skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But isn't the idea of homeopathy to consume miniscule amounts of things that are toxic in large quantities, like arsenic? In that case, cleaned sewer water should be good for you.
More official information: http://status.linode.com/
And it'a perfect example of the kind of innovation that OSS enables. Thanks to Linux, instead of wasting time building a new kernel from the ground up Google was able to spend that time building something entirely new on top of it.
PicPlum hopes to revive a slow photo movement with automated delivery of prints
This is awesome! I'm really happy to see a start-up that contributes to scientific advancement in a meaningful, direct way. This service offers a straight-up efficiency improvement over the old method, in which most universities tried to replicate the core experimental facilities of everyone else.
What to Consider When Developing a High-Traffic, Real-Time Web App
There was an open source app that used sphinx to filter for the word twitter and mute it called twitterkiller. Shame it disappeared but it was listed at:

http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/wiki/sphinxinaction
Well, it's active as in "not dead", but not as in "actively developed operating system".

I'm aware of the difference in the number of developers, but you have to agree that there are hardly any user-visible changes since onnv_147.
I find myself wondering if the studies you reference actually studied the effects of poor posture, or only the use of keyboards themselves.

I have found I'm much more prone to discomfort in my wrists when I am typing on my 10" netbook half-lying down on the couch with my shoulders 30-45 degrees out-of-line with the monitor.
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Wakemate and these startups were not part of the 500 Startups accelerator program but part of the seed fund.

BTW, MarketBrief, formerly Secwatch, YC S11 was part of the old LaunchBox Digital accelerator in '09.
Most TV is shit because most of all content is shit. Most movies are shit. Most novels are shit. Most one act plays are shit. Most music is shit. Most websites are shit. Most HN submissions are shit and let's not even get into comments.

OTOH there's a lot of tv that is great, and I say that as someone who cancelled his cable almost 2 years ago. Some of this is available in other formats. "Saving" people $50 a month telling them to cancel cable tv and torrent everything they want isn't going to save the underclass.

Yes get off the high horse.
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YouTube Edu has a lot of stuff neatly categorized

http://www.youtube.com/education?category=University/Enginee...
Or he really appreciates it, we'll never know either way, but in any case _why's opinion about online happenings in 2010+ is pretty much null and void at this point.
Any idea if it is possible to re-arrange the backlit keys on a MacBook Air? I used to use Dvorak before I switched to Macs with their pretty keyboards.
The app doesn't announce each new version unless you have add-ons that are incompatible with the new version (in which case you get a dialog telling you so), last I checked.

It does tell you that it's applying an update when you do the update startup, so far. That's likely to go away as well.
This is not the pricing model used in African countries. So the price of the handset does matter.

As I understand it, most mobile phones in Africa are pre-paid, using per-second billing.
Besides the physical impact, you should definitely look into the mental impact of the craft as well. I've learned (unfortunately through the hard way) that regular exercise (be it yoga, running, etc) helps to relieve stress that our body encounters throughout the day.
In television, like in life, you have to look for the gems that make up quality programming. I recently ran across a show where Stephen Hawking talked about the existence of God and black holes. Awesome program. After the show finished, it was immediately followed by "Axe Men" (or something). Does that mean Discovery channel sucks? Nope. You win some, you lose some.

Likewise, I accidentally flipped to a channel with Spanish Flamenco dancing on a public channel, which was so far outside of my normal routine and culturally enriching that I couldn't help but watch.

Where people get in trouble is when they use TV as a crutch to live life vicariously instead of using it to enrich their view of the world (or universe).

Eleanor Roosevelt once said "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, and simple minds discuss people." It's amazing how much more you can get out of television (or life) when you categorize a show into one of those three boxes and select the first one.
God, man, do you really think teenage pregnancy amongst the poor is a new problem?
Yeah, the article is from April 2009. I realized that when he mentioned jQuery 1.3.
Seems to me like this was as good a solution as any. Plus now everyone can use the code, and I bet the individual who didn't pay will think twice about that again.
Here in South Australia (Adelaide, a city of 1m or so people), we often face water restrictions due to low water levels in our reservoirs and low rainfall projections. These restrictions include only being able to water gardens on certain days of the week, etc. It's quite remarkable to hear about a city/council 'wasting' water and spending money to do so.
would you care to share data sources for your confidence?

I am not arguing they are wrong, I am just unable to google concrete data for PC and smarthphone + tablets usage in a recent time period.
Rails 3.0.10 Released
> The difference is that NaCl applications can be trivially
> recompiled for a new architecture.

Except they can't, in many cases. Recompiling for a new architecture is rarely trivial.

More importantly, there would be no impetus to recompile for a new arch with low market share, so its users would be just as locked out of NaCl stuff as if it _were_ trivial to recompile.

> so the LLVM approach is greatly preferred.

Except LLVM isn't architecture-agnostic, in general.... just doing LLVM lets you abstract away some aspects of architectures, but by no means all.

> It's a way to deliver applications over the web

Sure. But it would sure suck if you had to get Google to recompile gmail for your new architecture in order for your users to have access to it, as opposed to just writing a JS interpreter or JIT for your architecture!

And gmail and its ilk are _exactly_ what NaCl is trying to target.
It's worse, actually. Last I remember reading the whole idea of keyboard-induced RSI is basically a myth. For RSI sufferers, keyboard use irritates the problem to the point where it can be debilitating. But there is no known correlation between keyboard use and RSI.

Some people have wrist pain, some (like me, despite living full time at a keyboard for most of the last 20 years) don't. If you do, take care of yourself. But don't do stuff like this prophylacticly, it's more likely to hurt than help.
Well done buddy
It seems like this could be made into a even more generic experiment service. Sort of like Mechanical Turk for science experiments, where you pay other scientists to reproduce your results?
I believe asynchronous programming model made it in to Java EE6 and expect more to be added to Java EE7.

http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/JavaEE/JavaE...
AKO as a google apps service alone would be amazing.
Pollenizer-backed Wooboard woos angel group Elevation Capital
Per project or per hour depends on the client.

They often have a preference; in large companies, they may be able to get a "per project" budget approved, but not a per hour budget - so be it. You have to be a little flexible.

What I used to do when I contracted was to estimate the amount of time needed, and then say X weeks * Y$/hr = total Z$ project cost.

You learn to pad that, depending on the client, to calculate in "unexpected" costs. ie. for a difficult/inexperienced/unknown client, I would double the estimated hours.

Both as a contractor and a client, if there is some trust in the relationship, I much prefer per-hour based jobs. But it's not always possible.

If you bring in other people, don't hide it. There's no need to.
> An extrapolation of these figures found that a single
> hour of TV was responsible for the loss of just under 22
> minutes of life, the news agency reported.

Sounds great - that's a net win of 38 minutes! I'm going to get in front of the TV and stay there!
Something not noted: he's turned a negative event (getting stiffed) into positive exposure for his work with hundreds of HN readers. At least at a glance, it seems like solid and clean Rails / Ruby code (and I think I've seen some other commenters noting that as well.) I'd be surprised if this post didn't result in at least one new client down the road... nicely played.
before you enable agent forwarding (and btw it's "ForwardAgent yes" not "AgentForwarding yes") you may want to enable confirmation in ssh-agent:

http://jcs.org/macssh
It'll be interesting to see whether sites start using the CSS auto-hyphenation features....
Were you a fan of Idiocracy?
The 3000 limit on GAE, his ticket has changed from accepted to started
Quote from the website: Because AWS GovCloud is physically and logically accessible by U.S. persons only, government agencies can now manage more heavily regulated data in AWS while remaining compliant with strict federal requirements.

I'm really curious that they made this promise and even more surprised that any one believed them. Physical I can buy but logical? What happens with people with VPN credentials that get hacked? How does ANYONE make such a promise for a network-accessible resource?
"You don't see the entropy I've described?"

"They reproduce endlessly, these poor, because poverty, religion and ignorance of birth control are all best friends. Each successive generation ends up just a little more screwed than the last, as pregnancies roll into the mid-teen years, and generations start stacking. Women in their 30's, grandmothers."

No I don't see the same trends you do. The birth rate in African Americans has dropped to near replacement levels over the last 15 years. Teen pregnancy rates have falled over the last 15 years. Entropy is not the correct word to describe this and tv has nothing to do with it.
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There's an important exception: browsers, particularly those that don't have an option for automatically restoring all tabs from the prior session. This may be a vanishing exception, but still a possibility.
Motorola Mobility Investor Suit Says $12.5B Google Bid Is Too Low
I dropped out of college and within 6 months had debilitating wrist pain. I couldn't even hold a mouse for more than about 20 minutes. I "fixed" it through wrist braces, like the author suggested, ergonomic keyboards (paid $1000 for a datahand keyboard while it was out of production), etc. Yet I still couldn't do simple thing like use a laptop keyboard pain free for 15 minutes. However, it was not until last year that I eliminated the pain completely.

The solution was simple strength training. Not weight lifting (I think that was a major contributor early on.) Within a few weeks of starting the beginner program in the book "You Are Your Own Gym" the pain was gone. I fully expected to have severe wrist pain and nerve damage for the rest of my life.

I hope this helps someone. The solutions to this problem are overblown (granted I suspect a combination of wrist braces and pain killers could push some people far past a recoverable edge.)
yeah, but it is also racist/s
Re-inventing Pearson Publishing using APIs
ICANN CEO Announces He's Leaving in July of 2012
Uncertainty leads to more conservative investment and a greater demand for savings to absorb exogenous shocks. There is a great deal of regulatory uncertainty about obamacare amongst other things.
Not necessarily true. Often there is application state that you don't want to lose, which isn't saved. For example if you have open IM/IRC windows or if you have multiple opened Documents that you are reading that are saved.

Though I think a better way is just to save all state when quitting no matter what your application does.
> the animals themselves live in horrid conditions that often includes standing knee-deep in lakes of their own waste.

Considering the oft repeated phrase "as happy as a pig in shit", I don't think many people are going to be squeamish about eating pig just based on its living conditions.
Walmart's supply-chain management software sounds like pre-cognition to me, at least in the sense that they are making some pretty good decisions about the future based on predictions.

It's just like artificial intelligence, once you get how it works it doesn't seem all that intelligent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect#AI_is_whatever_hasn.2...
Uh, no, it is definitely an "actively developed operating system".

As for user visible, actually, yes, changes made to dtrace recently for example.

Sparse zones as another example, and so on.

Remember that Solaris (and its derivatives, unlike Linux) is userland + kernel -- not just the kernel. So changes in userland count in my opinion when considering "actively developed operating system".
At the peak of my RSI I could barely hold a mouse, I switched to an adesso keyboard with touchpad in the center. It didn't cure it but it had an immediate and fairly lasting impact for the better. I'm so used to using a touchpad now I only use the mouse for PC games. See my other comment in here for the full story.
I usually just put on internet radio like bassdrive.com or jungletrain.net

A coworker recently pointed me towards a band called Pendulum - it's pretty cool
There are other efforts to create exchanges or marketplaces for scientific research as well (e.g. http://www.assaydepot.com/). Small number, but definite possibilities. The problem is that a lot of research institutes and companies have a strong "we need to do everything" mindset that will take time to overcome

edit as noted elsewhere, funding models also implicitly encourage this behavior
Ah! I withdraw my indignation. :-)
Switch to a touchpad keyboard. Try an adesso tru-form. It will feel really weird and uncomfortable for the first week, and then you won't look back. The only thing I can't do effectively on it now is PC games, especially FPSs.
The trouble with this idea is that university researchers have very little cash and are loathe to part with it. Almost all of their grant money goes to paying the salaries of people in their lab (fixed costs). If they need to use a piece of equipment at another institution, the current method is to propose a collaboration with a researcher at that university. Additionally, any decent researcher already knows where the specialized equipment resides (they can figure it out by reading the papers in their field or chatting at conferences), so there is no need for a centralized database.
> 2) Sit up straight, dammit. In every photo we ever see of new startups, how many people are sitting with good posture? None of them.

Do you have data that indicates that contributes to RSI? My personal experience is that trying to "sit up straight" and maintain "good" posture is the fastest, most direct route to wrist pain. Like, less than a half hour. By contrast, if I slouch my body, my wrists can maintain a graceful positive curve (not straight or bent back) and I can comfortably code or game for hours (though I try not to sit in one place that long, in general). As a side benefit, this also puts my eyes at a better angle when I'm using the laptop screen.
Fuel Up: BMW stripe package for M3 Coupe
I keep getting a "Could not find sprockets-2.0.0.beta.10 in any of the sources" error when I try to bundle install. Anyone know what may be causing this?
Haha. Sorry about that. Keep up the good work. :)
William Gibson on cities
haha that would totally be worth it, as well as provide a little extra motovation to finish.
Tab-completion, everywhere
That's just great. Now people are going to start flooding HN with Erlang stories again.
A few sources... I wouldn't put too much faith in the details, but in terms of rough magnitude they're probably pretty accurate.

Gartner says PC sales in 2011 will be <400 million. I'm pretty sure that's mostly Windows:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870330090457617...

iPad sales looking like 40 million (or more) for 2011:
http://blogs.computerworld.com/18550/apple_2011_ipad_sales_h...

Smartphone sales were 100 million in Q2 alone; Windows share of that was 1.6% (!):
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219112/Gartner_Smart...
Show HN: MobSquid, an SDK that makes it easier to interpret phone sensors
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It's quite remarkable to us in California as well, only a few hundred miles south of Portland. If Oregon has that much water to spare, maybe we should get them to let us build a pipeline.
That's good, but what I really want to know is "Will Firebug still work after I upgrade?"
I did my PhD at Stanford and took all three classes. DB is a more fundamental class, and probably easier. AI and ML are both great but they are designed to be taken in sequence with AI first then ML (which is a sub-field of AI).
Sports: Cricket, Football, Badminton: Surrey win to go top
> I am singularly amused at the possibility of contaminating treated post-sewage water with river water

It is bizarre, isn't it? I don't know about anyone else, but I've spent most of my life thinking of rivers as quite polluted. Even when hiking in wilderness I take a giardia filter.
Sports bars certainly aren't my favorite bars, but this just seems rude. It's supposed to be a loud place.
Source says SEOmoz raised $25M after long VC search
Words like "irrational" are propaganda and "how to change their mind" suggests that people should be drinking cleaned sewer water provided by a municipality whose equipment is run by drug addicts and losers, and equipment provided by the lowest bidder.
This is a bigger deal than most people think. Government has been clamoring to use the the cloud, but couldn't because of security reasons. Every government consulting shop will try and sell this to their clients.
SC2 is shaping up nicely, looking forward to seeing more details at tomorrow's meetup!
Hi! I'm one of the co-founders of MobSquid. We've just released the first version of the SDK and are interested in what HN thinks.

We're around to answer any questions.
I've seen some of the previews. I don't put too much stock in them - Longhorn looked pretty awesome as well, until it shipped as Vista.

My concern is that once every faction at Microsoft has had their say, you end up with this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k
I'm a scientist. I have no issues with the process of turning sewage water into clean drinking water. Absolutely none. However, I do have an issue with humans. Humans screw things up. Humans don't always implement the proper quality assurance programs, and when they do, they might not follow them. Every time I pour myself a glass of water from the tap, it's not the science I'll doubt, I'll just be wondering if Timmy down at the local water treatment plant did his job properly today, because if he didn't, I'm now drinking someone's shit.
If you buy a phone outright you still have to pay the same high monthly rates.
No kidding. I really love this line from their latest blog post:

"I would like to remind people that contacting us with abusive e-mail messages is in fact illegal"

"You suck" is not illegal, gents.

Man. What slime.
What kind did you expect?
50 Reasons why your marketing efforts suck
i bet this one was on the lines "be my tech cofounder" kind of things. no one would be fooled by payment for 200 side-job hours. i think.
Hands on with Fusion Garage's Grid 10 tablet and Grid 4 smartphone
To me part of the benefit of typing in Dvorak is that I'm touch-typing all the time.

Don't rearrange the keys, just learn to type entirely blind.
call it "rain"
They work as expected for English. They "work" for languages with characters outside the English set, but they order based on ASCII byte values rather than the order expected by native speakers. Proper collation is a TODO for r17.

I made these changes to postgresql.conf and restarted postgresql:

random_page_cost = 1.0

effective_cache_size = 11GB

shared_buffers = 3GB

The times for load, index and the queries were about the same as for the published run.

My apologies, I should have said earlier & in the blog that PostgreSQL is _CPU bound_ even before I made these changes. Next time I will also track CPU and disk usage and publish those for more clarity.

I've re-run EXPLAIN and done a bit more digging than before, looks like PostgreSQL does not use the "username" index to do the GROUP BY, I suspect it's related to this: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2008-02/msg00220.p...

Thanks again!
Blog announcement: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/8/16/ann-rails-3-0-10

Rails 3.1.0 RC6 is out: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/8/16/ann-rails-3-1-0-rc6

So is 2.3.14: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/8/16/ann-rails-2-3-14
Brilliantly Sarcastic Responses to Signs
If you're interested, the field that studies these sorts of technologies is called Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), and it is a very active area of research with a lot of great stuff going on. My department does a lot of work in this area; drop me an email if you're interested and I can point you in the direction of some reading.

You are 100% correct that current AAC solutions are often suboptimal, but one of the big challenges facing the field is that individual capabilities (both in terms of cognitive function and motor control) vary extremely widely from user to user, and so there's no such thing as a "one-size fits all" solution. Oh, and head buttons like the one you saw typically use "over-sized arcade buttons" because the user doesn't have the fine motor control needed to operate anything smaller. The idea is to give them as big and easy a target to hit as possible. There are users who, literally, are limited to twitching one of their eyebrows as their sole voluntary muscle motion, and sometimes even that is unreliable (i.e., it only twitches some of the time, or for a short period of time). In such a case, you want the button to be as easy as possible to trigger- think Fitt's law. :-)

Accelerometer-based solutions such as the one described in the article have the potential to be extremely useful; however, in the case of a user who's limited to a head button (or an elbow button, a nose switch, etc. etc.), the physical movements involved could well be too variable and irregular to be usefully decoded. That said, one of the active areas of research within the AAC world is how to build machine learning algorithms into AAC software such that an individual's system adapts over time to their patterns of use, so depending on what's going on with a particular user it might be possible to train something up... but, of course, doing this in any kind of repeatable way often ends up to be a crapshoot, as, again, users vary incredibly widely in terms of which muscles they can control and the extent to which they can do so.
And yet if you tell them that some cultures consume insects as part of their diet they will immediately start making yuck sounds and saying how disgusting it is. We truly are our culture.
No spoons were harmed. Ordering food was simplified.
Also, do you plan on adding something like a "confidence radius" for the output? Are there cases where the GPS was not able to return an accurate lock and was only able to give a vague estimate?

By the way, very cool app. Looking forward to messing with it. :)