skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why do people pay for this?

So that you don't have to bother installing each of these items separately. No downloading, config files, drivers, etc.

It's all just there.
I think that the parent is referring to the Chrome console which has (IIRC) jQuery baked into it, even if jQuery isn't part of the actual page.
Or, gravity.
The mini, by virtue of using low-power laptop chips and other techniques to reduce its size and power consumption, will always have a higher cost than a budget tower with equivalent clock speeds but a 250W power supply built by the lowest bidder, loud fans, and other commodity parts.

If all you are looking for is a cheap tower machine built from commodity parts, any of Apple's offerings will require you to pay a significant amount for features that you don't want, because the Apple machine isn't meant to be a generic box or to compete with generic boxes. The Mac mini, iMac, and Mac Pro all target niches that are different from the low-budget, ultra-low-margin desktop market.

It's really no different from saying that the MacBook Pro is an overpriced desktop - of course it is, because it is more than just a desktop. Apple doesn't make ordinary desktops, much to the consternation of almost every hacker who wants an ordinary desktop (but not a workstation) with a good unix-like OS. If Apple did make a generic ATX form-factor box, nobody would take exception to the idea that the Mini, iMac, and Mac Pro are in different categories.
Content Farmers React to Algorithm Update | Sean Percival's Blog
It looks like it was gaining a lot at close yesterday and then backed off just a bit... wonder what that gain was about.
Get them made, paid, or laid, that is.
I can't help but wonder if this small change will upset the economic incentive to publish oceans of garbage onto the web. At the end of the day it's about the money, and the farms have a very good understanding of how much they can make off of their various "offerings".

What has been troublesome over the last two years is not so much that Google seemed to look the other way (until now), but that larger media companies like AOL and Yahoo were turning to this kind of behavior as a "viable" strategy for the future. It's amazing how many people will work for very, very little an hour writing garbage as opposed to minimum wage with possible tips at a restaurant. The allure of easy money has corrupted people's incentive from the top to the very bottom.

For once I see an actual way to compete with Google. Bing could outright ban sites that produce garbage and make their search results look pretty good by comparison. The question is whether Microsoft is willing to drop the pretense of objectivity to do so. Would users care? Would advertisers?
Java and Oracle, One Year Later (Video, Quotes)
Did you mean a US ACM-ICPC Regional ? Because I have never seen basic DP problems in a north-eastern European regional or an ACM-ICPC final.
This is a bit of a moot point, as far as Apple is concerned.

"[...] It is completely backward compatible with DisplayPort v1.1a and requires no new cables or other equipment [...]" - Bill Lempesis, VESA Executive Director.

A 1.2 device will work as a 1.1a device.

The features that you'll loose out on:

* Driving displays in excess of 2560 x 1600 x 30 bpp @ 60 Hz (Apple LED Cinema Display tops out at 2560 x 1440 currently).

* Multiple display daisy chaining (LED Cinema Displays only have a single Mini DisplayPort jack and as such cannot be daisy chained).

* AUX channel data transport at 720 Mbps (beaten by the PCIe transport layer rates within Thunderbolt, which when driving a LED Cinema Display at full resolution leave about ~2Gbps available for data).

* 3d stereoscopic display support (Aww, no Avatar 3D).

* Additional audio format support (mostly related to Blu-ray, which Macs still don't do).

It's sad, yes - but there's not much incentive for Apple (not sure about Intel) to support 1.2 currently. And since Apple is going to have exclusive use of the Thunderbolt interface until it starts showing up on other PCs in 2012, Intel only really has to meet Apple's requirements while they finish up the rest of the spec (optical cabling, etc).

Maybe they'll find time to add in 1.2 support by then.
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It's not just about google juice. You can boost pages within your own site with internal links. Also, people search for an absolutely stupid amount of stuff on torrent sites. Try putting your PDFs on torrent sites for a little extra traffic. If you seed it on the right trackers all the torrent sites pick it up for you for free.

As well sometimes the torrents themselves rank really well. Keyword stuff your torrent files :) Remember to set the utm_source on your PDF links.
Jersey Shore Season 3 Ep 9
How about the Jersey Shore Season 3 Episode 9 which will be aired tonight? ... It's certainly a lot of Jersey Shore fans who will make themselves available to watch the Jersey Shore Season 3 Episode 9 directly.
I find it too expensive(!) to use a library. Getting there, getting back, paying late fees (almost every time). Then, getting library books confused with my own (I have thousands).

No, much cheaper and less stress to just buy the dang things.

And another thing. I can't believe its not cheaper to just buy people books, than to build a large edifice, staff it with dozens of people, heat it and maintain it. Just sell it, and put up a website: kids books free.
Alternate between billing really high to fix really really screwed up projects and billing a bit lower but taking interesting projects that you can use to update your skillset. I've made 125kish a year contracting this way in the non-major, low cost-of-living cities. Plus these contracts typically last up to 5 years so you have better stability than contracts of 6 months. This is just one way, but its an easy way. I've been doing this since 1996 throughout the midwest and southern states.
There are exercises (with solutions) that accompany the video series: http://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-18-006-calculus-revisited-f...

Enjoy the scanned typewritten materials.
For HDDs (rather than SSD), there are very good technical reasons not to abuse the disk. Disk access is easily the slowest thing a computer. While everything else leapt ahead over the past several decades, seek times for hard disks have improved a fair amount, but nothing like the almost unbelievable improvements the other parts of your computer have gone through.

Your computer already kind of does what you describe: That's what virtual memory paging is. And when your system starts paging a lot, it's noticeably slower. And when your computer starts paging with a nearly full disk, it is an out-and-out dog.
I understand that this technically could be a problem. But is it actually a problem in real life? Has anyone actually been sued for something like this?
I would suggest TechShop. Desk space, internet access, and $25/day.
This sucks. The part I can't stand is that these seem to be ongoing, easily trackable/predictable crimes. I wonder if travelers would contribute to a kickstarter project to post a few people at a smaller but high-risk train station and see if it's the same small group of bandits operating repeatedly and assist the police in identifying them so they can be aprehended. Do one case study first and hopefully learn some lessons that could be applied more broadly.
This was the first thing I thought. This is pure and simple bad UI design. UIs should move away from ambiguity, especially around concepts of safety. The high voltage symbol is a safety symbol.

Sure, this very second, there's going to be no confusion between the two symbols, but if this catches on and the symbol becomes ubiquitous, it will muddy the discrimination of the safety logo.

This is simply irresponsible behaviour from a tech giant who intends for this symbol to become ubiquitous. All in the name of "oo, it looks cool!". Bad Apple!
No good for the end user though.
If you have IE6, then gzip is the least of your problems.
It'll be as interesting to see how this affects Bing rankings.
Google Pulls VoiceMail App in Possible In-App Payment Move
Google would lose money to but they could take the hit, the demand media model would become completely unviable.
Search for "Share Bookmarks"
AOL/TC about google is No. 1 while delicious is No.2
Interesting
What You Need to Know About Thunderbolt
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Which Disney Princess best embodies feminist principles, and why?
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One big thing: you probably need to maintain one car per adult member of the household in Houston, but can live well with <=1 car in San Francisco proper.

With insurance, maintenance, and amortized vehicle cost, you're probably $1500/year/car minimum. More if you want a car that's a status symbol.
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Just announced: PMI Agile Certification - good idea or bad idea?
"horizontal towers" = pizza boxes?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_box_form_factor
Whereoscope is Shutting Down
Do you check candidate names for possible trademark conflicts? (I understand that you are not a lawyer, but at least some preliminary checking would be nice.)
I'm a huge believer in the 80/20 rule: no project takes less than 80 hours, and no matter how long you think it takes, multiply this amount by 20.
It should affect them automatically. We know Bing uses Googles search -> page results coming from the Bing toolbar. If a site's ranking is reduced by Google, the same should happen (maybe to a much smaller extent) in Bing since that feature is now smaller.
Usually those CS students have had multiple internships and/or research experience, however.
Google Starts Promoting Books as Apps
In the US not if your paying taxes :) Make $100k, pay at least $20k to the fed, then whatever else to state, make your bare minimum contribution to your retirement, and you don't have tons of cash left over. Makes $200k and live on $60k, and your going to do alright.

People who live paycheck to paycheck and/or borrow money for personal consumption drive up the cost of living. If your trying to be modest but not live someone in welfare it become instantly evident of how much you need to make. Personally I think you should target to spend about 30% of your income. So, make $100k, live on 30, make $1m live on $300k.
Flagged it for being a one sentence note that someone else wrote an article that's already on the front page.
Yes, instead of hiding it under that little 'more info' link they should probably just show it with the room cost, but I wouldn't go so far as to call them sleazy.

I just used them two weeks ago for a trip to SF, and never felt surprised by their service fee during the booking process.
Clever, but the real correct spelling of his name is:

معمر القذافي‎

"Qaddafi" is only "correct" in the sense that it is the most common Latin alphabet spelling...
The Colour Clock
Did anyone else notice how Google is referred to as "advertising giant Google", not "search engine Google" ? An accurate, but unconventional, portrayal.
"I lived in Vancouver for 15 years."

Translates to:

"I bought a place 10 years before the epic bubble of bubbles."

Vancouver real estate is INSANITY.
It actually works quite well. I have it set up behind my huge cinema display and it looks kinda like a tiny tower back there. :)
There are other confounding effects when you change the language parameter. Consider, for example, the query [bank] using your method:

http://www.google.com/search?gl=en&q=bank
bankofamerica.om
bankfashion.co.uk

http://www.google.com/search?gl=it&q=bank
wikipedia.org
bancaditalia.it
I live in Toronto and I would love to buy a place in downtown Toronto for sub-500K.

The house I live in now is "valued" at $500K and is nowhere special, but it's awesome.
I feel like this would make an awesome desk or wall clock.
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Sun Tzu: Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
I just checked. The standard Software Update screen in 10.6 doesn't have a list of items. It just has three buttons: "Show Details", "Not Now" and "Install" — the list you're talking about is revealed by "Show Details." You do still have the option to wait as long as you want to restart, though.
I'm doing this now, but the higher tax bracket (not to mention the California taxes in general) make it not nearly as nice an option as it could be.
I've turned off sleep mode so I can actually see this as my screensaver now.
How did you fund yourself for so long? One of my friends who is a consultant doing nothing special makes $100K in 6 months. If you really want to see $100K, just be a consultant for a while.
I half expected to get downvoted for the obscure comment myself, but decided, it's worth it! ;)

Glad to see it caught a few knowing eyes, after all!
The switch from 22:59 to 23:00 was stunning.

I can't wait for the switch at midnight (#FFFFFF -> #000000).
The best toolkits are probably in Java:

-Stanford's Tagger, Parser, and NLP Core

-Apache OpenNLP

-Lingpipe

Many smaller components are made to be compatible with IBM UIMA (of Watson fame), so they are able to be integrated into a pipeline somewhat easily. For examples of this in biomedical TM, see http://u-compare.org/ .

People will kill me for saying this, but truly: Python's performance isn't adequate for large-scale text mining, _especially_ if you want to do deep/full parsing. Shallow parsing as shown in this package's demo is more feasible.

I personally find NLTK convoluted, but in its favor, it does have readers for a TON of corpora, which is really nice.
You mean spending $700K for a house a half notch above a fixer-upper isn't sane? :)
Agreed. As a software engineer around here (Utah), $100k-$120k is a senior position. Just look at the job listings or Glassdoor ranges from companies in the area if you don't believe me. In fact, most senior positions start around $70k-$75k, so if you make $100k-$120k you're doing better than many of your peers. In Kansas City or other midwestern localities, the salaries are even less.
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I missed it. It basically goes from white (well, very pale cyan) to bright red, right?
Wasn't the original idea of light peak to be optical? Why didn't they deliver on that promise, I want my future back, it's frickin 2011 now and we still don't use optical connectors to connect our devices :)

(I guess they'll have a hard time with the 'Thunderbolt' icon when they go to optical, it makes even less sense for optical than for a low-voltage connector)
The problem for Google is that any non-algorithmic approach (using a feedback mechanism) will just be abused by the SEO industry - they'll just crank up mechanical turk to start reporting anyone ranking above their clients.
It took 6 years for the iPod to gain Wireless and more space than a Nomad. So I don't see why you are shocked about 27 years for complicated stuff like Versioning.
The YC pedigree probably helped with capital and hiring, but I'm curious how they solved the chicken and egg problem of getting enough rentals to attract enough renters to attract more rentals... etc. Alot of hard work and selling, I imagine.
These days they crawl sites often enough to know where the info appeared first.
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I think frugal here is relative. He doesn't care about status symbols and living a super extravagant life with huge mansions and yachts that other billionaires do. But I'm sure he has a lot of expenses that most middle class would not have.

If his car breaks down, do you really think he'll take it to the shop himself and start taking a bus to work?
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This is pretty impressive. Would you consider porting to other OS'? I.e., Linux.

I know I'd be happy to run this on my monitors!

Regardless, great job!
I'd like one that doesn't show the seconds (but does change the color every second). This is too distracting for me to really use.

Funny and original idea though!
Thanks a lot Rariel... This is great start. I will defientely look at improving our opening page... Thanks for the feedback!
did you buy a house? did you plan to? the main increase in cost of living compared to other parts of the country is the rent or down payment + mortgage.
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I have been in the same situation.

Have you tried applying for CPT? (Curricular Practical Training)

You might also want to transfer to a community college (cheaper tuition) get some credits and go back to your original school.

And if none of these work, as difficult as this may sound, you should consider going home and coming back when you are in a better financial position; the last thing you want is to loose your legal status.

If you end up going back home, see it as an opportunity maybe to clear your mind and refocus, or maybe work on side projects, or maybe continue learn android.

The most important thing is to remain positive, no matter what. Stay focused on school and keep getting good grades.

Best of luck.
It looks like I have got higher up the ranks for some of my keywords, so the change must be good ;)
Perhaps this is off-topic, but going from $0 income and $0 savings two years ago to mid-6 figures has not affected my happiness. The things that have made me happier have all been free or fairly cheap.
That's why I always estimate times extremely aggressively. That way, when they undoubtedly multiply, they'll still get done pretty fast.
Simple & beautiful.

Small criticism: Why Flash?
Since when is the EFF publishing proprietary formats like .xls files?
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My friends in the natural language field tell me Python and NLTK are more common than Java. Then again, this is at a sort-of Python-centric university (Toronto).
There's only one way to keep up with HN -

Check every 5 minutes
You can renew books at most libraries online and avoid late fees.

It's cheaper to buy a book than to borrow a free one?

Most individuals with money find it more convenient to spend money (e.g. - cooking, transportation, etc...). One building can serve many thousands over a year. Borrowing scales better than buying.
Ask HN: Anyone launching their startups in Feb 11?
Leave a brief, URL or perhaps an invite code too.
That may be a matter of definition.

According to Mssrs Rumsfeld and Cheney people that where waterboarded for up to 200 times where not tortured. According to the definition of torture in the civilized world this sure as hell was and is torture.

It's not a stretch to argue that solitary confinement equates torture.
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Substance is released under the GPLv3. That means it's free for non-commercial use.

Someone please explain this to me.
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The hex clock seems to jump every once in a while, probably compensating for the large difference in the number of hexadecimal color values and seconds in a 24 hour day.

How are the color values related to the seconds here?
Okay. Same as every other country then. :)
I noticed this one
Before you click, guess which is at the top?
http://www.google.com/search?q=share+bookmarks
Is the first one you want to see? ha
Feel free to modify your computer clock :)
What does YC take? 5% for $20,000? They're getting a return if it sells for $500,000. Granted there's going to be a lot of dilution 99 times out of 100, but if most acquisitions are in the $10m-$100m range then they can still take the dilution and do pretty damn well with their current batting average.
Out of curiousity I tested that particular statement, and you're right. Compared to

$('#foo').attr('bar', 'baz');

your code is

30 times faster in Chrome 9

81 times faster in Firefox 3.6
something similar what my startup does in UK - http://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/broadband_speed_in_my...
Former ACN'er here. Find them on twitter and send them this post, or tell them what happened. You can get it sorted out. Or just create a song and put it on youtube like the united airlines guy. Either way, you should find a way to resolution.

As far as a company, they are no different than any other consulting company out there.
Same lessons from India, so I think it's a developing world thing. Or maybe even a high-income-disparity-culture thing?
You have to factor in taxes also:

186000 SF Income
-46497 federal income tax
- 8170 FICA tax
- 2697 Medicare tax
-15473 California state income tax
-40000 Living expenses
------
73163 Savings

100000 Houston income
-21709 Federal income tax
- 7650 FICA tax
- 1450 Medicare tax
-25000 Living expenses
------
44191 Savings

SF still comes out on top, so I imagine the breakeven point is somewhere closer to 160K in SF.
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Current YC Companies
Is there a list of current YC companies somewhere? I thought stealth is the wrong approach so if not, why not?
It should be simple enough to implement in HTML - it looks like it's just doing (seconds since midnight × 16777215 / 86400), converting to hex and using that as a colour. Toggling between "clock" and "colour" mode would be a bit more difficult, but doable.

Anyone feeling up to the challenge?
That "full screen" button in the top-right.

Or, at least, that's the only thing I see there that you can't do with HTML/JS.
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As I understand: hours are red, minutes are green, seconds are blue. Simply formulated as HTML color #HHMMSS (and with each component scaled appropriately to 00..FF so that 00:00:00 is #000000, 23:59:59 is #FFFFFF)
Part of the problem is that his last name contains a couple problematic letters for transliteration.

ق (Qof) is often transliterated as Q, but it's pronunciation varies widely in the Arabic speaking world. In Egypt, depending on the context, it's either a K sound or a glottal stop, and in Gulf Arabic, it's similar to the English hard J sound. In Libyan it's often closer to a G (thus the G in Gaddafi).

ذ (Dhal) is the voiced dental fricative: like the TH sound in 'the', 'weather', or 'loathe' (but not thin, with, or within). Arabic also has an unvoiced version of the same consonant (ث), so ذ is sometimes transliterated as dh (d is the voiced version of t).