skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, Fridge to Food attaches a StackExchange style reputation to people (that carries more weight than reddit karma) and does have a page where you can see user's recipes (similar to SO). Really it pulls more inspiration from StackExchange than it does from Reddit.
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People keep playing with the syntax because there are still low hanging fruit to pick when it comes to syntax improvements. This one seems really nice to me - I really like : as function keyword and the implications it has.
Related: Jennifer Kahn, Profiles, "The Visionary," The New Yorker, July 11, 2011, p. 46 < http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/07/11/110711fa_fact_... >
If you've gotten Linux on your iPad, tell me how. Now.
"I don't like writing, I like having written." - Ernest Hemingway
So I Jumped
Unmasking the Mystery of Machine Learning
YouTube - ‪China facing a hidden debt crisis‬‏
Seems like a good time to mention #startups on irc.freenode.net
Thanks!

Yeah, I think I see what you're saying. It isn't implemented yet, but community editing of recipes is an idea I've been playing with. There will be community/wiki style tagging of them -- and wiki editing of ingredient and tag information as well. But since the site is reputation based, I'm hesitant to allow wiki editing of the recipes themselves.

I've been playing with ideas related to a variant system -- that could be similar to your source control/github idea -- where you can link your variant recipe to it's inspiration and point out the changes you made.

Of course, none of these ideas will take shape until I get the base code rewritten in ZF.
The binary protocol for MySQL is not, as I recall, particularly idiosyncratic. It's mostly a vehicle for asking the server to parse a text-based query, return a handle, and bind variables to executions of that query (when I implemented it, MySQL didn't even seem to use all the functionality of the protocol).
This gives me a thought. . . could Dyson Air Multiplier technology be scaled down to be used in computers?

http://www.dyson.co.uk/technology/airmultiplier.asp#HowItWor...
I take that and other similar things he has uttered in the past to mean that he puts pragmatism over perfectionism. He wraps it in a self-deprecating tone of humor, which may come out as ignorant but is in fact just him being humble. Or that's how I understand him anyway.
A similar idea is DPCustomMono2, a font adapted by "Distributed Proofreaders" project to make proofreading for mistakes easier. It's not the prettiest font, but it is effective.

http://www.pgdp.net/c/faq/font_sample.php
Previous discussion from earlier today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2755050
Have you considered just getting clothes that will fit? Both http://www.modasuite.com/ or http://www.indochino.com/ offer custom-tailored clothing at reasonable prices.
This is a big step to improving Android in general.
I would love to be able to export my movie ratings before I cancel my account. Anyone know of a way to do this?
Netflix's Inevitable Split
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I'm worried that a lot of these ideas are taking Paul Graham's adage of solving simple problems a little bit too much to heart. The amount of effort that would be expanded into these ideas - and various other start-up ideas nowadays - generally appears to me to be more than it's worth.

I suppose my point is that entrepreneurs are spending too much time solving mundane, every-day problems which aren't that bad as opposed to looking at the big picture. I mean, don't get me wrong, I recognize that not everyone is going to build the next facebook... but if we don't strive for that, doesn't that eliminate the risk - and ultimately, the charm - of entrepreneurship? Or am I just bitter?

I'm starting to think it might just be the latter.
yeah, I'm really expecting it to be widely adopted, it's just a fun project to hack on in spare time and share some thoughts.
For floppy disks:

http://www.amigaforever.com/kb/13-118

Unfortunately a lot of the solutions for Amiga <-> PC conversion no longer work on modern PCs (i.e requiring old versions of windows, isa slots, etc).

The hard drive is easy, you can just plug it into your PC and mount it under linux (using the affs filesystem). If your a windows users I think WinUAE might be able to mount it but I don't know.
> I don't live with my parents and use their login for streaming too.

Then you're breaking TOS and the free ride is over. Netflix is no longer the disruptor and getting comfy as an incumbent now.
Just tried busuu.com again and it's showing me ads for taps and office chairs - just what I'm looking for on a language learning site!

I didn't know about sharedtalk.com. Looks like it's made by Rosetta Stone. The sign up form is like a mortgage application. Why does a language learning site need to know my gender, birthdate and address?
Has anyone verified that they completely dropped Flash? AKA that it runs on a computer without Flash installed?
So what is your point? I used low density disks in '94, so it's not a stretch to imagine they were around in '95.
You're acting wealthy. I hope you are. :)
and their bombardment of emails.
SPCR is a review site pretty serious about their methology; their newest heatsink reviews don't have °C/W figures due to difficulty measuring the power output of socket 1366 CPUs, but here's a mid-2009 review of a huge heatpipe/tower heatsink: http://www.silentpcreview.com/scythe-mugen2

Page 6 states °C/W values of 0.29 down to 0.14 depending on the amount of air pushed with the fans. SPCR's test fans are pretty low-flow to begin with (47 CFM/1080 RPM at 12 V), so you could probably go slightly lower by using real screamers.
Zaarly Launches On Android
~1% of gender answered "Other?" Awesome.
NPR Planet Money #289: Bitcoin
Many. You could for instance use it to post a submission when lots of people are online.

Suppose that would just create a huge influx of new submissions though now I think about it.
Why do you want one?
That's why I dropped my Netflix streaming account. I'd seen every streaming video I had any interest at all in seeing, and months would go by before I had an interest in watching something they added.
> Like I said, if you're uncomfortable with the trade-off, avoid Apple devices.

Something tells me Saurik is a tad more invested at this point, it's not really as simple as "avoiding Apple devices" when you are the dev of Cydia.
EA buying PopCap today for up to $1.3 billion
A couple of guys I went to school with are doing this for shoes:
http://www.shoefitr.com
We're building a 'boring' business too (http://www.hellofax.com) and I love it. Document signing is a huge pain. Businesses feel the pain more than most, since they sign a lot of documents, and they're willing to pay for a solution.

It's way better than the last startup I was at, where we had millions of users, but somehow couldn't make any money.
Thanks for the feedback. :-)

However, what I have found with regards to the health stuff is that the people who are most open to hearing are people who seek me out -- who found my website by googling for that type of information rather than running into me on an email list. I sometimes do okay with talking to people in person that I am on friendly terms with -- and sometimes bomb badly.

The issue I have with helping vulnerable people who know they are vulnerable is that this tends to lead to dependency. I was able to figure out how to get physically well after being appropriately diagnosed at age 35 in part because I had already mostly psychologically recovered from an abusive childhood. I have had to ditch quite a few "helpful" people who didn't know how to be real friends or accept an equitable relationship and desperately needed to be needed. I had to ditch them because they didn't really want me to stand on my own two feet. They wanted me get better but not really well and to continue to need a crutch so they could be needed and have my gratitude. I have no desire to turn around and do that to other people -- and I don't think it really works anyway (for one thing, I prefer having real friends to being surrounded by sycophants and I am prone to attracting sycophants, much to my irritation). This is part of why I have worked at finding a less personal way to share information: So no one has to be personally ingratiated/indebted/socially obligated. (Next step: Figure out how to monetize it.)

The other thing I have concluded is that society has two venues for the "wisdom" business: religion and arts/entertainment/comedy. So I am working towards doing something in the entertainment/humor space, where it is okay to say things you can't say in many other settings and get people thinking.
Startups Seeking Devs chat was created 15 minutes ago.
Let us see what happens! heh
Skype: The inside story
> If people like this can get work then imagine if you actually knew about programming.

You're assuming the client/employer can actually distinguish between the two. I'm not sure that's the case for many jobs.
> Will there even be decent gaming under java? (angry birds does not count)

Minecraft is written in Java.

> When will ... even more specialized medical/industrial/scientific software be available for android?

Presumably when the people buying the software begin to express an interest in moving to android. I'm not saying that it will happen, just that the software will be ported over, or new software written, when people start wanting it.

I don't think that anyone seriously believes that android is going to replace OS X and Windows on desktops, just that, as time goes on, people will be spending more and more time on tablets and smartphones and less on traditional desktops and laptops. I find it a bit sad, mostly because I refuse to believe that I'll ever be able to type as quickly on a tablet as I do on a keyboard.
The full release announcement:

http://lists.tartarus.org/pipermail/putty-announce/2011/0000...
> If there is a collision, then this doesn't 'just work' when the user turns it on.

No, it just potentially kicks off another user. I've never been unable to acquire an IP because of this practice, I've just seen other people's wireless mysteriously give up the ghost when I connect with my iPhone or Mac. I would prefer to have the aggressive device, personally.
In Opera, my "this page is still loading" bar keeps popping up every 200 ms or so. Extremely distracting, and (in my case) it obscures the lower bar of envo.lv.
Because it's fun :)

Nothing is set in stone, it's just a playground for now.
You will hear no disagreement from me. Glad it worked for you.
Users "looking" for love by gender: Men - 94.09%

How surprising.
> The only time Ive ever had issues with OS X connecting to wifi was while using a cheapo router that insisted on advertising its 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks using the same SSID.

That is the default behaviour for an Airport Extreme.
I wonder how his Rite project is going (Ruby Lite, an "embeddable Ruby") Wasn't the project sponsored by the Japanese government? Really looking forward to its release :)
Is this a genuine problem for any non Mac users?

I do no use any Apple operating systems, but I have never had an issue with WIFI connection and address assignment times on any platform that I have used with regularity.

On both windows and linux I am connected before I can even start an application.
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2756661
The ones I've found that are good starting points:

Stylin' with CSS by Charles Wyke-Smith - its mainly a (good) CSS book but gives enough hints at good design so you don't go overboard.

Handcrafted CSS by Dan Cederholm with Ethan Marcotte - again CSS tutorial with emphasis on good design with CSS.

Once you get the handle on those (or before hand) check out the great examples in CSS Zen Garden. ( http://www.csszengarden.com/ ) Something you can pick apart and analyze. The cool thing about ZenGarden is the HTML is always the exact same file it's the CSS and graphics that make the designs different.

Beware web design books that concentrate purely on web design - some of them are trying to be too artsy and cutting edge, look inside the book before buying... also some may be specific for templates in WordPress, Joomla or some other CMS.
Car prices in india
As prices of everything is increasing with a rapid speed, same is the case with car prices. Here, you will get information about car prices in India of different car models.
Show HN: Neovella turns writing into a team sport, publishes the best
There are cheapo routers that do 5GHz?
I do not see X dying for the foreseable future, but if there was good android support on X, many android apps are better than the accessories included in gnome/kde/xfce. I don't understand how Android is a "linux desktop" at the moment.

On the other hand, Android will be the closest thing to "linux everywhere (but the desktop)" . It could power TV sets, washing machines, car navigators, watches etc. Looking forward to using it on my next Roomba.
EA Buys PopCap Games For As Much As $1.3B
Another thought. . . could you take advantage of the thermoelectric effect to cool a system and make it more efficient in the process?
The only reason that is a useful example to you is because that act is genuinely dangerous. There is nothing dangerous about swiping someone's IP and causing them to have to reconnect.
Katango: no way
This is your LIFE. Do what you love and do it often.
Yes, Netflix raised its prices. Now chill out.
Scroll down to the software section on:

http://sta.c64.org/xcables.html
Facebook for Every Phone
What Jaron Lanier Thinks of Technology Now
This isn't a very useful way of doing a poll now that the number of comment votes is hidden.
I actually agree with you, and have been wondering the same thing myself.

However I would say these ideas are not necessarily that bad to practice on. I mean for people who are serious about getting into web stuff, then projects like these could be a great way to learn the ropes. Doing a project from ground up has always been IMO the best way to learn a new language. I know that I will basically be doing this with one of those ideas or a similar one.
I really think this is an excellent, excellent idea - I'm perhaps not your target audience, but I can see instantly how it could be useful. It's definitely an interesting idea.
IOIO Manager Unleashes the Power of Firmware Upgrades
Memo to Google, Microsoft: Consumers need Motivation, not Information
Converting subselects to joins
Unfortunately the video app doesn't work with my phone. Google Nexus S. Kinda crazy since this is Google's flagship phone.
Illinois Celebrated Its First Month Of Civil Unions
That does not mean much. Those bonus figures seem very far fetched.
Where I used to work actually had lots of problems with this. I vaguely recall it coming to a head a while after the iPhone 3G came out and/or about the time various staff members got macs, but I could be wrong. Anyway, it sprang immediately to mind when reading this thread.

It doesn't sound like it would be a big deal, but Windows (and Mac OS X, I've since discovered, mid-7 minute `svn commit'...) just drop the connection if there's an IP conflict. That's actually quite annoying, at the very least. You have to resubmit commits, restart getting latests, your FTP craps out halfway through, file copies go wrong, you lose your remote desktop connection, the code finishes compiling before your web page loads, etc. With any luck, you won't lose any work.

If you don't run your code on the same computer you write it on, you might be less lucky. The debugger craps out and you lose your place, or the file server goes wrong and your code gets an error and stops or whatever while you were in the middle of waiting for it to get somewhere specific. And if you use any home-written tools, they're probably going to be even less resistant to network failures of this nature than the stuff you paid for - which doesn't do a fantastic job in the first place. It all adds up.

Fortunately for me, I wasn't using Remote Desktop all that much, and the device I was working with attached via USB. And I didn't lose any work when the source control just stopped mid-operation. And I could just put headphones on, and block out my colleagues' cries of pain. So maybe that's OK then, and it's no big deal?

I'd like to be able to say what the eventual solution to the problem was, but I don't remember.
Estudio sobre Immunocal en Carcinoma Metastásico (Cáncer)
Show HN: Instant click tests for visual interfaces
My experience so far is that it has made things faster. However, according to BrowserMob monitoring there have been several times during 1 day where my site is completely unavail.

So YMMV.
This looks a lot more like Io than Javascript. I wonder why he didn't mention it.
Just For The Pleasure: Yodelice and The Killers
Today, let's hear two different bands with different styles.

One has the flow, the acoustic side, playing some folk.

One is dynamic, electric, playing some rock, alternative.

I discovered this bands by luck and immediately became fan.

Maybe you already know them or maybe not.

One is a new band.

One sold millions of CD's.

Let's have a great time, listening great music, with Yodelice and The Killers!
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well, larelli can see the # heh
I know my friends in Japan would like this. They often go to language meetups to practice their english.
Obtained like that it's not that interesting... A more interesting number would have been 'looking for love' but weighted on the size of the gender group.

That results in: 2.3% of Men looking for love and 0.37% of Women. These are very little numbers.
Netflix has algorithms that decide how quickly your next dvd is sent. More accurately, it uses a score to rank the group of people who have the same DVD at the top of their queue in order of who should be allocated the next available copies.

This score is based on a number of factors, with the objective being to maximize subscriber happiness (one example question is whether is it more valuable to have quick turnaround for a frequent subscriber who is already happy with the service, versus an infrequent user who might be on the fence--it is not obvious who would be more sensitive to and negatively impacted by a delay in receiving the next DVD).

(Source: I work with people who previously worked at Netflix. This is not confirmed fact but a loose understanding based on casual conversations.)
That works great. Though the first spam botnet to specifically target your site is really going to go to town.
Fleet Commander‬‏ - Electronic Visualization Laboratory UI Experiment
Help, I need somebody
Congrats Crittercism team! It was great to have you at AngelPad. I love what you are doing.
I think a more accurate statment is that I'm acting foolish (I don't recommend other people adopt a similar mindset).

I'm fortunate that my income has always outpaced my compulsive buying tendencies, but it took a long time to keep it from spiralling out of control.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/hacking-neighbor-fr...
Tumblr unveils new API and development center
Oh, I know what you mean with the dependency bit et al. When I really feel the need to be helpful, I typically extend it to people I have never met before and will likely never see again.
i believe i wasn't being literal.
And yet it is exactly as dickish and disrespectful of others. Just like Apple as a whole, it seems.
Ask HN: Do you have a "Panic Status Board"?
Just today I wired up BuzzData.com's internal GeckoBoard to pull in data from GoSquared, Twitter, MixPanel, BlameStella and hopefully soon SnapEngage. I'm sure that the old school BI crowd finds this kind of hipster metrics dashboard to be an abomination, but everyone on our team is really excited to watch our beta users play.

Do you have a status dashboard at your startup? If so, is it software-only or do you have a monitor set up?

What cool feeds and tricks have you managed to use in pursuit of a useful metrics display?

If you do have a physical display, what hardware are you using? The Samsung 460UXN-2 mentioned in the original Panic article seems to have been discontinued.
Congrats... Looking forward to hearing your pres at Sunfire this week.
Tech punditry, and being right vs. sounding smart
I'd love to see photos of cool status boards in the wild!
Perhaps adding the copyright notice to the photo makes it a derivative work, and is therefore protected by copyright?

Another take is that it is the news report that is copyrighted, and putting the main material of the report (the photo) which in itself wasn't subject to copyright represents the substance of the report rather than fair use.
Hard drives on the Amiga were usually SCSI. Specifically, the very old SCSI interface, which has never been widely available in PCI cards.

This was my problem with the "just plug it into your PC" process. So, I ended up needing to connect the machines via serial and transferring the the Amiga Forever tool.

But, I guess if you had IDE disks, that'd be easier...though the old IDE standard plugs are also dinosaurs at this point. Not as hard to find as old school SCSI, but still not certain to be available. I happened to have a vast hardware closet from running a hardware business for several years...but even that was insufficient.
Hey guys, this is a project I've been working on for several months now. The idea is to make the Internet a less lonely place, and let people write stories together both in real time and at their leisure, fearlessly weaving their ideas through each other's to ultimately create a pretty unique and immersive experience of content creation.

There was an initial posting about Neovella on HN back in February in which I received some great feedback via the comments. I took all of that and built it into this new release of Neovella, and now I'm ready to hear more to make it even better. Any kind of feedback would be appreciated. :)
The statement in the video "dyslexics rotate the letters" is largely untrue. For some really cool details on reading research, see Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We Read

http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Brain-New-Science-Read/dp/B004...

by a neuroscientist who has studied these issues for years and who is familiar with the difference that different scripts make in reading difficulties.
YouTube - ‪Giant Steps by John Coltrane‬‏
As far as I can see from the RFC and from Googling, there is no mechanism for a DHCP server to take back an IP address before the lease has expired, unless the client explicitly initiates relinquishing the lease.

Once the address is given out, it is the client's for the term of the lease.
Google TV boxes are due for an Android update this summer (meaning within a month or two). That's finally going to add the Android Market which was missing at release -- you could only use the apps that came preinstalled. Being able to rent movies through the market is a great idea for that form factor.

Maybe I'll actually hook my box up to a TV again; right now it's running a GeckoBoard status board on a wall monitor because of its low power usage compared to a PC.
Everything about it reminds me of Windows Phone 7.
You can get Turbo Pascal 5.5 off Embarcadero's (formerly Borland's) website: http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/20803

Of course, Free Pascal is a better modern alternative.
What's the video app?
Looks nice!

For recipes that you don't have any pictures of yet, seeing the site logo is really confusing. Why don't you instead show a generic icon/clipart image for the class of food (a cup of soup for soups) or pull something in from google images or flickr?
Great story, imagine how scary it would be if the guy was smart enough to crack WEP in less than two weeks.
The data set must not be very accurate. Belgium in the top 10 list of countries with Germany missing?
Yep, your right- users vs traffic, my bad.
How can this be a "mistake"? They created something that looks like a captcha to fool the client into believing it's an actual captcha. If they did't know how to make a proper captcha it's better to tell the client so someone else does it.