skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really depends on what you consider an university of note, if you set the bar really high you can raise that to a thousand kilometers. Is there any engineering university of note in Portugal or Spain?

That said, there are more than acceptable universities around and with really good traits like Universidade do Minho and the Porto's university.

I'm portuguese but from the south, formed in the engineering university with most tradition in Portugal, Tecnico (IST), do you know it?

But it also sounds too artificial too me, maybe they are there for the landscapes, for the Porto wine and the 'francesinhas' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesinha).
Can India “Jugaad” Its Way To More Angel Investing?
"The people". They get lower living standards, more political oppression, and bad art.

It's almost like revolutions are intended to demonstrate that "it can't get worse" is horribly wrong.
Startup Idea(?) - Marketing/PR company to get you beta/real users for your tech/other startup, so that you can foucs on what you are good at, focusing on the product. Charges per user acquired.
Women, Income, and The Sexual Paradox: Explaining America's Gender Gap
hard caps generate revenue, while rate limiting heavy users doesn't.

Rate limiting heavy users at peak times has exactly the effect on the customer base that an ISP should want. Exactly the subpopulation of users they don't want gets an incentive to leave, and everyone else stays and talks about the smooth, uninterrupted service and "unlimited" bandwidth.
Without actually trying that code, my guess is that unlike a formal "table", those 3 div tags will have different page-wrap behavior (e.g. not intra-div, but the wrapping of the div elements with respect to the screen width).

That may not appear to be a big deal, but try loading that page on a mobile device and it will become a bigger deal.
Color is very tricky to use, because you have to worry about white-balancing, illumination conditions, and of course leaves have a large variation in color over the course of their life.
Can't say I have. Is it not as one might imagine?
> This way the City keeps getting value out of the medallions, and can increase the supply as the population grows.

How dare you suggest that we increase the number of cabs? Cabbies don't make a "living wage" as it is, so the number must be restricted. (That's how the political campaign to defeat such measures works.)
They run that story every 10 years.

In my lifetime, we've added ethanol subsidies, tariffs, and usage requirements.

There was a suggestion that the mohair subsidy be killed, but I don't think that it happened.
Einstein's view was more or less that there is some state contained in each particle that determines its quantum effects. We do not, however, have access to that state, so we instead do all work with statistical approximations of that state. The statistical approximations encompass all unknown information, and thus "smooth it over".

He put forth this theory before the EPR experiments (he's the E); these experiments made that interpretation unlikely. Specifically, the EPR experiments showed that the state (if any) is probably non-local.
I'm skeptical about this. The city I live in has declared itself as the 'IT City of the North' a few years ago, but still most IT jobs are in the West of the country. You don't become a Silicon Valley by declaring yourself one. It's a political pipe dream. This new city in Portugal leaves the same taste in my mouth: lots of fashionable marketese (what does 'being green' and 'carbon neutral' has to do with being succesful in IT?) hot air and vapourous ideas. Let's see where it is in a few years from now.
Me and Jay Leno
SpaceX gives me hope that we can become a space-faring nation once again. The added bonus is that it is private industry doing it, not the behemoth bureaucracy that NASA has become.
They could probably get the cuts through if they agreed to stop / reverse the current administrations land grab in rural areas.

I would start with ethanol. Some of the subsidies are matching other countries.
Sounds like that new Silicon Valley they were building outside Moscow, or the one they built in Malaysia, or the high-tech cluster outside Kathmandu, . . . you get the point.
You can't forget about the Alpaca subsidy:

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/tax-breaks-spur-alpaca-mark...
A New Era Of Search Is About The Answers, Not Just The Links
in the land of the free and open minded eh? -___-
> Pets projects

My cat is a master coder!

(the phrase is pet, not pets :p)
Fix error handling first (2003)
I can see how this will be useful, thanks. Always liked JQuery but lately it seems it progressed to a place where everything seems to be super easy to do.
Air Force witchcraft
Seth Sternberg On The Early Days Of Meebo: “We Did Not Get It.”
By those rules, Silicon Valley is not a "flourishing city area".

Let me guess - Ms Jacobs wants to "encourage" those factors by various means.

What would the Portugese rather have, a "flourishing city area" or a job and technology producing area?

In other news, black families are leaving "flourishing cities" http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-08-10/bay-area/17121007_1_af... . See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20flight .

In that, black families are like other families - http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2011/03/san-francisco-becomi... .

Some people prefer urban. However, a lot of people don't. The urbanists are merely one group who hasn't figured out that when an argument suggests/implies behavior that doesn't happen, the argument is wrong, no matter how appealing the proponents find the conclusion or proposals.
Sounds a bit cargo-culty. Those four factors happen to apply to the vast majority of cities in the world, most of which aren't necessarily "flourishing".

And one of the places which least fits the bill is the very place they're trying to replicate: Silicon Valley, where the blocks are long, the population sparse, the buildings mostly from the last few decades, and the whole area ain't nothin' but high-tech.

Now I'd say that Silicon Valley succeeded despite its lousy geography rather than because of it (most people I know who work there hate it and commute from San Francisco) though there's one important exception: the sparse population means that big companies can build those huge campus-like HQs which you just couldn't do in a denser city.
Oust.me - new geolocation game
Check in with 4sq, Gowalla, or Fb and start ousting territories (instead of locations). Still in private beta, but i think that idea behind is really good!
Torture May Have Slowed Hunt For Bin Laden, Not Hastened It
Damn! The original OkCupid field was "Pets", I didn't change it carefully enough. Thanks :)
I wonder how important the ability to virtualize Windows is to Apple converting Windows users?

My impression is that it's quite important. Even if people don't end up using Windows for much, they know that they can, and that significantly lowers the risks and cost of transition.

If future versions of Windows run on ARM and Microsoft does a good job of handling compatibility with older software, this might not be a major issue. But I'd bet that it's still a major consideration.
It's nice that we have freer enterprise and I'm happy to see SpaceX doing well, but China is pivoting hard. It's not a zero-sum game so it doesn't really matter who wins but they're not planning on being just the manufacturers forever. We have freer markets, but they have a big edge too in that they value education a lot more, especially now with the one child policy.
some of these are quite nauseating, perhaps a small disclaimer to more sensitive readers is advised.
Apple will require CPU emulation to support legacy software releases (think Creative Suite, MS Office, ...); whether this can be done with reasonable performance on ARM is the first real question.

After that, why not make a switch? We (developers) can support ARM just as easily as x86-64, x86-32, and PPC. There are some specific areas that will require rework (games!), but investments are already being made there to support iOS.
I hope I have the guts to quit when marketing- and sales types take over the company. If they offer me enough money, I might stay, despite the braindeadness.
I think it matters more for mid-range business market, less so for the home consumer that may find an iPad already meets most of their needs.

Personally, Windows virtualization is an unfortunate requirement I have due to Windows-only hardware development tools.

I'm still pissed at Atmel for basing their modern AVR Studio 5 on Visual Studio, rather than on the Eclipse-based work they did for the previous version of AVR32 Studio.
Sorry to quibble about grammar, but this error transforms your headline into its opposite.

What you really mean is "Sparkplugs ... no, laserplugs". You really need that comma following the "no", so it can stand alone rather than negate the laserplugs.
Jaguar to build £700,000 hybrid supercar with Williams
It will build 250 cars in partnership with Formula 1 team Williams F1.
The C-X75's ultra-light chassis and two electric motors will help it accelerate from nought to 60mph in three seconds.
It will have an all-electric range of 50km and its overall emissions of less than 100g CO2 per kilometre will be one of the lowest in the industry.
The car will have a top speed of more than 200mph, while the hybrid engine will extend the car's range well beyond 50km.
Drug makers develop medicines to meet Asia's needs
According to the World Health Organization, liver cancer kills 700,000 people every year, which makes it the third most common cause of death from cancer worldwide.
Silicon Valley isn't a city. San Francisco is. I don't know whether Jacobs wanted to encourage such factors --- she turned city planning on its head with her book in 1960, and it was a data-driven book, while the orthodoxy at the time satisfied "The urbanists are merely one group who hasn't figured out that when an argument suggests/implies behavior that doesn't happen, the argument is wrong, no matter how appealing the proponents find the conclusion or proposals."
This kind of possibility has been in discussion for a long time. It's finally coming to light with this attack in Syria.
Not sure if this is tongue-in-cheek, but: your house does not increase in size by 50% for every month you have that unused floor space.
well, what was the mistake then?
Hope this helps you out ;).
Hmph. Ten years after it occurred to me, someone else has this idea in their head. At the time, Microsoft was dominant and branching into everything. I figured they'd deploy microrobots on the Moon that people could drive around for a fee. I called it Microsoft Moon.
http://mikecane.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/so-no-microsoft-moo...
The article states that they went through secondary screening to get to the concourse where their gate was. After getting taken off the plane there were screened again. The TSA appears to not trust the TSA.

Aside from the foolishness of the theater of security that the TSA provides us we have the disturbing fact that a person can be booted from a plane because the other passengers don't like the way they look. This is even worse than segregation. The men weren't forced to sit in the back they weren't even allowed on the plane.

All societies require a certain level of conformity but American society is increasingly making the range of conformity increasingly small. I don't have a Facebook account. Someday will this make me suspect and subject me to being constantly subjected to secondary screenings? The country feels less and less free to me.
I wanted it to be in Latin...
The most surprising demographic crisis
I like what you did here. I sincerely hope you'll find your dream-job (if I can call it that way)! Good luck! :-)
Why Groovy?

* Groovy is easy to develop in - it's dynamically typed and far less verbose than Java

* It's mature and stable

* It's easy for Java programmers to learn

* It's easy for Python and Ruby developers to learn

* Grails, groovy.sql.Sql, XmlSlurper and a host of other Groovy libraries

* Documentation is good and support forums are very active

* Groovy is actively developed. Version 1.8 was just released. I haven't had the time to look at the new features but glancing at the changelog they look pretty good.

* And last but not least, Java shops with a heavy investment in Java and Java servers can easily integrate Groovy as opposed to rewrite things in Python and Ruby (For green field development I still prefer Ruby)
Are you referring to Addison Lee? I was under the impression that they only used motorbikes for courier service.
what is this I don't even

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pud/58650395/in/set-1268624/

(sorry, couldn't resist)
I'm going to keep that line in hand for the next 20 years: "China is pivoting hard". Anyone who's thinking of them as merely cheap labor for much longer is going to be very surprised.
Best of the Week - 7 Maggio 2011
Here is my new list of the my favorite security articles of the past week.

Enjoy it

@yo9fah_ro: Password Chart: http://www.passwordchart.com/

@HostExploit: Exfiltration: How Hackers Get the Data Out -http://jart.me/mDYvia

@danchodanchev: Posted on @ZDNet - Commtouch: 71 percent increase...
Indeed I am. https://www.addisonlee.com/services/taxybikes/

Edit: Just rang up to find out about rough prices, the journey I most commonly take is £11 in a normal car and £25 on a bike. So only really worth it when there's going to be bad traffic (which admittedly is quite often in London) or if you really like riding on a motorcycle. Can't remember how that compares to their more expensive car services, I rarely use them (99% of the time I'm on my own for work or with friends, exec cars only when with a client for some reason.)

Will probably give it a go next time I'm there just for the hell of it. At least then I won't be tempted to read Add Lib.
Found it to be pretty good when looking to go a level up in fidelity from pencil and paper. The developers on tunedinapp.com seemed to like the results as it leaves a bit less to interpretation.

The built-in components are great if you're using mainly the standard iPhone look. My only drawback would be the lack of a 'master' slide with the iPhone in the background, but it's easy enough to put together.

Certainly worth a few bucks to see if you and your team like it.
DHS absorbed the Customs department, which has power to deal with issues surrounding counterfeit goods. The domains DHS has been taking down have redistributed digital content without license/permission, which DHS considers to be a form of counterfeiting.

(Not saying they're right, just explaining why they're involved.)
I've always wondered why rocket development should be nearly as expensive as NASA makes it sound. It's mostly a plumbing problem, surely -- pump the fuel to the right place and let it burn. I'm sure there are a few added complexities, but the tricky bits were all figured out decades ago.
My university started with Java. Fortunately two of the (especially intelligent) professors wanted scheme to be the first language we were taught. Of course the other professors voted against that because they wanted something more "relevant", so Java it was.

So instead there's a required programming languages course we spent half the semester learning/using scheme and the other half using it to understand other types of languages.

It's definitely worth taking the time to learn IMO.
The new law is set to expire at the end of 2009.

Although I confess, I am planting a small lavendar field on a property just in case I need to class it as agricultural.
Actually, this isn't quite true. Close, but the languages do have a few differing features.

Your main point is a little questionable - sure, there are languages very similar to C# (Nemerle, J#, etc.), but then you've got F#, P# (Prolog), IronScheme, IronPython, IronRuby... I mean, the existence of the DLR itself kinda puts holes in your argument (for some of the above languages).

Claiming "yeah, but the F# team did everything" is somewhat true (as they did for the first release), but it's not a meaningful complaint. That's going to be the case for virtually any new paradigmatic language being put onto a general-purpose (i.e., procedural, object-oriented) programming framework. The Clojure team had to do everything to make it work on the JVM, too. And in current releases of .NET, more and more of that is being pulled into .NET core and being leveraged by C#.
True, but I'm even more skeptical about the the Venture Capital firms they assume will appear.
CEOs Who Don't Control Their Companies
Flying while Muslim is the new Driving while Black.
I'm not sure valuing education is enough. Japan didn't pass the US and it surely valued education more than the US. It is the combination of virtues and the chaos of individuals that allows the US to work. If the US gets its debt under control, I don't really see the "win" being China's. China is chaos adverse.
For Profit giving away 100% of profits?
Keeping this vague and using a new account.
Does anyone know of any companies that give away 100% of profits ? Not a shell game where you give 100% of profits for a year to be invested then take the money back after the year is over(Soap-Hope) or some phony marketing ploy like a B-Corp.

But one that gives all profits to non-profits, staff selected-(political and religious excluded).
This is an inspiring mark of American spirit that has seemed to escape our minds amidst international business pressures. I'm grateful that we have hardworking leaders such as Elon who take risks when others won't, and are dedicated to living their dreams.
Sparkplugs! No laserplugs! Sparkplugs!

But yeah, I think the original BBC headline was perfectly good before it was changed.
While this looks like a very fascinating book/course, does anyone have a recommendation for learning general relativity rapidly in a way that abuses mathematical knowledge? I want to brush up on tensor math and variational calculus and use it as a motivating core topic.

I'm looking for the tersest complete guide from Newtonian physics to GR. Single author would be best, but I imagine it's not possible.
Ask HN: Good video introductions to a start up service?
Do you know any good videos introducing start ups and their service / idea?

I like the bitcoin introduction - http://www.weusecoins.com/
Women tend to be less ambitious than men (Ireland)
Winning the world 100m is just about running faster. A Nobel prize is won if you think just a little bit harder...
Pushing the envelope has always been heroically hard and always will be.
The Class that built Apps, and Fortunes
http://www.coreboot.org/Welcome_to_coreboot

coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) you can find in most of today's computers.
I ditched Balsamiq mockups for Keynote Kung Fu.

As a set of templates and design elements, Kung Fu is really awesome. Definitely money well spent and the buttons/UI elements more or less cover everything I've needed to do.

To me, the question comes down to what software do you prefer to use for protoyping: Keynote, Balsamiq, Omnigraffle?

Keynote seems to have the best alignment, auto-positioning, etc and a really easy to use UI. The only downside (imo) is that Keynote only allows you to edit in 1024x768 or some similar canvas size, whereas Balsamiq lets you go as large as needed.

If you're already using Keynote, get it for sure.
Not tried that, but I got the Keynotopia bundle from AppSumo when the offer was on, and very happy with that. looks very similar to this, not sure which is cheaper/more complete.
I guess you're not familiar with the joke then :-$
Why Color is overrated
Indeed. And we've seen great improvements to engine efficiency over recent years with technologies like direct injection (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_direct_injection) but you'll see far fewer articles about that because it's complicated to explain and doesn't involve fancy sciencey things like fricking lasers.
I have a family member that taught dendrology for 30 years.

He amazes me by being able to look at a leaf, bark or chunk of wood and tell what it is near instantly. If accurate, this is the sort of thing that will change the teaching process. I will tell him about it.
11 Books by Yakov Perelman (in Spanish)
Just saw Thor last night. That was a very entertaining movie!
Sure. A lot of it is covered in a book I'm writing (working title: The Minglewood Blues)...

Things were tough all over in 2000, and the company I worked for held out longer than most. But it died too. And I found myself looking for work at a very bad time to be looking for work. For months I scored a fair amount of contract work - not a lot - but enough to get by.

Around August of 2001 it didn't look like things were going to improve any time soon where I was so I developed a plan: we were going to head to the bay area because the bay area always bounces back from a recession faster than anywhere else. We sold off everything except my computer, my VW bus ("Minglewood") and the absolute necessities we needed to live out of Minglewood for a few weeks until I had a paycheck coming in.

Two big things happened in September that year and one of those things is that I took a huge gamble and headed to california to look for work. By the time we got to San Francisco we were down to some small amount of money (I don't remember how much) and there weren't any computer jobs anyway.

And as luck would have it, Minglewood broke down right after we got there.

Oh yeah, and it turns out that San Francisco isn't even in Silicon Valley. Go figure.

I ended up doing day labor when I could get it, begging when I couldn't -- constantly scamming for wifi to look for real work.

The scary thing about being homeless is that it really sucks to be invisible and that (at least in SF) the way most people deal with the suckitude is with meth or heroin. And most of our friends on the street were junkies.

Oh yeah, and heroin is dirt cheap. Dirt, dirt cheap. Cheap enough than $10 will buy you enough to stay high for a week, whiledeveloping a productive heroin addiction.

Eventually I figured out how to escape San Francisco: I saved money to take the SF taxi driver course and got a gig driving a taxi - which btw was harder work than day labor and paid about the same. What I did was to save what money I could until I had enough to put Minglewood in storage and buy greyhound tickets back to Arizona.

By this time we had moved out of Minglewood and were living in hotels around union square. On escape day, I checked out an ADA taxi (a van) so I could haul all our stuff from the hotel room out to Minglewood. I got everything moved, called for the tow truck and got Minglewood put in storage.

I turned in the taxi, met my gf at the greyhound station and left for Phoenix where we at least had friends with homes. And without heroin.

Total time in San Francisco: about 10 months.

In Phoenix I went to truck driving school and got a gig driving an 18-wheeler. That only lasted 10 days though because I finally scored an interview for a sysadmin gig at ASU.

I abandoned the truck in Kansas City and hitched to the greyhound station and had my girlfriend wire me a ticket back home. Another huge gamble and she was not pleased, but this time the gamble paid off with a sysadmin gig that allowed me to participate in NASA and ESA missions.
As someone who's been doing mockups in Pages/Keynote for a while, I found it to be a great resource of nice looking widgets and templates and well worth the $.
I for one would lobby my government to stop this from happening. When I look in to the infinite wonder of space I don't want to see a fucking coke logo slowly going by.

To quote from Sagan's The Dragons of Eden where he speculates on the Evolution of Human Intelligence:

"A typical example of the occasional resistance mustered by intuitive thinking against the clear conclusions of analytical thinking is D.H. Lawrence's opinion of the nature of the moon: "It's no use telling me it's a dead rock in the sky! I know it's not." Indeed the moon is more than a dead rock in the sky. It is beautiful, it has romantic associations..."