skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's unfortunate that they are under attack, but mtgox.com has been down for just about the entire business day now.

Is is just me that thinks this is that totally unacceptable, for this site is one of the only Bitcoin exchanges in the US. This alone could cause panic trades when they eventually do get back up and running.
I agree it's not brute hours on a task, but most musician types I know do make it a significant focus of their lives. It's not just writing and recording during the day, but attending shows in their scene in the evenings, frequenting mailing lists, Usenet groups, and IRC channels, going to the right clubs, reading dozens of magazines, blogs, etc. in their spare time, listening to and reviewing others' albums, and so on. Being "a [genre] musician" is basically a full-time lifestyle.
I don't get the rosebud reference, so...you've apparently messed up some twist for me. Thanks for that.
[insert sound of loud cheering from those of us that have a clue -- again]

Upvote. Sorry that there probably aren't enough people with a firm grasp on reality to lift your comment out of the hazy twilight. Take heart in knowing that the scent of coffee is getting stronger with every passing day.
Sweet suffering jesus, no. Please no. Spreadsheets are evil enough already.
It turns out that most of the security of credit cards takes place after the actual transaction. It's largely done by using software to look for transactions that look somehow wrong, or by reversing charges when you look at your bill at the end of the month and see an obviously incorrect charge.

The point is that the system has effectively figured out that they can't make a system that is both sufficiently secure and sufficiently convenient in just a card, so it instead accepts that numbers will be stolen and tries to minimize the damage.
Thought process:

Okay, cool. I'd like to create an easily-shared channel of kid-friendly videos. This could be a cool way to do it.

Where do I create a channel? Is it the "add video" button? I'm guessing that's to add a video to this channel. "Customize"? Maybe. clicks

Okay. I guess I can erase all of the stuff that's here and make a new one. ... no ... wait ... nope. What do I do?

lots of clicking around ... eventually ... I load up the "Channel Guide" and see the "New Channel" box.

That box really needs to be obvious on the front page.
The general assumption (or rather disclaimer) is: make backups.

An earlier failure may even be an advantage here because that way you have less time to accumulate important data before learning your lesson...
Now I'm running Chrome 13. Google lets you run the Canary build along with another version of Chrome, just in case you find yourself with a bad update. Firefox sorely needs this feature.
From what I've read, I don't believe their current monetization techniques are making anywhere near enough money to equal what's been pumped in from funders.
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First thought: Oh crap what will happen to the great work he's been doing in the .Net tools?

Second thought: Oh wow, he could actually do great things for the Azure developer experience!
Alright, someone smarter than is going to have to explain the popularity of this site... I checked it out real briefly and didn't get the allure. Is it just like the misconnections section on cragislist...only this is for a specific college campus? I thought there was also a UK company doing something similar as well...

Is it a "billion dollar" idea?
IANAL, but I believe the current code involves requiring the owners of the copyright to sue, and if the anime isn't held by a company engaging in suing foreign nationals...minor case..
Heh - I was beginning to wonder if it was making its intended impression on anyone. Must've been downvoted by AMZN longs :)
Queensland tests GPS phones with 1cm precision
That's at least part of it. A lot of it is also time - the poor eat unhealthy foods due to a combination of cost (processed foods are cheaper) and time (fast food is faster). When you're holding down 2 jobs and juggling a couple of kids, it doesn't really leave a lot of room for a home cooked meal, even if you could purchase healthy ingredients cheaply.

I just got back from a two-week trip to Asia that's been fairly eye-opening for myself. There are a lot of small-scale catering services that fill this specific void: affordable, healthy (relatively, they're certainly winning no medals) food for busy people. I hate to say it, but the lack of regulation plays a lot into it. Because every housewife with some spare time can take on a few clients, it creates price competition like there's no tomorrow. Yes, it really does become caveat emptor (health inspections? hah!), but the lack of regulation does create more easily accessible, healthier eating.
Last year I installed the Craigslist Preview extension for Chrome. Sorry, but no other 'browsing enhancements' could possibly make up for inline pictures.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jmcbgcbedienblgn...
> All were running Windows

It's too much to hope for that Windows is the common factor here, isn't it?
> One of the most amazing things about kids are that they are state machines, unfortunately you don't get to see all the states :-).

Sounds like a job for Hidden Markov Models. They model a system in which you can see a state-dependent output (e.g. "I want to play for 15 more minutes!") and there are clever algorithms for guessing, based on a sequence of observed outputs, what the hell just happened internally. Very handy stuff:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Markov_model
Wait a second. A well trained dog isn't getting shot, and a family member isn't getting shot...

Well, unless something incredibly hairy goes down. But I'm reasonably certain arrests for child pornography don't go down like raids on hostile gang hideouts...
there's a better reason, per TomF's blog[1] linked below by JabavuAdams.
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"any time you do a subtract (or an add, implicitly), consider what happens when the two numbers are very close together, e.g. 1.0000011 - 1.0. The result of this is going to be roughly 0.0000011 of course, but the "roughly" is going to be pretty rough. In general you only get about six-and-a-bit decimal digits of precision from floats (2^23 is 8388608), so the problem is that 1.0000011 isn't very precise - it could be anywhere between 1.0000012 or 1.0000010. So the result of the subtraction is anywhere between 1.210^-6 and 1.010^-6. That's not very impressive precision, having the second digit be wrong! So you need to refactor your algorithms to fix this.

The most obvious place this happens in games is when you're storing world coodinates in standard float32s, and two objects get a decent way from the origin. The first thing you do in rendering is to subtract the camera's position from each object's position, and then send that all the way down the rendering pipeline. The rest all works fine, because everything is relative to the camera, it's that first subtraction that is the problem. For example, getting only six decimal digits of precision, if you're 10km from the origin (London is easily over 20km across), you'll only get about 1cm accuracy. Which doesn't sound that bad in a static screenshot, but as soon as things start moving, you can easily see this horrible jerkiness and quantisation."

[1] http://home.comcast.net/~tom_forsyth/blog.wiki.html#%5B%5BA%...
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It's best to look at it like most of Microsoft version 1 products - it's going to be painful to use. But it has tons of potential - more so than any product in recent memory. And it's actually pretty reasonably priced, even if you aren't in BizSpark.

You really don't need to worry about roles that much. A web role is a website, and a worker role is a non-website service (though you can connect to a worker role via http). In theory, load balancing his handled for you so you can achieve redundancy with at least two instances.

Now, there are some real painful points with azure as it stands. My two two specific points are these: deploying takes a long time - some times over 10 minutes. So forget about agile build processes or continuous deployment or even making a quick, simple text change.

The other major problem I have is you have to run the debugger to get access to the development storage ( blob & tables). Both of these are really useful. But running the debugger all the time is torture.

Developer tools are hugely important to all of the MS ecosystem, and I bet these concerns get addressed - this is the big advantage for moving ScottGu over to the azure team. Azure is a big part of the future of that company.
Yeah, a lot of the power output from a nuclear explosion is in gamma rays, and even air is opaque enough to gamma rays that the energy deposition heats it up to way incandescent temperatures. That's what the fireball of a nuclear explosion is: incandescent air.
Tell that to Android developers who are writing simulation apps that need to work on ARMv6 phones, like the LG Optimus series. No FPU there.
I'm still waiting for Startup Canoe...We have startup weekend, startup bus, startup ________ ... but I want to build a startup while on a canoe!
I've used spoofing frequently on a local college's campus to get around blocks they've put on my system. Apparently some of the student use Ethernet jacks aren't for student use.
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Twitter had revenue of $50M last year, and is projected to run $150M this year and $250M next[1]

In the past 12 months Twitter has built out an entire north american sales force lead by former FIM exec Adam Bain, who is v good at what he does. So those numbers are before any international expansion, and do not include API licensing (via Gnip)

It is very disingenuous and flat out wrong to write Twitter off as having no revenue. They have no profit, but the point of a company at their stage is not to book profits, it is to spend as much money to grow as quickly as possible (building that sales team alone isn't cheap - let alone infrastructure). If they were making money, the investors would sure as hell be asking why. This is simple startup economics where you have a company and product in hypergrowth.

Twitter is so ingrained in the mainstream conscious now. My non-tech family members and friends kept mentioning it all weekend in context of the royal wedding and the bin laden death. The cable news networks spent a lot of time just showing their viewers what is on twitter

It is here to stay at least for a little while, so time to throw out the 2009-era skepticism and false criticisms

As an aside, Tweetdeck are also healthy revenue wise. Healthy enough to be an 18 person company that last raised a small round a year ago and that can charge $50k per ad partner for placement[2]

[1] http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-01-24/twitter-s-ad-rev...

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/01/want-your-service-integrate...
You said: "I thought that Clojure was just a little faster than Clojure, but uses about twice the memory as Clojure." Which of those "Clojure"s should be "Racket"s?
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"A lot" is a very relative term. Many people (including myself) have SSDs running for over a year and they're ticking on just fine.
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Disbelieving the official story doesn't make you a conspiracy theorist. Disbelieving the official story and also believing that you know what really happened is what makes you a conspiracy theorist. The null hypothesis, "I don't f%#@$ng know, and neither does anyone else except for a few members of the ruling class who have high-level access to classified information, none of whom can be trusted to tell the truth to mere peons like us because of their obvious self-interest in getting us to buy into their preferred worldview," is still a reasonable position to take.
Racket is Rodney Dangerfield of languages, an amazing effort in programming language design that gets no respect.

Beyond what others have covered, the new Typed Racket effort is simply amazing and as of yet even hardcore Racketeers have not fully explored it.

It is different and novel type system with a really well thought out syntax notation. The type system has seamless coverage from static type checking which continues into runtime with contracts. It is really novel. In some sense the amalgamation of the best ideas from the "dynamic" typing crowd as well as from the "static" typers.

Second I can't highly recommend enough an alternative development environment using emacs and the most excellent Geiser project for Racket and Guile. It offers a bit of a return to that agile REPL based development feel that some say is missing somewhat with the DrRacket GUI IDE.
A little more background on the attack:

http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=6931.0
Videolicious For The iPhone Helps You Edit Quality Videos, Fast
It took a lot of loading new posts, but I finally got a snippet of C++. Right now it does seem like there are a lot of images. Maybe one way they could improve the process is by having different pools of posts for developers, designers, and developers/designers.
how would this work with, say, sc (the curses-based spreadsheet app)?
There is a feature request link at the bottom of the page. It would be better if you were submitting that idea there
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About Free Research Paper
There is nothing bad about free research papers. This however, depends on how students use the free research papers. These papers are there for viewing purposes only. When students copy off them and submit it as their own, free research papers become bad things.
It sounds like the Matrix filter can't be delta compressed because the bits in each element get smeared across dimensions, but it also sounds like you understand that. I don't think structures which hit lower bonds can't be delta compressed (but I don't have an example handy).
So admitting that the OS is beta quality even now, you really think it would have been a killer product 6 months ago?
I like it, and I wanted to like it, but I've had so many problems. I went through several units that I returned to Verizon. Right now, my two main issues are instability of the hotspot (which I've seen zillions of people complain about on Droid Xs, too) and poor/inconsistent camera image quality.
You can say the same for numerous fast food workers.
In the US, at least, it's largely a matter of incentives.

By law, consumers are liable for at most $50 if their credit card info is used fraudulently by someone else.

Credit card companies validate transactions against statistical models in an attempt to head off anything suspicious. EDIT: Thanks for reminding me of this, nialo.

But often, it's the merchants who bear the cost of a fraudulent transaction. They have the least power to encourage more secure alternatives, because everyone already expects to be able to buy online with a credit card.

Card companies in the US do have something similar to the system you mention called 3-D Secure[1], but it hasn't gained wide traction. The interface is implemented so badly and inconsistently that it looks like a phishing scam. But more fundamentally, consumers have no incentive to use it, since it shifts more liability onto them.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D_Secure
I like it, and I wanted to like it, but I've had so many problems. I went through several units that I returned to Verizon. Currently, now that I have what seems to be a fully functional unit, my two main issues are instability of the hotspot (which I've seen zillions of people complain about on Droid Xs, too) and poor/inconsistent camera image quality.
You can't make allegations like that with zero supporting evidence. I mean you can... but you'll look silly.
The link doesn't work anymore - says "invalid invite id"?
I don't see the connection, what does Wayland have to do with DRM? Please explain your concern more clearly.
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Problem is, Twitter don't see twitter as a protocol.
I'm not saying I disagree with you, but I think there is an impulse to label things sexist without addressing it, so I'm gonna ask a few questions.

If a woman wrote this about men, would it be sexist? (I expect you'll say yes.)

If a lesbian woman wrote this about other women, would it be sexist? (I feel like you're forced to say yes since you are committing to the idea being sexist independent of the sex of the speaker.)

Is it possible for a man like Barney to be honestly and accurately analyzing trends of the women in his life, given that he only ranks women shallowly?

Careful now. It's not necessarily sexist for Barney to _only care about looks,_ or at least: since we all care about looks to some degree, it is dangerous to imply that caring about looks is sexist. And if his analysis of his desires is based on his decision to only try for attractiveness, how is that analysis sexist instead of revealing the frailty of being so shallow?

So the comparison is basically that there are two orthogonal traits, one negative and one positive. It is not "Drives, like women"; it is "Drives have orthogonal traits, and evaluation of them therefore proceeds along the Barney Analysis."
My parents had a rule "no blood no bandaid." Which, in practice, was more metaphorical than anything. Basically it meant suck it up and walk it off. Good lesson.
I work on the project. It would help me out greatly if you could email the details of your search to me at dfoley@3taps.com. We really should have all of the data.

Were you typing your location into the search box? That might explain the difference. We don't currently support typing your location into the text box, but maybe we should.

Thanks!
Who in the right mind would invest in this? One cannot flirt anonymously it is just mind masturbation. Flirting the boldest and the most interesting part of attraction. This site does not add anything to the interaction.

--Edit--

After a reading thru the testimonial. It seems like people are meeting each other thru the chat program. That's cool, but I didn't figure out at first that chat was a main feature.
FBI seizes control of a botnet and orders it to shut down
Ask HN: Can anyone recommend some philosophy reading?
So one of my friends has been accusing me of being a Nihilist lately - mainly because I don't really care about the whole Osama thing - and this has made me curious again about philosophy. I know a little bit from various things I learned in university, but I really want to learn more about the thought and writings of various philosophers.

That being said however, I have read Foucault and a couple of other philosopher's texts before and it was difficult. I know that is partially the point, however I figured the intellectually curious HN community must be able to recommend some easier to read, yet still in-depth and not patronising books discussing philosophy?
This site seems like a curiosity to me, and Alexa would agree.

However, they could potentially turn the traffic into something real in the campus dating space.

I'm not long, but it's a cool idea and a nicely executed site.
Top 15 startup accelerators ranked, YC just misses #1
Hmm, according to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane#Rosebud Rosebud may actually be referring to something a bit more fun than a sled ;D
Health inspectors say nothing about unhealthy junk food which kills you over months, just bacteria that can make you sick today. Compared to eating good Indian food, I'd say Mumbai's system works as well or better - trust Mother to treat you right.
In the 40s, floating point numbers were the hot new thing in programing. John von Neumann argued against them, because anyone smart enough to use a computer could track the exponents in their head. Or so I've heard.

This is the classic trade of computer efficiency against human effort. The typical scientific program is run once, so it leaves as much work as possible to the machine. The efficient tradeoff might differ for games and such applications as AutoCAD or Splice.
Why do you argue against someone who's set to go the extra-mile to make life easier for us?

Inflexible configuration mechanisms are one of the top pain points in cluster-environments (cloud or not). Kudos to antirez for realizing that and working against it.
The person doesn't cook their own food. Its done by women who subcontract the job.
Hear hear! I use a similar set up, and it truly is great. It's even caused me to seriously consider a service that sets up a Linode for people that wants something as awesome.
I am from Australia and have a comment here:

The article quotes that Obama "worries that the next breakthroughs in energy, transport and information technology will occur elsewhere".

The reality is that these people "elsewhere" would probably love to come to the US to carry out those breakthroughs, but they don't due to

1) The steep visa requirements, and
2) Even if they were granted access, then they know full well that they would be hit with patent lawsuits from large companies the second their work showed any promise.

I can't speak for the entire rest of the world but personally this is the reason I will not bring my startup to the US - it is simply safer and easier to keep the company out of the US and sell online to its citizens.

If anyone there really cared they would stop this software patent mess and hurry up with the startup visa.
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I think that Clojure uses more memory than Racket, but I am basing this on the programming benchmark game mini-tests.
The thing that is going to kill quora is an audience, an audience outside of the current VC circle jerk they have. The big problem with that? 200k monthly uniques is NOTHING, and the quality is already massively suffering.
Bertrand Russell - The History of Western Philosophy:

http://www.amazon.com/History-Western-Philosophy-Bertrand-Ru...
I've gotten some really useful and sometimes entertaining information from Quora, but I think they do have a bit of an identity crisis. I often find myself wanting to answer questions with a link to Wikipedia, and then I wonder whether I'm wasting my time. However I do find that I can add value answering questions in my areas of expertise, so that's a bit rewarding.
Intel X25M, in my MacMini this one:

Capacity:	80.03 GB (80,026,361,856 bytes)
Model:	INTEL SSDSA2M080G2GC
Revision:	2CV102HA
Serial Number: CVPO0042012S080BGN

In my home unix server:

smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE i386]

Model Family: Intel X18-M/X25-M/X25-V G2 SSDs
Device Model: INTEL SSDSA2M080G2GC
Serial Number: CVPO0054037B080BGN
Firmware Version: 2CV102HD
User Capacity: 80,026,361,856 bytes

In my datacenter server:

Device Model: INTEL SSDSA2M080G2GC
Serial Number: CVPO951000ZJ080BGN
Firmware Version: 2CV102HA
User Capacity: 80,026,361,856 bytes
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Additonally:

- Narrowing down by location is way too slow (US -> NY -> NYC -> Staten island)
- Using arrow keys while looking at an individual listing goes to the next listing, and does not scroll the single item

I'd rather browse regular CL than this.
Yet another opaque cloud, where a vendor uses some disingenuous language to disguise or confuse exactly how much resources you are actually getting for your money. Cores != hyperthreads. Don't get me started on "dynos" or "small", "large" and "extra large".