skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is very unlikely that a large national train company wouldn't have TOS for the info on its website. Have a closer look. It may be in a non-obvious place.

If its TOS is something like Amtrak's, the company may still not have a successful suit against you. Amtrak's TOS require the user to recognize that Amtrak's proprietary right in the data on its website is valid and enforceable probably because the law does not recognize that right by default. I think it is written that way to allow Amtrak's attorneys to make some creative arguments in court if it would need to sue. But to win they would probably need to convince a judge to change the law. Having said that, the company could still sue if it really doesn't want you to provide the app in the hope that you settle before the case reaches trial.

Do consult a lawyer just to get a sense of the likely risk of lawsuit.
Some things will become clear but it'll be like cutting heads off the Hydra. But that's the fun part of science - every question answered seems to raise many more.
When advertising on seek.com.au we've resorted to adding additional filters, otherwise we get so many resumes that we just can't read them all. And yes, most of them are clearly from 'spray and pray' applicants with no relevant skills.
He mentioned that feedback from non-paying customers is great too and (imo) implied for this reason. The message started off with him saying its better to have feedback from paying customers, but then evolved into saying they're both valuable in different ways.
I love the "block" functionality, but it is really a different feature. Block says "this site is spam, don't show it to me anymore." "-1" says "this result isn't relevant to what I'm searching for, alter the future results accordingly."

Regardless, I love what Google is doing here in taking individual consideration into account.
Any ETA on when WePay is opening up to take payments as an alternative to paypal?

I'm sure your engagement will be magnitudes of order higher with that announcement :)
Awesome! I've wanted some better command line tools for python for a while now. I'll certainly kick the tires. Any plans to make tab-completion a bit smoother than it is by hand w/ readline?
Evolution|: Humanity in space.
evolution of humanity, space to infinity and beyond. willager, Yuri Gagarin.
I met Rich and Bill the evening before their YC interview, at Hackers & Founders.

I still remember it very clearly. I totally didn't get their product, but they insisted on buying me a beer, convinced me to create a WePay account, give them my bank account information and transfer $0.25 to test out their system. Anyone who knows my privacy nuttiness, should know that's a friggin miracle. I've been a dedicated WePay customer ever since, and I use their service at least once a week.

Out of all the startups in the Valley that I've met, if there's one company I'd love a very tiny piece of, it's WePay. (I'm not hinting, I'm saying that as a vote of confidence)

Congrats, guys! Happy birthday.
If you missed Creatures, it was a series of games something like the Sims but with a much more advanced biological simulation running underneath. It's been over a decade and nothing since has even approached the ambition of these games. The old games are available on gog.com.

The author's blog: http://stevegrand.wordpress.com/
I'm supposed to like the same food as my friends and relatives? That's absurd. My father loves olives, I hate them. My brother hates spicy food, I love it. My mother hates cheese and milk, I like them just fine. My extended family is all meat and potatos, I'll eat food from anywhere in the world.

The things that connect me to these people just has nothing whatsoever to do with the things that I search for. I'm having a hard time thinking of any topic on which my friends and relatives can make better recommendations than the entire internet just by virtue of knowing me. The only time I would want to constrain a search to my social network is when I'm researching my social network itself.

I'm not surprised that people like the idea of social search. It sounds pleasant enough. But I have yet to see any useful example of it, or even hear a hypothetical one.
Thanks. Sorry, my whole comment was a juvenile joke implying pr0n industry. It fell flat.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading that -- spot on. Just for kicks, here's my more optimistic vision for the future:

1) HP/WebOS focuses it's marketing message on using "open" tech (HTML, CSS, JS). Some iOS/android developers convert apps, some web devs convert websites, most don't bother.

2) People pick these up as they are in stock and get to the sites people need with flash as a big selling point as well (news, mail, youtube, hulu, entertainment, etc).

3) Google releases a ChromeOS Tablet, using point 2 above to their advantage by claiming compatibility with all internet sites (even flash!). They sell quickly and cheaply, as google takes a loss on each tablet in hope of gaining market share and increasing google search usage (it's the default home-page on this device).

4) More hardware / software manufacturers follow Google's lead, and momentum shifts towards using tablets mainly as dumb web-clients (with offline storage, better graphics, and other "native" features provided by HTML5 APIs).

5) Apple raises the bar by releasing an extremely-polished-at-this-point itunes.com and a super-cheap "air/cloud" tablet (similar to chromeOS's offer), allowing you to buy and sell "cloud" apps (HTML CSS JS) with existing app store rules and credit cards on itunes.com or in the "cloud" app store. Buy once, use on all your iOS and Mac devices (includes apps, music, video).

6) Tablets aren't bought and sold based on whether angry birds runs on them (its a web-app and runs everywhere), but instead on hardware features and performance (battery-life, screen size/resolution, heat, weight, etc.). Forced to compete on these grounds, hardware manufacturers invent better batteries, hybrid color e-ink/lcd screens that can be used in the sun, better speakers, and maybe even something crazy like user-replaceable batteries, RAM, and hard disks.

One can dream, anyway...
Microsoft Top Marketer Mich Mathews to Exit
Microsoft's Antitrust cry in Europe against Google
Sounds like you got banned. What was the old account name?
"Get a head-start in your career. This is a brutal mistake even 18 year old's make, Though it may be hard to gain experience as a nurse or doctor being only 15 years old, not reading up on any career is where any teen can slack."

Guess my 31-year-old ass better pack it in.
It's tricky: there is often monitoring of interim results for exactly this reason, but there are some good theoretical reasons to think that halting a trial on the basis of good interim outcomes in the experimental group could bias the results.

As for the latter statement, there are no "guarantees" before clinical trials have been done (even after it can be iffy: see
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal....

I can't imagine how this argument would look in court.
I frequently fork projects on Github, add features/fix bugs, send a pull request and then delete my fork after my changes have been integrated. I've started to consider keeping my forks around for this reason alone but that strikes me as a waste of Github's disk space...
Cellphone Radiation May Alter Your Brain. Let’s Talk.
I thought engagement usually indicated a special sort of future-looking partnership, considerable emotional risk, and several K down the drain on a shiny trinket--not to mention a massive influx of stress and worry about how to launch by deadline.

Given that, I was scratching my head, wondering if this was a new service whereby the engaged save parents considerable financial burden by bootstrapping their new startup, everyone finally candidly admitting there was, at best, a 50% success rate.

Maybe that's an idea for another time ...
I see no reason for you to wait to work on your idea, regardless of whether or not you’re in college. Is there anything about your idea that would require you to raise capital and only focus your attention on it? If not, I’d recommend starting the work now and wait until you get to the point where you need to take time off from school to further your startup.

I worked on my startup while in college, and continued to do so for a couple of years. When I didn’t have enough time in the day to give my startup the attention it needed, I took educational leave from school and focused on it. Now, after a year sabbatical, I’m back in school and my startup is profitable. I’d suggest doing the same once your startup looks promising.
Skype in the classroom - New dimension to education?
I frankly agree.. except that I think this might be a bit of geek-goggles. I think most of the people I know would love social proof from their immediate circle...

But yeah. Not me, man. The internets are my friends.
My fiancé and I are using it for our wedding registry, and so far the experience has been spectacular!
Always surprised me how advanced humans pretend to be and how simple-minded they actually appear en masse, with this race to "get my integer number higher" which is a basis of most social algorithms.

Really people? That is the only way to stand out from the crowd? An integer? :)
We're getting one up and running on github. Sorry it's taken so long. Right now the code is being completely revamped for community involvement and extendibility. The address is https://github.com/jstat/jstat
Have you tried gtalk on Chrome?

Seems to work everywhere that has an OS Recognized camera and mic. I've talked with people on linux, and windows, from my OS 10.6 machine.
Champions Online. I have no idea what kind of game that is. I play different stuff.
Startup Visa D.O.A., and Startup America Just a Giant Press Release?
To attack a company or product based on opinion rather than fact is the same fallacy.
It's even worse if you use the "standard" DOS partitioning system, only 440 bytes are available. (446 if you get fancy)
Sure, but this doesn't substantiate calling Windows stupid, which by itself implies fault with the OS.
... LTE chipset (which currently has coverage almost nowhere)

Whoa! Marco is beginning to sound more annoying than Gruber.

The Apple fanbois make statements like this all the time -- Apple doesn't support something, so therefore it's irrelevant? LTE is available in NYC, LA, and Chicago (and 20 other cities), which are the three biggest markets in the US. That's not "nowhere", that's "a good chunk of the population".

Let me know when you can buy a Thunderbolt peripheral :)
The keeping coffee "Hot" problem is easily solved with a good, insulated, transit mug. High quality ones will keep your coffee very hot for a couple hours.

What the Joulies do is _cool_ the coffee by initiating a phase change in their PCM, but then don't drop it too far down.
That's awesome that you've come across an idea that excites you. However, I'd advise against leaving college. Before I get into why, I just wanted to mention that I totally know where you're coming from, as I graduated from college relatively recently with a degree that has very little to do with tech, and I definitely related to that feeling of disenchantment

1. Regardless of whether or not your startup works out, it's likely that you'll apply to/work for someone else's company one day (even if it's briefly). While there is this growing notion that one doesn't need a college degree to qualify for a position, it's not widely adopted yet and I wouldn't count on it being widely adopted in the near future. With that said, taking a leave from college and going back a year later would be an absolute bummer. If you're disenchanted now, you'd be 10X as much once you're back there, because all your peers will have graduated.

2. Even if what you're learning doesn't interest you, the experience of college is an education in of itself - in both discipline and the social world.

Regarding discipline, we can work all we want at our startups, but if we really need to take a day off then we probably can. There's no one to answer to other than ourselves. If there's a midterm on Monday, and the world is crashing down the week before, you're still going to have to take that midterm. Even if you're not into what you're learning, forcing yourself to do work you don't want to is important, and is a skill that will be necessary no matter what company you start.

Regarding the social world, the college experience is pretty key in helping you find yourself and shape yourself as a person. Right now you're a part of a journey, but if you came back a couple years later it will definitely feel different.

3. As another commenter mentioned, start the idea while you're in college without taking a leave. Ideas are merely hypotheses. Wait until your hypothesis is validated through user adoption/etc. before you consider leaving school.

4. Worst comes to worst, if you don't get to execute the idea because of college, just trust that you're going to have another killer idea. I'm sure you're intelligent and you're clearly ambitious. Ideas might have life-spans but your creativity won't.

5. Standing up on graduation day after pulling through 4 years straight is an incredible feeling, and I'm sure I speak for many of us when I say that it's a day where you're just really proud of yourself for pulling through. Unless you have a totally horrendous experience, it'll feel worth it on graduation day.

With that said, I wish I majored in CS in college and sat in on more psychology lectures :)
Those are some interesting ideas. You can look at what we've done at https://github.com/jstat/jstat

The core.js file will run server-side. It has no dependencies and has been included using "this", which attaches to Node.js' modules. So to use it in a script you would just have to add the following line of code at the top of your script:

var jstat = require('path/to/core.js').jstat;

As for outsourcing the grunt work to a C library... We're going to need some community involvement with that one. It would be nice to be able to compile that directly into the server, but it's not on our roadmap right now.
So, general statements about how contractors should make approximately double their per-hour salaried rate only apply to people with a sufficiently established network of paying clients.

I don't know, I don't really consider it "normal" or "market rate" if there isn't an open market for it.

I appreciate your wisdom, though, don't get me wrong. It just makes me question the typical advice espoused by people.
I forgot to mention the part about dogfooding. After DHH talked about the importance of designing software for himself, Andrew challenged him by asking if Sortfolio was designed for himself. DHH made it clear that it was. Even though I'm not sure 37signals has got a whole lot of use of it just yet, after hearing him out I am convinced that it was designed with using it in mind.
Bone marrow is generally harvested from living people.

Some links here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_marrow#Harvesting
There is no Keylogger in Samsung Laptops
u people are full of sh*t. everything is a scam, casino is a scam, poker sites are scams, ebay is a scam. get a f. life.
3. Get sued for copyright infringement?
For those unwilling to follow the link, gigabit is $350 a month.

I'm perfectly satisfied with their 30 up / 30 down plan. That one costs $58 a month.
Nice thought, but It seems like a misdirection of effort.
How can you trust malware/trackers not to track you? Isn't it no different to the flawed model of a server trusting a client to perform its own authentication?
Crazy Ghost Rider Photos & wallpapers
To a large extent tastes are regional and based on cultural background. Particularly in the case of acquired tastes such as for spicy or astringent food, there's a clear in-group/out-group bimodal distribution of preference.

Obviously individual variations exist, but the opinions of your friends and family are far from being irrelevant data.
What an absurd comment. Newtonian physics seemed sufficient and special and general relativity seemed academic until we applied them both to build GPS. You stand on the giant shoulders of theoretical physicists from the moment you open your eyes every morning. How dare you deny them any available tool to continue to keep you in the style to which you've become accustomed.

All the applied research and aerospace programs you're referring to would not have been possible without the strong foundation that theoretical research provided.

Think you're going to build a star drive by continuing to throw matter in the opposite direction as fast as you can? Some hard working theorist who you deem to be too philosophical could be coming up with the fundamental laws of nature that we need to go to the stars if guys like you hadn't denied funding for the SSC.
Canon Power G12 Digital Camera
The new Canon Power Shot G12 is the latest model in the market from the G-Series. It is updated with a whole new range of features which makes anyone a photographer. It comes with a black colored body and looks very sporty and smart. Canon Power Shot G12 makes every aspect of the image look crystal clear and lifelike.
Reminds me of my hour long project when I was bored: http://whatshouldifuckingdo.com
Do Not Anger the Alpha Android
This is good interpretation of the functionality is meant to be used.

However, we have seen several cases where the usage of the functionality slowly drives how the feature is morphed and I am guessing Google is experimenting with the button initially to see how the users like it and would try to weave other functionalities around it.
This looks fantastic, but after reading the whole page I couldn't quite shake the feeling that maybe these things are unsafe.

I don't actually think they're unsafe, but perhaps something to keep in mind as you grow your business.
but then don't drop it too far down.

They actually actively maintain the temperature until their internal substance has turned back into a solid (which may or may not be what you meant).
It's all semantics, playing with different definitions of risk, safe, etc etc. Especially if any miniscule dose of radiation does increase the risk of cancer, what we deem 'safe' is not (and cannot sensibly be) 'no increase risk of cancer', but rather 'small enough risk of cancer'... which I believe is where 100milliSieverts comes from.

It's like saying that there's no such thing as 'safe driving' since the very act of driving (no matter how carefully) increases the chance of you dying through some drunkass T-boning you.
Oh hell, I'd buy this. It seemed gimmicky at first, but I love the marketing, product design and packaging. Good luck guys!! These will make awesome xmass gifts.
Hmm, wait first a question - are they getting 100k hits per day or are they getting 100k visitors/uniques per day :P
To me, the bigger question is:

How and why do so many supposedly tech-savvy people go about using black-box binaries they can't check out to see what they are doing?

I haven't had to worry about this sort of thing in ages.
From the study:

"In healthy participants and compared with no exposure, 50-minute cell phone exposure was associated with increased brain glucose metabolism in the region closest to the antenna. This finding is of unknown clinical significance."

The specific finding referred to is localized mean differences in brain glucose metabolism of 2.4 μmol/100 g per minute (a 7% increase).

The linked article is a fluff piece providing "advice" for people wanting to avoid exposure to cell phone radiation. The study makes no claims regarding possible health hazards related to their findings.
Camino to go webkit or die
That's still 700 per day on the high end. 1200 in the few hours between waking up and getting to school is ridiculous. If it took 2 hours, you would be sending 10 txts every minute, or one every 6 seconds. Unless the majority of these txts were 'lols' and 'kkz', then you -would not be able to do anything else-. In fact, you would have seen a complete epidemic of kids getting hit by cars while walking to school.

Also, does anyone know if they count messages that get split up as one message, or multiple?
Web Development- Benefits of E-commerce Portal
Web development companies around the world are jumping on to the e-commerce bandwagon. They realize its true potential and are eager to harvest the rich dividends that come with it.
I think people use "f##ck" simply in an attempt to be polite.

People are not willing to not use the word because they feel it express their position, but the shorthand version is almost like an inline apology.

Somehow, it comes off as less vulgar. I don't think it has anything to do with a belief in an inherit evil power.
I am extremly sorry.
But now I can not delete it.
Thinking positively, would this thread get attention of admin so as to get a bot to do this sort of thread.
http://xkcd.com/radiation/
I'd like to point out that even if there were a Chernobyl every two weeks, nuclear would still kill less than coal.

I'm not necessarily that pro-nuclear, I just cannot fathom why all the outrage in power production seems to be directed towards nuclear while coal, that kills ~2700 people worldwide every day is still being used.
The most unfortunate part of this is that 'the President would only support the Startup Visa in the context of “comprehensive immigration reform”.'

If it is valuable to attract and retain the top entrepreneurial talent from around the world, we should enact that policy ASAP, without holding it captive to the political grenade of illegal immigration.
NewsCred - New York

We're looking for an information retrieval engineer. If you're interested in solr, lucene, machine learning, NLP or solving big data problems, get in touch! We're in the General Assembly space, have a great team and a product in the market with revenue. Also, backed by some great investors!
"It's a little bit nerdy," is exactly the problem I see with this. They are taking a piece of internet/geek culture and expanding it to my Grandma. My Grandma know what it means to "Like" something, but does she understand "+1"? Probably not.
Why not? After all gadgets alter your brain: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/technology/07brain.html
Playing it right now. Very addicting.

When my brother was around 17 or 18 he wrote a game called Tetrix for the Commodore that was very creative at the time, including head-to-head and different obstacles. So this is a big nostalgic for me.

Very well done.
Internship? This is cooler than a lot of "pro" stuff. It's really insightful to see how other projects morph and change over time. Good luck!
It's depressing how quickly the the rumour spread with nothing backing it up except for a single guy's poorly tested claims.
Move to a host that will allow you to upgrade resources on demand. Shared hosting is a bad place to be if you think you're going to get slammed with traffic.

Either move to a VPS Provider who can scale you up to a dedicated server if necessary (i.e. VPSLink), or go with AWS (Amazon), which basically has unlimited scale, but may also have unlimited cost (at some point, it may be better for your dedicated server to go down than to spend $60,000 in a month on server resources). Of course, this is both a personal and business choice, and really dependent on how much promise you think the site has and whether you can use your traffic stats to raise some money and grow the business.
The situation in question is Merkel shutting down the 7 oldest German nuclear plants for 3 months. There will be no new clean sources of power deployed during those 3 months -- and unless there is a national campaign to reduce use starting right now in Germany, it will be mostly covered by coal.

During those 3 months, ~250 more will die to SO2 and NOx because of increased coal power production.
The study makes no claims regarding possible health hazards related to their findings.

To do so at this point would be reckless. There's a concern here and certain steps ("advice") seem reasonable.

It could be years, if not a decade or more, before any hazards are clearly known. Better to be safe. We're born with only one brain and neural implants are still a ways off.