skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thats an empty tree hugger comment. The amount of energy required to grow a plant over several weeks/months is much less than what's required to move a truck around.

I also don't like the argument that the amount of sunlight that hits the Earth in one hour can power the world for who cares how long. I don't like It because it assumes its actually possible to capture all the sunlight that hits the Earth, nevermind that we're actually already using a large part of that energy to grow our food and warm the planet.

The Sun should play an important part in replacing fossil fuels, which I believe we must do, but make good arguments for it, not empty ones.
Ok, I should have put *nix then, I use FreeBSD occasionally too. Seems like you're just trying to troll...

However, most people do deploy to Linux distros.
Like this?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/421186578/
The article says that the author uses base 10000.
A friend of mine who knows these guys got me an early preview and I was impressed with the speed of the Live Preview.

Now to be a Debbie Downer, if you have VS installed, this addon is pretty good http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/0855e23e-4c4c-...
Love it! The simplicity is the winning factor. I can see that I'll be using it a lot!
It would be nice if the web site would tell us what license governed the use of this software. It sounds like a useful program, but there would be no point for me to spend time installing it if it were not free for commercial use (and free of adware, etc.).
You could say same about any benchmark. The benchmark itself is obviously not the end-goal.
>[Nodejitsu.com] is banned because they created an army of sockpuppets to vote up their posts.

Some evidence to support this claim would be useful.
StumbleUpon toolbar has this feature already. Is there any other benefit using your toolbar?
<plug> Run your own Spreedly and stop adding service fees to your payment processing fees! http://www.opengateway.net/ </plug>
Hey I'm the creator of MarkdownPad, it is free for commercial use and has no adware. I'll add that information to the site, thanks for bringing it to my attention!
This link is also on http://git-scm.com/documentation
Occupy Wall Street's Marketing Crisis
I have something very similar somewhere in my project graveyard. I never got round to launching but your comment has motivated me a little. I'll see if I can dig it out.
>"Viewing normal websites on a mobile? It'll be unusable!"

What the iPhone changed was data plans and that's what made websites viewable on a mobile phone because the one you get is no longer by necessity a stripped down version - Yes, using a touchscreen provides a better experience, but the browser on my old Nokia with S60v3 is entirely functional for browsing.

I would mention the advantage the standard file system Symbian offers when it comes to moving data back and forth between devices or printing as compared with iTunes or Zune, but anyone who had a PalmOS device would already be familiar with them.

Please don't get me wrong, I remember when the iPhone came out, I tried to figure out how to get a manager's to work with Exchange.
Aye, I rent a 3br house in downtown Ypsi (5 miles away for non-locals) for $1000/month.
I was responding to indicate that it has been done before, not saying that it can't ever be done successfully.
"using the current version and the updates provided by Microsoft"

If you have a current, up to date version of IE, it's not version 6. We've been trolled by what is clearly some sort of prank.
While Piumarta's original code is still relevant, I chose to use _why's fork that fixes some bugs and makes the parser reentrant. Take a look: https://github.com/whymirror/greg

Also, take a look at the various forks of greg, including one in use in the OOC compiler Rock: https://github.com/nddrylliog/greg
It takes one designer...

no it doesn't. it takes a design team, just as it takes an engineering team.
Why wouldnt you use a barchart?
Someone crazy enough to try to own all land, is crazy enough to do nothing with it.
They have your IP address.
For those who, like me, wonder why FreeBSD should embrace visualization (what's wrong with a 80x24 tty?): from the answers, I think clarkevans meant to write "virtualization". Maybe his spelling checker 'improved' that word?
As far as coffee goes one of the things that works well for me is what I call "rocket fuel", get a quad shot of espresso and dump honey in to taste.
My guess is that in general no, because for programmers, typically, there isn't any pension.

However, there's something called 401k which is a type of retirement account. You can contribute to it through pre-tax contribution directly from your paycheck. It's fairly common for employers to match a certain amount to what employees contribute. Some might match 100%, some 5%, some up to a certain amount, some have some vesting period, etc.

So that's one thing that is worth taking into account when comparing job offers, because if you plan on contributing $15k a year to your retirement account, if a company matches 100%, that more or less means an extra $15k a year.

So some people might include that if asked of their overall benefits, some might not…
Breaking the build: lessons learned
I think that dilemma is probably far less significant for non-Googlers. ;)
The Chudnovsky brothers also used a homemade computer to compute pi, and they held the record for a long time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chudnovsky_brothers
They did. Ever hear of the Zeppelin? They took off all the time in their hey-day. It's a myth that they were filled with hydrogen; the Hindenburg was only had hydrogen in it because at the time helium was not available in Germany at the time because it was only produced in the United States and the US was refusing to export it.

Anyway, the reason we don't see airships much anymore is because for most things heavier than air craft are more economical. A Boeing 747 is a third the size of a Zeppelin but much faster, more reliable, and with much more usable space and lifting capacity. There's really no economic reason that an Airship should be preferred.
Rate my startup - deegr
Hi everyone,

With a couple of Uni friends, we have been working on http://www.deegr.com for the past few months; it's a cultural recommendation engine that lets you find people with similar tastes on the whole Web.

From the landing page, just rate 5 movies you either like or hate. deegr instantly searches through over 60k+ user profiles we've referenced on websites such as IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, or AlloCine (and deegr itself!), to show you the 30 people that best match your tastes and give you inspiration based on the rest of what they've also liked.
The more you rate, the better the accuracy of your search!

You can also follow your own Facebook/Twitter crowd, share micro-reviews, interact with other deegr members and a few other things after a free, flash-registration.

The purpose of this project is to create a generic recommendation engine for pretty much anything that has ratings (or the equivalent) on the Web.

We'd love to have your thoughts and suggestions on it: the idea, the UI, the quality of the recommendations, the speed of the engine... Anything.

If you also have suggestions regarding blogs & sites we should get in touch with so they can spread the word about deegr, don't hesitate!

Thanks all,

The deegr Team
http://www.deegr.com

ps: other medias (music, books, videogames...), the API and mobile apps are on the roadmap; just give us a few months!

EDIT: Please note that we're currently working on a small feature that will enable you to minimize mainstream movies in a single click, in our recommendations! We know you've most probably seen Shawshank Redemption and the Godfather ;)
Thanks for the effort, but I don't think this kind of plot is appropriate to the type of data. A bar chart would be more useful.
What the Newton didn't do was fit in a pocket - that's what the PC1, the Palm Pilot, and my Handspring with a tumor all did.

How important is that? Well almost 30 years later, HP still sells the 12C. And the margin is astronomical.

[http://www.amazon.com/HP-12c-Financial-Calculator-12C/dp/B00...]
It could just track total karma vs unspent karma.
Actually, he's complaining that it's capriciously regulated and the state refuses to give straight answers.

Particularly in a highly-regulated industry, that is the state's responsibility.

He's not complaining that it's highly regulated. Actually, he almost seems to be glorying in the fact that it's highly regulated.
> They're banned because they created an army of sockpuppets to vote up their posts.

I too am interested in some sort of substantiation for this claim.
Finally a company that does not listen to the idiots who think they know something!

IE6 is a great standard. Keep your CSS tips and tricks for your personal website. IE6 is a good default to work around.

Anyone who says otherwise 1.) is trying to sell you something (probably web design) or 2.) is ignorant and hipster.
FYI, that link is "silently banned".

The link appears fine in your session. Try the link from a new session / IP. You'll see it's dead.
I had to look this up to. Here is an interesting chunk:

EEG researchers are noticing extremely high brainwave frequencies above Gamma, at up to 100 Hz. Totally opposite speed brainwave frequencies - some at 100 Hz and others at less than 0.5 Hz - have exactly the same states of consciousness associated with them. These high-range brain frequency states are named HyperGamma. Later information showed new evidence of frequencies even higher than this, at almost 200 Hz.named: Lambda brainwave frequencies and states of consciousness.

http://www.bethcoleman.net/gamma.html
Normaly I would not answer someone who calls my writing "bs". But since its a public discussion, I want to get the facts straight:

I pay 42% taxes on income.

I pay medical insurance on my own.

I dont have unemployment or retirement insurance.
Fewer and fewer people are using FreeBSD, and it's starting to cause real problems. Bugs in ports can't get enough notice. Right now, `htop', an essential tool for me, has been malfunctioning for months:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/159728

At the moment, the built-in GPU in newer CPU (core i3/i5/i7) simply doesn't work in FreeBSD, people have to buy discrete older cards for graphics. Yes, they are paying someone to work on the part in kernel which will make it possible to support these newer CPUs, but who knows when it will come.
Is it april 1st already?
Google gets a facelift
VOTE: What is Occupy.com Worth?
Any plans on releasing the source? I'm sure there are others who'd love to help with the project.
It is an unfortunate consequence of the Internet that people get to argue with each other without knowing who they really are.

I don't need to see others worse off than myself in order to be happy. I just need to remember who I myself was two or five years ago. I am rapidly becoming someone else, a larva turning into a butterfly if you forgive the hackneyed expression.

To you, the opinions I express signify contempt towards others. In reality, the only true contempt I experience is towards paths I almost took when I was growing up. Without that contempt there would be hardly any growth. By the way, there is a good movie by French director Godard called "Contempt". One of my favorite quotes is from that movie: "Oh, the gods... I know exactly how they feel."
another similar site is http://fermademuzica.ro/ (.ro only) that has playlist, thumbnails, similar artists, top songs
Edmond air conditioning
It is known for it well-experienced, friendly, and highly trained champion air-conditioning technicians equipped with advanced air-conditioning skills and knowledge through regular and updated training sessions .
Yeah, I'd believe it. In full disclosure I run my personal blog off an Amazon Micro instance. Its a Fedora instance running passenger, nginx, and rails. In production mode with assets cached it absolutely serves requests at a decent speed. Absolutely painful to run an integration test or development mode though. Probably just my fault for using Fedora and not the default "Amazon Linux". However, I setup a client with a small instance running RedHat and never experienced any latency.
I don't understand at all. It mentions compass and altimeter -- why the hell isn't the pilot looking at the artificial horizon?
I created an account with a fake name and mailinator email (after several tries where it rejected mailinator domains, it finally worked with bobmail.info). It asked me for my cell phone number to confirm, and when I entered the code it had quite a large number of "John Doe is someone you may know". These people are not all people who I'd expect to have my phone number saved in their phones. My phone number is linked to my primary account, but I don't think it is visible.
DELETE is idempotent as well.

GET and HEAD are not really "potent" as they don't cause state to change on the server (or at least shouldn't). So I usually prefer saying GET and HEAD are "safe".

The difference between safe and idempotent is:

- using an idempotent verb 0 or 1 times will have a different end state on the server.

- using a safe verb 0 or 1 times will have the same end state on the server.
The shortcomings of this poll have been outlined by others.

You might be interested by this:

* as a high score / pissing contest result. Then whatever the figure, you'll never be satisfied: either you don't mak enough, then you'll feel terrible; or you're making more than your reference group, but then you'll soon change the reference group you're comparing yourself to, and you'll go back to step one until you find yourself feeling terrible.

* as a genuine measure of your well-being, presumably to estimate the appropriateness of changing jobs. Then you probably underestimate non-monetary factors. First, you probably have fun working: that's worth a couple hundreds K$ IMO. Then, the ways money goes out matter at least as much as money coming in: I make a bit more than 50K€ in Europe, which is below the American average for my skills; but I don't have a student loan to repay, I won't have to pay for my kids' education either, I have world-class "socialist healthcare", I can get a nice house for about 250-300K, there's little criminality to be afraid of, I'd need to kill then rape my boss' kids to get fired, I work about 210 days a year...

What kind of conclusions do you expect to draw from this poll?
Couldn't they just get your mobile number, from one of your friends iPhones? Even if you had a fake name on your profile, I would assume its still fairly straightforward to identify you purely from the network structure.

I've no idea if they are doing this, but I wouldn't put the possibility in moon/willpower territory.
I really wish they'd enable comments on those. It feels like we're not trusted to comment responsibly regarding jobs for YC companies. In most cases, there'd be no reason to leave a comment, except to ask about details of the job that might be of general interest, which seems like a legit thing to do.
It's about relative numbers. In the case of most big corps, it isn't even about one team but about many different teams working together. And usually engineering are the bigger teams, or there are more of them.
"Perhaps this is related to the track record of at least one of the Nodejitsu founders"

This is irrelevant to applications hosted on his company's domain.
This could be a good way to stretch the life of an old laptop especially for gaming or number crunching though it's probably not for LAN parties.
I think it's useful when having a conversation via IM.

Avoids misunderstanding and adds humour.

I've also heard it referred to as the sarcastrophe :)
I would suggest that there are many less jobs than there were 100 years ago, and that the reason it didn't seem that way in, say, 1999, was that there were lots of non-market reasons to avoid firing people which kept those jobs until a real recession hit.
Almost any programmer can be super-productive under such ideal conditions as "no chance of interruption". The challenging thing is to be productive under less optimal conditions. For example, how would you get programming done if you actually get to the point of having paying customers, and you can't just tell them "leave me alone, I'm in the zone, call me back in 8 hours or maybe tomorrow, and we can talk about that bug that's keeping you from logging on"?
I'm trying to switch to a Slackware environment with Fluxbox running in the front.
I've used Ubuntu for years, but realized that I had huge gaps about actual Linux knowledge because I was so used to the automation that Ubuntu provides.
Also I'm trying to learn emacs and vim now, and I'm really making an effort to go to a more keyboard/terminal oriented workflow. I'm getting faster and faster with it.
Airships in general didn't take off because of the high rate of accidents. Almost every major airship from 1900-1940 crashed after a few years of service.

It's only now that we have better weather info and new materials that anyone is taking them seriously again.
A side note: It took me 6 years of entrepreneurship to be able to pay myself the same salary I was making as an employee programmer.
How does OpenVZ or Linux Containers stack up to BSD's jails ?
It seems to work. I just don't know that I care about the results. This may say more about me than it does about your service, however!
Hyundai Eon Price, Features, Mileage, Models, Specifications & Colors
Hyundai is after getting success of their other car recently Hyundai has launched new car Hyundai EON. The company has launched the car with trust that people would like to accept this car because this car provides with new technology and latest extra features like; with 814cc petrol power plant with 3 cylinders and 9 valves is capable of generating maximum power of 56 bhp at 5,500 rpm and produces peak torque of 76 Nm at 4,000 rpm through a five speed manual gearbox.
+1 Show us some proof, don't just throw (up) accusations around.
Here's what I don't get. (Maybe someone here can help answer this.) My company, with 18,000 employees, recently decided to upgrade workstations from IE6 to IE7. It wasn't entirely seamless - employees still had to double-click a desktop icon to kick off the upgrade. What I don't understand is why they upgraded to IE7. Once you're going through the friction of doing an upgrade at all, why not go all the way? Is the retraining coefficient that much more for IE8 (or 9) vs. IE7?
ONLINE MOVIES: The Thing (2011)
The new madvertise Android-SDK
Lulziest comment of the year ++
With the cost of re-training for new jobs going up, and the value of un-skilled labor going down, there are certainly more and more folks for whom it's more expensive to get a job than any benefit that they'll receive from it.

So there can be lots and lots of stuff, but if you aren't very good at learning, and you don't own capital, the world can become quite unfriendly - even if we've gotten really good at making things and most of us own quite a few digital watches.
Keyboard control for something like this is way too slow. I can't react in time, especially with the field of view partially obstructed by the fighter.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/708/unledpyj.png/
I never really understood the point of these editors. Isn't the whole point of Markdown that you don't need to think about layout until you publish it? (which is when you make a small number of superficial fixes and that's it)
Topical Pain Relievers for Sciatic Nerve Pain - Health - Medicine
The problem with that is you are also penalizing Nodejitsu customers (like myself) that host their projects on their platform. I support the Nodejitsu guys but I'm not an employee and don't share all their viewpoints; I was just working on my first Nodejs project for NodeKnockout and wanted to get some feedback from the HN community, but my site was blocked also.
Also, you probably want designing teams smaller, because it's easier to parcel out and subdivide engineering problems than design problems: I feel like it's easier to maintain consistency across code than across various elements of user experience.
> For those expecting a detailed step-by-step roadmap of the Lean Startup, you're likely to be disappointed. The subject is simply too large to be covered in one book, and many of the individual concepts have already been covered in other sources (Eric does a great job of suggesting further reading).

This book makes my cynic sense tingle.

Anyone have a list of the further reading, because what I'm interested in are concrete things to do, not "high-level" concepts.

> Eric has done a great job of providing examples of the Lean Startup in the context of large organizations such as Intuit and IGN, and devotes the last few chapters of the book to this very topic

I think big companies are the target market for his book. He would like to sell his consulting services to them.

Nothing wrong with that - he seems like a really bright guy with a lot of good ideas, who does indeed know his stuff, and could provide a lot of value to companies. He also "walked the walk", having a successful company of his own. It's just that I don't know if real startups will derive that much value from the book, from what I've read of it.

Here's the top review for it on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/review/R3287ICLQ9STI3/ref=cm_cr_dp_per...

Not entirely positive...
You could have just emailed him and asked.

You seem to be having difficulty with the concept that what you know not to be sockpuppetry would, to the part-time admins of this site, seem like sockpuppetry.

HN makes banning mistakes with some regularity. Get over it or go somewhere else. It's ungracious to spit venom ("unacceptable", "blatantly ambiguous and unacceptable", "HN as just a shill for YCombinator") at the site admins, all of whom have better things to do than resolve individual disputes like this.

I'm as cynical as anyone about YC, 'pg, and the valley culture, but I can see when someone's doing me a favor. Like, every f'ing day for one thousand four hundred fifty two days. I too would run a site like HN differently, but that is irrelevant, because I didn't build a site like HN and so my opinion doesn't matter.
Yeah, but few people actually run their production environment on that "fully certified UNIX", so if your goal is to be as similar to production as possible, that those package managers exist elsewhere is meaningless.
A genuinely scientific process would control for all variables, something that seems exceedingly difficult to do with a real startup.
YouTube links are auto-deaded. Write a short blog post about the YouTube video, post that, and see if it dies. I'm guessing it won't.

I don't know if the Mercury News is auto-deaded, but I wouldn't be shocked if it was.
Food prices have swelled many times in history, but Goldman Sachs wasn't to blame for those bubbles and I doubt they're at fault for these. See a short list of previous food riots which catalysed political upheavals here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_riot

Derivatives are actually incredibly useful tools in agriculture because they allow a farmer to embark on the long-term commitment of growing crops with the peace of mind that (s)he'll have guaranteed customers for the final product. This is why the MGEX has been running since 1883: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis_Grain_Exchange
Who is the legal owner of a story posted on Reddit?
"Music"

You need a company Anthem, even if the company is just you. That one song that makes you feel like TODAY IS WHEN I KNEW I WAS GOING TO MAKE IT. When you are ready to start working, blast it before any other song.
The root cause of speculation is cheap and easy money. The cheap and easy money comes directly from the Federal Reserve. They provide it in the misguided hope that it will be put to work in the real economy.
This made my morning. You should write a gonzo-style programming epic. It reminds me that some of what we do might as well be magic to the people that hire us and unlike in past cultures where we'd be anointed as medicine men and revered as holy, we're given gilt boxes by monkeys.