skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you increase the atmospheric pressure, you can raise the boiling point of water well beyond 100°C. Of course, that has little to do with brewing coffee.

So you bring the water to a boil, and then let it sit for a minute, then pour it over the grounds. Then as the coffee steeps, the liquid further cools down. It is just below 100 when you brew it.... not when you drink it. It is much cooler when you drink it, (65 to 80 C).
I don't know if that's a smart move from Google.

It would be a good thing for Google to have users frustrated with Flash websites that don't work in iOS. Now they are helping Apple giving users a great experience on iOS?
Are you in Apollo mission?
I agree: the issue with "I love X" as a pure statement is that it has nothing to do with why we argue on the Internet.

Debating a topic is supposed to enrich us on that subject. I have changed my opinion on things before, based on Slashdot comments (this was way back), and now based on HN comments.

Of course, there is also the need to portray ourselves as clever. That's the real driver for flamewars: sophistry.

But saying "I love X" does nothing for either cause. People interested in rational decision-making are not engaged; trolls are not discouraged; and newbies are not educated on how to argue better.

(edit: fixed a run-on sentence)
http://mashable.com/2011/03/08/adobe-wallaby/
I believe the correct word for lying under oath is "perjury".

The person who filed that deposition should not only be corrected, but also arrested. If you don't know what you are saying, you have no business instructing a supreme court.
It's really hard. You need to have a personal relationship or well-known brand for a VC to invest in a product without any market data. There are ways to get stealth data, you can mask the product or give targeted beta codes to users that will pay. Depending on the product/cost you really don't need that many paying customers to provide proof of concept. Free sites it's nearly impossible, they will want to see traction.
Fluid Schedules are for humans, Iterative Model Driven Development
Groupon's Terms Not Endearing
I don't think that this is about Apple. It is about web standards and pushing for a uniform web.
People placed in a group constitute a herd. Herd (mob) mentality applies to government as much as to any other group of people, and government is just as prone to authoritative and/or charismatic figures turning its mentality toward a negative end as any other group.

Government is a mob -- it is up to those outside the mob to keep it aimed in the correct direction, because it won't do so on its own.
I tried a handful of random SWF files from my dropbox and none of them worked. Several were due to AS 3.0, which isn't supported but even simplest animation said "The #initclip pragma is not supported.".
At this point, I still think Adobe's Wallaby project has more potential.
Maybe Russian search engines fall for keyword stuffing? I do not know what the primary search engine of Russia is.
"Swiffy currently supports a subset of SWF 8 and ActionScript 2.0,"

These are years out of date. It would be a lot more interesting if it could support modern versions (ActionScript 3 / FlashPlayer 9/10/10.1/10.2).
Wallaby is a feature of the IDE to publish as HTML5 - it doesn't seek to address all the SWF content that is already out there.
I don't think this is indicative of the future of HTML5 and I'm not so sure there will be a reason to use these SWF->HTML5 converters other than maybe a head start on re-developing your application. Have you tried converting a PDF to word? Converters for proprietary technologies haven't proven to be very effective.
Hi athst,

Thanks for your comment and questions. We went with "sportspeople" because our research showed it was regarded as meaning "people who do sport" in the most places - in the UK, for instance, "athletes" is often (but not always) interpreted as referring specifically to people who do track-and-field athletics.

You're quite right, we're not aiming to be a sports fan site - we're very much focused on the sportsperson/athlete. We're not really a Meetup-for-sports, though (although obviously it's great if our members find new sporting partners on the site, and many have already). In fact a huge amount of interaction is between people who are never likely to meet; a Scot who cycles 100 miles before breakfast encouraging a mother-of-two who's working towards their her 5k, for example. It's been great to see how our users will give motivation freely, no matter what someone's level.

On the question of locale-specific Tribes, we certainly have a few of these, and users are welcome to create whatever Tribes they would find useful. We also have event-specific challenges for specific marathons, which are naturally localised. What we've found, though, is that our users seem to respond best to Tribes and Challenges that are globally relevant; things like the get fit without joining a gym Tribe (http://tribesports.com/tribes/get-fit-without-joining-a-gym), or the 5 minute plank Challenge (http://tribesports.com/challenges/hold-the-plank-pose-for-5-...).

You're absolutely right, though, more location-specific resources for users will be a key feature in future, and it's certainly something we'd like to develop further.
Well, not really. The mass of the black hole created equals the amount of mass that falls into it, of course, and to first order the mass of the BH will be equal the mass of the iron core of the star. That mass is however quite a bit smaller than the mass of the star, and very much smaller than the initial mass of the star. (A star has to start out with a mass > 8* the mass of the Sun to go supernova, and that will only guarantee that it forms a neutron star whose mass will be of order 1 Solar mass. The rest is lost first during the life of the star, as massive stars are so luminous they drive their own matter off from the surface, and then ejected in the explosion itself.

Edit: The article has a number off, as it states that the black hole has a mass of 15 Solar masses and that the companion is 19 times larger. The original article says the companion is 19 Solar masses, which makes more sense.
Great comments this time around. I'd buy the game if I had an iOS device. Looks truly fun. I agree with others though that the icon can be improved. I found the trailer very good.
There's a Nemo[1] a "pythonic haml". It doesn't follow the Haml spec exactly, but rather tries to take the good parts and apply them to something suitable for Pythonistas.

It's built over Mako templates, so its faster and far more flexible than one built against the Django template markup.

[1] https://github.com/9cloud/Nemo
Splinter sprint on FISL, from June 29 through July 2, 2011
Do you have a solid state drive? The amount of time I spend waiting for my computer to do what I tell it to has decreased to almost imperceptible levels since I made the switch.
Not much new in that interview.
Google launches 'Swiffy' tool to convert Flash animations into HTML5
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 gets an online simulator
It's a start. Besides, it's cool (and so much easier) to animate stuff using Flash and then convert them to HTML5.
While he might have taken a plea to avoid a more serious charge, last time I checked you still have to be guilty of whatever lesser crime you're pleading to, as well. You're not allowed to make up a lesser crime in the name of bargaining down.
Well, that's one game I won't be getting through GameFly.
You could argue that CAMPBELL, AKA SKYYWALKER, ET AL. V. ACUFFROSE MUSIC, INC. [1] wasn't a criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research (the court ruled that it was a parody). In CAMPBELL V. ACUFFROSE, the court also ruled that it being a commercial recording didn't stop it from being covered under fair use. There was another case which slips my mind at the moment that found similarly (that commercial use doesn't stop it from being fair use).

IANAL, and I am not familiar with all of the little details that go into determining whether something is fair use. From the reading of the applicable laws and precedents and having an actual lawyer go through those with me (I took a class last semester on IP law), however, I don't see anything that would outright bar this from being fair use.

[1]: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=searc...
It's Yandex, but I don't see how that's relevant since this is a German site
These are the same people who are suing Google all over the place.

The ridiculous notion of 'SEO by lawyer' should go away (very quickly!) and Google should establish that it's not a traffic pump and isn't obligated to send anyone traffic.
mine is not
Really? Linkedin job postings never worked for me. Craigslist is much better. It's just my opinion though.
WebFWD: Innovation Accelerator from Mozilla
I don't, but I know how big a difference they make. However, while program loading was a huge benefit to BeOS, it was a small one for me. The realtime audio stack still beats everything else, multitasking was insanely fast, etc. I haven't seen anything that can compare, to this day.
Middle school humor: plug in a dirty word!
I think its unfair to criticize NYC just because of a few poor interview experiences.

But back on point: can you give a specific question that you felt crossed the line? I'm curious because I've never felt that I've been asked such a probing question before.

(and yes, I'm not going to deny that a lot of companies string candidates along, especially if they believe they have strong offers)
Show HN: SoftColor Automata - Factory style image editing automation.
Can anybody say how the illustrations hold up on the Kindle version? I have a DX and it is OK most of the time, but with a visual book like this...
Market Sizing: Any good data points on online communication spending in USA?
Looking for data points to calculate how much is the average spending per year by small & medium business per year in USA and trends.
In addition to lambada's response about the doctor-patient relationship, there is also an expectation of common knowledge. You are not expected to know anything about the medicine given to you since that is the doctor's responsibility, but you are expected to take it as instructed. You are expected to know that if you do anything unusual with it you may be putting yourself in danger.

If you do something idiotic like crush it up into powder, then snort it at five times the dosage, that's on you. If you then go into shock and suffer a stroke, guess what.... zero dollars, stop wasting the court's time, you are an idiot.
It's a fuss about a number. Ars has a good point – there was no backlash about EOLing 3.6.3 when 3.6.4 came out, but the actual changes in this version were probably just as risky as changes between 4.0 and 5.0.
http://i.imgur.com/bZc1t.png
>You'd have to remember to do it every time you changed your database;

That's probably why he just finds it easier to use django.
Echelon can be guarded against with in-transit crypto.

Physical access to systems is far more problematic. Even if the data is nominally encrypted on-disk, the key must be in RAM to make use of the data, rendering it vulnerable at the time of seizure. (You can partially mitigate the risk, but you can't make it 100%, and it's very likely you'll have issues with cost, performance, and user-friendliness along the way.)
This really is a marvellous idea! It could be totally hilarious.
Welcome to 2005. Hopefully this isn't new to the rest of you.

As someone else mentioned, Johnny posted articles on this years ago. But, he merely popularized it, Google hacking was around long before him.

See also: filetype:mdb, filetype:xls, "ssn" and so on.

For music, try: metallica filetype:mp3
For books, try: oreilly filetype:epub (or whatever)
I used to have this awesome FF addon called Add-Art that overlayed curated visual art in the shapes and sizes of the ads Adblock removed. It was pretty cool. Occasionally it messed up the site's layout but I thought it was worth it. Sadly they didn't update it to FF4 (or now 5). http://add-art.org/
I see you had the bravery to make that statement without resorting to a one-time account, so your karma isn't effected. Bravo!

Nothing I said was worthy of sarcasm. I would sincerely enjoy the opportunity to learn python from the ground up with that level of support and mentoring. And yes, it's a little disconcerting that some conferences would keep me out based on my anatomy.

In the face of such support generated by this event, is it so bad to hope for an analogous event aimed at my demographic?
I don't doubt that, and photographs of that person aren't infringing unless you are deliberately reproducing the original work. I think the burden would fall onto the copyright holder to prove that the elements of the new work are lifted from the original work beyond reasonable doubt that it was just a coincidence.
This really isn't a novel concept. It's called adapting, and every business must do it in order to survive.
Donated. This site has been such a godsend for so long. I'm really glad it exists.
Let me clarify. From Baio's original blog post:

My lawyers and I firmly believe that the pixel art is "fair use"

As a courtesy, I am taking his word for this as well as assuming that he held the same belief before the legal trouble.

Given that assumption, we can blame him for making risky assumptions himself and for not contacting a lawyer to make sure, but we cannot blame him for doing "a minimum" of asking permission when he didn't believe that he was using the image in a way that required that minimum.
well, if the people who are rejecting you are doing it to go work for Google or Facebook, you've done a good job with the image of your company.
Can't help you with Rails, but in case you or anyone else didn't know the Django-Extensions app adds the Flask (Werkzeug) debugger to Django projects with the run_plus command.
4G vs 3G
Show HN: Accept Bitcoins on your site
A friend(@wolever) and I spent the weekend hacking up a small web app which makes it easy for you to sell digital goods for Bitcoins. Once a customer has clicked the “buy” button, we take care of giving them a unique address, monitoring that address for transactions, then securely notifying your website once a minimum number of confirmations have been received. Oh, ya, and then we send you the Bitcoins :)

The website is here: BitWillet: http://www.bitwillet.com and there is a demo on the front page.

(full disclosure: BitWillet uses the Willet, http://dev.getwillet.com, platform, of which I co-founded)
4G Internet
>If you never use the phrases people use to find your products, though, you’re still not going to get found.

Do people still think like this? Like it's 1997 and you have to find the right keywords to rank high? What exactly is the purpose of SEO anyway? It's not like cat-v.org uses SEO and that information comes up fine. If you're trying to advertise for a business instead of showing content then you can just... buy ads. Is it for bloggers trying to get pageviews?
They bought out their investors, created a separate corporate entity, and built a new product from scratch. That's not a pivot!
Which Best Buy do you get commercial, rackmount servers from?

More apropos: would you really want one?
The context in the original question makes clear: the OP is not looking to save space. He wants to take out the structural (tabbed) spacing inherent from the nesting of XML in order to make it visually clear where documents have manually-inserted whitespace.

This is actually a really interesting question, although I'm not sure the answers there are very helpful. I would prefer seeing the code actually indented, and then a light-gray visual guideline where the structural indentation ends, e.g.:

|<xml:something>
|<xml:what-the>
| left some extra whitespace
|</xml:what-the>
|</xml:something>
Good point, but pushing web standards if it hurts your business case isn't smart. Standards & nice things for developers aren't always in the best interest of companies. Apple doesn't want users to be able to create iOS Apps with Adobe's software -- because these Apps would run on every device and that would destroy their competitive advantage. Software independent of hardware was a great invention, allowing Microsoft to earn buckets of $$$ -- but that wasn't in the best interest of IBM. They had to change their focus from hardware to services to survive.

I think there was an interesting post about these kind of mechanisms on http://www.joelonsoftware.com/ but I can't find it anymore.
Thanks, I will probably use this. I have been thinking about offering bitcoin-paid server colo options.
It's not you, I get the same error.
Here's the actual complaint:

http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/06/24/Dropbox%2016.pdf

Claims (bracketed comments mine):

1. Unfair competition (per California's law) caused damages [by for instance causing people to pick Dropbox instead of some other less expensive storage solution.]

2. Invasion of privacy, for which punitive damages are being sought.

3. Negligence [for enabling that invasion of privacy], for which actual damages are being sought [whatever those might be... maybe things like, billable time being spent moving files off Dropbox?].

4. Breach of express warranty, for which the purchase price of Dropbox is sought.

5. Breach of implied warranty, for which the purchase price of Dropbox is sought.

Not a lawyer, am a security practitioner, somewhat versed in the issues here, and:

This probably doesn't go anywhere. Don't these cases have to pick up a certain amount of steam before they matter? My sense of it is, as bad as the security lapse at Dropbox appears to have been, it was an issue primarily for the geekerati; "my mom" probably doesn't care, and might even assume stuff like this happens all the time. If it did go somewhere, presumably Dropbox would just provide vouchers for refunds for people who want to close their accounts.

There is, as I understand it, still no formal standard of due care required for software vendors. There was no slam-dunk tort available for the plaintiffs in the CardSystems case, where a card processor lost millions of credit cards. Similarly, lapses in Microsoft code enabled tens of millions of machines to be compromised during the "summer of worms", and the class action case brought against it was dropped as well.

Meanwhile, contract law is of little use, because virtually every professional piece of software is shipped with an airtight contract limiting the vendor's liability for defects. This complaint alleges some form of breach of contract, but it's entirely possible that such a claim dies a quick death when reconciled against the Dropbox user agreement, which surely says something to the effect of "shit happens, if you can't deal, use an external hard drive instead".

For a 2005 perspective on the issue by two law professors, which reaches the conclusion that we need to create a whole new tort ("negligent enablement of cybercrime") to address the issue, check out:

http://www.law.suffolk.edu/faculty/addinfo/rustad/rustad.koe...

Without going into another 7 grafs of noodling about whether software liability is a good idea or not, let me just say one thing I'm fairly confident of: the industry cannot afford a "due care" standard for software. Security flaws happen all the time, in everything anyone ships. You don't hear about most of them. Simple supply & demand has driven software security bill rates to very high levels, and that's largely without any legal mandate that would effectively require everything to get assessed.
Mozilla Web FWD Innovation Accelerator
telnet gein.vistech.net

Login: games / pressplay

A ADVENTURE The original Collosal Cave adventure
B BLIND Escape the unseen maze
C BUNNY Destroy the man-eating bunny rabbits
D CATCH Navigate a star-field
E CHICKEN Chicken hunt
F CONNECT4 Connect 4 in a row
G CROSSFIRE Evade and attack within the grid
H DALEKS Terminate... Terminate...
I DEFENDER Defend the planet from the invaders
J DESTROYER Destroy the aliens
K DIG Dig Dug
L DOOR Watch out for the monster in the maze
M EMPIRE The original single player Empire
N GRANNY Road Rage!
O MOLE Hunt the moles
P TETRIS Manipulate the falling blocks
The fifth - isn't that a simple "onClick" event? Or are you doing something more interesting and complex?
I'm not too familiar with memcached, but isn't one of Redis's strong points is the data structures it provides out of the box, and not simple lookups?
That's the exact point I was going to make except I would call it evolving. Either way, same thing. Not really a new concept.
Two brands makes sense if they map to different market segments which require substantially different branding strategies, e.g. Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 (and yes I know these also have different feature sets) or Chevy and GMC (which do not have meaningfully different feature sets).
Employees are 8X more likely to be engaged when wellness is a priority
LivingSocial's global expansion is taking off
The major downside is that most webshops are and have been using Actionscript 3 for the past 5 years. Has anyone compiled any AS3 with this?
That's like saying, "Yeah, I jumped into the Iliad at the funeral games for Patroclus, and I just don't get it: it didn't have an impact at all." Duh.

Actually, my point was just the opposite. You can appreciate a passage from the Iliad or a scene from a movie without context. Not fully, but there's something there.
High-brow limericks
Who will dominate NoSQL land?
An audio library for Module Music on the iOS
Cool. If you end up using it, we'd love to hear about it (@wolever/@BarbaraEMac).
I believe Xcode 4 does something similar to the heatmaps shown here, although it does everything vertically, in shades of gray. You can sort of see it in this screenshot - look in the left-hand margin of the code editing window. http://www.neowin.net/images/uploaded/xcode4.jpg
Yes, I like your approach the most of those listed.
I don't, unfortunately, have any special insight into the voting system. I knew that it was downvoted more than once because my re-upvote didn't turn the comment black, meaning that its score was less than zero.
My experience of HTML5 right now doesn't really have significant performance improvement compare to Flash, even on Mac OS X. I think it still has a long way to go. But it is nice to see someone's exploring the frontier! The blurring effect doesn't seem right though...
Oh, I see. When you said 'directions', I thought you were talking about the page text. The directions are on the Directions page, and the number is on the Place an Order page. The banner could probably be better, but the only thing I'd complain about is the lack of business hours.
Choosing to believe something about what I believe based on my expressing my like for something is not neurotic. ASking me to explain myself or seeking further information about my choices is certainly not neurotic. Choosing to believe I'm an idiot because you like something else and because I didn't attempt to intellectually bludgeon you into agreeing with me is _____, but it's not neurotic.

But someone getting so invested in what they think that a stranger believes, such that they have to start a flame war? And expecting that I have some sort of obligation to their egocentricity such that I must respond to their questions?

Well, I'm not a psychologist, so the odds are strongly against this being clinically neurotic. But it isn't for me, and I don't feel a compulsion to play along.

p.s. Again, this isn't about people's right to believe what they want to believe. I'm ok with people believing I'm an idiot. They may be right! But what I'm talking about is whether I have to respond. I don't. I also don't have to worry about it when I write such that I try to deflect criticism or protect my reputation.
maybe I like this
Mozilla Launches Web FWD incubator program
Google Introduces Facebook Competitor, Emphasizing Privacy
Calculus made easy [pdf]
Sent this to a friend who was just looking for something like this!
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