skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But the US is a big country, and while parts of Mississippi have a male life expectancy of 67, behind nations like the Philippines, women in areas of Florida live as long, on average, as the Japanese, who top the longevity rankings."

Would those perhaps be the areas of Florida where retirees move? If you have a large influx of folks at retirement age, I bet you do increase the longevity rankings.
It seems like moving to a country where the language is spoken isn't an option for you.
Here is how I advanced my Hebrew before moving to Israel. My prior knowledge was that I was able to read and write, but didn't really understand much except for mom, dad, table, chair.
- Pimsleur audio course - while driving I would listen to these mp3s. About 12 hours worth of participatory conversations. I think this should be required.
- online live tutoring - I got a discount for this online tutoring service, about $15 per hour I paid to have a teacher give me a private lesson with a digital whiteboard plus camera. Great for learning basic concepts, grammar, and also conversational.
- textbooks made for learning - first complete a book that is made for English speakers. Then get a book that is made for children or for people learning the language with no other language support. Like an ESL book with only English inside.
- make some friends that speak the language. This is ultimately the most important step. Nothing you learn in books or mp3s will stick unless you practice with real human beings.

Good luck!
I'd go with Twilio too ... only issue is you need to have upgraded your account to port a number:

http://www.twilio.com/faq/porting

But since credit's don't expire, and you can always find another use for Twilio in the future it is a good bet.
Google Architecture [2008]
"I know what to do: let's combat our competitor's overwhelming tactical advantage with faux moral outrage! It's a win-win-win for us!" -- rtperson, just now, sarcastically.
IMHO, only a room full of screaming nerds can keep us from mass invasions of privacy. Weren't the founding fathers basically a room full of screaming nerds, writing a technical document, basically a programmatic meme against tyranny?

Just sayin'.

Oh but as far as the date... yeah, I actually didn't notice that. I just liked the kid's writing. Probably should have looked more closely at it. But I have to say I'm heartened by the fact that so many intelligent people around here actually care about fighting the attacks on the individual inherent, as you put it, in herding a population through a system like cattle.
I smell the scent of Astroturf.... does my nose delude me?
This is true but misleading. It's wrong to think that the fusion process in the Sun is burning at any sort of physical limit.

The Sun is a self-balancing equilibrium. Gravity causes the matter to collapse, which increases heat and pressure at the core and causes matter to fuse, which releases energy that pushes matter away from the core. As such fusion only occurs at the rate needed to maintain this equilibrium, and that rate is less than you'd think intuitively.

Not only that but our Sun is relatively small and weak. Type-O stars, for example, can have a luminosity a million times greater than our Sun's.
Whether or not we (the mostly male HN community) think it's "offensive" is beside the point.

Are we going to encourage more women to get into tech if we call them "faceless bitches?" Does that create a welcoming atmosphere?

I certainly don't think so. We sit back and wonder "gawrsh, why aren't there more women hackers/programmers/tech entrepreneurs?"

This. This is why.
I think it's a fantastic direction for node's logo and branding. A logo and a style can give a project a point of view that they otherwise might not have.

It's like how what you wear can be a reflection of or determination of your personality to some extent. What you wear and how you wear it can change who you are or define who you are. Same with a logo and a brand if properly executed.

I'm not big on logo re-designs in general because it's like trying to change who you are as a company and that doesn't always work.

However, this is a good direction for node. Also, what I really dig is that it doesn't look like a generic web 2.0 logo. It feels distinct and weird. Kind of like Heroku.
>skateboard decks make a nice wall decoration

A buddy of mine just hung a bunch of wall shelves made of skate decks.
The existence of something like this is an admission of defeat.
Mustang vs Eurofighter isn't really a fair comparison in a number of ways.

The most important, I think, is that Mustang wasn't a government project, but one designed and built by a private company to meet an existing wartime need.

Eurofighter by contrast was a government job start to finish, built by three companies in three countries. Starting with a DNA like that delays and cost overruns are baked into the process.
Oh wow, if the RF receiver stage design is completely passive, it's extremely easy to build, even for complete beginners. Now all we need is an smartphone RFID app to decode the waveform, and you could have a really sneaky RFID sniffer disguised as a smartphone + some weird thing inserted inside the headphone jack :)

I wonder how well this completely passive RF receiver stage works.

Also, would it be possible to build a passive emitter ? Then you could have a complete RFID transceiver connected to an audiojack. Again, plugged in a smartphone, this would be a pretty mobile tool.
Okay...now I am a tool and can't find that study...but here is my personal account of reviewers helping downloads for my old application.

We got written up in Thrillist boston, Phandroid, Androinica, Droid-Life, TalkAndroid, and Gizmodo. From all of these review sites we reached roughly ~18k downloads in a week (our product is a fantasy football app).

While the majority of those downloads came from Gizmodo, we definitely would not have been able to get there without being written up on all the other blogs.

From those 18k downloads, we averaged about 11k active through the first 3 weeks of the application and it steadily declined after that (assuming that they were bored of their fantasy league or moved on to another app).

The thought behind the reviewers is if its a source that is trustworthy or has built a following, their post/review is more meaningful than an ad. These reviewers are an AMAZING source of word of mouth for app developers while an ad is simply a pay to click.

If you want to see a chart of our downloads over time, I'd be more than willing to share to show you the value of these relationships as opposed to a one and done ad campaign :).
The url http://www.hadthatbeer.com/user/1 instantly worried me, so I tried http://www.hadthatbeer.com/user/2, http://www.hadthatbeer.com/user/3, etc and all were available.

Are user profiles meant to be public? If not that's a pretty serious security flaw.

Other than that, the site looks great.
It seems that root of the domain fluxflex.com is redirected to www.fluxflex.com, and fluxflex uses zerigo DNS Redirect to do it. That's the problem.

For avoiding the error, please access to www.fluxflex.com, not fluxflex.com. We'll fix this issue soon.
Yeah, cooping in Toronto right now, just asked a bunch of my friends at school about this... I share your embarrassment. It actually hurts that a company is trying to manipulate us like this. Not just because it's so blindingly obvious, but because it will work on enough people.
I doubt that college students are going to be upset by an open source project 'Destroying Wealth'. Why would anyone other than RIM share holders care if RIM is loosing market share to Android?
A new form of Jingoism. This is not how you are going to succeed in the long term. Even if this is half serious, appealing to the protective, negative instincts of people suggests that RIM's future is bleaker than I thought it was

Edit: It's not clear to me though if RIM has anything to do with this.
Mobile Mania - And The Winner Is..
... every 6 seconds, a BlackBerry device is thrown into the trash(hopefully a recycling bin) due to the evils of better devices like Android.

Devices like Android smartphones are creating a "better" model when it comes to user experience, apps, and price, yet how can we define "better"? Is it by a truly better experience? No. We like to define better as "stfu google, rim r0x0rs, tr0l0l0l0l0l! I'm not listening to what you're saying! Go away. RIM ruuuuulz". So next time people tell you that google is better, shove fingers in your ears and kick him in the nuts, because rim is just awesome.

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Edit: Seriously though? TomTom needs to fight google? Thats laughable. Why wouldent I want to buy a device that costs me extra ($150-400), is bulky, non-free map updates, and is known for selling user data to whoever offers money and a good enough usage case?

I don't think google is so bad.
I hope to see the same kind of polished and clean look and feel arrive to Android 4.0.
The bug you linked to will be fixed in version 7, not 8.
My experiences as a Recruiter on Hacker News
Um...how is Android destroying businesses again?

And what should I do if I want to help? PS: I have an Android phone
I got curious about this a while ago, so I polled my nontechnical friends (artists, lawyers, that kind of thing). Out of 18 respondents, 100% of them used gmail as their primary personal email client. The lawyers all used Outlook at work, of course; maybe that 5% figure is for corporate clients?
Standing Tall - Google +
Yep. Bad Astroturf at that.
Not really. This appears to be a marketing tactic by a small startup trying to rile up all the Android fanboys and anti-Googlers in Waterloo; the hometown of RIM. So I wouldn't say that it has anything to do with RIM PR.
Mozilla keeps documentation of what web developers should be aware of for each major release:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_6_for_developers

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_7_for_developers
Okay, but do you want good teachers, or do you want mediocre teachers? What are your expectations for good teachers? Do you think their pay compensates for their time and effort?
Dear OP, please remove the ridiculous iOS theme. It breaks URL forward
This I gotta see. BRB.
The lack of events functionality. Facebook events is why I keep my Facebook account open. My friends organise events through Facebook. Even if they move to Google, they'll stay on Facebook for the events functionality.
> every player needs to be balanced

Correction: at least two players need to be balanced. iPhone, to my mind, provides just such a balance. Trying to boost every single also-ran product into a position of strategic equity is a waste of time. Right now, RIM is the poster child for the Innovator's Dilemma, and there's little anyone including RIM can do about it.
The author claims OOCSS is a great philosophy when writing CSS, but then goes on to complain about a tool that is specifically written with OOCSS in mind. It would be a much simpler thing to write "CSS Lint checks for good OOCSS habits, but can't be trusted to verify non-OOCSS, so be wary."

>Don’t use IDs in selectors
>They are the fastest way a browser can select a given element.

Yes and no. Using an ID to get an element via JS is fast, undeniably so. But the difference in selecting by ID vs. Class in CSS is so minuscule it's hardly worth mentioning. If you're styling an element based on an ID used by JS, congratulations, you've just needlessly coupled JS and CSS.

>Performance at the cost of everything else. Performance as the altar at which all the other benefits of CSS are sacrificed.

Be more dramatic. OOCSS's primary benefit is to minimize maintenance and reduce CSS filesize. File transfer is the second biggest culprit of page load times. I hardly see optimizing CSS as a tertiary goal, and speeding up CSS does not sacrifice other things if done properly.

>Utterly arbitrary. Use as many as you need to get whatever result you’re after. You’re the designer, you know what’s appropriate, and it has little to no impact on performance.

The issue here is that people who use font-size too much are likely simply not appreciating the cascade. That can be said for numerous other properties like float, font-family, padding, and margins.

That all being said, CSS Lint is extraordinarily opinionated. How could it be anything else? If you're looking for a syntax lint, check out W3C's Unicorn. If you're looking to discover a new philosophy for writing reusable, extendable, and optimized CSS, make sure you understand why exactly CSS Lint is throwing you a warning/error and take steps to improve your styles.
The best & worst of being a startup founder
Number Of Internet URLs Doubled In 35 Months
JP Morgan supercomputer offers risk analysis in near real-time
I really don't get the connections you're making. Not at all.

Sure, it was pointless to put the slide up there, but nobody was physically, mentally, or emotionally harmed aside from unrelated third parties that are overly-sensitive to insults that aren't being thrown at them.

And don't pretend that men aren't ever the victims of an abusive relationship or rape. "Bitch" doesn't in any way involve rape or violence. At all. It's just a term that's mostly applied to certain females that did something to really piss a person off. Males get terms like "bastard" and "faggot" thrown at them whenever they piss someone off, yet nobody ties that to prison rape.
SEO
SEO, Optimalizace stránek pro vyhledávače. Zaměřujeme se předevšim na dlouhodobou spolupráci, která má za cíl naučit Vaš web komunikovat s veřejnosti a prodávat Vaše produkty. Kromě standardních nástrojů používáme také blogy, sociální sítě, inzertní servery, zahraniční katalogy, diskuze a další nevyužité plochy pro zpětné odkazy.
BitCoin Meetup in Berlin next Thursday, room77
Safari on OS X. (Apparently I have no use for features and am content to just see headlines and click the interesting ones). Mainly I want to run as few apps as possible, and this fits the paradigm best for me.
Thanks!

The profiles are public by default and there is a setting to make it private, which would show only limited information to the public just so that someone can identify you when they are looking to friend you.
Adler Planetarium displays 64 megapixel image at 30fps with Nvidia’s help
I see nothing about "building a better machine" from a technical perspective on their site, which I'd expect given the byline.

I'm no fan of google's business model (advertising in the vast majority of cases == worthless noise), but at least they are using their position to further technology in good ways, which is more than I can see coming out of RIM.
According to a whois the site is run by the owner of this site: http://www.paybuyer.com/

PayBuyer appears to be an ad network. In other words, the guy could care less about Android and is just mad that AdSense/AdWords dominates.

It's funny that supporters of RIM have taken it seriously without doing 30 seconds of research.
"CSS Lint simply checks to see if you've used float more than 10 times, and if so, displays a warning. Using this many floats usually means you need some sort of abstraction to achieve the layout."

I suspect this means you should be using a grid system, either hand written or borrowed from somewhere that writes grid systems. Constantly using float everywhere is completely unnecessary for larger sites.
Request: next time anyone writes about a sexist talk by a clueless startup rockstar, keep it to 5 paragraphs. I don't need to spend 20 minutes reading filler just to hear about Sriracha throwing and a slide of a guy's ex-girlfriend.
Net Neutrality: Why Rupert Murdoch can't be allowed to buy BSkyB
While I agree with the general point you're making, the "thank you mozilla" should be "thank you google", since they are the ones who got mozilla to make that change.

They forced pretty much everyone in the browser area to play catch up with them to stay relevant, and the results are really awesome (and not just in release cycle speed).
It's not even advertising. It's a mashup of the yahoo directory (from the early 1990's) concept combined with a Publishers Clearinghouse Sweepstakes model.

There are no ads that are put onto publishers' websites to get paid. In order for this to work people have to manually go to the web-based "yellow pages" and then register their intent to buy say, a washing machine, and then that gives you a lottery ticket where if you win, you have to prove that you have purchased a washing machine within N days of registering your intent.

So suppose I have already decided to buy a washing machine, and GE, Maytag, and Kenmore have all bought into this scheme. This allows me to get 3 lottery picks, which might have an expected value of 10 cents each ($100, with a 1 in 1000 chance of winning, say). Presumably GE, Maytag, and Kenmore will all have to pay 15 cents, with the startup pocketing 5 cents.

The question is whether GE, Maytag, and Kenmore get 15 cents worth of value. Remember, I was a motivated buyer who had already decided to buy a washing machine. The only question was which one. This isn't going to reach someone who hadn't yet decided that they were going to buy, and so didn't have the motivation to go to the startup's web page.

To think this would disrupt a true advertising based system, whether it's Adwords, or even the pullouts in the Sunday morning newspaper is just silly.
I run Aurora and use the Add-on Compatibility Reporter[1] to disable version checks and run any add-on I want. For most of my add-ons this works fine, but if there is a significant API change an add-on might not work correctly. But if you were scared of that you wouldn't be using Nightly or Aurora.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compat...
I can't see why would that seriously affect carriers. People that will going to root their phones to get rid of carrier bloatware are the same people that will never use that bloatware and that will root their phones anyways.

This move just makes life of those people a bit easier. And it's a good move for HTC since those people that will benefit from this are more tech savvy people that will recommend HTC to their familly next time they ask them "What phone should I buy with next contract?".
I'm sorry I must disagree. Its not a scam in the classical sense but it is one. Its like the real-estate sites that ask for a credit card and a free trial, to cancel you must CALL between 3-4pm on a Wednesday when their lines are busy AND they promptly close doors at 4pm or you will get charged perpetually.

However GD can offer whatever they want. HOWEVER this is deceptive marketing AND I am fairly sure you can take em to courts over this.
Also, it says that directly on the site itself.
How are they wasteful 'no matter how you cut it'? What if the cut is more efficient energy production, or access to plentiful resources, or freeing the fate of humanity from the fate of its home planet (everyone here should appreciate separation of concerns). And why twenty years? Why rule out a concrete multi-generational goal (assuming humanity can ever achieve that level of social organization first) which has a large payoff and reasonable chance of success?
If you're looking for even more depth on Powerpoint design, I highly recommend Nancy Duarte's slide:ology. All of these tips, more depth, plus the why for all of them.

Presentation Zen Design from Garr Reynolds is another solid Powerpoint design guide.
5 Tips For Group Deal Success : Marketing: American Express OPEN Forum
The link I posted goes to www.fluxflex.com, not fluxflex.com

Both are broken in the same way.
They both use Adobe DRM, so you can read Google Books on a Nook now, but a dedicated store would be nice (although counter to B&N's store, so unlikely).
If you assign a 100% probability that $30 billion and 20 years would produce this 100% certain fantastic payoff, it looks irrational.

If you put more realistic probabilities in (hint: substantially less than 100% in both cases), and then realistically account for all the other things going on and their realistic probabilities of success and the values when they succeed, human behavior looks a lot less irrational. Maybe not entirely rational, but certainly not blindingly stupid.
$1.85 Billion Spent On Video Game Content In First Quarter 2011 According to NPD
Admission of defeat by whom?
How do IT professionals learn, and do they have game?
PhpRedisAdmin, a simple web interface to manage Redis databases
Specifically, the blog author says that they would be able to technically deploy a 'Circles-like' feature very quickly, but that they would choose not to, because it changes the BEHAVIOR of the core product.

You're trying to disagree with the author, but you're both saying the same thing. Oddly enough, that is his point.
Why you should take the money
Whoops. Just zoomed right past the site's About. Not sure how anyone can take this thing as more than a publicity stunt.
No offense to the creator of the css lint website, but I had no idea that anyone actually took the site seriously. When I first read the rules that it uses I thought it was a sarcastic trolling website. From what I recall, many of the comments about it in its original thread on HN seemed to echo the same sentiment.
Just personal ones, like using webhooks to filter feed items according to their content (like you can do with Yahoo! Pipes), inlining the content from links in twitter feeds, or grabbing all starred content to display in a front-end "curation" widget. There's tons of cool stuff you could do, really.

Don't overthink what I meant with professional use, though, mainly it's just people using a reader with 10 times the feeds a regular user would have, and perhaps sharing their account with other people to go through unread content more quickly.
Thanks, I saw this last year but couldn't find it after G+ came out. It clearly indicated their intention to do something like G+; they practically even have similar verbiage and branding (in particular circles). Facebook must have very much seen this coming... I'm very curious what they're next step will be.
Yeah, I was going to say, that would easily be defeated with a simple VPN/SSH tunnel! On a side note, CM7 is awesome on my Desire Z!
This is not about marketing. I'm travelling and typing this on a phone right now, so I'll just link to a reply from the last time this misunderstanding appeared: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2679813
Take the challenge, step up your game. Since you already know what difficult courses you have, why not work on them beforehand by studying for them or becoming the as best a programmer you can BE in the courses you are taking now.

I had a very basic programming course. Then an algorithms course. Then an Assembly course, then compilers, then OS. All were in different languages and there was very knowledge transfer. I don't think the number of courses matter as much as how well you understand the ones you have.

OS was my second best undergrad course, right after compilers.
Woah, two whole signatures on the petition. This is going to change the world. http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/call_to_arms/signatures
Agree with the impression that it's not an actual "seed" term sheet. But most European VCs like to advertise themselves as "early stage" investors, although they mostly do later stage investments of a few million Euros.

But at the very least, there is now some kind of reference startups can look at. For seed investments, there is also the HackFwd term sheet: http://hackfwd.com/#tools
Offtopic: When I scroll this article in Opera it takes around 2 seconds from start to stop, and it's very jerky, even with smooth-scrolling off. It works perfectly fine in Firefox.

I've noticed it before, especially with long, well-designed pages, which is a shame.
"Jackass", most likely.
Thanks. That was a very helpful explanation.
Faster and stronger: next-generation memory tech outperforms flash
Brilliant ... specially helpful when I just wanna listen to a music! May be a small icon in the search results will be helpful
The impact of school fees on the UK’s innovation landscape
Categories rule: High-order brain centers pave the way for visual recognition