skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A guy who claims he can cure AIDS and Cancer through Yoga and breathing exercises.

A guy who believes he can uproot a government because he has "the power of the people" and "220 million".

I dont think thats the face you want on the front of an anti-corruption crusade. Anna Hazare on the other hand is much more believable and ethical.

I am not apologizing for anyone. I dont think the Prime Minister is corrupt, but everything below is scarred by corruption.
First of all, I love Twilio, have used it in production apps, and will continue to use it in production apps.

Just want to give a heads up about a very big limitation of Twilio SMS: It only delivers to US and Canadian phone numbers (http://www.twilio.com/faq/international). If you are building an app with any sort of international user base, you will need to look elsewhere. Clickatell has an API, delivers to almost every country, but their interface, billing, and customer support are painfully terrible. (http://www.clickatell.com/products/gateway.php).

So Twilio, do you plan to introduce International SMS support?
Its still looking way too incomplete.
sure. you'd be surprised how little maths/physics most software engineers know. so there are lots of jobs out there where knowing that gives you an edge.

my first job after astronomy was working for a company that wrote software used in oil surveys. i worked on the mathematical model for a cable towed behind a boat. the maths was trivial, but only one other person in a company of 30ish could understand it (apparently).

these days i work for a "geophysics consultancy" (a handful of guys who will write pretty much anything you want, usually related to seismic data processing - most fun recent project was using a GPU). but i've also worked on more "normal" software development projects (j2ee once, for example).

to answer your question more directly - most observatories have software engineers on the staff.
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You get less thrust that way.
Members can download all the videos. I guess we felt we needed to keep something back for the folks that were funding the service ;)
It's been a while since I've seen RotJ, but I believe an Ewok survived his ride, too.
We currently have it in beta. You can sign up for access here: http://www.twilio.com/international-sms (Note that page says 2c/msg, but it is 1c/msg in the beta as well)
I'm working on a web app builder that could be used to create a custom database web app to accomplish exactly what you're trying to do. I'm looking for beta users to help me move the software forward, and I'd be more than happy to hold you hand through the setup process. Shoot me an email (it's in my profile) if you're interested.
"Because you're already aware of wikipedia, and allrecipes, and reddit, and BBC news, etc, etc.
All of the fine websites you enjoy however were almost all once learned about from Google Search or else someone who used search."

That's going a tad bit far. Many of these sites have promotions outside search. I am pretty sure the BBC didn't need Google to help people find their website. There was a time before Google and the web existed.
I admit that it's often not a good idea, but I have found that pushing movies on my computer to my Apple TV has some use cases and has been relatively painless.
More interesting for me is now living Microsoft-free.
The last thing I want is for TechCrunch to be able to push to me.

That said, I think this is an excellent way of making RSS accessible to lots of non-techies, especially those who use an iPhone/iPad more than a computer. How do you plan on getting this in front of people who don't already use an RSS reader?
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It's amazing how things have changed about Google. I still remember the day when Google released GMail, and the /. crowd were talking about how Google wanted and needed to make its product(s) more sticky since switching search engine was considered to be painless and that would put Google in a very vulnerable position. Now Google has grown to be so sticky that people start writing about how to live without it.

I am not fond of many things Google is doing, but have to admit it has come a long way in the past 7 years.
"life coach" baloney
I remember the dot-coms. I wouldn't say I was all that savvy then (or now), but my take is it feels very similar now.

It really didn't seem like there was a lot of out-right deception then, or even misinformation. Companies will always say they're great. There's enough information out there to inspire some skepticism if you're open to it.

I'm no professional at this, but my uneducated observation is that, then and now, there's a lot of money to be made, and people are willing to risk riding the wave as long as they think they can get out before the crash. It's just simple greed. Nobody really believes these companies are actually worth what they're being pitched at; but "if I can quickly double or quadruple my investment, then get out clean, why should I miss out? After all, I'm smarter than everyone else..."
Does anyone know if there are any benchmarks about this?
Deleteyouraccount does just the same, with a much cleaner UI;

http://deleteyouraccount.com/
Protip: you can follow your favorite github users' activity by entering

github.com/username

and blogfire will find their feed for you. likewise you can follow project commits by entering

github.com/username/project

Since github has an apple-touch-icon, you'll get the lovely Octocat staring back at you in the app!
That's how swarms and flocks work.

Look at the geese that migrate between canada and the states each year, they all fly in formation with a leader of the flock, able to fly further than they could alone.

What happens when that first goose disappears? Another one leads. Was the first goose the king of the geese? No, just the bird tha was up in front.
> Wouldn't be easier to have a more formal process for saving the source code?

Source code isn't enough.
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Cache me if you can
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Exactly right. They weren't even true tablets, they were laptops with swivel screens and a stylus.
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To each his own :) I go back and forth on turning TC on and off. The nice thing about BlogFire is that you can subscribe to as many feeds as you want in the app and enable/disable notifications on a per-feed basis. Then you can just use the app as a feed reader for the others.

There are a couple of ways baked into the app that should help spread it to people that don't use RSS readers. Being able to share posts from the app (with a link back to BlogFire) is one way.
This "generic Anglo-Saxon" epithet sounds like an emotional appeal. The facts are straightforward, aren't they?

Italy has an immense public debt. It is getting more and more difficult for Eurozone countries to finance sovereign debt. Its population is aging. Pension costs are rising. Productivity, according to Mario Draghi, is stagnant, in part because employment in Italy is structured weirdly, with large numbers of closely-held firms with a two-tiered system of full-time full-benefit workers hired through nepotism and armies of temp workers†. Civil cases in Italy average more than 1,000 days. The country has wild gaps in educational outcomes between different regions.

I don't think you can write all this off as an "Anglo-Saxon conspiracy". These are ideas that can be described with simple numbers, aren't they?

† Articles about Italy have long attributed this to Italy's family culture, in which people cohabitate with their extended families long into adulthood, but it seems just as likely that this is a result of laws making it hard to fire people.
> People seem to forget that Microsoft went through 3 years of worrying that the government would break them up because they bundled a browser with Windows.

I think that's a pretty large oversimplification.

Microsoft didn't get in trouble just for bundling a browser; they got in trouble for bundling a browser and then using their position of market dominance to lock out competition, e.g., they used Windows licensing agreements to forbade OEMs from preinstalling competing browsers on systems. Microsoft's behavior went well beyond just bundling a browser.
I've been living in Italy for two years now and I have to say I don't see this resistance to the capitalist world you assert they have. In the North, where I live, the economy is large and lively, people are rich, and they work hard. There is, of course, a palpable difference between the way of life here and in Northern Europe, but it isn't as big as I think most people expect (the food and coffee are better). It feels very similar to a typical European capitalist economy.

Of course, that's only half of the story. Southern Italy, despite it's idyllic landscapes and hedonism, has some serious economic, demographic, and social problems and they don't deny it. I have never felt they wore it as a badge of honor to signify some inner nobility, as you posit. Most Italians I've talked to want to solve these problems and believe they're actively working to do it. They don't feel the fact that they enjoy a good quality of life impedes their ability to develop a strong economy - they think the best of both worlds is possible.
http://artofmanliness.com/2010/01/18/the-james-bond-shower-a...
more likely you've just grown up and are now experienced enough to see through the BS.

There's a generation ten years younger than you that doesn't.
There are!

But Anonymous is kind of disjoint. It's feudal. You'll realize this if you try to hop on to one of the IRC networks -- there are a million different little channels each representing its own fiefdom. They mostly have some common beliefs, and they all fly the same banner -- but when one group rises to prominence they will often start doing things under their own name. Some recent examples include LulzSec and Goatse Security. There are also the people who run the websites and the IRC channels and who make the DDoS tools and similar skiddie stuff; these guys are by any measure the real "leaders" of the operation, but they prefer to sit on the sidelines and don't usually get their hands dirty. The argument could be made, for example, that Julian Assange is an unwitting leader of Anonymous.

It's an emergent structure, not an intentional one. This is key to its resilience.

I used to post regularly on /i/ a few years ago; it grew into the "Anonymous" of today after the website owner shut it down. There was a Fox News report about the "Anonymous" threat way back in 2007; the "informant" mentioned in the report is Alex Wuori, a self-proclaimed "defector", and I'm not exactly breaking his privacy because literally everyone knows who he is and what he did. The Fox News report centered on the /i/ board of the time.

The other thing about Anonymous is that it is, as you may have noticed, rather old, in Internet terms. The first true Anonymous raid was YTMND vs. Ebaums back in 2006, in which 4chan and 7chan ran DDoS attacks against ebaumsworld.com in retaliation for stolen content.

I don't do any of that anymore, in case anyone's wondering. Being 17 only lasts one year.
What will happen when cold shower feels as good as hot shower, will you start sit on ice all day, find new ways to suffer to "grow stronger"?

Cold water itself might be healthier or not but without data, this practice sounds pointless and if we generalise the idea and boil down to suffering to grow stronger it sounds down right ridiculous.
In what way do you think you did not execute properly?
What would you do differently if you were to make it successful?
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Awesome. I remember arguing for it on the mailing lists and I'm extremely happy they did this.

With echo tag you can have a very simple and powerful templating system written in the language itself. (I usually just use two methods, Temaplte::show and Template::get, which both are less than 20 lines long.)
For the record, I'm Chinese and have tried Oolong Pu-erh, Ginseng, Green tea, etc. and still would opt for Lipton anyday. It has the best taste:convenience ratio.
I had the same thought. However, it is in beta.
Can we please give up this ``is-valid-XML'' argument already?

Quick counter-example:

<?php echo 'foo ?>' ?>

Guess what:

- if interpreted as XML, the processing instruction ends at the first ?>

- if interpreted as PHP, the PHP code ends at the sencond ?>

...which makes the argument against short tags -- XML validity -- moot. Can't be fixed without breaking backward compatibility either. Let's drop the argument now; otherwise somebody well-meaning will try to apply it and will end up breaking backward-compatibility (and removing a neat feature) yet keeping XML-compatibility broken anyway. Just like Robert Eisele did.
I saw that. From the context of the article, do you think he was really talking about a system using perfect hash tables? Be that as it may, "use a perfect hash table" is rarely a good answer to the job interview question, which is the only reason I commented on this.
Google 'Ground effect'. Floating on an air cushion 2 feet off the ground just proves that he can strap two overpowered fans together -- it's not actually generating much lift like a helicopter would. He'll definitely make it to 10,000 feet... when he has two fans that are each two miles wide.
I liked the idea of domain score.
Who is visiting all these tech news sites? (Mashable, Techcrunch, GigaOm, more)
> Only if you don't count Bush taking us into the trillion dollar Iraq war without a congressional war declaration.

Congress approved, via explicit votes, the Iraq war at multiple points.

There has never been a requirement for legislation that says "we declare war".
Thanks for the answers, that clears things up for me. I'm not a native English speaker myself and can relate to that. That might even be one of the reasons the semantics in the title stood out for me as much as they did.
there's more...

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http://www.onetruefan.com/venturebeat.com

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http://www.onetruefan.com/gigaom.com
I'm only commenting because of the "job interview" comment, but when someone compares hash tables to B-trees, I usually assume (fairly or not) that they don't really know what a B-tree is.
That's actually what I'm speaking to.

The Mahayana tradition (in particular Zen) is the one that focuses more on not doing; where-as Theravada very much puts forth the practice as an act of doing. The usual language is to "turn towards" what is happening, not to simply "be one" with it.
Honestly it depends on what you want to do

If you are looking to go into the non-CS corporate world, grades matter a lot. This is primarily how companies will screen applicants. However, based on my personal experience, my grades weren't stellar either, but I managed to compensate them with other pretty cool things like starting my own clubs, working a ton of different jobs, being active in the community, etc.

In my personal opinion, grades are a poor indicator of personal achievement. Just be sure to do something substantial on the side to make up for your grades.

Oh and regarding the "social pressures" of doing well, fuck everyone else. It's your life, not theirs.

Edit: Someone else mentioned grades are a measure of work ethic, which I will agree upon. However, if you can show your employers where you spent a majority of your time (and why the alternative is worth investing in over school work) then it should be OK.
Rapportive just turned Gmail into a really useful Twitter client
The only thing, as an Android user, I drool over is the ability of iCloud users to have their music "uploaded" for free (without transferring any data). I signed up for the Google Music beta, and 20 minutes later deleted my account. Why? It was going to take several weeks to upload my 60GB of music, during which time I wouldn't be able to seed my torrents as easily. And, saturating my upstream kills my downstream bandwidth.
and more...the UI updates in real time as people visit and send out links from the sites, just stay on the page and it blinks when it updates

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http://www.onetruefan.com/businessinsider.com

http://www.onetruefan.com/gizmodo.com

http://www.onetruefan.com/appleinsider.com

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There is more than just market/customer timing. It comes down to available components. Li-poly battery tech + cheap lightweight capacitive display + available 3G radios and networks also heavily contributed to the success of iPad.
sorry, previous reply mis-understood your question.

this is the same point as the pressure for jobs, really. it's not that astronomy is the only place where things are oversold, or where there's a lot of competition for jobs - it's a question of degree.

in the case of astronomy it doesn't produce much at all of quantifiable physical value. it's not that different to poetry (you can make the same "life-affirming" arguments for both). in contrast, car mechanics, say, do something physically useful: they fix your car and you're willing to pay them for that.

so astronomers and poets are, largely, state funded (through science and arts grants, respectively).

you could, i guess, argue that a car mechanic who places an advert in the local paper is also relying on "over-selling". sure. but i hope you'll agree there's a difference in degree between the two cases: the mechanic is, say, 90% useful, 10% "ephemeral"; astronomy is 99% "ephemeral" [edit: made phrasing less abrasive].

in modern universities, most depts have a range of sources of funding. it's very unusual for astronomy depts to have links with industry because they don't produce anything that people want (there are engineering-related exceptions for optics and detectors). the way they get money is by being cool and hoping to appear attractive to rich donors (or the govt). hence the reliance on "advertising".

ps and to reply directly: yes; i now work on projects that help save people's lives.
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This is the one thing I'll agree about with grades: they do reflect work ethic. But sometimes, it really is hard to get motivated about subjects that seemingly have no bearing on one's future.
agree. the site is just to fool us. how it made to the frontpage?
I've noticed this, too. Once I step out of the shower and dry off, I actually feel unusually warm, perhaps because the cold water forced my body's internal heating mechanisms to start working harder.
Yes, MS didn't want preinstalled 3rd party apps that replicated functionality. :-)
By MS-only, I refer to Microsoft technologies and development tools for Windows, Windows Phone, Azure. Early adopters (alpha geeks, developers, etc) generally use Macbooks now which you can see for yourself at any tech conference. Microsoft really doesn't market to this group, it pretends they don't exist.
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Useful!!
Yeah, the post can spurred some interesting comments from the Python community on why they do charge speakers. Curious about other programming communities.
Alternatively, take 20 seconds to wet yourself with water. fill a small bucket. Turn off water until the final minute when you wash off.

You don't have to keep the water running to stay cold, and you can save a bit of water in the process.
I ran into this complaint as feedback from a user for a Chrome extension I'm developing that did something similar (inspected links for a certain kind of content, then modified the page in question).

I could add a whitelist, but since it's implemented in my own extension, it doesn't solve the trust problem. The fact that you can examine the source of extensions doesn't help much.

I'd love for there to be a built-into-chrome per-extension whitelist and blacklist, so that users could specify exactly which pages they give my extension permission to run on. That way they could easily use my extension on only the domains they want, and ensure that I'm not reading their webmail or scraping their bank account website or anything malicious.
Taking a cold shower lowers your body temperature, then your hypothalamus kicks in to compensate. You get out of your cold shower, and your body heats up. If you take a warm shower, you end up cooling down after the shower.
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No, it's a great decision. It's less clutter on the screen.

FYI, the scrollbars are always visible on my MBP 2011 using just a trackpad. I love it.

If they did disappear, it's merely a quick two-finger touch of the trackpad to see where I'm at and how much is left.
It's sad that you alienize your current userbase. Without notice, you guys broke many applications outside the US.

I was a client, the service was good. I stopped using it and came back two months ago, I bought additional credits, set up my app.. and it didn't work. This is the second time I apply for the beta, but I think that since I will be sending not so many SMS per month, you guys simply don't give a damn.

I'm not angry, but I didn't receive a notification, I spent $20 bucks and I haven't been able to use them. And I don't get a message telling me, at least, that I got rejected to the beta.

At least be honest with us, should we (low-volume sending customers) look for another service?
Slow as hell too!
I think it's relatedly interesting that Google is still the canonical search engine, too, despite the non-stickiness of search engines, to the point of simply being synonymous with search.
For example, when charged with tax fraud and false accounting, he changed the law to reduce the statute of limitations. The changes made the cases too old so he effectively acquitted himself. Also, tried to pass another law to give himself complete immunity from any prosecution while in office.
I taught a course on the Psychology of Personal Change in college and there are papers that suggest that willpower resembles a muscle - in that it can degrade over time. But there are also other studies that suggest it can also be built up over time - like a muscle.

Would you say that doing pushups in the morning is a bad thing? Yes, you're more tired later in the day, but if you keep doing it, you'll get stronger and stronger.
It's only legal in California.

I wish more people used motorcycles here too (I'm in LA). But traffic moves much faster than, say, east Asia (where motorbikes are common). But those bikes are like 100cc. Here you need 600cc or more to handle varying speed conditions (0-75mph/120kph). And I could not imagine a lot of people I know feeling comfortable with that much power on two wheels.
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Gathering all the interstellar hydrogen in a swath of space 1x1m wide and 1 light year long (i.e. everything you can collect with a 1-meter scoop from here to ¼ the way to Alpha Centauri) yields 0.01 grams of hydrogen.

A sobering thought regarding the inevitable "interstellar ramjet" suggestion.
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Tracy Morgan, 30 Rock Actor, issues apology for homophobic rant
Tracy Morgan apologized on Friday for a standup performance he gave in Nashville last week, after it was widely condemned around the Web and by groups like the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation when a man who attended the show said Mr. Morgan had made anti-gay remarks.
I actually want to use it to ask out a girl. Any suggestions?
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I believe pg sometimes deletes accounts if you email him.
Would you like to share some specific reasons why people shouldn't engage in cold showers? Or are you just going to make a personal attack that doesn't relate to anything I said?
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