skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having a decent cigar every once in a while isn't quite the same as alcohol, but is (arguably) equally enjoyable.
They've already done it. It's an option under parental controls.
Again, I think it may be about messaging. The problem comes from the association with daily deal sites. If you think about it (and communicate it clearly) as an offer/demand/bargaining attempt and less like an existing discount/offer, which it is not, I'm not sure there would be a problem.

Imagine the business had started this way: You have lots of friends who like to do the kind of stuff they're promoting. You have some guy in the group who is willing to call around and bargain. We'll fill 10 tables @ 4pm tomorrow if you give us the free appetizers & desert. Then he decides to create a scalable process for this kind of bargaining to happen. That might look similar to the business they're building here.
More like downgraded to "Microsoft".
Its a great idea. Ready for the movement from idea to implementation.
The heat from the candle flash-boils the water that's in the "boiler". This is ejected out of the tubing, and once the diaphragm relaxes, it creates a vacuum which pulls more water into the boiler to be boiled again.

The reason it doesn't just jerk back and forth in this exchange is because it sends pressure out in one direction, but draws water in from all directions.
I appreciated your brief synopsis. I only know a little bit about LulzSec, and the added information helped. So your efforts were not entirely lost...
I'm in school for CS right now, so I'll be sure to complement with these videos as well.

Thanks!
Before I even clicked on the link I was 80% sure it would be uncle tom's cabin. The other candidate in my mind was 'the jungle' aka the uncle tom's cabin of the labour movement.
Hint: after your initial weighing, tape some of the balls together (with weightless tape). Bigger hint, label the balls: aaa aab aba abb baa bab bba bbb caa cab cba cbb.
I'll keep that in mind. Given the interest, I'll make sure to get myself a professional grade microphone for future videos :)
What's the issue? Console log + any records of errors please. You can bring this up on the appdb comments page for TF2, where I am a moderator.
Great, youtube has an option for licensing videos with CC now.
I drink tea and water. Only when I have to (social events), that I'll have a beer or two. But yes, tea and make it into a serious thing--I have tea room at home :) Hope you feel better.

PS: I hear green tea is suppose to be good for you.
Xtranormal. Really? Can't take this seriously, I laugh so hard at TTS
What time of the week was it previously posted to HN? Something like this will likely do better on the weekend, when there's less going on in general, and people have more time to watch hour long videos.
Some BF Heroes beta server was hacked over 2 years ago. I wonder if this could be the same hack.
> That doesn't really explain impedance. First of all, you need to know what resistance and reactance are to get that explanation, and second it doesn't explain why it's useful or how to do calculations with impedance.

It's amazing to me that we can see this in such opposite ways. To me kwantam's post doesn't explain impedance at all, it just formally defines it. It doesn't even begin to explain to me what it measures or how it applies to an actual circuit. What components of a circuit have an impedance? If I increased the impedance, what would happen? How would I even do that? kwantam's post doesn't begin to answer these questions.

I don't get any intuition at all for what this concept actually means from a formal definition. That's why teaching methods that start with formalisms have always frustrated me. I bet you could dress up a really simple concept in a formalism that would be totally indecipherable. I actually think this would be fun to do sometime: describe some mundane concept in a really formal way and then ask a bunch of mathematical people "what am I describing?" And it turns out to be something boring like the rules for driving through an intersection.

I guess my point is, formalisms seem obvious once you understand the concept intuitively, but are a terrible way to gain that intuition. The basic idea of resistance is simple (a resistor restricts the flow of electricity), reactance was new to me but I got a rough idea that it similarly resists the flow of electricity in an AC circuit and is a function of the frequency.

So if I know that the impedance is a right-triangle combination of those two things, I've got a great start for getting some intuition: I know that anything that has resistance or reactance also has impedance, and something that has both has even more impedance, but in a DC circuit where the frequency is zero you'd get some edge condition where a non-zero reactance would, let's see, act as infinite resistance, I think? The formal definition doesn't plant any of these paths of understanding or inquiry in my brain.
The leverage in this case has nothing to do with the specific employment contract and everything to do with the market for engineers right now. I suspect that having the only engineer who understands the code threaten to leave right before an acquisition actually does constitute significant leverage.

I second the advice to ask for a retention bonus. Cash compensation is the easiest way to ensure that no shenanigans can take place.
Associating discounts with businesses who haven't agreed to them is problematic for me.

That's a much broader net than this specific issue.

Run of the mill coupon websites have been associating businesses with coupon/discount verbiage for a long time, some even profitably.

To be clear, where do you stand on verbiage such as "If x people vote to request a 50% off coupon at Premium Brand, we will talk to Premium Brand."

Personally I have no problem with this - it may screw up the premium brand when it comes to SEO but that is Team Google's problem to improve search quality.
???

Even the even-keel replies act as if you can't use GNOME 2, 3 or KDE in Ubuntu. It's completely absurd! I currently have one gnome-panel, with Cardapio and the wonderful, welcome app-indicators. With Docky/Plank depending on my mood. This has worked in all versions and will continue to work in basically any version of Ubuntu.

11.10 will support GNOME 3, fallback mode and a classic session in addition to Unity. Gnome-shell is a tiny apt-get away.

So can we stop acting like No Unity = No Ubuntu?
This is done to prevent malware faking the prompt and/or user consent. And it's not just "blacking out the display" - the whole thing is executed on another desktop (in OS terms, not in user terms):
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/uac/archive/2006/05/03/589561.aspx
Real time Twitter densities
Sounds like what Mikko Hypponen said about Stuxnet:

Today is June 24th. Exactly one year from now, Stuxnet will erase itself from infected machines. It reaches Kill Date

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002066.html See seventh Q&A from the end.

Admittedly Stuxnet is on a different scale of risk than LulzSec, but both are equally visible in the media. I'm tired of endless news stories about them at this point.
The flip side is I escaped being charged with conspiracy to launder money because I had kept email from several years prior in which I complained at length to my manager about how a particular client was behaving, and then escalated it to his manager. Both managers were implicated, but I could show that I'd reported the behaviour and been reassured by two people who I trusted that nothing illegal was going on.
Ahhh, didn't know they went onto hacked machines. So - some people should be getting some knocks on their door soon?
And -

To (hopefully) install a shim that lets them install software that lets their help desk help their customer more effectively. If I were trying to support millions of 'ordinary users' and had them calling me every time anything didn't work the way they expected, I'd want something on their desktop that let me help them (a gotomypc type of agent, for example).
I recall that the puzzle says "one ball is heavier than the others" not "one ball is a different weight". That being the case, here is the solution:

1. Split the 12 balls into 2 groups. Place the groups on the scale. The heavier group has the heavy ball.

2. Split the 6 balls from the heavy group into 2 groups. Place the groups on the scale. The heavier group has the heavy ball.

3. Take 2 of the remaining 3 balls, place them on the scale. If the scales are even, the heavy ball was left off the scale. If one side of the scale is heavier, that's the heavy ball.
So, do you guys not know what you're talking about is there some legitimate reason for downvoting this? Please, by all means, `update` to your heart's content with aptitude. It won't do a damn thing, but OKAY.
That is a different and far easier question. Try and work out the stated question, "heavier or lighter".
That rocks. Too bad we can no longer buy plain ol' flexi spouts in the US due to EPA regulations.
And just for kicks, they accidentally open up your files to anyone who knows your e-mail address.
That negotiation happens in private and some businesses might be willing to entertain that.

The fact that this happens in the open has significant potential to devalue the brand.

Under very specific conditions, I will do free or discounted consulting. But I don't want "free" or $25/hour associated with my brand when someone does a Google search.
I encountered that problem too, came all the way here, signed in, and look somebody beat me to the punch :-)

We've all been there. +1 for ThemeForest. Non-design oriented programmer's best friend :D
Something I heard from a senior developer at another well-established phone/cable/ISP: the company will do everything in its power to avoid having staff pick up the phone, including avoiding development of new products or features that might generate support calls. At the scale of a large telco/ISP, having just 10% of users calling up tech support and talking with a rep for a few minutes adds up.
a) Coupon/discount verbiage is typically done with the consent of the business.

b) Please try doing this with Bose and Apple. Let me know how it works out.
IQ tests don't measure anything in particular unfortunately.
A single, healthy, white man with a college education (the credentials from which he did not use, but the education is itself significant) in a developed economy who could not last more than 9 months.
Watch Larry Crowne Megavideo
Watch Larry Crowne Megavideo
Dramatic comedy which starred actor Tom Hanks who is quite famous and legendary acted with ability and experience in the world of Hollywood movies that he had with the title Larry Crowne I believe will keep you entertained.
Start doing them as soon as you get them. Never spend too long on any one assignment or question. If one question is taking too long, ask for help as soon as you can. Practice getting and giving help, these are crucial skills. If necessary, cut your losses (but always turn in your best current attempt for every problem, never miss anything).
It's about context, which changes the way the "material" (facts) is interpreted.
Here's an instructive contrast to the poverty safari: http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2011/03/01/from-the-rich-t...

And GRS comments are worth reading.
We're using a combo of the PHP version and the Ruby version and it's been working great for us (we migrated over from a custom queue on top of MySQL. The Sinatra based front-end is awesome for being able to monitor everything that's going on and with a little bit of work you can get pretty much any of the Ruby extensions to work with the PHP version (we're using the resque-scheduler https://github.com/bvandenbos/resque-scheduler to do delayed jobs). There are a few inconsistencies between how the jobs get handled between the two (it's not a huge difference and I've been meaning to submit it as a patch, I need to separate out some of the changes I made to make the PHP version compatible with resque-scheduler).

If you have questions about implementing the PHP version, feel free to ping me.
http://www.retailmenot.com/view/apple.com

http://www.retailmenot.com/view/bose.com

http://www.bargainist.com/deals/stores/amazon/#b

http://dealspl.us/zappos-coupons
Sounds cool! I'm excited to see how it works out.

Some notes from the video I saw on YouTube. Needs better audio quality. Bigger fonts for the computer typing would be nicer, the existing size was just legible. It would be nice to see the diagram and code on screen at the same time rather than switching back and forth. I liked the 5 minute length, that is just long enough.
1) They do this already for compensation/punitive damages for infringing on Free Speech, assault, etc. You would need to prove it though.

2) Royalties are collected by private organisations like RIAA. You would need to prove that you own the royalties. How would you collect licence fees for copying IP say from music CD to USB?
You have to pay a loan back if you fail.

You don't have to pay VC's back if you fail.

Assuming your company makes 150% return the second year and it stays profitable, there's no reason at all to take VC, it's better to take a loan. But you don't know that.
First lets define nerds. I think there are basically 2 different sub categories but I think both still qualify as "nerds":
1. Students who care a lot about their academic achievements in school.
2. Students who fall in love with a subject: science, programming etc and spend time outside of school with these subjects. (May not have good grades)

In India, both these types would be thought of as "ahead of the pack". In both cases, in the US, these guys would be looked down upon in High School - "nerds".

--

You also talk about "memorisation". Well I've been around the top "memorisers" there are in India - ie the topmost ranking student of an education system which is solely memorisation based (the Tamil Nadu State Board). And one thing you wont understand until you meet these guys is that they are very very very hardworking. Memorisation is HARD WORK. Imagine having to memorise a whole book.

I've seen these guys do well in college too. Ie, they dont memorize everything.
Again, heavy rain, smog and a couple of good sized trees

2.4GHz requires line of sight and has major problems with water and trees.

900 MHz is much more forgiving.
I think it's a great idea.

The only problem here is the deceptive presentation. If the site was crystal clear about how it works then you wouldn't have to apologize to anybody. There's nothing wrong with a bunch of people getting together to ask for group discounts.

Just be upfront about the scheme. I think people will go for it.
Making u-Deals work for everyone
RTFA first?
In that case the pirate bay, et al is probably your best option...
Yeah US/UK school curriculum is a cake walk compared to Indian/Chinese school curriculum.

I was born in India and lived in the UK for 6 years. My dad used to make me study the Indian curriculum after I got home. I hated studying the Indian one.

School however was like a breeze though ... Didnt have to even think :) ... They even made me go to a senior class for math because I found the subject matter so easy.

And it wasnt only math that I did well at. I was the top of the class in english as well.

Anyway seriously, you cant compare the Indian/Chinese curriculum to the US one.
This is also called a "non-adaptive" solution.
Even they can't predict all winners. So the alternative is stagnation.
Just get someone to make an allegation against them (underage porn, etc), and their computers get seized.

Is that legal in the UK? Because in the US it'd be unconstitutional.
A press release? I'm a lot more familiar with the relevant peer-reviewed literature than that.

The self-promoted study you kindly linked has many of the usual problems with study design

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

common in studies cited by the popular press about IQ. Try again when you can cite something meaningful, better peer-reviewed, and more on point to the subject of this thread (causes of poverty).
Yes, I meant upgrade. I mistyped. I assume the reason for the down-voting is that it was a petty point and it was clear what I meant.
> My advice to young people is to pursue your interest in CS, but major in something else.

This sounds like a big mistake. I did not major in CS but instead later learned on my own and found that there's a shit-ton of holes in my CS-know-how to fill in -- and they're very difficult to fill in on your own. It's easy to learn a language, or how to admin Apache on your own; it's far more difficult to learn algorithms or compilers on your own.

> Being in a non-CS field with outstanding computer skills makes you very special.

Disagree here too. I got my degree in physics. So now I can program pretty well, have an undergrad in physics, and am basically qualified for PHP or Java dead-end jobs.
Found it to be a very interesting idea. All the best!
This was previously posted at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2695905 .
Nice summary. I wish I had seen it about a month ago when I spent an afternoon hunting through comments here and elsewhere looking for alternatives to 1Password. (No Linux or WebOS is my main issue.)

I see that you're using SuperGenPass. I loved and used the SGP bookmarklet for a while, but stopped when I read this article: "SuperGenPass is not that secure"[1]. Read the article, try the demo, then STOP USING THE BOOKMARKLET! Because of how the bookmarklet interacts with the page DOM, other scripts can read your password!

Now this doens't mean you have to stop using SGP. I still use it, mostly with the excellent Chrome extension (SuperGenPass for Google Chrome™ by Denis[2]) or the SPG mobile page[3] (which can be saved for offline use). Both of these compute the password without interacting with any other pages.

[1]: http://akibjorklund.com/2009/supergenpass-is-not-that-secure

[2]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bmmmhbgdbpnbfefmac...

[3]: http://supergenpass.com/mobile/

[edited: typo, link formatting]
Poor audio quality noted. I'll be getting myself a better microphone. That particular video (with the computer typing) is in HD and can go up to 720p. But it's very easy to increase the font in notepad++, and I'll be doing that. As to switching back and forth, the diagrams, notes and code will be available for download and so users will be able to follow along on their computers (and maybe even directly from the web app). Thanks for the feedback!
Even with the restrictions in place I think Turntable is still in questionable territory as regards licensing. The "non-interactive" claim they seem to be making (at least, that's the way the linked article puts it) probably won't hold up in court.

Which is a shame, because I really love the service and it just has to be driving loads of traffic through the affiliate links to iTMS and Spotify. Hopefully one of these days the RIAA will wake up to the possibility of alternate revenue streams and realize how valuable discovery services like Turntable are. Until then, I'll use Turntable until it gets shut down, and then I'll jump to whomever springs up to replace it.
The reason one should be careful of who they listen to (even when listening with a critical mind) is groupthink. Here's what happens when you listen to someone:

- You agree with the things you have reason to agree with

- You disagree with the things you have reason to disagree with

- Everything else they say gets an uptick of social proof

There a bunch of stuff that you're totally ignorant about, and you have just absorbed a tiny bit of this guy's opinions about it. The stuff you know is safe, but the stuff you don't know is polluted.

I try to pretty actively prune the communities I pay attention to. I have serious misgivings about spending so much time on Hacker News. I'm relatively ignorant about business: there are things I don't even know that I don't know about. And on Hacker News I'm getting a bunch of brainwashing on those topics without being able to critically evaluate it. With respect to those things I'd be better off hashing stuff out on my own like a pre-school toddler, building up lived experience with which I can evaluate what people are saying.

But on the other hand, I learn lots of cool tricks here, so I've decided it's worth the risk.

And personally, I decided it was worth the risk to look at what Barr has to say. But I think the risk is clear and present.
I definitely understand the Photoshop argument in favor of Macs. I just can't get used to GIMP, but luckily I don't need to do a whole lot of graphics work.

I've heard people talking about the software, overall, being better for programmers, but with no specific examples or comparisons to similar tools on nix/windows. I'm assuming you haven't seen a big difference either if you're using Eclipse primarily.
Four sections. The iPad plan has its own login hidden off to the side.
Thanks! Will do. His focus seems more on practical matters (software development) than theoretical aspects, but I sure have a lot to learn from him.
How Sustainable Is Groupon's Business Model?
False alarm? I'm in the busiest room on Turntable.fm right now and there's 15 people in here. Maybe 200 total using it right now. Looks like the US-only restriction isn't working out too well.
Recent research has shown that smoking weed does not cause lung cancer[1], unlike smoking tobacco.

A separate Harvard study indicated that marijuana may be helpful in treating lung cancer, reducing tumor growth[2].

However, the effects of smoking weed seem pretty different from alcohol to me. So depending what you want out of alcohol, it may be a poor substitute. But the health risks of weed are nominal. It's one of the safest recreational drugs mankind has come up with. (Smoking anything too much can harsh out your lungs, but weed can be eaten in foods, vaporized, etc.)

[1]: http://www.webmd.com/lung-cancer/news/20060523/pot-smoking-n...

[2]: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070417193338.ht...
If you are interested in some hypothetical pondering about how secure Tor is not, here's some food for thought: http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1293530004.html
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BS. I turned my free site into a free-mium site, and it changed everything. One I had the budget to hire a couple writers to keep up content production, i got MORE traffic.

Honestly ask yourself if your product is worth what you're charging. I know my customers get more than their cost from my product, because I've asked them. Just be sure you're not drinking your own kool aid.
Like @noisebleed I'll have to disagree. It's extremely easy to find any of the tracks people play on Turntable simply by doing a Google search, not to mention other sites like Grooveshark.

The reason turntable is popular is due to the social elements, specifically vanity. You're on a stage in front of an audience getting points for how sick your tracks are. It's a basic human emotion that is triggered that makes the site so popular. The discovery aspect is great as well but I don't think it's as important to the sites success.
Well, the good news is you're pretty much free to run this yourself, slap some ads on it and bring in the bacon.

Bad news is: you're going to have a hard time collecting due from your client.
Your 2) is fair use. Copying from CD that I own to a thumb drive that I own is fair use and does not entitle the original rights holder to additional royalties.

I'm also a firm believer in protections against commercial infringement. When I share a song with a friend, that's not an infringement that a court would particularly care about (and probably nor should the rights holder.) However, distributing many hundreds of copies on thumb drives should necessitate the compulsory fee. Still, you have to prove it in court...
Mountain View is pretty solidly in Silicon Valley (as is Palo Alto and Stanford); a lot of people draw the line at the Santa Clara/San Mateo county line (so Menlo Park isn't in), although one might consider San Mateo, Foster City, Redwood City, and Menlo Park in, too.