skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strontium is worse, btw. Tends to behave like calcium in the body, and you pretty much get radioactive bones. I've heard a lot of talk about it in medical circles over the years (I'm from Romania... not near but not very far from Chernobyl).
Because it's pretty easy to fake a traditional signature as well? Particularly if it only needs fax fidelity!
They seem to acknowledge that there is problem: http://twitter.com/Skype
Man builds Slingshot/Crossbow that shoots Machetes
The meaning of 'underground cell' is apparently from the 14th century: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=dungeon
Ouch. Thanks for that.

For people who haven't followed the link, 2.8 is available from the source at http://www.skype.com/intl/en/get-skype/on-your-computer/maco...
Agree... I like what HelloFax is doing, and will definitely use it next time I have to deal with "one of those companies"
On the one hand you're saying this is unfair to those who do closed source projects at work. On the other, you're saying you have personal projects, but you refuse to release the source.

So what are you complaining about exactly? If you don't want to be judged by your own work, then there's no problem: that's your decision. If you do, but you refuse to let anyone see it, then you're creating your own problem, so you have no basis for complaint.

There is nothing "unfair" about this. Rather, you're given a choice about whether or not you want to participate and you have decided that you don't.
If you're a company looking for developers, you have to learn to live with developers who are simply good enough. I'm talking about guys and gals who just see programming as a way to pay the bills.

Everybody wants to hire the brightest developers, but there aren't enough to go around. It's a mathematical impossibility.
Polishing your pitch: Don’t try to be everything to everyone.
I don't know how well this +1 thing will work, because as many others have noted, it's not passive. I have to actively click on it, and that's not something I think about when I'm running a search.

The you're connected to this person thing, however, has worked out quite well for me. A lot of the time, I'm looking for something that someone I follow on Twitter shared - and it just bubbles up for me. I'm a fan.
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Short answer: there is a large demand for liquidity throughout most of the trading day.

I'll give you the long answer when I get back from work.
Sleeping is good, getting a counselor is not bad either.

I've been through rough times in the last year myself. Since a couple of months I am back on track again (or so it seems) and I've come to realize that my situation was/is far from rare.
I've met people all over the place (once I was able to talk about it) who have been through nearly exactly the same thing.

Do you feel a diffuse stress at times? Diffuse meaning that you're not able to pinpoint where the stress originates from but at the same time the stress feels familiar because you've had the exact same feeling before.
> If you are even remotely serious as an entrepreneur, you should be able to get 4 diamond endorsements with a handful of emails/phone calls

I dont think 'serious' entrepreneurship involves calling people and getting them to agree to give you a point in some scheme when it is of no cost to them.

How about putting your energy into getting users or finishing your product, is that an endorsement that 'serious entrepreneurs' should be pursuing?

I also don't understand why you are asking for an application fee, especially considering how expensive it can be for bootstrap businesses and international startups. You are, afterall, looking for companies to fund - putting a financial barrier to applying will only reduce the field. I am also not comfortable with companies who pay to apply and then who don't make it blowing that fee.

Your title is also misleading. It isn't $1M, it is up to 100k. Just be straight up.

The intentions here are good, but the model is totally backward
You definitely sound depressed.

I like to think of happiness as something I'm either taking in or using up (like food). Starving people can't immediately eat large meals. I would think of your condition in the same way, except you're starving for energy/life/happiness. You can build it up though. Find a little bit at a time until you can use that to find more.

Find something (anything) that holds your interest. So you can try to build up interest to eventual happiness. It will probably require social interaction. It would be great if you could eventually talk about a passion you have with someone who shares it.

I'm an intellectual introvert and a social animal. But if I'm in my house for weeks learning stuff, I start to lose my social appetite (meaning I don't want to talk to or meet people). Forcing yourself to do things feels meaningless, but it isn't always. You can find enjoyable times on accident. It's not always possible to predict whether you'll have a good time, so you have to use your energy to at least try.

I gave this advice to a friend and it worked. She started taking photography classes and I helped her figure out why she was depressed (moved home, no job, fewer friends, etc). Good luck.
Upvoted twice for UBNT. Downvoted once for math:

50mbps x 200 users = 10,000mbps

Arithimetic aside, Ubiquiti is quickly changing the Wisp world. At Freenet, we switched from Canopy and upgraded our backhauls to Ubiquiti Airmax and saved money in the process. I am typing this now from a mesh node connected via a NanoStationM5!

Given my experience with city-wide wireless in Lawrence, ubiquitous WiFi in KCK really needs to happen, IMHO.
This comment is typed with your program. It takes some practice, but it does work pretty will.

This is similar to http://blog.xkcd.com/2007/08/14/mirrorboard-a-one-handed-key...

You might read his post for more potential uses. If you mention it to him, perhaps he will feature you on his blogz
you can't speed up the first baby growth by throwing more people at it

No, but you can make the process more interesting. You could... monetize the situation.
Does gtalk not work through NAT?
Tail recursion and debugging
Wasting Time Validating Assumptions?
Itsy-OS: A simple 380 byte OS kernel
Could someone explain why "being on Github" is synonymous with "contributing to open source" in some circles?

The Github projects are a very small part of the open source universe. You can easily build *BSD or LinuxFromScratch with a substantial userland without ever downloading anything from Github.
Agreed. I have no idea why the author prefers the 20 window view http://cl.ly/5cqD to Skype 5 http://cl.ly/5cmT I've hated Skype's UI until now. Personally, I think everyone's greatly mistaken for thinking otherwise.
Taking this a step further, because of the mismatch you have identified, I think a lot of +1 activity will be self-promotion, marketing, etc... Where the user is simply implying: "I enjoy this site" and not "I think this result is particularly relevant to the search I just performed"
The problem with browser extensions is one of distribution -- how many people are going to install it?
Hmm, take a careful re-read. I wouldn't (and didn't) call him insightful. Past experience of his writing screams "take care". What I did say was that in this case they are interesting, and he does have some insight into the Japanese.

As I originally said, he does still over-react, but there are items to reflect on nevertheless.

It's worth noting that the USS Ronald Reagan was dispatched in relation to the relief effort, whereas Cringely is talking about the nuclear issue - which are two distinct entities. From a cultural perspective the two incidents stack up differently. On the other hand some US tech was dispatched to help with the reactors, but in a low-key way that was never reported.

You should never absorb without critique what people are saying, but in this case there is material of worth in his writing.
I program and I'm also studying music. Several of the programmers at my workplace play music. I would say %50 of my team. I think music theory and programming are very similar. The other musicians I know don't see the relationships I see.
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One thing that you might consider changing: leave the right (or left) hand side of the keyboard unaffected. You'd have to choose a set typing hand, but it would make fixing errors much easier.
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No. He has errors in this area too. But within the text there are things of interest. A critical reader can pick these out.

It's not perfect, but something of use in there.
This post is right on, if a few months late. I recall testing the Skype 5 beta last fall and could not believe the step backward in usability. On the skype forums many users (including myself) left detailed UX feedback, with many topics titled things like "5.x user interface is thrill of horror". Sadly most of the user feedback has been ignored and the final product shows little improvement on the beta.
I kinda agree, although my "search behavior" is slightly different from yours, so others may (will) be very different in their usage.

As well as a browser add-on (don't Google already have something similar to this?), I think it is more than likely that we'll see +1 buttons on web pages themselves (similar to Twitter tweet and Facebook like buttons), although obviously not every page will have this.
What's important for humans is whether spending time in an airplane or in a car is more dangerous and whether choosing to use an airplane or a car for a trip is more dangerous. In either case the airplane is safer than the car.
I'll agree that 'Like' is more natural than +1, but 'Tweet'?!?

Not only does 'Tweet' not have the natural connotation of 'Like' or '+1', but it sounds positively dorky to say.

But of course 'Tweeting' is incredibly popular, which I guess just goes to show that sometimes it's better to use a weird word that initially sounds like nonsense. :-)
Oops, caffeine + haste = poor math. Fixed.
Pressed flowers from the era of the dinosaurs
Dark matter could make planets habitable
Please explain how you consider it 'less structured'. I admittedly don't work with much PHP any more, but it has namespaces, classes and objects.

I can write linear Python just as ugly as anything a PHP developer could come up with (probably). And I could write MUCH more destructive C code than anybody in PHP could (probably).

If you mean it's less structured because of Rails or Django, I'd submit that PHP has CodeIgniter, Zend, and a bevy of other frameworks that all seem to be pretty solid to an outsider looking in.
Operation Cornflakes (WWII)
Expanding a bit on this: you're in college so you have a full health plan sitting right there. Use it! Go to a regular doctor to see if there's anything bio going on with you, then get a referral for having the blues after that. You want to make sure it's not some internal thing causing you to go Old Dog and curl up and die under the house. Could be a lot of things, but know that at college age they are all very common.
"does work pretty will" - :) I see you hit one of the issues that's of course present in all predictive text programs. "will" has the same finger motions as "well" so Limber simply chooses the most frequent of the two words. Tap "Tab" to switch between the different word options.
Problem with finding similar people with similar preferences in Google's data is that the similarity matrix of any 2 people is very sparse.

I search for Python-stuff a lot, but I also search for stuff related to things I want to buy, or for people, or for my hobbies -- photography and now drawing.

The algorithm for finding similar people is going to have to be very smart (i.e. it should not rely on URLs alone), if at all possible.
I was afraid to read the style guide for fear of seeing the preceding comma pattern (I think it's popular in Node because ryah uses it). Thankfully it recommends the trailing comma :)

var variable, // trailing comma
anotherVariable,
thirdVariable;

var variable
, anotherVariable // preceding comma
, thirdVariable;
We're predominantly web developers. A large portion of open source activity in the web development world happens on Github.
The problem is that Google offers a recommendation which the searcher can't evaluate until later. This is especially true with ads. Google recommends a business to me (by showing me an ad) but Google doesn't know if the business was good to me. I don't even know if the business was good to me until after I received the service.

Ideally, I would buy through a Google service (Checkout) and then Google would provide me opportunities to rate the business after the sale. These ratings could affect an ad's quality score. Done right, this would allow Google to introduce me to the businesses most likely to satisfy me. Google would become more of a trusted advisor to searchers rather than just another advertising company.
I think you are right. In my opinion you have to handle each situation separately. So you dilute because it's best for the company, and then you also (assuming you have the means) take care of your friend monetarily and help lighten the medical expense load for him.
That seems more like an oversight of Wikipedia. If Plutonium isn't chemically toxic, that would make it pretty much the only heavy metal (besides gold) that isn't.
First sorry for misunderstanding your point. Though I still say its a warning sign when someone you think is usually full of it starts making sense (even if its in another area)

That said my understanding was the USS Ronald Reagan was dispatched to both help with relief efforts and provide assistance in getting power to the area (they were close enough to the plant that they were forced to flee when things got rough).

The RR has two defining characteristics. One it can produce fresh water by itself and two its (ironically) got its own nuclear power source. So my understanding was it was also providing power to the surrounding area.

Edit: According to news reports the USS Ronald Reagan was actually delivering fresh water to aide in the cooling efforts (http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=59318) not power. My bad.
This post does a good job documenting how communication can break down over time in an organization. While a person can easily talk to (e-mail) a group or another person, it's not as natural for a group to talk to another group or person.

It doesn't look like there is a good/obvious solution to this breakdown. For a solution to work, the (ideally automated) system would have to be smart enough to communicate to the appropriate group/persons/etc. Also, the system would (ideally) have the right amount of communication to avoid users tuning out perceived spam.
Yep, it is a pretty impressive network. I had a lot of fun, particularly given the range of day to day work activities. One day I am coding web apps, the next talking with fiber contractors, the next cleaning up after a big storm.

I only work on web apps these days, so I miss the days of feeling completely overwhelmed by weather, a power outage, a fiber being cut, or, especially, climbing water towers.
How are you planning on dealing with collisions? As dwwoelfel's comment pointed out, "well" and "will" both have the same keystroke motions. I remember trying to implement something similar back in the day, and resorted to using the spacebar to essentially flip the keyboard. What are you plans for it?
You can try selling it on Flippa. As for how much it depends on how much money its making.
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The repo visualizer is really clever, as is using it to get companies to notice you. Best of luck!
Go to a doctor, have one/several check you for depression.

Sounds like pretty typical depression.
I find it crazy that chatroulette does the cross-platform thing pretty well while using flash, but these IM clients are dedicated apps that are closer to the os and still cannot make it happen.
I believe it was the latter but I don't follow anyone so I didn't read it all that carefully. You get to the warning before confirming that you want to disable Buzz, so try it out.
Targeted dilution of individual shareholders seems extremely shady. Almost seems like it should be illegal.

As noted by someone else, they should have simply retained first option to buy any portio of Allen's shares in the case where his shares would change hands. Actually that should probably apply to all major insiders.

Intentionally trying to dilute his shares, if this did indeed happen, is tantamount to stealing in my eyes.
Here's an article about why preceding comma is very convenient:

http://ajaxian.com/archives/is-there-something-to-the-crazy-...

More specifically, in which is it easier for you to find the error?

// error in standard style
var a = "ape",
b = "bat",
c = "cat",
d = "dog"
e = "elf",
f = "fly",
g = "gnu",
h = "hat",
i = "ibu";

// error in comma-first style
var a = "ape"
, b = "bat"
, c = "cat"
, d = "dog"
e = "elf"
, f = "fly"
, g = "gnu"
, h = "hat"
, i = "ibu"
;
I see this as potentially being very useful.

Imagine if you had the ability to Google search all of your friend's 'Likes' on Facebook. This is what Google is trying to create here, except for webpages instead of social snippets.

This suggests a parallel competing feature for Facebook: Make all of your friend's 'Likes' searchable through the search toolbar on Facebook.
False dichotomy, they can both be creepy.
In addition to that, clicking on the "+1" button yields a "Use my information to personalize content and ads across the web." checkbox. Not sexy.
Ask HN: web2.0 online web site generator?
Hi
I remember someone posted previously a nice web2.0 website generator with forms etc. Anyone knows of a web2.0 free online generator which will create nice simple good looking web sites? thanks
Depression can be anger that cannot be expressed because it's denied since too long and 'forgotten', outside help with a professional may be very helpful
Yes! All of my family and friends give me crap about choosing to live in KS. I would be hard pressed trade Lawrence/KC for another location. Unless, you know, there was no snow.
I think it's much more common than what you may think.

I've passed through a similar phase when I was at the university long ago, too much partying, alcohol and lots of junk food. Drink water and try to exercise and achieve small goals (say, add two or five more minutes of running for session each week) and involve in another type of activities to give you some relief from stress without trashing your body.

Also, talk to other people/real friends about how you feel or seek counseling.
It's fine; I probably didn't express it well.

Regarding the RR, I did see about the power thing - but I wasn't sure the extent of that. Or how much that affected the reactors (iirc the issue was not that they had no power, but that the power connects to the plant were disrupted and they had to reconnect them).

Any extra info much appreciated :-)
This is great - a simple and effective way of showing how our money is spent. I didn't know what percentage of my income (nor the total number of dollars) was being given to what, and now I do. I think you accomplished your goal.
I can login now.
Most frequent word is inserted by default. Press "tab" to toggle between words. I'll post a list of the most common collision pairs in a bit, luckily they're fairly rare.
While IANA mental health professional by any means, reading your post you sound more bored than depressed. Getting through your college work with little effort and maturing beyond your peer groups typical socialising will contribute heavily to regular boredom. You are also at a point where lots of people are at a loss for what to do with their lives.

I certainly can't offer any concrete advice, people close to you and professionals you may have access to at college can. Take advantage of what they can do for you.
When I was in a similar point in my life, I found it best to create something. Creation for me helped to build a motivation and a sense of pride. Be it a webpage that you have been thinking about building, a model car, a wood project, just something that you can see progress on and you can have a passion for.

See if there is a club that you can join at your college; sailing, woodworking, fencing, pottery, etc... These have also helped me to find a motivation and a sense of accomplishment, plus they tend to push you to learn and grow your skills.
Awesome, thanks! Will check in with them.
Fantastic. Just what i wanted. Thank you so much.
What's mind blowing is that anybody believes what a support department says.
I don't see my wife creating a google account so she can click +1 on a web page when there will be a facebook like button right next to the +1 button. Why would she? Her friends are on facebook.
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The idea that the TEPCO plant manager is causing trouble because he's "more concerned about his job than his reactor" is absurd. I GUARANTEE the Japanese government took control of this situation the second it became critical.

Your guarantee is comforting and all but do you have a reference for this? Did you notice headline of the head of TEPCO disappearing?? What about Kan asking TEPCO "what the hell is going on"??

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/8619408-tepco-exec...

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/122850/20110315/japan-blast-...
NowJS looks pretty interesting. From monitoring the IRC room maybe some of the common use cases could be better documented but it seems like it's run by a great group of guys.
Microsoft begins distributing Windows 8 to OEMs via Connect
This is what I came here to say. OP, I've been in your shoes. In fact, I'm not entirely out of them. But talking to an unbiased third party, especially a professional who has experience helping people, is invaluable. I have had good luck finding (free!) help through my school - if your school or one in your area has a clinical psychology program, they will offer free counselling.

Talking to a doctor might also be a good idea, but if that is too big of a step for you right now just make an appointment with a shrink.
I hope, along with fixing everything else about Google Bookmarks, they add a feature to automatically +1 all of your bookmarks.
I wonder why they need to put a crew in it. Building a robotic submarine should be easy in this age of GPS, pressure sensors and satellite phones. It would also decrease cost, while increasing cargo (no life support or living quarters needed for the crew).
woooo can't wait to switch out of time warner in a few years

-hopeful socal
This (signatures not faxing) is a much more difficult problem than simply sending a piece of paper with an image of your signature on it.

Basically, if I'm moving all my faxes through your startup's servers, what exactly proves that it is me signing up for credit card offerings, trips to Venice and discount car loans, and not your 2 month employee that is pissed at you for making him work late.

e-signatures bring up so many issues that can cause a world of hurt. To move from fax to e-signature support is a large step.

See here for more information: http://www.recombo.com/digital-signature/

(I'm not endorsing this product or company, but it provides some background.)
When you say "right direction", what is the end goal that you are referring to?
I agree its better than having nothing to show or talk about, but I wish hiring the right person was that easy. There is a lot of junk in Github and there are lots of smart developers outside the Github community.
I did something similar to this, except I used the left CTRL to swap keyboard sides, using some Windows software that let you map custom hotkeys and events.

Any plans for an OS X version?
The first one who publishes something, so we can integrate the +1-button on our websites, get's a +1! ;)
It should be different because platforms are different, and thank god for that.
Ahh, yes, sorry. I forgot about premade sauces. I make all of my dressings myself, so they dont have any of that crap in them.