skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, if they had taken North Africa, then swept up through the Middle East they would have endless oil, and then it could have been a short hop into Russia from the South.
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Polaris Venture Partners to open office in downtown Palo Alto
Yup, I remember that. IIRC when this screen was displayed, the system was actually at a DOS prompt, just not in character mode. You could type "win" to restart windows for instance, and I think there was some magic command to reset the display adapter and get a working DOS prompt.
Is there some reason you can't just get rid of the "group small tasks into 30-minute blocks" rule? It seems to be the source of most of the problems with this approach.

I agree with the "put off and group small tasks and email" idea, I just don't know if the "make sure you've got at least 30 minutes worth of crap to do every time you want to check your email" idea is beneficial.

If I want to spend 10 minutes crafting an email and straightening up my desk, I should be able to do that without having to put off work for 20 more minutes.
Why Understanding Internet Culture Will Make You Sexy, Rich, and Powerful
Point of order: In retrospect we can clearly see that the RAF was losing the Battle of Britain. It was within weeks of being completely eliminated by the Luftwaffe, when Hitler, quite unexpectedly for the British, switched to a strategic bombing campaign of major population and industrial centres. If the Luftwaffe had air supremacy, then naval supremacy and invasion would have followed. Invasion would have left very few credible options for any D-Day like operations.
In terms of aesthetics, I'll freely state that I find the model to be more attractive than the pixel art. That's not to say that 3D models are always superior. I love pixel art. I think the old, 2D Sam & Max looked a lot better than the new, 3D models that Telltale Games are using. Still, the creator of the cacodemon model actually strikes me as the better artist. Also, it's not because it's new or fresh. The 3D model looks almost quaint compared to most modern productions. It does, however, strike me as more malevolent and sinister, possibly due to the shape of the mouth and the relative size of the eye.

For the record, I'm not posting this as a critique of your tastes. I just wanted you to know that some people really do find that model to be objectively better.
In this podcast, http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/02/07/131363098/the-tues... the NPR Planet Money team go through all the elements with a chemical engineering professor, who concludes that it has to be gold.
All you have to do is drop by Padova. Wine, as per the other comment below, is included.
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I'm a web developer with equal experience on the backend with Rails and the frontend with HTML/CSS/jQuery. I have been central in the development, deployment, and maintenance of 3 production websites and 1 production web app. Here is a little background on a couple of my previous projects:

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* web server - Nginx + Passenger
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Neither Palm or HP have delivered the hardware that really does justice to WebOS. On the tablet side of things, the TouchPad looks like a real prospect, but the handsets could definitely use new blood.

Wonder if HTC would be interested in this platform. They've done well enough out of Windows Mobile and Android, this could be their next big success story.
Oracle donates "major" rival of Microsoft Office to Apache foundation
I think most insurance policies cover someone while in their own country. Outside of his country would be travelers insurance.
Because... it's a conspiracy! Wake up, sheeple!
Bad actors take advantage of the fact that most people aren’t that tech savvy—hijacking accounts by using malware and phishing scams that trick users into sharing their passwords, or by using passwords obtained by hacking other websites.

Passwords are obsolete. No improvement in storing or transmitting passwords securely will make them easier to remember or less likely to be shared. The approach is fundamentally flawed and cannot be used as a cradle-to-grave method of identity assurance. Unfortunately, nobody has developed an acceptable alternative.
Seattle (or San Francisco) - Product/UX Designer

Picture of Health makes tools that help people take care of people. We are well-funded, self-funded, pre-launch, and small (4 in Seattle, 2 in SF). This is an opportunity to be in the first wave and help define how we do things.

We're looking for a product designer who will own design for our web and device software products. We're building consumer services, and having the right design will be critical to our success. This person needs to make sure our products are successful at solving problems for people. Some visual design ability would be great, but this is primarily an interaction design position.

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> I happen to believe that criticizing people that cannot defend themselves is tasteless, and judging situations that I know nothing about is misguided.

That's not how the intertubes, or people for that matter, work.

Consider - there's another thread on HN right now about the utility of battleships. It's full of strongly held opinions by folks who confuse being smart with knowing what they're talking about. Oh, and the critics are savaging the long dead folks who built battleships.
Does this have anything to do with the backdoor API, or were the passwords just brute forced?
Best feature here: built-in support for callback functions. Makes Google Analytics integration seamless!
What's the deal with the downvote? Even the button in the Adsense interface does not work.
When Steve Jobs wanted a logo for NeXT he hired Paul Rand. If you think your company is just average than there's nothing wrong with branding it that way — but if you see your brand as important than don't skimp.
You win a free meal at a delicious Mongolian Barbecue!

It's called the Genghis Khan. Just go there and tell 'em I sent you.
I'm afraid that blekko's livecrawl coverage of news.ycombinator.com isn't very good. I'll add that host to our QA suite.
Won't someone think of the children???

I have yet to meet anyone who started a company and is not a little crazy, and a little less risk-averse than most.

Where do you draw the line for acceptable behavior? Is flying a plane OK? Riding a motorcycle? Skydiving? Having an extra helping of dessert?

Hell, starting a company is a risk and takes a toll on a family.

Whenever you read a tragic story like this, you try to think of all the reasons it couldn't happen to you.

He spun the dice, maybe a little harder than most, and he lost. You could draw an unlucky card tomorrow driving in your car, or get cancer from your cell phone.

If you don't want to spin the dice that hard, you don't have to, I know I wouldn't. Some people have the need to go to the limit. They shouldn't put others at risk. But if he was a CEO and reasonably prudent, the family is, I hope, well-provided for. If he loved them, and he did that and died doing something he loved, bad break and a life well lived.
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I'm not sure what you mean by this. "Real-world data show that some high-quality GPS SPS receivers currently attain better than 3 meter horizontal position accuracy" [1], and military GPS is even more accurate.

[1] http://www.pnt.gov/public/faq.shtml#accurate
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I don't understand. Do you mean startups we fund that don't do well, or startups we don't fund?
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One missile won't get through. You don't encounter a carrier by itself--it has a combat air patrol, one or two Aegis cruisers, and two or three Aegis destroyers. Each Aegis system can track 100 targets at a time and launch countermeasures.

However, missiles do scale well. Even 1000 missiles will cost much less than the carrier and will almost certainly take it down.
Encrypted backups for Android.
Microsoft taking a hard line with Windows 8 tablet makers
HP's Desperation
It is one of the options - personally I find it much, much faster than a PIN or a password.

But in principle you can change it to anything you want (since you can replace the component).
Is it just me, or is this the sort of feature they should have added two years ago? When you look at Facebook they don't blink, when they see something they don't ask permission and grab it. Twitter on the other hand seems to hesitate until after the answer is obvious.
Currency only has value when exchange happens. It will never get to everyone hoarding. If there are no buyers at high prices, the price will go down.
Neither, did you read the post?
> The date of the patent application is the determining date for a patent.

Not in the US. The date of invention, if it isn't more than 1 year before the application and is documented, can be the priority date.

Date of "publication" also matters. (In the US, one can publish before filing. In many other jurisdictions, publishing is a bar to filing.)
What else would you have done?

I'd do what actually happened: innovate with technology and tactics to break through the trench line.
My personal opinion - for what that's worth - is that this kind of scenario comes pretty close to representing what would happen if there were no patents in software (or any other field for that matter). Innovation would still happen, and would probably happen even faster than it does now, because of the "arms race" effect. Simply put, a firm would be forced to innovate constantly, quickly and fiercely, to stay in front of its competitors.

Combined with the fact that I am appalled by the idea of use of government force to block someone from using an invention - that they may have arrived at independently - just because someone else patented it first; and my belief that there are too many smart people in the world for any really useful idea to stay undiscovered long, I advocate for simply abolishing the entire patent system.
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Standard advice for anything involving law:

TALK TO A LAWYER

You probably can't afford to make the wrong decision.
I would be curious about startups you do not fund
Which isn't that big of a deal. Take a look at Chrome's upgrade curves, compared to the other browsers:

http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/04/08/the-modern-browser-wars-...
+1 isn't a social sharing button. That is what Buzz is for. +1 is more akin to Digg/HN but integrated with SERPs instead of a separate destination.
The linked article says that it is the two last major releases.

Why that does not mean FF 4 and 3, I don't get.
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No Berkeley in the first four:
Downtown, Lower Market, Bay Bridge, Palo Alto...
http://themelt.com/locations
Does anyone know if/when it will be open sourced? I'd love to contribute/test it in my product
Any idea how much he paid for http://melt.com ? Is it just me or do there seem to be a lot of high-profile domain name purchases lately? (though I say that, only color and melt come to mind immediately although I'm sure there are some others... I know Pizza.com sold for $2.5m, which is ridiculous considering what they are doing with that name)
If Walt Whitman wrote for Groupon
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A site that indexes Facebook profiles and pages
San Francisco (fulltime, intern)

Venuetastic (YC W11, http://venuetastic.com/jobs) is looking for generalist engineers to join the team and be part of a very early-stage, funded startup.
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I think he meant one that customers may actually want to buy.

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- Extending features in android app 'DeviceDoctor' [Very useful utility for android developers https://market.android.com/details?id=com.devicetest]
- Updating Dawg [application for social networking] https://market.android.com/details?id=com.zubhalabs.dawg.and...
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One's life and ambitions don't end when one becomes a parent.

For those whose greatest ambition (confirmed by their actions) is to be a responsible parent, great!

The reality for actual parents is that parenting is a constant struggle between one's ambitions and one's responsibilites.

Yes, this is an extreme case, but how is this much more selfish than parents who get divorced?

One might argue that if a father cannot always and in all conditions put the children first, he should not be a father.

I'd argue that this is overly simplistic. Honestly and strictly applied, it would mean that we'd almost never reproduce.
Unfortunately, nobody has developed an acceptable alternative

In that case they're not really obsolete, are they? Things are obsolete because they're replaced by something better, not because they're imperfect.

All you really need to do is to get one of those crypto-card thingies implanted in your brain. Then every time you're prompted for a password you just have to type in the first string of numbers that pops into your head.
Rails are quite easy to sabotage.
Companies scramble to raise capital
We have Reddit for snarky humor. If your funny comment does not contain additional ideas or information, expect to be downvoted.
America's hidden unemployment problem
3.6 is considered a major release.
Google Contacts has built in groups for friends, family and coworkers and several of Googles products support restrictions based on Contact groups.
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Thank you for the interesting and informative reply.

The reason brown-skinned mestizos can pass as Spanish is because many Spanish people have a fair bit of Moorish blood, so they're brown-skinned themselves. "Moorish" can mean lots of different ethnic groups, some but not all of whom look "black".

I didn't know about these pink-skinned American indigenous people. Where can I learn more?

Uruguay definitely has a larger "white" population than Argentina.

It is certainly true that most people don't speak French as their native language in Latin America. But I didn't say they did. I said that most people in Latin America do speak one of French, Spanish, or Portuguese. I included French to avoid the debate about whether Haiti and French Guiana are part of Latin America. Adding more Romance languages to the list (Romansch! Ladino!) wouldn't make the statement less true. That's simple logic.

Suriname, Belize, and Guyana aren't part of Latin America, so they're irrelevant.

The numbers you quote for Bolivia are for primary language: 20% of Bolivians primarily speak Quechua. A much larger number speak primarily Spanish but also Quechua. I suspect the same thing is true of the other statistics you cite.

Your statistics for Argentina are a good demonstration of how Argentina is much less American (and more European) than the rest of the continent. In Peru, 20% of the people primarily speak Quechua; the Quechua-speaking community you mention in Santiago del Estero, by contrast, is 0.25% of the Argentine population, proportionally 80 times smaller.

There is indeed a wealth of variety in each country, even in Argentina, but Argentina's American heritage, in terms of language, genes, and religion, is extremely marginal here in the capital, and marginal even in the rest of the country.

> And just to be clear, very few Catholics believe in Catholic saints that correspond to "American gods". And if by "American religions" you mean "indigenous religions", then, no.

There are lots of examples of syncretic saint/American-god combinations. Here is one you might find interesting:

http://www.uv.mx/popularte/esp/scriptphp.php?sid=387

Of course the Catholic people who worship, excuse me, venerate these saints do not believe that they are worshipping Aztec or Maya or Mapuche gods or celebrating Aztec religious festivals; that would be heretical. Nevertheless, there are identifiable collections of attributes that have been transferred from pagan deities to Catholic saints, and from pagan festivals to Catholic holidays.

Not around here, though. We just have Gauchito Gil.
Storm: The Hadoop of Realtime Processing
Backlog also recognized that batched processing wasn't the way to go for their analytics. So they recently developed a new system for doing realtime processing called Storm to replace their old system of queues and workers
Public key authentication isn't an acceptable alternative?

You could have users unlock a keyring using a password containing a single, global public key for each machine they own. You could have them do the same with a thumbdrive or mobile phone. You could authenticate using a number of methods. It's really incrediably flexible.

I think the problem is not that there isn't something to replace it, it's that people are used to "username:password" and don't want to switch. Public key authentication has too many options while passwords are just single words.
Your GMail contacts. Wait, they can't do that anymore! I genuinely don't know then, they must have a clever algorithm in place to create a brand new list of friends, depending on your past searches.
ADP Data Suggests Stall in Job Growth
Well, maybe he had kids before he got to climb Everest. Does that mean that he should give up on his dreams, due to bad timing?

There's really never a good time to climb Everest.

It might be much better for the kids to have a dead father than a bitter, reluctant father.
Did you consider the idea of a combination (circular) lock?

I suppose it may be possible to decipher the stopping points, but if there's a final circle to confirm the code/cover them up, I could see that working.

edit: added "(circular)" to clarify
This is a great example of combining information into promotional material. Well done. Good luck with Whispercore.
Agreed. Also, depending on this joker's priority date, IF his patent is issued you have a period to contest the validity of his patent by submitting proof you were live (or other documentation showing your invention) and thus your work would be considered prior art.

His patent application will be posted on USPTO sometime in the future depending on when the application was submitted (and well before it is issued, IF it is even issued) so you will be able to see what his claims are.

Ask him for his patent application number, collect ANYTHING you have that shows the earliest point you went public with your invention, and CONTACT A LAWYER.

DO NOT give him a dime.
Okay, then the blame lies with the investors... No matter how you try to view it, in the end there's always people involved. Of course reality is complex and there's always a number of interwoven causes for everything instead of a single determining factor. But, and maybe that's just me, I really don't like this hand-waving of any kind of personal responsibility because "corporations exist to make profit" or similar nonsense. As if that makes it somehow OK.
Miami's murder rate is 19 murders per 100 000 people per year. Buenos Aires's is under 5. Therefore, it is much safer to live in Buenos Aires. That's another way that Miami is more Latin American.

I haven't tried to do business in Miami, so you might be right about that.
Even on Twitter, Dunbar's Number Holds True
Yes. The last chance for the Germans to win was in the first world war. And that would have been only by keeping Britain and America out of the war, and minimizing involvement with France.