your team.

There's a reason that we have a high degree of local VC's in various parts of the country and the world. They need to be on the ground, close to their startups. Mentor them, advice them and make sure the $$$$ they've invested in is being put to good use.

Its been discussed endlessly here and elsewhere: a good idea is worthless without a solid team behind it. Angels/VC's invest in people first (and then the idea). Doing the whole process online is not going to work for the majority of the cases.

Apart from that, love venturehacks and the work Naval is doing..
Sure he is (though not intentionally, I'd bet). Although logged in, I could not comment on his photos, and I doubt he's connected with people on Facebook that are going to actively criticize him in the comments. So, they'll tend to be more positive than not.
Ignore the haters, this is great. Obviously it won't resonate with everyone, but you're still going to do way better with this than with a traditional resume.
As far as I can tell, TextPlus is an app made by someone else that is distributed via Apple's iOS App Store.

Claiming it is an Apple product in such a case is probably a bad idea.
More discussion is happening over at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2233620
s3 is the new geocities:P