skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In real life, a glance, flushed cheeks and a smile" aka The Moment. Could this happen online? Sure, and it undoubtedly does, but we recognize how rare this is, and understand that The Moment is much more likely to occur face to face.

FlowMingle is all about consistently providing you with a group of eligible, interested, and feasible people, helping you get to know them a bit, then facilitating some type of direct contact. Essentially, we want to provide you with as many opportunities as possible for The Moment to occur, by lowering the cost of finding a date. Most people do not consistently meet and interact with 10 other interested people in a week, and in this way FlowMingle is a very efficient use of your time.

We do not believe it is our job, or even within our ability, to 'create love', 'find your soulmate', 'provide a sure-thing hookup', etc. Instead, we focus on leveraging what the web does best(sharing information, facilitating communication, bringing people together, organizing activity) to help you do what you do best, face to face.
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Some of the work I do involves Cramer and NetCool and its just sometimes easier to test things on that platform.

Edit: Oracle too...
Physics should not be too bad, either.
Isn't that what the article says?

There's no further information on how the program has accomplished this feat, but the list of CAPTCHA's it now understands and can bypass is reportedly fully up-to-date, and includes newer designs that ask the user to identify a cute cat or other distinct animal.

I assume the cute cat picture is displayed among other pictures.
There wil;l still be resource contention, fresh water for instance.
http://www.google.com/search?q=nuclear+desalination
I like it too. Nice design. Nice concept. I think you need to convince 10 friends to snap lots of pictures to get things rolling, because right now it looks pretty empty, and nobody likes an empty community site.
Hence the market opportunity: a social site for kids/adolescents

Which isn't what they've built. It seems like maybe you're after a different business entirely. It might be a good business, but I don't think it's the one the OP is trying to build.
Microsoft gives away its most important products for free for students in Germany. I guess they would not pay anyway.
We studied these in one of my under-grad AI classes a few years back.

Emergent behavior is always fun in practice.
And not just Britain.
ARMv6 (and higher) does have a physically tagged cache.

Another thing that helps with avoiding cache flushes on context switches is the presence of a pid bit in the page table.
I am going to beta test.
>It is a first time in history that such ridiculous numbers are summoned.

Not true. In 1984, in Chile, there was a shitstorm that warranted a 14 billion dollar bailout. Chile's population was ~12M, so the bailout was just over a thousand dollars per capita. Now, the bailout in US is over two thousand dollars per capita (700B/300M), and between 1984 and today, the dollar has lost about half its purchasing power (or more, depending on who you ask). So, it's about the same size. Keep in mind Chileans were, and still are, much poorer than Americans are today. So yes, there have been bailouts this size.

On a side note, the Chilean bailout was a success. But then, the Chilean Ministerio de Hacienda (Fed, basically) was really big on Friedman and the Chicago School in general. Plus, historically, it has always kept its shit together. Don't know if this is the case with the Federal Reserve.
Did you read the article?

>"Perhaps the most welcome change to the UI is that the palettes (toolbox and docks in GIMP parlance) are now utility windows, which means that they won’t show up in your dock or task bar as separate windows"

Apparently it doesn't yet apply to the Windows build (I haven't tried), but they have fixed the two single biggest and most obvious GUI annoyances - multiple pointless and confusing menus and multiple windows in task-bar. Another one of the biggest requested features - CMYK support - is on its way. It's /long/ overdue, but Gimp is actually seems to be making huge strides in the right direction.
I was addressing your response to Netcan's suggestion. Social networking is not an area I am interested in, but I happen to have previously listened to the eGuardian episode of the Frank Peters Show, and it popped into my head when you mentioned security problems with social-networking sites for 14-year-olds.

Another point about market opportunity: some high-school and college students go to same-sex institutions (which might be a good idea, since it minimizes distraction, and hence could become more popular over time).
T-Mobile App Store a huge disappointment
+1 The Blind Watchmaker, although I'd argue The Selfish Gene is a better introduction to the field. The Blind Watchmaker is somewhat more focussed on argument evolution versus creationism. Still, awesome stuff.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=315938
Read the article.

The first study says the the income gap closes within 10 years.

10 years is not a "lifetime".
I'm in the middle of the Einstein bio by Isaacson, who uses many of the documents referred to in this 2006 article to paint Einstein's private life as it complimented his public works. (I certainly recommend the book to you all!)

One of Isaacson's main points is that it was not mere intellect that made Einstein superior. Great scientists, such as Poincare, were working in the same fields at the same time, but were conditioned within the realm of university research to hold on strong to the classical beliefs of Newtonian science. The four papers Einstein wrote in 1905 (written during his patent office period while he was essentially blacklisted from a position at a university) each had the benefit of his outsider voice. While his work in college was above average, it did not translate into genius until Einstein had the ability to generate, on his own, a complete theory of how he intellectually envisioned the world. More important than Einstein's given intellect was his particular perspective.

Anyways, I find judging intelligence by means of a test is absolutely pointless; IQ, in particular, measures only a few ways that a person can be intelligent.

In conclusion, as always: Genius is as genius does.
Comparing E-mail Address Validation Regular Expressions
Using memcached to address more than 4GB
nonsense.
I liked the early days of gmail where an invite was required - an invites were really hard to come by. Invite-only could be another barrier if you don't give new accounts the ability to invite for some weeks, and trickle in the invites.
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That was done in Canada.
The second one (done in the US) says:

"Another study of M.B.A. students by Stanford economist Paul Oyer to be published in the Journal of Finance, found that having the bad luck of graduating during a bear market could slash lifetime earnings. Oyer estimated that during a bull market, someone who gets an investment banking job upon graduation earned an additional $1.5 million to $5 million throughout their lives when compared to someone who graduated during a bear market. This was in the 1990's, so it's likely to be even higher now. "
Still no 'Direct Select' tool in GIMP, which is basic of basic tools in Photoshop and any other photo editing program.
Vp debate - keyword analysis
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I suspect the stats may be more biased by people who 'take what they can get' in the recession time, and then don't actually look to find more career progressing opportunities when the markets strengthen. (I've got a couple of friends that did that in the 2001 hiccup and despite my harassing still haven't left the jobs they compromised to take.)

If that is the case it's more important you recognise when times have improved, than to delay your entry by another x years.
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The "keyword analysis" is more like "keyword frequencies with mediocre commentary". I advise you to look at the graphs and the last sentence of the post.
Simple, but appealing idea, nicely done. I'll keep an eye on it. How many users do you have already?
GIMP has supported editing all components of a path, converting to a selection, moving the entire path, and adjusting the handles, for a while. If I remember correctly, it was buggy until around GIMP 1.2.

The second half of the video on this page, after the "Direct Select" tool is chosen at 0:16, is completely doable in The GIMP.

http://shapeshed.com/journal/photoshop_101_path_and_direct_s...
business model? grow traffic and sell ads?
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Agreed. I'm no supporter of the wars being waged, I marched in London in 2003 and personally think "terror" should be somewhere down the list of global concerns at present in the face of environmental pressures and the financial issues. If the resources being expended on these wars by our governments was instead spent on ending our dependence on oil by developing clean fuel technologies or on setting the foundations for a new, more stable economic system, we'd all be far better off.

However, that can't take away from the fact that the troops, working men and women from this city, this country and from all over the world doing a professional job and putting their necks on the line in this specious global conflict. To dismiss their contributions as "iffy" does them a grave disservice.
nice idea.

maybe you could try to tie the word of the day to current affairs in some way?

as for building traffic, maybe you could find a way for people to vote (or even submit) w/o needing to login. you might need to bring the login back ultimately, once it's popular - but do you need it now?

final thought - the home page runs off the bottom of the screen (at 1280 x 1024) by a good few hundred pixels. And the bottom is where all the real content is. Maybe reshuffle and/or shrink?

cheers

tom saffell
Has it occurred to no-one that there are better ways to validate an email than a regex?

I wrote a quick little function once after reading the relevant RFCs that scores 16/17 valid and 14/19 invalid on his test in O(n) time. I could up that but most of the failure cases are really unlikely.

Also, the test cases listed don't cover everything, like email addresses of the form "I'm in quotes @#$!!!(&^*_+="@domain.com which are technically valid.
Which recession? The last one (2002-2003) is a bad example, since many of the people who worked through it went crazy buying crap (i.e. houses, cars, granite countertops) with the flood of cheap credit that was used to "stimulate" the economy out of trouble.

I spent that period in grad school, and while I don't have houses and cars, I also have no debt. I suspect I will end up better off in the long run -- we're just not there yet.
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Really good idea and I like the site. You probably know, but when I tried to find it with a search engine there was nothing there. You should probably do something about that
Offer prizes/incentives to people who manage to incorporate a second "sponsor" type word.
Ask HN - stream database open source hackers unite
Im exploring some ideas in the land of stream databases [data which has strong sequential properties] and wonder if there are others already working in this space, or who might like to contribute/discuss/argue/hack open source code.

Ive put up some thoughts and C code, see -
- vfuncs project at google code
- quantblog.wordpress.com

enjoy,

gord.
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I'm not. In fact, whenever a new Ubuntu version comes out, I always order the CD from the "ship it" service.

The benefits are twofold; I'm not maxing out my meagre internet connection for hour after hour downloading a huge ISO and the 4-5 week delay before the CD arrives gives early adopters time to find teething problems, gives the Ubuntu team time to fix them as well as giving developers of things such as VirtualBox time to catch up and release new packages for the new release.
the world average life expectancy [has doubled] over the last century.

Are you referring to the life expectancy for 20-year-olds?

[Edit: I found some data here: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/lifexpec.htm http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr56/nvsr56_09.pdf 20-year-olds do seem to have benefited quite a bit in the first half of the 20th century. I had assumed that life-expectancy was virtually unchanged across the century, except for that of infants and other under-five-year-olds.]
Yes but have a lage database of tagged pics and choose randomly what should be identified.

Well I guess the programs could learn a huge database too eventually.

Only solution is give these people a chance to make money in an honest way...
incredibly uninteresting analysis + SEO spam
Wow. Very interesting read. The bottom-line: learn to be comfortable with yourself as you are now; sober, without having to find the bottom of a liquor bottle.
Maybe, but if the question is whether to go to grad school or get a job, remember that as far as lifetime earnings go, you'll have to make up those 5-6 years of crappy salary when you get out, too. That's slightly different than just comparing those that graduate during a bull and bear market.
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End-over-end Worm - Evolved Virtual Creature
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-qOBi2tAnI&fmt=18
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This release actually changes around some things, which may make it a better experience.
It seems captcha is being "broken" by people tirelessly entering captcha text by hand. For money of course. See:

http://securitylabs.websense.com/content/Blogs/2919.aspx

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1835
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I like it - design is nice. What is the incentive for winning (other than community)? I think this is a prime opportunity to purchase (or get one donated) an iPhone or the T-Mobile G1 and give one away.
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Datasheet on semiconductors, microcontrollers, discretes, passive and more electronics components parts. Datasheets about the most important brands and datasheet related to the obsolete parts.
These charts would have been a lot more informative if they had gone to the trouble of stoplisting the words before analyzing. Glue words like 'the' and 'a' shouldn't comprise any thoughtful analysis--obviously they're going to dominate any sample of the English language.
How could you consider a closed-source program with some amazing obfuscation to be even remotely secure?

http://www.secdev.org/conf/skype_BHEU06.handout.pdf
This is _Not_ for the Android applications.
I enjoyed the HL reference. I reckon all it needs now is some users and some content. Well done.
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Actually you're right, for some reason I always assumed that it was the Bretton Woods agreements that removed the tie between gold and money. My mistake. Still, my point is the same as you say.
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did I see a sign for your site during last night's debate? Or was that something else?
Think about your use of the word serious. Wars are fought until one side decides to stop fighting. Laws are made because people are emotional creatures. I'm not going to get long-winded, but there are plenty of examples of small losses of lives leading to major policy changes, loss of freedom, change of ruling party, decisions to either engage or disengage large military forces etc. Terrorism is an emotional warfare, not one in which you count up the damage on a balance sheet.

The outcomes I mention are extremely serious. Outcomes that are easily existentially important to the state.
This is not comparable because the 14 billions DOLLARS were prolly backed by the FMI wich meant that the United States and Europe were behind the bailout. Even if only the U.S were behind, 14 billions was really not much as we can see today.

But today the United States ARE the heart of the system. It's all a matter of confidence now : will the world trust the U.S banking system enough, will the world trust the dollar enough, in the end : will the world trust the U.S autorities ? The trust must comes directly from the U.S now, because there is no international agency backing up your decisions.

ALL the stability in the system comes from this confidence. The U.S. dollar was the most trusted money in the world.
"manufacturers will find a way of improving performance, though the gains might be harder to capitalize on than clock speeds or core count".

Don't count cores out. Intel isn't.

http://www.ciol.com/Intel/CP-Intel-CIO-Update/Future-Intel-d...

Larrabee is expected to kick start an industry-wide effort to create and optimize software for the dozens, hundreds and thousands of cores expected to power future computers.
Interesting article. I never really looked at facebook apps but it seems much simpler then I thought (not sure why I assumed it would be complex).
"... in assembler." Or Forth!
Watching America: Stories about the US from non-US sources
You can read foreign-language newspaper commentary when the subject has to do with America.

Very interesting! America has now become a standard prop for not dealing with all sorts of local and national issues.
where.com did this a couple years back... It got some response but you definitely need to find a way to get buzzzz
Smaller font will do better
The GIMP is an example of a user interface that has sucked for many many years, but because certain people are used to it being that way, it was never changed.
I think there might be more to it then that. I'm not really a user of image editing software (Seashore covers most of my needs) so I can't really say this for sure. But I get the impression that GIMP want to do things their way, not the photoshop way. Getting young users using GIMP first gives them a chance to do that.
GIMP UI brainstorm
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New TCP vulnerability about trust, not technology
I had some problems with the shipped CD for 8.04 installing on a friends computer. The alternate CD worked though.

Honestly I just want to see if there are any new games in 8.10.
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For convenience.
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I don't see how this can be generalized to workers in general; investment banking is hardly a typical job.
There's plenty of room at the bottom
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It's a long article. Quick summary: NDA is gone, but for the App Store you still can't trust Apple in the sense that you need to trust a ladder before you'd climb it. It's not unreasonable to insist that Apple write down some rules and stick to them regarding accepting applications for the App Store.
I think that was just random vandalism. The ATM takes the money back if you do not take them in about 2 minutes, for example if you forget. It happened to me, and the bank did not charge me.
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I stand by my statement.

<fb:serverfbml> came out 30 days ago. That's about six months after you could do extended permissions stuff in fbml. In my book, that's a second class citizen.

The resizing code for iFrames is broken. I've talked to Facebook's engineers about it. They know it. The reality is that it is nasty, tricky, hacky code that is hard to get right and harder to keep running. It runs directly into the weakest part of cross-browser javascript wizardry: the DOM and dynamically resizing divs. Their advice was to avoid it.

Look: I built an iframe app. It was the right thing to do for my business. But it is in Facebook's interest for fbml to always be a little more functional and at least a little better.
Flexible screen could lead to foldable computers
It can't be because the first Android phone isn't even out yet (22 Oct is the ship-date I think).
American SAT tested in UK; gender achievement gap reversed
Ask YC: Can I make money with shareware?
By reading this site, it looks like you're all getting rich by building web sites. OK, not everyone is getting rich, but everyone assumes that there is a chance that it will happen to them.

But what about shareware? In 2008, is it too late to start writing software, actual installable software, and sell it on the internet? Or are my chance of getting rich much higher with web applications?

I know some Mac or iPhone developer got rich, but what about Windows and Linux and the other mobile devices.

I love programming too much to do anything else, but I also would like to acquire wealth.

Thanks,
Norman
Yes, I had to check the date on this article. Hasn't this guy noticed that we've been stuck at 3 GHz for the last five years?
He got the idea from "Inside Man" where they couldn't tell who the bad guys were b/c everyone had painters masks on.