skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people that just want to change something in an article to 'poop' aren't going to try to use tor to vandalize and the professional vandals would find it too slow (except for making malicious usernames or sleeper accounts) and generally don't have a problem using other proxies or botnet hosts.

I'm sure there is some group of people that would like to do something nefarious on wikipedia that are stopped by blocking tor, but I personally think it would more often be someone wanting to sockpuppet rather than vandalize. A few checkusers always pop up to mention that they see tor as a sewage pipe, but making their job easier does not mean the encyclopedia is better off and they would see a strongly biased sample.
I suppose the alternative to solve this I really would to see is much harder to code: a text editor based on Chromium. But would it be snappy.
What exactly about this is news?
We think of suits as heavy because most people only keep a cheap cotton/polyester suit for the few days a year they need it. But a good lightweight, loose-woven wool suit is cooler than anything cotton. And you'd probably take the jacket off in high heat.
Is this the BBEdit 10 that still can't do auto-indentation or matching braces? Despite being effectively abandonware, TextMate is still surprisingly useful, and other editors still need to catch up to it in a lot of respects.
I wonder if they used that tour making library posted here the other day...
Awesome, love the animation on resize. If you could hook this into twitter mentions/searches, and use their streaming api to bring in new tweets to the top in realtime, would be a cool visualization to put on an office monitor.
Haven't followed it closely, but stock shenanigans on Facebook's part is apparently what they're upset at. My very vague impression is that it's like if someone gave you an envelope full of hundred dollar bills in exchange for something, but in actuality they were all twenties.

Dunno if there's anything genuinely to that, but that's the argument.
That's ridiculous. Facebook is incredibly innovative as well, even more-so than Twitter. They're solving huge scalability problems that nobody else has encountered before.
This is only true if the shares sold in this round participating preferred and earlier investors were not entitled to money back in such a sale, I doubt either is the case here.
Or a funeral, which is why I bought my first suit in college. College is prime-time for grandparents passing away.
D looks interesting, but I'm a little concerned that the libraries may not be robust or comprehensive enough yet. It's an uphill battle for any new language.

(downvoters are indeed a mystery sometimes)
I don't think the claim is that something other than net calories are what regulates your body fat, but instead that trying to limit intake through calorie counting isn't the right way to do it.

That's what I took away, anyway.
Although, I should remind you that this is Harvard, where the average family income is much higher than in general. That said, I'm assuming that the comment was not just based on the suits, but probably the attitude and manner that went with them.
This had to happen:

http://morewoodbehindfewerarrows.tumblr.com/
It probably works the same way that WANboot works on Sun/Oracle SPARC machines:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19683-01/817-5768/wanboo...

There's just enough code to initialize the network interface/s, grab an IP, and download a file from an HTTP/S server. Once the file is downloaded, it's executed and you have the beginnings of a bootstrap procedure for your OS installer.

WANbooting has been around for almost ten years now, so the idea isn't that new.

This was probably even technically possible with PowerPC machines, as they used OpenBoot firmware just like Sun SPARC machines did. I guess they wrote the EFI code necessary to do the same thing.
It must at least partly be due to the fact that Twitter has been guarding the simplicity of its product. Facebook is a communications platform at its core, but it also allows third-party developers to use it just as an identity database on its own property. You can run games on Facebook.com, you can't on Twitter.com.

The simplicity of Twitter has also made them discourage third-party development off their property. If all you've got is a SMS broadcasting service and you have an open API, it's not so hard for others to clone all your features and more. It's not as easy to clone Facebook because it has a lot more functionality. So that has limited Twitter's off-site monetisation options.

Twitter is similar to Facebook in the sense that people spend a lot of time on it, but for some reason (good for users, bad for short term profitability), Twitter has not added any Facebook-style display advertising on its website.

Now, this guarded simplicity exists in another internet giant - Google search. You cannot really make any third-party products on top of it and you're unlikely to see flashing banner ads there any time soon. But, Google has intent, which means Adsense works great. While Twitter doesn't have as clear an intent signal, an Adsense-like product on it won't be a big surprise.

The simplicity of Twitter as a social network gives it a lot of pace. Stories, trends, memes move fast on Twitter. So, it's hard for advertisers to capitalise on any particular theme for long or at the right time. But, I expect they will churn out more brand management and marketing tools for big companies. That's what I guess Twitter's major source of revenue will be (big deals), rather than self-serve ad platforms for small to medium companies like Facebook and Google.
Yes... but one could just as easily say "more metal, fewer cars", which would likely just lead to hauling less people at a lower fuel efficiency. ;P What I think people (including me) are looking for is an explanation of where that idiom comes from.
Parse transforms are an Erlang way of making puns at a higher level of abstraction.

https://github.com/basho/lager/blob/master/src/lager_transfo...

transform_statement({call, Line, {remote, Line1, {atom, Line2, boston_lager},
{atom, Line3, Severity}}, Arguments}) ->
NewArgs = case Arguments of
[{string, L, Msg}] -> [{string, L, re:replace(Msg, "r", "h", [{return, list}, global])}];
[{string, L, Format}, Args] -> [{string, L, re:replace(Format, "r", "h", [{return, list}, global])}, Args];
Other -> Other
end,
transform_statement({call, Line, {remote, Line1, {atom, Line2, lager},
{atom, Line3, Severity}}, NewArgs});
I thought it was a well-known fact that FAAC produced very bad output. Or at least well known by anyone who might be working for a company for whom AV compression is all they do.
I'm curious to know what kind of data Twitter has that is that valuable. Just because you have a lot of data doesn't mean it's that valuable.

I used to analyze direct marketing campaigns for a major big-box retailer. They had literally billions of rows of transactional data that they could tie to specific customers, and despite attempting to harness the power of that data, most of their direct marketing campaigns didn't even move the needle.

So, whenever I hear "But, when they finally crack it they will be extremely profitable", I can't help but thinking this is nothing but a bunch of handwaving. I'm sure everybody at Twitter is real smart and they're working hard on this problem, but until they start bringing in some real money, I'll remain skeptical.
This is historic, the most basic of window resize functionality has finally been added to MACs, after decades. Now the MAC is really a modern OS :)
Well, Al Gore supports this company. So, you know how it goes.
About time this info starts to come out! While I agree with other commenters that this may not be the most scientific report, I definitely feel that many piraters I know contribute just as much if not more to the Hollywood cash machine. Pirating is less a reaction to price, IMO, and more a reaction to failing formats.
I really wish the count calories, calories in = calories out, calorie is just a calorie mantra would just go away and die.

The idea that your body has no clue as to what type (fat, protein, carb) of you're eating is stupid.

I have advised nearly everyone in my family as well as lots of friends and colleagues to weight loss success with the following simple rules:

1. Get rid of grains, legumes and sugars

2. Eat healthy fats (coconut oil, lard, tallow grass-fed butters)

3. Eat a decent amount of protein from meat sources.

4. Lower your carbs overall (this is sort of automatic as you will not feel as hungry if you eat plenty of fats and protein)

5. Eat to satiety

Also, you don't need to go for runs, or exercise to lose weight. It's great for your overall health, but if you are overweight and the thought of exercise is stopping you, then forget it and just change your diet.

As an aside, if anyone else wants further advice please feel free to ask.

edit: formatting
I can't find the article that moment, but in it there was a teacher who used kahn academy videos as the "homework" and then class time for further explanation, practice problems and most importantly, questions from students.

I like this approach for a number of reason but imagine your child with an iPad watching several lesson videos a night. It makes the "homework" significantly easier to manage (i.e. rewind videos, rewatch difficult parts, and parents watching together to help with concepts) when compared to traditional worksheet homework. By shifting the conceptual learning work to the home, students are able to get a better experience from one-on-one work with their parents, and then handle the practice and application of knowledge to the school room which, in general, the teacher is better suited to handle.
Thank you for alerting us to this very important news.
Move the mail to the trash folder. Sorry, not a 1-button solution, but it works.
I'm a bit confused - this is about in-app purchases for the web. Are you saying that on Android, a web in-app purchase shows a lightbox for adding a credit card and does not temporarily redirect to Google?
This is not-super-secure, but in a lot of situations I just use a rule like "third character of first word + second character of third word + first character of fourth word", and so on. You end up with gibberish most of the time, but at least you're not going to let it slip in conversation (and as long as you remember the rule and don't pass that around, you're hopefully okay).
Push-ups are, at-best, a difficult exercise to get right

This is surprisingly true. On Monday, I tested my one-rep max on shoulder presses, which involved a couple of balls-out failures with a weight I couldn't lift. Two days later, I feel fine. The last time I tried to find out how many pushups I could do in a row, I hurt my shoulder and didn't feel right again for two weeks. I'm pretty sure on any given day I could simply get on the floor and do pushups (with decent form) until I hurt myself. It's much safer to stick with exercises where you can safely work until failure, since you never know when you're going to accidentally exceed your limits. It's doubly true for people who don't exercise a lot.
Yes. This and using Gaurd for a number of other things.

For my rails work flow, I don't really see the need for this product.
it takes money to make money. It would be incredibly hard for someone with their resources, education, and connections not to turn a profit

Your also incorrectly making a moral statement that consultancy or investment banking is not of good use.
great, now all my 8GB of ram will be eaten up.
The larger point is that 4th grade percentage math is inadequate to value preferred stock. Change the example to one you like if you find mine too simplistic.
As an info product or software?
Worked for me. Ive lost about 20lbs in the 6 weeks on the Tim Ferriss version of the "slow" carb diet, which is pretty easy to follow and offers a cheat day so you keep your sanity.
Yup, we used the Guiders library posted by the Optimizely guys: https://github.com/jeff-optimizely/Guiders-JS
No, no, no, you're thinking of Wave.
Google -Wave- will replace email. Remember?
Google Labs is different from the gmail/maps labs. See the linked blog post and http://www.googlelabs.com/.
Corporate labs are funny things. Where would the valley be without Xerox PARC or America without Bell Labs? But from the corporate view they are fairly inefficient. They are a very academic environment, working at a leisurely pace, not at all like startups or even the lean-and-mean among established companies. Self-education and publication is as much a goal as improving the bottom line. Eventually the suits take notice and start reorganizing things to bring the fruits of their labor immediately to market. It happened at Bell, at PARC and at a lab where I was resident. Unfortunately, the shift in focus doesnt really work. The researchers cant shift their timelines. Partially baked ideas dont easily become marketable products and the future becomes sacrificed to the immediate.

If you want short term results, the policy of engineers working on their own pet projects 20% time is really fruitful, but the promising ones then need time and resources to become fully realized. I think thats where Google failed.

Maybe Google is inventing something better than Google Labs. I can see a successful approach being to sprout mini-labs around promising projects where the developer(s) get resources like additional developers, designers, market researchers, QA and the like. This of course sounds a lot like internal entrepreneurial startups, which havent been notably successful. I can hope that Google has something more innovative up its sleeve than the bottom line.
The London Library, a private library in London's St James Square ( the heart of London's gentleman's clubland ) is a well established version of this ideal.
http://www.londonlibrary.co.uk/

"
The London Library is now the world's largest independent lending library. It owes its foundation in 1841 to the vision of Thomas Carlyle, who in many ways remains its tutelary genius. But he was not alone in his desire to establish an institution which would allow subscribers to enjoy something of the wealth of a national library for use in their own homes: the Earl of Clarendon, that enlightened early-Victorian politician, was the Library's first president, Thackeray its first auditor; Gladstone and Sir Edward Bunbury were on the first committee. Early members included Dickens and George Eliot. The Library's long-standing role at the centre of the intellectual life of the nation is reflected in the roll-call of its past presidents and vice-presidents, which include Tennyson, Kipling, T. S. Eliot, Rebecca West and Isaiah Berlin. The Library's current president is Sir Tom Stoppard.

The Library stands at the north-west corner of St James's Square, as it has since 1845, after briefly occupying the first floor of the Travellers Club in Pall Mall
Netflix Rolls Out Streaming Service To 17 More Android Devices
I vaguely recall seeing a Mozilla presentation while back saying that they had gone to using 64 bits to store JS variables even on 32-bit machines - this was faster since doubles then fit directly, but presumably on a 64-bit machine it would get faster again.

Edit: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/03/firefox4-performance/ refers to 64-bit NaN boxing and links to the article I was thinking of, but unfortunately that seems to be broken.
Just as an example from my own experiences: I was able to predict the winner of the XFactor within 1% of the final vote, two hours prior to the final [1]. I've also written an algorithm that can with 80% accuracy detect a news story will come out of a group of tweets. There is a lot that can be done with this data.

[1] http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0115/122426...
Well like...I'm in this market, DanI, but I've never considered tai chi instructors because I figured they don't have the kind of margins that would make it worth my time.

You're absolutely right, though, that working with your mother would give someone like me standardized assets and procedures that could be resold with minimal work to other tai chi instructors.

I think a3camero might be overestimating the time it would take to accomplish something like this, but I admittedly had never considered that industry for the reason he mentioned, ie: the price of the services your mother is offering.
Why LinkedIn Should Be Worried About Google Plus
Are hashtags too geeky for Google+?
They value the entire chunk, then base the 10% on it. Your question makes it sound as if they said 10% is worth 800M, then 90% is worth 9 times as much. The logic would be 100% cost 8B, so 10% cost $800M.
Unless you're strength training. In which case, you may not care to climb the stairs as they don't really further your goals.
A bit hyperbolic don't you think? Have you used Lion yet?
The Decline and Fall of Facebook
The only new scalability issue that Facebook has tackled is how to scale one enormous MySQL database. They've primarily done this by sharding it thousands upon thousands of times and putting over 10,000 memcached instances in front of it.

Most everything else they've confronted was done by Amazon and Google years before Facebook had to.
Grellas, of course, summarized the situation excellently. His point 4 addresses your concern specifically: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1362379
That's great, but the whole reason I like multiple monitors (instead of one big one) is to segregate tasks. For example having full-screen terminal on one monitor and a browser on the other.
But they don't show that. Not even by a country mile. My general impression is that the people in this study who lost weight probably ate fewer calories than those who didn't. The fact that they don't even give one sentence to dispute that statement is troubling.
Intel's earnings show PC industry's new approach
Yep, Apple solves this problem by using their "AppStore" application to reliably download the file in chunks (like you suggested). My complaint is that Apple should extend Safari to be able to download the OS X Lion download reliably. (Then let the rest of us use that protocol.) It seems a bit insane that the OS group at Apple had to write their own custom download application, but did not think to extend their web browser to allow for "restartable downloads that are no longer corrupted".

Microsoft does the same thing -> they have a custom application to download their OS updates reliably. They do not use Internet Explorer's regular download capability because of the limitations.

It baffles me that the big browser companies (Google with Chrome, Apple with Safari, Microsoft with IE) are not interested in building a standard reliable downloader. I mean, what else does a web browser really do?
$ sqlite3 -version
3.7.5
You know, I forgot :)
I don't know, the fact that they felt their representation in "The Social Network" was accurate tells me something
Africa Mobile Ads Grow 40% in Three Months
it really was just a matter of time.
Thanks for the suggestions!

We've considered embedding Firebug Lite, since it gets you most of the inspect stuff you'd want for CSS editing. We may still add it.

Autocomplete is also high on the list of features, we just ran into some problems with CodeMirror 2.
Also, try resizing with the option key down :-)
Why I’m Sad That Google Is Killing Off Labs
"Team building excercise" is a good euphemism for "drill". Cults and command-and-control institutions have employed things like "buddy pushups" for centuries. It's pretty funny this startup thinks it's somehow innovative.
There is nothing to stop a formerly innovating person from currently acting the troll. Former innovation does not sweeten current trolling
Curls in the squat rack?
I'm horrified. This has very high potential to be harmful.

The defacto nerd position is seated and hunched. Developing the pectorals will only exacerbate this. If you want to engage in group exercise, find a routine which is more balanced, or at least balanced against what you do the rest of the day. Just do some calisthenics and stretch out those tight chests.
How does this affect existing labs products? For instance I use apps like Google goggles, Google listen, My Tracks, and Shopper
The story is about Firefox on Windows...
I don't have a mac.
Google Labs itself is just a repository of experimental projects, not a research organization. It is not the same idea as PARC, which is a research organization.
Hard to make an assessment, based on event horizons, on the decline of an enterprise that has very few competitors in a demand market and who by all accounts is probably the most widely disseminated communications network in the English-speaking world.

No, Facebook is not the end-all for social networking but a call for its demise as earnings increase are greatly exaggerated based on what appears to be the activation of functionality on millions of pre-existing accounts.
It would be interesting to compare the two. I imagine the foundations of affection in an arranged marriage that turns out well are based on different things than most marriages today.

If I had to take a wild guess, I'd say an "Us against the world, for better or worse, whether we like it or not". That's a classic foundation for strong relationships.
Welcome to Firefox
In the 90's, I always wondered how this stuff worked.
Why do you suggest forgoing legumes?
The first comment on that post is, almost five years later, sadly hilarious.

"I am 90% decided on switching to CoreText for text rendering (and making 2.0 Leopard only)…"

Hooo… what a clever idea. I wonder how many license renewals you'll miss. One at the very minimum.

I wonder if the comment's author is, at this exact moment, installing Lion on their current Mac.
I found the actual study and the actual study says something quite a bit different. It says that counting calories works, but in an indirect way:

Some foods — vegetables, nuts, fruits, and
whole grains — were associated with less weight
gain when consumption was actually increased.
Obviously, such foods provide calories and cannot
violate thermodynamic laws. Their inverse associations
with weight gain suggest that the increase
in their consumption reduced the intake of other
foods to a greater (caloric) extent, decreasing the overall amount of energy consumed.

Their view isn't that counting calories doesn't work because the science is wrong, but because you're less inclined to follow through due to satiety issues associated with foods. To put it another way, you can't have a bag of chips, and counterbalance it by having a yogurt before going to bed.

To me this reporting is sloppy.

A much more accurate headline would be, "Eating the right foods will help you stick to your calorie counting diet".
GLUSTER ANNOUNCES BETA AVAILABILITY OF GLUSTERFS 3.3
SQLAlchemy is pretty much the only ORM I've used that DIDN'T suck. It's great, especially after seeing Java / Hibernate hell.
Coming from Windows this confused me as well. I found an article that clarifies why it behaves the way it does; it does make sense to do it this way particularly on high res screens where the empty space would be glaring.

http://www.macyourself.com/2011/02/06/why-doesnt-mac-os-xs-g...
So how do you recommend becoming rich?
W/o scrollbars?