skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More importantly, the "statistic" also seems to contradict recent scholarly research that indicates that areas with high home ownership are the last to return to full employment.

"Oswald showed a correlation between homeownership and unemployment both within and across countries. These results have been confirmed by Nickell and Layard (OECD countries) and Green and Hendershott (U.S. states). The present paper tests the hypothesis with an individual household data base. We track through time individual households with people who enter unemployment. We find some evidence that earners in homeowning households who become unemployed find work less quickly than do earners of renter households."

Abstract: http://cura.osu.edu/research/roundtables/data/hendershott1.p...

NyTimes Article: http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/08/16/a-chance-to-...
Direct link to the jStat site: http://www.jstat.org/

jStat is a statistical library written in JavaScript that allows you
to perform advanced statistical operations without the need of a
dedicated statistical language (i.e. MATLAB or R).
My point with the data is that the claim of 95% market share is probably not accurate.
No "year of the Linux desktop" after 2 decades? LinuxCon keynote: "so what?"
Wow, that really is quite sophisticated. I was almost fooled by the first page, all the way up to when they discretely asked you to wire money to the UK.
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Yeah, for 1200 minutes + unlimited data + unlimited texts, Virgin Mobile is now $45 http://www.virginmobileusa.com/cell-phone-plans/beyond-talk-...
Good app. Simple to use and very intuitive. Best part is I can check my friends location. Awesome. Big time saver.
I was all there, until it said 'PDF'. For my purposes I need a more accessible format.

Other than that, I could definitely see this helping with my foreign language studies. Especially Japanese, as the company appears to do a lot of books in that language.
> But I think most of them do it because they love (or are just addicted to) the game they are playing.

Of course, as Gordon Gecko would say, "it's never been about the money -- it's about the game."
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300 minutes is the voice call limit. The data portion is "unlimited", so if you have Google Voice or are willing to move over to it, you can skip over a lot of would-be voice minutes by using GrooveIP (or some other SIP gateway solution) and serve most of your talky needs via voip without burning talk minutes.

Granted for most people it is probably easier just to bump up to one of the higher level Virgin plans which are also pretty cheap relative to industry averages.
Symfony 1.4, Component Caching and SOAP
My grandmother, who passed away last week, was an author. She self-published two novels through a printer who typeset her books and printed a few hundred copies. I don't know what happened to the original text files she gave her printer and I know she never got a digital typeset copy.

I've been wanting to re-release her novels as ebooks, but haven't had a way to digitize them. This is perfect for me.
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My biggest problem with long hours (aside from the long hours themselves), is that like most programmers, I'm not constantly productive for 10 hours a day. It frustrates me that I have to sit in my desk for long periods where I'm unproductive before my muse hits and then I enter hugely productive periods (which often take place outside of normal business hours).

I don't think some m-f, 9-5 union type situation is the proper answer, but theres gotta be a better way. Sitting at my desk when I'm not being productive is a waste of my life.
Same here, on Chromium 12 (wait, 12!?! Time to go fix that...) on Ubuntu 11.
Aside from the incredibly naive assertion that Groupon would maintain its current revenue with $0 marketing (OP, you realize that every company with appreciable revenue spends at least some of their money on marketing, right?), the primarily troubling aspect was that the figures were deliberately misleading. Even if Groupon's intentions weren't so dubious, the implication that any of their valuation or justification for an IPO can be calculated based on only some of their expenses is absurd and dangerous to a general public that may (like this author) be easily taken in by their "accounting acrobatics."

If their managers and finance team want to use this figure internally to justify jobs that they may or may not deserve, that's fine--but to use these ridiculous measures publicly is irresponsible at best, and actively deceitful at the other end.

[Edit]: I almost didn't bite on the OP at all--I'm still not 100% sure it's not pure troll.
I think I've seen services like this before, and either way would rather get a physical person/company with some recourse for acting incorrectly to do it.

But, take a look at the favicon. The broken lemniscate is bizarrely poignant/morbid for a 16*16 pixel square. Neat design.
How much will they charge you if you never want to receive or send a text message at all?

On Verizon, this was a $10 one-time charge.
Their build systems may do basically the same thing, but I bet they all do it dramatically differently and probably for good reason.

Every company you listed has different products, resources, deliverables and goals. Their build systems will have evolved over many years to take advantage of those resources and meet those needs, and that process will naturally lead to different solutions.
Sounds about right. http://www.businessinsider.com/leave-work-early-2011-5
You could sell gasoline over the internet. A tanker could find your car and fill it up overnight sometime as the delivery mechanism. In urban areas this might be more efficient than gas stations...
The DOM for the spinner is created with Javascript, but the spinning is entirely CSS.
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What I'd really like is a weather API - I just spent 2 hours looking into a decent one to use. (The National Weather Service doesn't seem to report the current temperature. :/)
It is my belief that this is even already how it works in Europe: people sending messages are charged, but receiving is free.
They never (or almost never) use their phones to make voice calls. I hardly make voice calls myself.
Are there any GIF loader generators that have all this options (speed, sizes, color) available? Could be good to use this as a preview, and then generate the final GIF.
The VM compatible Motorola Triumph is a pretty nice Android phone, too. Noticeably quicker than my original Droid.
It's an erroneous leap by the submitter. HP is spinning off their entire PC business.
Show HN: Snapline - social recommendations for online retailers via FB Connect
I think the best comparison is Japan.

Huge real-estate bubble fueled boom times, followed by a lot of spending to try and stimulate the economy Keynesian style. If it does not work, you get 20+ years of recession.

At least America's population is growing so that might make a difference. Also America's infrastructure is in bad shape, as opposed to Japan which went into its recession with top notch infrastructure. This means infrastructure spending in the US could be more stimulative then it was for Japan.
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(Updated and expanded version of this comment at http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2011-August/...)
"I have no personal knowledge of computers" - Bill Hewlett
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I think this is one of the hidden benefits of going digital with books. The selection of large print books is very weak, but with a kindle (or similar) suddenly every book is a large print book and many can be played as automated audio books as well.
To repeat an earlier comment of mine, the problem wasn't the metric itself; the problem was where it was put. That filing is not the place for companies to put free-form propaganda. If we permit that, we'll never see an honest filing ever again. If Groupon wants to push that metric, let them do it in a more appropriate forum.
And if it happened, it was because the company was out of business already...
Why America’s patent system needs to be reformed, and how to do it
FTA:

But it's not all about the tweets. Understanding the way people are feeling is the underlying principal behind the magic, but other factors ultimately decide what gets traded and how. The algorithm also looks at how the market looks at that moment along with commodities pricing, explains Jordan.

So the article is not about how the hedge fund used twitter to beat the market, just how it happened to beat the market over a single highly volatile month using twitter as a factor into the algorithms that decide when and what to trade.
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Ah ok thats better. The description did not make that clear. Should have read the code...
The only reason to use this is for scalable throbbers, and since you're only going to configure it once, it'd be much easier and more compact to just use a generated SVG+SMIL instead.
It appears that the service returns plain PDF files which are fairly easy to convert into more open formats.
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Who said scammer will be using his own checking account to write checks?
Why Use Erlang?
No, that is why it takes a long time to add <random obscure feature that doesn't have business value>.
Architecture snob John Pastier lambasts Apple’s "spaceship" style campus
> I suspect that will prevent students from borrowing books from the library, getting them scanned via this service, and returning them.

Now I'm curious, how much does a library charge for a lost book?
Just because LinkedIn was a success does not mean a blanket statement can be made for all. I would have titled it "All too often". Too many outside factors can have an impact. I would use Wordpress for the example of working long hours and also being a success.
Ability to filter out Groupon stories.
Even if we stretched the 48 hours to 48 days ...

Ah, like the PlayStation Network security debacle.
I've got a good friend who was in EDS when HP bought them, and is still there now. This move by HP doesn't surprise me at all. That company has been floundering for a while, and their management is clueless as to where to go from here.

Nice little tid-bit: HP finally ended the EDS name after a yearly financial report (I don't remember which year) showed that the EDS division was the only profitable group in HP that year, and not only that but profitable enough to offset the losses everywhere else.

HP should go back to printers and stay there. Their computers have been horrible, buying Palm AND Compaq destroyed their bottom line, and the WebOS tablet is failing miserably.
Do they OCR before converting to PDF? Having a PDF that is just a 'picture' isn't very helpful (can't search for text, change text size, etc).
I zoomed out, and was able to see clouds.
Hi everyone,

I'm the (solo) founder of Snapline, which is a B2B startup that lets online retailers provide their customers with online recommendations via Facebook Connect. Customers who opt into Snapline will see personalized product recommendations based on their Facebook profile; so it looks at age, gender, location, education status, interests -- as well as view and purchase history -- to determine the best products to display.

I definitely appreciate any feedback you may have, and am happy to answer any questions!
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Yes, it is a poor {A}I's best guess as to what the paper said. The actual paper can be found here:

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2011/CC/c0cc05...

If you're at a university that can get past the paywall you can read it for free otherwise they want 32 euros for it.

The experimental setup seemed susceptible to aliasing (which is to say detecting one type of carbon when another was present) and the inability to extract the material measured makes cross checking the sensor difficult.
Looking them in the eye and Peter Shankman’s story
I'm not sure the elderly would respond very well to your application's (perfectly awesome!) name.
> has beta level support for loading CPython C extensions.

Is this via ctypes, or "real" support in much the same as how CPython would behave?

I ask because this is one of the features that I've been waiting (impatiently) for - I've run some Flask projects using PyPy and gunicorn, and love how fast it goes, but really want to be able to use the rest of my codebase, which unfortunately does rely on some C (and Cython) extensions. (:
This is the great thing about the IPO, maybe he's right and ACSOI is a great metric from GroupOn, maybe everyone else is right and it's an unprofitable business in the future.

If he's right and everyone else is wrong I'd use the analogy to decide what to do: Borrow every cent the OP can get his hands on, put some more leverage on it and buy up as much of the IPO as he can. After all he has to get in now before everyone else realizes what a great deal the stock is.

However, if you look at the prospectus you'll see that most of the latest round went to cash out early shareholders, and not on marketing.
$0.20 per SMS with my ATT/iPhone contract.
This concept is called customer lifetime value. No one misunderstood it; everyone is questioning what the actual lifetime value of those customers is.

Including an internal metric like this in the filing was a big PR mistake.
I'm always blown away by the consistent performance gains they reach with each new version. Congrats!
Wait a minute, I got a question I hope people can clear up for me... because I see a huge elephant in the room.

So they're saying if you have a H1-B visa, you can work for your own company full-time.

But.. umm.. if you have a H1-B visa, that means you probably got it from your current employer whether it's Google or Goldman Sachs. That uh.. means you're already working for them full-time, and if you quit, then your visa is gone! And now the rule doesn't apply to you anymore.

Am I missing something here?
Doesn't that defeat the purpose, though? Progress indicators are designed to make you think things are going faster than they are. If you want to display accurate information, why not just display it?
One comment mentioned "Fizz-Buzz" which I hadn't heard of. Interesting tidbit. http://imranontech.com/2007/01/24/using-fizzbuzz-to-find-dev...
Support for Vcard and Vcal SMS
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jStat seems much more comprehensive stats-wise than other js libs. Lacking docs, the source is well organized and readable:
https://github.com/jstat/jstat/tree/master/src

For a few stat functions more, check out Jason Davies' science.js, which was extracted from d3.js:
https://github.com/jasondavies/science.js

For basic stats and math, MooTool's Array.Math has some nice functions: http://mootools.net/forge/p/array_math
Ok, I obviously don't understand how this is an exploit of this particular system.

It just sounds like a plan to pay for things with fraudulent checks, which folk have been doing forever.
Check out https://www.murfie.com/
Dont go down that road - please. If you "borrow" someones book you rob one person of the privilege of reading it in the future. If you pull the same stunt with a library book you potentially rob many people well into the future. For some reason libraries are very slow to replace lost books. I guess just knowing with good certainty that the book is actually gone for good rather than placed in the wrong section would be a tough nut to crack.
When people say "It is raining cats and dogs," I am afraid they will get the message that harm is coming to innocent animals. We must, for the love of dogs, stop this type of communication at once.
Also keep an eye on:

<input type="range" min="0" max="100">
<input type="number" min="0" max="100">

http://www.w3schools.com/html5/html5_form_input_types.asp
Even after reading the ExchB site, I don't understand how this works. You deposit money... into what account? Yours? How does it get to the exchange?
It isn't that Erlang is anywhere near the only language that can do code reloading, it is that Erlang is unusual in the scope of reloading it permits and the care that it takes, to the point that reloading can be used in Erlang not as a clever hack to bridge gaps, but used as a planned update mechanism that causes zero downtime.

Since data in Erlang is immutable, you don't have to worry about what references will be left dangling. Since Erlang has no user-defined data types, you don't have to worry about redefining a class. (Big problem with Python reloading, all existing objects still belong to the old class instance.) Since Erlang is structured in terms of processes, and OTP can track which process is which thing, OTP has a defined mechanism for taking running server processes, examining their state, and allowing you to upgrade from old states to new states cleanly, and since in Erlang a process is basically nothing but its call stack and its current state, that upgrade is complete and relatively safe. You can literally upgrade a server mid-TCP connection without the client knowing.

Most languages, if poked properly, can change code at runtime. Even C can unload a dynamic library and load a new version of it at runtime. It's just that mutable values and poorly-defined boundaries between systems make it range from effectively impossible through "usable only as a desparate hack" (as seen here), Erlang makes it production-quality.

I say this only for educational purposes, not advocacy per se. I'd like to see further understanding of how Erlang works so that other language communities are more likely to pick up on the essential features of Erlang, instead of getting stuck on the superficial ones which is the usual case. (OTP is what you need to port, not "message passing"...)
Didn't realize this. Oh well. It's still cool and interesting, but I guess never that feasible.
Haha, hmm, you're right there. However, that is the standard name of any device that triggers when the user loses consciousness or is otherwise incapacitated.
What do you recommend as a good reference on implementing AES encryption?
They're not scanning your books for a dollar. They're letting you pay them to give them books. Then they resell them at some discount. Speculation...but that's what I would do.
New clang relase get a memory checker
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Do you mean EDS? What was EBS?
An H1b can be transferred so you can switch companies with it.
Must they all be bilaterally symmetrical?
I came here exactly with the same question! To build my company from ground up, I need to work for it. But how can I do that if I am already working full time for my current employer ?
> has recently made several short posts containing obvious and often unsupported Google advocacy,

Disclaimer: I don't work for Google. I don't particularly like or dislike them either - I use their services and I am more or less happy with them. It's only fair to say I don't like Microsoft that much either - I have been a Windows user and developer for a good part of my career and I know how bad their software really is. Their business practices are also plain disgusting.
You can load any webpage on the site, and it will keep you alive. It's as simple as doing a POST on the form, but it should be trivial for me to implement a simple API, so I'll write this soon!

It will probably be something like:

https://www.deadmansswitch.net/api/checkin/?username&password

However, GAE can't do https on that domain yet, and I don't feel very secure passing credentials like that, so I might have to issue API keys. Still, not very hard, thanks for the suggestion!
Note: According to their terms[1] if ExchB looses your money (either USD or BTC) they are not liable for that money. Bitcoin is interesting, but these exchange markets are so shady. There is essentially zero consumer protection when using them. I have the expectation when I deposit money in an account to have the assurance that money will be available to me, no matter what. ExchB does not guarantee that. Therefore, I will not use their service or another until such reasonable guarantees can be made.

[1] https://www.exchangebitcoins.com/terms
I avoid a response after someone says it. Most of the time, I do not think they notice, but sometimes I get a "Why do you never say 'Thank you' when I say 'Bless You!'" from a person. My response is that I would be thanking someone for doing something for me, but the person has not done anything. If saying 'Thank you' was a polite response to me saying something according to the rules of society, people should be thanking me when I say hello. I do not say "God Bless You" or "Thank You" in response to this. I must agree with you that the meme is purposeless. I have no trouble with people saying "Bless You" in any way, but it should not be related to something mundane such as a sneeze.
Surely I could filter those resumes just like many employers currently do anyway. First of all we'd likely be talking about some type of entry level position as education plays less and less of a role when looking for experienced engineers. So I start with some type of test before I'll even look at your resume. In fact, if I'm an employer as popular as Google, I may have more than one level of tests to get through based on the job before I give any resume's a look. It's not hard to test for knowledge in Computer Science and I'm sure companies like Google already do to some extent anyhow.

Once you've done the initial filtering it's not too terribly hard to spot some potentially good candidates. Especially in the field of software development where it's easier than ever to build products and make them available for others to see and use.

I'm also not saying to ignore the education lines...I'm just suggesting that I don't like it as the main criteria for filtering out candidates.
I get the impression that bluetooth just is something modern smartphones (read: locked down internet browsers) can't get right. And we still have batteries in our phones..

As someone that uses bluetooth for music a lot, removing the headphone jack seems about as innovating as removing the wired ethernet jack.
This story is better if you read it as the contractors actually made you write the project in sh.
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I appreciate your response. I still disagree with your basic premise. The difficulty with making large Rainbow Tables is not the storage space, but the time necessary to create the initial table. Faster GPU's make Rainbow Tables more effective for large password spaces, not less. The size of the table can be arbitrarily reduced by using longer chains. The real limiting factor is the time to generate the initial table, which is comparable to making a single brute force search.

The theory is beyond my ability to explain, but as a practical example, this page might be useful: http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/tables.php

It's not an exact match up, but look at "Vista 7" table. For complete coverage of a 95 character set (not sure how you calculated 77 printable ASCII) up to 7 characters, they require 36 GB instead of the 417 TB you propose. Since theirs ships and works, I'm inclined to believe that your theory is in error.

Also, I could be mistaken, but I don't think there is such a thing as a "Dictionary Rainbow Table". You can choose any character set you want, but because of the way the algorithm works I don't think you can restrict to a prechosen word set.
The social shopping thing looks like it will be pretty big over the next few years. This looks like an interesting implementation. How hard is it to integrate this into an existing site?