skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that there's nothing wrong with dupes in general (although if they become too prevalent, it can be frustrating), but I think pointing out dupes can be very helpful. If it's a "dupe" of a story that went nowhere, that doesn't provide much information, but if there was a previous discussion, linking to that allows people to find the already existing conversation about it.
Eucalyptus and OpenStack: A Discussion with Marten Mickos
Customer Development.
In the US? I'm a few years older than you, and I'd never heard of such a thing - we went straight to word processing on Apple ][s.
According to this list (and associated discussion) at Nationmaster the US doesn't have an unusually high number of police officers per capita:

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_pol_percap-crime-polic...

At 2.84 per thousand that's a bit more than the UK (2.04) but less than Germany, Italy, Portugal, Latvia and other countries.
Sadly, GoogleTV didn't do this.

All I want is Android style widgets (ie, Google Voice SMS app or RSS feed reader) overlay or with TV inset (like your cable/dish box showing menu + current stream).

Agreed, this would be incredibly disruptive.
It's not the same as taking early risks; this is a very constrained and artificial environment in which bitcoins are generated. One can be pretty certain that if one generates coins early, one can then make money selling them to others. This is much more similar to a pyramid marketing scenario, where the earlier franchises are inherently worth more, and eventually the value generated for the terminal generation of participants is close to nil.

I'd argue you're not exactly correct about the release path of currency in a fractional reserve system, although I don't disagree that elements are currently implemented in quite unfair ways. I'd also suggest, though, that government fiat currency works very much better than anything commodity based, or indeed than a partially fiat system that functions exactly like a commodity based system, as bitcoin does.
Title is linkbait. The linked question isn't about the merits of functional programming. It's about a user trying to wrap their head around it.
Apple finally brings iWork suite to iPhone
Easiest way to start I think it's to follow the Electronic courses over at mit.edu. Brilliant stuff.
https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/05/31iwork.html
Visualizing Facebook's PHP Codebase
Will do. I actually am downtown today, but I will get some pics when I get home tonight.
If you sign up for the google DPF (doubleclick for publishers) program, you get the option to tie in other ad networks. AFAIK, google's interface will manage your ad inventory for you. It says it even allows you to sell your own ads, and it will select the highest performing ones to display automatically (and adjust based on inventory).

In general, I figure that you should start with adsense (because it's the simplest to add in and get a lot of relevant ads). Then you want to look for more focused networks, as the general rule is you'll get better performance the more focused you are.
I don't know about innovation - I can't think of anything off the top of my head that has been innovated by the criminal and/or darker sectors of society. I can certainly see a massive demand for certain innovations (that are later created or innovated by other sectors), but I wouldn't conflate the two. This isn't like military applications where you may see inventions created and used for nefarious purposes then later retooled to support society as a whole.

Although, come to think of it, I suppose you could possibly consider reliable P2P transfer an offshoot of the piracy world, but I doubt you'd get too many people to admit that :) So I'm not entirely correct, but I think its a bit of a stretch to say that its quite often the case.
hello NSFW.
Hacking PBS for "Lulz and Justice"
My observation about the US is that there's hardly ever a policeman around.

I live in Houston, and most of my interactions with Houston police have been negative. The one time I encountered a cop on foot, I was walking on a concrete wall about 3ft high in the early evening in an almost empty park with a friend, and he ordered me off of it. Another time, I was with a girlfriend who reported a hit and run, who even memorized the license plate and had visible damage on her rear bumper. The policeman insisted on getting a description of the car, despite my protests that my girlfriend doesn't differentiate that information. Nothing was done. I also remember another occasion where, despite my neutral, polite, and factual answers, the policeman kept escalating his hostility.

How well cops treat males in the US has mostly to do with their evaluation of your social class in the first second.
Android First: New Trend In Mobile Development
Ask HN: Would you use a service like MongoHQ, if so why?
I've been playing around with MongoDB and really liked using it and we're considering moving all our datastore over to Mongo. The question I have is startups like MongoHQ. Why would anyone use them?

First question that came to mind is the latency issue. Unless you are using EC2 and deploying your application servers "close" to theirs, there is no way to reduce the latency between your app servers and their db servers.

2. Why would you give control of the single most important piece of your livelihood over to someone else who in fact is just another startup.

My questions are really more geared towards using MongoHQ for production. I feel 100% comfortable in using MongoHQ for staging and development but just not production.
I mostly disagree.

The average reader here is smart enough to read that headline, notice that part of it is quoted, and infer that the article states that some health authority has recently said that cell phone signals are about as dangerous as lead, etc.

The average reader is also more than smart enough to discern that the article is not, in fact, stating that cell phone radiation is the exact same thing as, say, lead. It's a bit ludicrous to even think that folks would assume this.

That said, I also prefer original headlines, as a rule.
I would like to know the real answer on this, too. I have read from people who claim to have been on the industry's inside (went to school for it, etc). The claim is that there are a bunch of logical steps based on false premises/beliefs and that some of the work results in mid- to long-term damage to the body in exchange for short-term relief.

Edit: http://www.chirobase.org/05RB/CPSQ/02.html -- More information that looks like something I have read.

Edit2: http://www.chirobase.org/01General/controversy.html -- "NACM members publicly renounce the subluxation theory and other forms of chiropractic pseudomedicine." Interesting stuff. What I read: There is a portion of "chiropractic medicine" that is snake oil; how do I identify what is real? Are NACM members better informed?
I don't use any of the services you pull info from, so it's not much use to me but it looks quite good. If i did use SO/Github/Bitbucket i'd definitely give this a try.
PSB.org was hacked with 0day exploit for MoveableType
No, that's the price.

Value is a different beast entirely. If you buy a thing, for example, you consider it's value > it's price. Otherwise you wouldn't (shouldn't ?).

Of course, value is about as nebulous a concept as love, or anything else that only exists in a human mind.

Economic systems are what determines the connection between value and price.
The article doesn't mention the setup he used for the benchmark.

Is anyone using ES on production, how is the support for things like lat/long(geo) search. If you're on django then your options are limited if you want to use django-haystack. Solr is pretty much the only way to go. xapian geo support hasn't landed yet, and waiting for solr 4 to land.

I've been using JTeam SSP 1.0 plugin(http://blog.jteam.nl) for solr, with django-haystack(https://github.com/sidmitra/django-haystack) for the same and it's been really useful and responsive so far. I still want to give ES a try, but will have to look into support with haystack + for geo stuff.
I would have said, "This is why guns are a stupid thing to give to stupid members of the public."

There are people out there who can operate a concealed weapon safely. I'm probably not one of them, so I do not own or carry a gun.
Pretty much always use left shift. The right one seems unnatural, somehow.
Boom:Apple Launches iWork Office Suite for iPhone and iPod Touch
Why not? There's nothing wrong with having a different approach, nor does being a mathematician necessarily make you bad at email.
The Reason Your Lifestyle Business is Failing
Ignore the code: Windows Phone 7
Dutch license plate (you can make out the NL) and European plugs. It's very probably the Netherlands.
Except you aren't going to get a Latin-1 form because you told the browser to send you UTF-8 forms.

You can use:

<FORM accept-charset="UTF-8">

Or just leave it out since the browser will submit all forms using the character set of the page.

So yes, UTF-8 in PHP is pretty easy - and I speak from experience, not theory.
Good thing kids (and many non-kids) these days text instead of talking on their phones. Any idea if the radiation is decreased when holding the phone in your hand while there is no voice data going in/out? I would assume it is...
What I found amusing was that not only did he misspell voila (and I'm not gonna be pedantic about the accent mark because I'm too lazy to remember how to type it myself), he also managed to use it in a place that voila wouldn't have made sense either.
Robot finds hidden hieroglyphs in pyramid
Fundraising can be a full time job in itself. If you are looking for opinions only, I would suggest option A.

If you can afford to outsource the work with your current capital then you can do that, but if you are going to fund-raise then you need to be prepared for it to take up a lot of your time.
Certainly we can all argue about the underlying structure of the analysis of the data. However, I think that @tansey has done two great services here:

1.He's proposed a full service taxonomy with by proposing a name for the phenomenon SND. Which is much a much better choice than JTS - Jumping the Shark or otherwise.

2. He's asking how we can evaluate that phenomenon. Proposing one solution.

So the question becomes, how else can we evaluate the phenomenon and what can we do to reduce SND?

Well having spent time elsewhere, here are a number of clear indicators of SND:

1. Shorter, less thoughtful responses, often veering into humor or the absurd. With chuckles getting the most upvotes

2. Less fact checking and less source linking in both posts and comments

3. More image / pic posting

4. Linkjacking, with materials not linked to the original materials.

5. More community centered posts aka AMA etc.

6. Fewer news links.

So perhaps simply evaluating the length of comments of that same 1.8M HN data could support PG allegations.

The next question is what can be done to prevent SND?

I think that would be clear: Don't support the characteristics that lead to the decline.
They're classifying cell phone use as a "Group 2B" carcinogen, which means it's "possibly" carcinogenic. The most famous residents of Group 2B carcinogens are DDT, lead, and nickel.

Pickled veggies from Asia are also included. Beware the kimchi of death.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IARC_Group_2B_carcinoge...

EDIT: I also want to add that this is yet another case of mass media distorting a report that is careful to identify a) that there is no causality, just correlation and b) what exactly the classification means. That headline is linkbait bullocks: that report does not conclude that "cell phone use can increase cancer risk." It essentially says, "We're acknowledging that it might. Possibly. Maybe."
Awesome post. I've always wondered what it would take to fix a mobo these days.
Attacking webservers via .htaccess
It seems unlikely that rack-cache + memcached would actually offer similar performance to varnish. This seems like a pretty bad set of changes for apps that need to serve out lots of static content - think newspapers, blogs, etc.

Will the old configuration style for http caching continue to be supported indefinitely?
Announcing Postling Suggestions
Scala is great. Everything I've used of it says that it really is a better Java.

However, it is also incredibly confusing to learn/use at times because it is still maturing and such. The tooling isn't as good as Java.

The web frameworks for Scala are actually both awful and awesome. Lift is beautiful, but designed by a nerd and won't ever get Rails-like traction. Play is fantastic, but it's just as fantastic for Java, so it almost negates the desire for Scala... almost.

Ultimately, Scala is a breath of fresh air largely because most of modern Java focuses so heavily on Java EE. Scala provides a clean break from that (if that is what you're looking for).

Scala is going to be a niche JVM language. It will never reach the usage levels of Java/C#. It might hit Groovy levels of usage, maybe. I doubt it will ever be as big of a hit as Ruby/Python.
I've been to a chiropractor before and it really does work, at least for the problem I was experiencing (which was some sort of simple alignment problem.) The guy basically just pushed on my spinal column in different directions and I could clearly feel things moving back into place. I definitely would not lump them in with the quackery that is homeopathy, as long as you stay within the bounds of "pushing bones into alignment" and stay away from things like "improve the chi flow throughout your chakra nodes" or some such nonsense.
See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2450424
thanks, would that apply for smaller amounts as well i.e. $30k to spend a couple months getting a MVP+ made?
A lot of interesting things in this article.

- The change in policing techniques, if true, is extremely encouraging to me.

- I've heard the theory about lead before, but I hadn't heard these number put to it.

- Crack has been talked about a lot, of course, but the article brings up an fascinating point about the shift from crack to marijuana.
As a physicist, I have been, on odd occasions of boredom and quarter-life-crisis, tempted to go into medicine. But the only type of medicine I'd be interested in is radiology.

Walk in, cure a patient with physics, walk out, earn $600K a year. Sounds pretty sweet!

What's that? You have cancer? No worries, I have radioactive beams! Zap! You're cured!

Unfortunately you gotta go through many years of the more usual, squishy form of medicine before they'll let you become a radiologist, so I stuck with my existing career path.
Does the pickle thing correlate with epidemiology? Are there spikes in the rates of certain cancers in Asia, the way stomach cancer spikes where people eat lots of smoked fish? Because as I understand it, pickled vegetables are extremely common in Japan and Korea. Is GI cancer?
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Report suggests Android's lead over iOS has stopped growing
Thanks! I've wanted that for years.
Calculating Your Manliness in MS Excel
dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2603309
It seems that you did a lot of problems, and gained no insights. Perhaps you were never intended or destined to be a mathematician. This is no insult - I genuinely believe that different people think in different ways, and the balance is important

Indeed. It was Knuth who said that mathematicians and computer scientists think in very different ways. With that I don't disagree.

How can we make kids experience more discoveries if they won't actually play with the underlying basics?

I'd argue that we should let them play with calculators and other tools. My discoveries came as I did programming. In 4th grade I wrote an arbitrary precision number package. I learned more about arithmetic doing that than all of the rote drills combined.
Dropbox + Softbank + Sony Ericsson
I'm a bit confused by the usage of "percolation". Generally speaking that refers to, in a tiered retrieval system, a document being initially indexed in a small temporary index then gradually "percolated" upwards to larger more permanent indices. Such systems allow updates without merging into the main index.

See: http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/html/htmledition/dynamic-ind...
According to that (an interesting link, thanks), Russ uses Plan 9 from Userspace, which is similar in feel but still counts as running Linux for the purpose of my question, I think.
Even coffee is on that list.
To some extent the problem is our options are too rich, we've gone from flavours of basic to everything being available since all machines have a browser. One kid might use Scratch, another JavaScript, another GameMaker.
For keys you press with the left hand, the right shift key is the correct one, and vice versa.
You're not supposed to push two keys with the same hand at once (it's called chording, and its especially bad when done with weak fingers).

The correct shift key is the one on the opposite hand.
A big problem is the lack of regulation, IMO. That owner who is doing things "en negro" hurts the rest of the country and should be fined accordingly. Since no one takes a big step forward to stop it, people see their colleges do it and the trend continues.

Inflation is also pretty bad, but I don't think it falls completely on the shoulder of the Government. Some items are simply overpriced. I'm not talking between a big store and a simple corner store, I mean between two big chains you can see price differences of 50% or more sometimes. Again, taking advantage of the lack of regulation.

And we don't all see the U.S. as THE economic model, far from it.
That's correct, I moved back in 2005.
This sounds like solid and worthy research. I would be especially interested to see your Amazon words v. stars results. Just off the top of my head, I can see a ton of uses for your research -- More accurate real time political polling / Better product assessments across the vast internet landscape for both designers and brand managers / Policy analysis for new policy proposal and communication evaluations. This has fantastic potential. Please show us the testing and results when you get to it. Thank you for sharing.
Where did you read about this new configuration?
What is "proper" condom use?

Honest question, as I pretty much just roll a condom on... Is there more to it?
We recommend logging:advanced, but here's a copy-and-paste Rails initializer for logging from Heroku to any syslog target:

http://gist.github.com/891497

You can get a free log aggregation account at https://papertrailapp.com/ and it'll give you a target URL to configure (and irl karma for supporting a bootstrapped startup).

The logs won't contain non-Rails requests (Varnish/cache, API deploys) but they're much better than nothing.
Am I the only one that had a typing class where they taught that you press the Shift key with the hand you're not using to type the letter you want?

Example: K = left shift, R = right shift.
Does anyone think that something like bitcoin could help these people out? It seems like the government there is not doing its job and providing infrastructure to conduct business. Why not use a distributed payment system?
Also, condom misuse is a big problem in general and is the cause of the low rate of success for condoms 85% vs proper use 98%. The people that need condoms the most (uneducated/young people) are the ones that just throw them on without making sure they know how to properly use them.

Yeah. As far as I'm concerned, kids should be taught to always use two redundant forms of birth control. No one form of (temporary) birth control has (afaik) higher than 98% success rate even when used perfectly.
This is not thuggish but I figure I share it here anyway since it s pretty entrepreneurial: A long time ago I was a housekeeper in Yosemite National Park. When I wasn't working, I d roam around the valley, checking out its nooks and crannies. One day I decided to hike up Yosemite Falls. For those of you who dont know about the fall, it is only 7 miles round trip but the elevation is a steep 3650ft. This means lots and lots of brutal switchbacks under the intense summer heat. Many tourists overlooked that (or they didn't know how to read a topo map) and didn't bring any food or water, thinking it was just an easy stroll in the park. When they reached the top, exhausted and dehydrated, welcoming them there would be a man filtering water from the creek with his pump and selling it for a dollar a pop. So there it was, a line of out of shape, thirsty hikers, buying ice cold water from a man under the shade, with the gorgeous Sierra Nevada as a backdrop.
I agree with most of this article, however this line is a bit questionable to me:

> Every time my girlfriend pulls out her Android phone, I ask her about apps I love for the iPhone and she has none of them.

I'd like to know what apps on iPhone do not already have ports or at least a worthy analog on Android (really, tell me so I can start coding a clone). At least in the phone space (maybe not tablet), Android seems every bit as crowded as iPhone.
Another one: Coffee (in the "mixtures" category)
A Guide to the Big Three Cloud Music Services
In testing we've seen roughly similar performance with rack-cache + memcache to varnish for most situations.
The stupid EU cookie law in 2.5 minutes [video]
>and infer that the article states that some health authority has recently said that cell phone signals are about as dangerous as lead, etc.

They would be inferring the wrong thing if they did that. When someone thinks of the dangers of lead, they think of lead poisoning, not lead as carcinogenic. The dangers of exhaust, asphyxiation not as a carcinogen. Chloroform? Kidneys and liver damage from too high a dose, not cancer.
I like the way Sowell did it (recounted in his A Personal Odyssey); when teaching economics to engineers he concentrated on a "literary" conceptual teaching style, since he already knew they were competent in the needed math.

Presumably, though he didn't discuss this directly, he used more math with those who needed it to understand the mathematical underpinnings of the theories.

His idea was to present the coursework in a way that would make the students think about what they were doing. As he put it about the engineering students, if he presented it in the regular mathematical way, they could have just plugged the numbers into the formulas without necessarily understanding what he wanted them to learn.
Vasectomy isn't that bad. The procedure is moderately unpleasant but short (20-30 minutes), and the recovery is a few days of groin ache, easily treated by the topical application of a bag of frozen peas.
Moving to an App Store model like the Mac App Store might help. It would help to make it clearer what apps are available for what version of Windows.

Very distinct logos would help too.
"A crisis is an opportunity, what's my opportunity?"
It's always easier to destroy/disable than it is to create/enable.

Infertility is a complex problem with multiple possible causes.
Skeptical take from last year:

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100517/full/news.2010.246.ht...
" Hopefully in time as the platform matures we'll see a better solution to the above."

The problem is that then you'll have both the old way and the new way, which will be even more confusing to read and keep straight.
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I don't know much about economics, but this seems to illustrate why bitcoin must ultimately fail. Since producing new bitcoins by design becomes exponentially (!!!) more difficult as time passes, the true cost in resources (electricity, computing time, etc.) to produce a new coin can only increase. That resource use can be justified, but only if the value of the bitcoin is also increasing.

Here's how I see it playing out: eventually it will be too costly for most people to produce new bitcoins. Since nothing forces one to use bitcoins, bitcoin holders will cash them out, and the exchange rate will plummet. Deflationary panic? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflation#Money_supply_side_def...