skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason for that is that likes are essentially a form of permission marketing. If you've liked a brand that company knows:

(1) you're interested in their products

(2) they can push you out promotions via your friend stream for free in the future

(3) they can use you as social proof when advertising to your friends

Obviously this doesn't apply to all businesses, if you're selling a one-off product having a long term relationship with a user ins't important. But if you're a retailer or brand then that long term relationship can have a lot of value.
Does SimpleDB have auth issues? That is, how do I prevent one user from touching another's data?
most people don't know how to quickly type: à
The typewriter lives on in India
Bad choice with the Toyota F1. Should have gone with a McLaren or a Ferrari.
once the EFI firmware password is set, only Apple can break it by calling support or going to an Apple Store.

Actually, all you need to do is add or remove a stick of RAM and then reset the PRAM 3 times in a row.

More: http://www.davidjmoore.com/2008/04/13/bypassing-the-efi-firm...
Sorry back. I find it a problem sometimes, some of my friends got into one through the back/sneaked in. Never really the events just the after parties to be honest.

It's not very often that I have a problem as if it's quite a big after party (bouncers/staff from establishment run the door) they rarely expect a 17 year old to be going to a startup event after party.

Obviously none of this is a deterrent to starting anything.
Yea, no need to be a negative Nancy. This is a super cool achievement and I'm really happy for these dudes. It's a neat idea and a lot of fun.
I've used the jquery-ui datepicker before. You can customize it to make the year a drop-down, similar to what you have. I forget what the default range of years is, but we modified it to suit our needs anyway...

But can't you just modify your widget? Somewhere in your code must be the range of years provided...
Is there any criticism of Obama that I could make that wouldn't be dismissed as racism?
I think that's how Burning Man started.
The actual mass of the heads and arms was an issue as well; you had to be careful not to seek back and forth at the natural resonance frequency of the cabinet or the "washing machines" would start walking across the floor.
What story are you trying to tell to potential investors?
Intrinsic value is set by the marketplace. Right now, the market perception is that prime numbers (or whatever bitcoins are) are scarce, valuable resources.
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This is 403ing now, which is a shame because I've been using Project Gutenberg since like forever and really wanted to read this. Can anybody copypasta?
Google's like that guy who says he's sick of rich douchebags driving their Porsches around and cutting everyone else off in traffic but then he wins the lottery and what do you know he goes out and buys a Porsche and finds that the superior handling, acceleration and compact chassis lends itself to exploiting gaps in traffic they would not have with their old Honda Accord.
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And it was a good joke!

I worked with PHP from 2004 to 2010. I worked with PEAR packages, early-adopted and watched the evolution of Zend Framework, ran both the local PHP user group and company's internal PHP user group, used ORM solutions like Doctrine and wrote my own, laughed along when people were handing out "Fails" stickers at php|tek (a play on the Rails logo), helped write some PHP coursework in college, etc. If I can't poke fun at PHP, who can?

I started using Rails for personal projects last year. When the opportunity arose, I was happy to join a consulting company that primarily uses Rails for web-based application development. Rails 3 (and now Rails 3.1) is awesome. Your joke is my recommendation to the folks I worked with that still do PHP all day: Check out some of the other things that are going on in the Ruby and Python communities. The developer experience is so much better.
Well according to a search for "sues google" there's also at least Skyhook, Paypal, Ebay, Zynga and Paul Allen's Trollco. I'd say the lawsuits from Apple and Microsoft count even though they are indirectly suing Google.
Microchip responds to Ian Lesnet's criticism
On your Facebook profile set your relationship status to "engaged" and you'll start getting a lot of wedding related adverts. Sure it's not the same as advertising when a user is searching Google for "diamond ring". But a lot of people will never search online for a diamond ring, but they may see an advert on their Facebook for a diamond ring and click on it.

Google strength is that advertising is based upon search intent, it's also their weakness.

Imagine you were De Beers and you wanted to target people on Google who were engaged but weren't googling for "diamond ring", you might think you could buy ads on related keywords like "wedding invites" - but it turns out Google make it very hard to do this. Unless your ad directly relates to the search term you get a major quality score penalty which means you have to pay a huge premium to advertise.

Daily deal sites have been spending a lot on display ads (on Facebook and elsewhere), precisely because of this, because their customers didn't actively search for "daily deal sites" so the only way to reach them is through display ads. And who has the most display ad page views in the world ? - Facebook.
Yes, this is something I talked about with an estate attorney when we had kids and were setting up a living trust. Basically you can create an entity called a charitable trust which is a gift to a third party, that transfers on your death, and avoids estate taxes. What is more interesting is that many of these are more durable than language in one's will, specifically the will can be challenged and thrown out but a charitable trust won't get screwed because of it.
If you're interested in these patent issues, you should add FOSS Patents (http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/) to your RSS reader.

Florian has the list of patents being asserted by HTC and some analysis of them at http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/09/these-are-patents-go...
Thanks for the answer, thats real interesting.
Really, sad. But his legacy lives on in one of the finest projects on the internet. It's provided me and my family with countless hours of enjoyment and immensely lowered the cost of ownership of my Kindle.

Imagine my wonderful surprise when I found not just one, but an entire library of Oz and Edgar Rice Burroughs novels that I quickly disseminated to all of the youngsters in my extended family ... then watched them spend hours entertained by these century old tails of fantasy and adventure.

No project has proven more firmly that our modern endless extensions to copyright is hopelessly wrong headed.
Why would you ever lend money at a negative interest rate? You can always get 0.00% with virtually no risk just by socking the money away in a secure location. This is the heart of the problem with deflation (and deflationary currencies like bitcoin) - there's a 0.00% floor on the time cost of money.
Yahoo pipes renamed and working this time.
Is Nike Planning To Release Back To The Future's Auto-Lacing Air Mags?
The people complaining about this particular workflow being suboptimal do not understand it, nor why it exists in the places it does. Sometimes when something looks stupid, it's because it is stupid. But sometimes it's because you don't understand what you're looking at.
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Ok, seriously, this has got to be a marketing ploy for Roger and brid.ge

Reasons:
-I spoke to him last night and said the ticket was not taken. Great! He told me to email him and he'd get back to me by the end of the night.
-I emailed him. Offered my laptop and monitor.
-No reply
-Morning: still no reply
-Afternoon: still no reply
-called him: google voice number is off. left a message.
-saw that he posted that the ticket is still up for grabs (see below).
-replied to his comment
-no response
-followed him on twitter: tweeted him
-followed brid.ge on twitter
-preregistered for brid.ge
-tweeted that i preregistered

basically i did everything i could do (besides giving up a kidney) to show him i'm the man for the volunteer job and deserving of the disrupt ticket.

still no reply. ugh
how do they make these intro videos? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIDKnDSaWqE
Does this technique have a name? Are there any special tools for that?
Will shorter polling periods be a premium feature? It seems like 15 minutes might not be sufficient for some purposes.
wait... you mean they aren't actually going to get back to me?
Listia is hiring mobile & web developers to build a better marketplace
Isn't that because Android itself doesn't infringe but certain aspects of the Android phones or the way said manufacturer has implemented the software does infringe?
Interesting. I was a barely competent sysadmin that couldn't contain my interest in learning how to develop software. So, over the last 6 months I messed around with Vim and Emacs/ Git, Hg, and Bazaar/ and Erlang, Ruby, Lua and Python. I settled on Emacs, Python, and Git; however, the only choice I made that was overwhelmed by popularity was the choice of learning a DVCS because that is a central piece of the functionality: how easy it is to collaborate (as beginner I will fail w/o more informed collaborators). I realize I will have to spend lots of time on my chosen setup, but I hope in a few years I can make transitions more easily.
I guess I'm less willing to generalize than you are that the roots are an 'anti-education' culture. It hasn't been my experience that these 'slackers' (for lack of a better term) are disproportinally represented by any specifically identifiable group. They express a common 'you can't make me do this' kind of attitude but beyond that much of the correlation seems to fall off.

There is clearly a 'too cool for school' factor, but this could just be a rationalization. And there seems to be some correlation with family engagement as well. I really don't know what drives this attitude. My view of it externally is that there is no physical, mental, or equipment related barrier to their participation in the education process, they just don't. And what alarms me is that they seem to represent such a large fraction of the total population at the school.

I suppose we could come up with an experiment where we offered a cash incentive to some and none to a control group to see how it affected their participation. Something to put forward at the next PTA meeting.
He speculated that the entire history (which I would say is equivalent to the SVN repo) is 100s of GBs. We are assuming a 1:1 svn repo to git repo ratio.

Mozilla's ratio would be relevant if they were storing something like the visual studio installer in their repo. They aren't, so it's not.
I want to register "fffaaaaaaaaaaaaaaxxxxxxx.xxx" and it can be a place people can send faxes online from
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Econ isn't a science. There are schools of economic thought that completely contradict "basic economics" taught in schools today, and you can't possibly prove that one or the other method is correct.

Hence, Economics: the dismal science.
The evidence regarding fatherless homes is definitely on your side.
It would be fun to update those numbers once in a while to see how much we're speeding up, and team numbers to see who's fastest :)
Pictures of human activity on the moon.
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It is a one-time fee. About 200 dollars. godaddy has the lowest price that I've seen (199.00). I think it's a smart idea (if you own a registered trademark) as 200 dollars is a lot cheaper than getting attorneys to go after trademark violators... even if it's a guaranteed win. Registered trademarks carry a lot of legal protection and someone would have to be nuts to try and build a porn website using a registered trademark that they did not own. No legit company would do that as their lawyers should catch it and realize the potential financial doom.
ICANN is a corrupt undemocratic non-representative self-important parasite on the internet who's main concern is increasing their budget so they can schedule more of their all expense paid meetings in Puerto Rico or Costa Rica.

That is all.
Ah, finally a chance to use this service ...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=who+is+suing+google
What’s better: Pricier Google App Engine, or nothing?
The Cold War proxy-war model applied to patent suits.
Doesn't look as good as the Download Status Bar (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/download-stat...) which I've been using for years. They could have just copied or bundled it.
I also have a job website, build on Wordpress, i never really had a design, so you might not like the design.

but the site does have most of the necessary options, and yeah, it did take me almost 5 months to build.

since i'm not really a programmer...

take a look: www.freelance.sr
You could at least put the 'o' in front of the 'i'.
Android has Private Branches for preferred OEMs
Yes, if it was a mandate then elementary schools could use basic DNS servers to block then entire .xxx domain rather than having to try and use complex and expensive http content proxy filters that only partially work.
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Meant to upvote, accidentally downvoted. Hopefully others will fix that for me and un-grey your comment.
The Tepper School of Business is a college at CMU just like the newly-named Marianna Brown Dietrich Humanities and Social Sciences college. The colleges contains departments such as English, Philosophy, etc.
Legal: FSF's Star Turn in the Android FUDathon, Part 1
So if you're willing to grant the point that not everyone is going to be capable of creating good art, then what do the non-producers do? Just sit back and consume? The problem is that we use productive output as a heuristic for determining how much stuff to give back to a given member of society. If the standard changes from "making widgets" to "making art," most people are still going to starve.
The binaries (including debug symbols etc.) are the bulk of that size, and storing all revisions locally will almost certainly add up to non-trivial size for a laptop. Unless git has some kind of magic differencing algorithm specifically executable code and debug symbols, I don't really see a way it could work - that's my rationale.

Of course, such algorithms do exist - Google's Courgette - but I don't think git is using them (I have looked) and doubt they are tuned to e.g. Borland TDS/RSM/etc. symbols.

I have no idea how large the svn repository is - it's stored on a SAN and run on a dedicated server I only interact with via svn. It could be many terabytes for all I know; and of course, my team's project tree isn't the only thing in the full repository.
Not to accuse anyone of astroturfing, but the comments on this link read like what you'd hear on a late night infomercial.
You're missing the point of the frumforum post. It was: if you were planning for the future, which source of predictions (the WSJ editorial page or Krugman's column) would have been a more accurate guide? It's about whether the horse would win, place, show, or be in the money at all - not whether the horse was pretty.

Biased or unbiased doesn't matter. The truth is biased. If the WSJ or Krugman says the passage of X bill will destroy Thailand's exports, and Thailand's exports rise, that's a failure. If the WSJ or Krugman say that Thailand is a beautiful country, that's irrelevant to the question.
There's a shit-ton of stuff going on in the internet. I want to know ALL OF IT. I love aggregating information, and reading pretty much everything I can. Lots of time I lose track of stuff, or forget about half the things I want to do or read, or people I want to get back in touch with or follow more regularly. This opens up TONS of opportunities with the internet. Especially if they open it up somehow so I can make it (read:write my own stuff) conform with my entire internet world, open up a whole new internet programming language, if you will. Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself there, but I see how it can be pretty helpful keeping track of things I intend to do, but may not remember when the time comes. Or even notice (if cheap airfare&&hotel to Rome, then BOOK IT. Impromptu vacation bitches!!!)

***New feature idea, "if I haven't read a bookmarked site in the last 30 days, send me an email" (that may be do-able, I haven't explored the site too much, but I do intend to sign up)
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>> 7. You can buy coins temporarily just so you can buy something...

> This is so kludgey that I don't see it as a benefit, and IMO touting it as a benefit just makes Bitcoin look worse.

It's a benefit if it can easily add anonymity to transactions under existing currency schemes.
What smartphone owner consume more data?
And it's done, if you clear cache and reload, it should be using physically based specular term.

Visual difference is quite subtle - skin feels more "silky" and ears are more shiny.

No noticeable degradation of performance.
The question is, did the fact that women entered the work-force create the situation where one parent's work is no longer sufficient to maintain a household?
I get the impression that the people who are blocking porn would not be customers of porn sites. In other words, only people who don't want to see .xxx sites would block them. So why is that any different from the AdBlock that I run in my browser already?
I assume "astroturfing" refers to some sort of disingenuous testimonial, but I really do love the service. Not only does it appeal to me as a web developer, but I've shown it to my not-as-savvy friends and family, and they understand what it does and what it's good for almost immediately.
I believe I was using the definition of value gleaned from the post above which pretty strongly linked value with getting paid for your work. Call it what you will, my point is that the economy is focused on producing something that people will pay money for. But current models are based on scarcity, which may be becoming obsolete.

You're right that something can be free and abundant and still be of enormous value. I think my point is more that we should think about ways to restructure society around the sharing of valuable abundance.
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The world already works like that. You can buy money from countries other than the US, you know.
I might give it a bit of a go when I'm on-site in CA in a couple of weeks, rather than trying it over transatlantic VPN - though my MBA only has 256GB SSD, and it's 50/50 Windows 7 and OS X.

Still optimistic? :)
ybox2 is a collaboration with the ladyada: http://www.adafruit.com/products/95
I believe the name for that is kinetic type:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_typography
I'm not aware of any specialized tools, I've heard of using illustrator and after effects, however.
I hope you all don't mind, but I loved these CSS declarations so much that I whipped this up today:

http://csshumor.com/

If you've got any more, let me know! 8-)
Interviewing is a skill. Like any other skill, it takes time to develop and practice. You can just look at some of the ridiculous job postings on HN to realize that a lot of companies, in particular startups, are letting anyone participate in the interview process.

What you are experiencing is a mix of amateur hour and hubris.
how does proxy war help? the one who is sued knows that the company who's suing them is just a proxy for XYZ
The price surely beats buying/building a bunch of i2c rgb leds ( buy: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/8579
clone: http://hackaday.com/2011/06/22/building-diy-blinkm-clones/ )

It also reminds me of the christmas lights webcam, controlled from the web:
http://www.komar.org/cgi-bin/christmas_webcam
I love seeing hacks like this. And one can always pick up something awesome. Also, I never heard of Saleae logic before, but now, I must have it.
You can put a copy of it there and it only has to happen once. Dropbox has resumable uploading.
Legal tender laws should be abolished is the thrust.
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where is the downvote...
http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/328/how-do-i-safe...
Project Gutenberg is a vision of what the future could be if we choose. RIP Michael, you done good.
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Was there any official statement stating that they would switch to GitHub? All I see is that they're switching to git.
> seems like a job for dedicated browser-recognized crypto certificate chains

You don't read the news much, do you? ;)
Look at the numbers for uninformed. Really what that survey showed is that the voters were uninformed about their choices.

As a rational human, I look at that data and conclude that the survey was inconclusive.
I'm using this right now. Awesome platform and great customer service.
HTC sues Apple with help from formerly Google-owned patents
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The current legislative system is doomed to always give us laws 10 years behind. Voters don't notice a problem until it has taken roots. We've only really had the internet for a bit over 10 years, and it was only the last few that all these things you're talking about starting to happen.

A system that produces 10 year behind laws is fine for an economy that grows over decades, but if there really is a "technological revolution" that can greatly boost economic growth so it doubles not in decades but in years, then the 10 year old laws will become untenable. Unfortunately, this'll have to happen before we even think about the possibility of changing how Presidents, Congresses and Parliaments work.

I worry though, the industrial revolution happened after political, cultural change. "Reinforcement of confidence in the rule of law, which followed establishment of the prototype of constitutional monarchy in Britain in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, and the emergence of a stable financial market there based on the management of the national debt by the Bank of England, contributed to the capacity for, and interest in, private financial investment in industrial ventures." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution

At the moment, just as then, the governing system is the biggest roadblock to societal growth. In 1688, the parliamentarians overthrew the king of england. Today, however, it'd be lucky if we had a single dictator we can overthrow which would solve all our problems. (Except for some of us from Egypt, etc.)

The irony of my point is... Since our political systems are so entrenched and unchangeable we're unlikely to ever see the sort of societal changes you speak of. The things that've started to happen, will stagnate and stop growing. Therefore, 10 year behind laws will continue to be sufficient for our needs.
Shallow clones are essentially read-only, they can't push nor be fetched from. Unless you're prepared to regress to emailing patches around, a shallow git clone is actually less useful than a svn checkout.
You have already activated rack 1.3.2, but your Gemfile requires rack 1.2.3.....
No, licensing journalists isn’t the answer
I suppose many would consider this both indecorous and perverse, but I really am curious about the cause of death in cases such as these. It is usually omitted in cases of suicide or some particularly nuanced, possibly embarrassing disease.

I don't care about specifics, I am just disturbed when all reports tiptoe around the cause of death as if it just "spontaneously" happened to a man who was merely 64.

It sounds from some of his recent public writings like he may have been struggling with a terminal disease, but not being an associate of his, I have no way of knowing that.
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likealittle.com suffered with them too. They are pretty darn evil, they ask for a ransom to let you move your site.