skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your GUI (graphs, visualization) are amazing. What graph library did you use?
Air Jordan 11 Retro Shoes
I don't know that Microsoft needs to be a consumer company — if they went with a business focus then that's their strong point (something that would be a bad move for Apple for example), and with Blackberry on the way down there's a niche waiting to be filled.
Happy New Year 2012 Desktop Wallpapers
Before New Year 2012 starts, we wish you a very warm and delightful Happy New Year 2012. Download the Latest Happy New Year 2012 Desktop Wallpapers. It will be useful for you to prepare for new year 2012 in advance. All Wallpapers are Free Download and Enjoy the New year Wallpapers for your Desktop. Happy New 2012 High Quality Desktop Wallpapers, Happy New 2012 Desktop Pictures, Happy New 2012 Desktop Photos, Happy New 2012 Desktop Images.
I think that makes sense. It'd be kind of like saying broad market indexes (averages) don't matter, for only individual stocks' have effect on stockholders' capital -ignoring indexed funds.

"In a down market," for example, "the index's direction doesn't matter if you have the right stock which is going up".
it was cheap...
Comparing Truck Rental Size and Capacity to Deturmine Which Suites You Best
Looking to Rent a Moving Truck? Ricoh Truck Rentals blends the convenience of full service moving with the value of a rental truck. You load, we drive, you save. Why risk driving a rented moving truck across the country or pay the high price of full-service moving?
I think SpaceX's success had more to do with the military and space business needing a new public face. SpaceX's executive bios read like a who's who of the space industry. I think people seem to think that Musk reinvented rocketry in three years, which is unrealistic. It's a nice made for TV story, but most corporations probably couldn't swing hundreds of millions in fed contracts without some serious connections.
I'm in the space business, and there are no other organizations in the world doing space the way Elon is with SpaceX. The framework is entirely different, which is far more important than you might give credit. None of his competitors are doing business in a way that will credibly open up space as an entrepreneurial frontier like we have here in the valley.
He could have stopped before PayPal after he sold Zip2 for over $300 million in 1999. Elon's incredible and the next 50 years will be amazing because of people like him.
Lean Startup, got it for X-MAS.
Second the Lean Startup
Providing pleasure can only be achieved after a basic need has been met and you have the resources to easily afford that solution.

Here is the challenge - why would someone buy Evian or San Pellegrino when they can buy a gallon of "normal" water for a fraction of the price?
Yeah, I actually have this too apparently, though it's very infrequent for me. I'm not sure what's weirder, that it happens, or that it has a name.

Just for the record, I actually found out about this here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/nrf8s/iama_26_year_old...
Windows Phone is a classic example that you might not win the race even with a better product.
Turbotax Promotional Codes
Thanks. I am aware of Maslow's Hierachy of Needs, but I wanted to approach the problem from the economic theory perspective.

It is indeed a quite complicated problem and one blog post is not going to explain the matter fully :)
This is why the first two federal laws targeted at prohibiting drugs didn't actually do it directly - they did it by way of taxes. The Marihuana Stamp Tax Act (1937) is the most famous, but it was preceded by another act that targeted proper narcotics (morphine, etc.). I believe it was the Harisson act, but I'm not certain.

In any case, the 1937 bill created an impossible-to-satisfy tax structure, because they knew that a direct prohibition would have been deemed unconstitutional. Unfortunately, by 1970, everyone had forgotten and the Controlled Substances Act passed easily.
SpaceX is far beyond the competition (Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic), with successful launches and signed contracts.

Tesla started less than a decade ago and has sold out of both the Roadster and the Model S. That's pretty incredible for such a young car company.

I don't think Elon is just "making money on what's hot." Building a car company isn't in fashion, and an energy revolution is a pretty clear vertical right now (see Khosla's invetments). Likewise, building a rocket company isn't very fashionable. If you look at his vision--he's playing a 20-year game--the true market for SpaceX doesn't even exist yet.
In Mexico it's called "The War Against Narcotraffic". It makes more sense.
He hasn't reinvented rocketry, he's reinvented rocket manufacturing.
I'm think that's a rhetorical question right?

If not, the latter one, since that's how this stuff has always worked. Just smart business for them.
I'm so glad he came forward. Maybe now some of the hyperbole can stop. I've been reading stories of the following 2 types:

1. Blogs offering commentary on another story about GoDaddy's role in this and pretty much saying "GoDaddy wrote the bill and gave themselves a bunch of perks".

2. The actual sources of those original blogs. It's funny how the sources say no such thing and actually corroborate this GoDaddy employee's story.

If you just read the original sources you'll see that he's right in saying that GoDaddy didn't write the bill and really did just ask to redefine a few points. It's also totally true that all registrars get the exemption.

I've stopped commenting on these stories because the second someone introduces a little rationality into the discussion the downvotes and gang-up start flying. I'm no GoDaddy apologist. I think they're assholes for coming out in support of SOPA like everyone else. But why are we focusing so much on them? These stories aren't true. They simply mention GoDaddy and take on a life of their own. Ever since GoDaddy got brought up we've totally gotten distracted. Badly. I don't know why GoDaddy came out in support of SOPA. I'd guess it was so they could hedge their bets in case it passed. It's still wrong but I'm not about to go all conspiracy-theory and buy into any theory along the lines that imply GoDaddy is some sort of oppressive evil company for some mysterious reason.

Come on guys, let's be reasonable here. What the guy says is true. I've been a long time GoDaddy hater but even I can't get on board with a lot of this misinformation floating around. Sorry if it's not the popular opinion but it's the truth.
How to know your future through horoscopes?
POHMELFS distributed filesystem has been completely redesigned
Gallier Kostüm | Gallier Kostüme
Gallier Kostüm Lieferumfang sind die Hose, der Gürtel, der Schnurrbart sowie der Helm mit roten Zöpfen enthalten. Mit einem hellen T-Shirt und einem dicken Kissen zum Ausstopfen des Bauches, lässt sich das Kostüm super definieren! Die eigene Straßenkleidung kann gut darunter getragen werden. Gallier Kostüme ist sowohl für Frauen als auch für Männer geeignet. Das Material besteht zu 100 % aus Polyester.
My wife loves her kindle. She has purchased a few books, uses it for web browsing and a few games.
Yeard End Discount Up to 75% for Women Sweaters
Implementation of MITM Attack on HDCP-Secured Links
There's to me, three basic cases:

- They are so advanced technologically they can visit us any time they want. We have nothing of interest for them. Any resource we have, they can synthesize it. They may decide to observe us without interfering for scientific purposes or just out of curiosity.

- They are "within range" of our technological development. They could be very dangerous because they share our problems (lack of energy, lack of resources, etc.). No worries, they cannot visit us.

- They are too primitive to even understand the message.
Why I Use IMAP for Email
Yes, that is what I'm talking about. The person I was replying to seemed to claim otherwise.
In a world where SOPA passes, blocking 4chan would amount to an atomic declaration of war. If Anonymous wasn't already going balls-out at that point.
Why is everyone so cynical around here? Even if the guy is from PR, which I doubt, his story checks out. I know we all pride ourselves on being smarter than the rest around here but I think popular opinion is wrong on this one. The backlash against them for supporting SOPA seems to have put blinders on us all. Their support was wrong and when they took it back it wasn't very convincing. But they really didn't help write the bill. After they came out supporting SOPA the media grabbed on to the narrative we helped create and now all the stories are focused on them which is leading to a lot of this misinformation we're taking as truth. What's worse is that our anger towards them for supporting the bill won't allow us to see past the hype, realize that yeah, all registrars are exempt, and no, they didn't help write the bill.

I know these facts cannot and never will be excusable but I think we need to start putting this into perspective. Okay, GoDaddy are assholes, let's not support them but let's also quit obsessing over them and get back to SOPA itself. I don't think there's anything else we can discuss about GoDaddy that will help defeat SOPA. Why not focus on what the committee is doing now because I promise GoDaddy isn't the secret hand behind it all and watching them isn't going to help us one bit.
Experienced Hires at Startups - Don't forget The Prime Directive | TK's Weblog
Top Facebook Pages in Malaysia
This is Joel's humorous version of what Steve Blank refers to as "knowing your market type"[1]. Steve classifies them as new vs existing markets (there's also a third called "resegmented markets" but those just sound like existing markets to me).

He gave an example in one of his Haas lectures that I'll never forget of how disastrous it can be to mistake the two market types by comparing the marketing strategies of Blackberry vs Tivo.

Blackberry knew they were releasing advanced new products into a market of users that primarily only used pagers, so they described their product as a two-way pager, even though it's nothing like a pager under the hood. They described it in terms that people could instantly grok what the hell it was and early adopter usage was off the charts.[2]

If Tivo followed the same model, they should've described themselves as a tapeless VCR. But the company didn't just miss the obvious opportunity, they actively avoided it and even went so far as to ban the word VCR from any marketing, press releases or interviews. This came straight from the top, from the CEO, who believe that the VCR was primitive tech and the Tivo was so technically advanced as to be in a different class of gear.

Tivo got confused about what market they were in. They had great tech that was completely torpedoed by their marketing. As a result, Tivo's adoption curve was much slower, never got above a few million users, and didn't cross over into mainstream usage except as a verb.

[1] http://steveblank.com/2009/09/10/customer-development-manife...

[2] Bonus points for the self-taught MBA crowd: go read Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma and figure out why Blackberry wasn't able to sustain their lead.
For me, it had a lot to do with how obnoxious their posts in support of SOPA were.
The Whois protocol, RFC 812, does not specify the result format returned. The protocol is actually incredibly simple; you connect to port 43 via TCP, send a query delimited by a CRLF, the server sends back a plain text, human readable response.

Now, many registrars use a format that has lines that look like "Name: Value". But not all do. And those that do will frequently include other text, including terms of service for using their WHOIS service or providing instructions. And some don't use a "Name: Value" format, or they allow for multi-line indented values, or whatnot. Some seem to use "%" to delimit informational lines, as if it's a comment characters, while others don't bother to use anything.

So, parsing whois is a bit more like scraping the web than like parsing a real file format. It can break sometimes.
IP Phone, Business phone system, Office telephone systems, VOIP phone
PROSUM Service Capability is help desk, incident management, Network Design, Professional Services, Implementations. PROSUM offers best Products are Unified communications, ICT experts, VoIP, wireless & business phones.
Boeing gets massive government assistance. Aside from their Defense and Space business (which is facing some serious problems now) which is basically direct federal money, US trade policy encourages sale of commercial aircraft internationally.

Big industrial companies selling overseas get much more assistance from the federal government than any small computer company hacker news people would be familiar with. The US does this a lot less than most countries, too, but it definitely exists.

Boeing has far closer ties to the government than a tech startup would.
Isn't the gap filled by companies like Posterous/Tumbler? For the average user, they answer the problem of "put something online and make sure it stays there" perfectly well.
Why Should We Trust Wealthy Affiliate Review?
Being an affiliate is one of the quickest ways of making money online. Many individuals are earning a high amount of money through affiliate marketing in present time. Well, a right starting produces the right results, so before you jump into the affiliate marketing field try to cover the given below points:
Using deferreds in jQuery
For reference, here are the instructions for installing github on Windows. The audience here can very possibly be doing their first school programming assignment with git.

http://help.github.com/win-set-up-git/

Your site should try to provide a very linear guide for new users.
We can't say that everyone is posting misinformation about GoDaddy since the best source on their stance is their initial post on the pro-SOPA stance itself.

A commenter on TC also linked to this http://t.co/HwNa8MEY post by VP Nima Kelly equating SOPA opposition to denying legal protection to "the established rights of fellow Americans" while ignoring the constitution and due process.

The company certainly has other smears that have been bundled in the bashing but don't equate it to unfair treatment. DMCA is already unfair legislation but the idea that we should let the copyright lobby police the Internet is fundamentally absurd.
Black Magic Witchcraft
A great way to begin to study the actual facets of Wicca Witchcraft or Black Magic would be to read, read and browse more. Overall, the reality may have more written about this then your misconceptions or superstitions. Websites which are truth based is going to be plentiful and sites with composed tales and details are going to be much less and several won't match. Quite simply, the Wicca belief is really a belief which has positive and overall good aspects but a couple of individuals will write negative reasons for it.
Achebe's "Things Fall Apart"
In China, Power in Nascent Electric Car Industry
The Fast Lane by MJ Demarco

You won't regret it.
The sheepish feeling about app development made me think of Buckminster Fuller's Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth:

"For every 100,000 employed in research and development, or just plain thinking, one probably will make a breakthrough that will more than pay for the other 99,999 fellowships".
Best read for me is actually a non-tech book; the Dutch "Hoe hoort het eigenlijk" (roughly translated as: "how it should be done") which is considered "the Dutch Etiquette Bible". There is not enough courtesy and etiquette in this world.

That, and I really liked SICP (finally got off the shelf).
Should We Organise an Apple Boycott?
Long Term Residential Treatment
It's not tech-related, but my favorite book this year was Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea. The book is a collection of stories from North Korean defectors, combined with some history and background info. It's a quick but satisfying read.
More like the rather obvious fact that we will almost certainly be extinct long before anything non-human ever finds it. Assuming that anything ever does, which is unlikely in the extreme.

Really, by far the most likely case of it ever getting found by intelligent life forms is humans going out and retrieving it someday.
Open Services Innovation from Henry Chesbrough
Why is everyone so cynical around here? Because they think that PR is evil and deliberate and not just a part of day to day life. PR encompasses everything a company does publicly, not just spinning bad situations.
2. MVP in 14d is realistic and should be the goal

1. Maybe it's not the perfect way to startup something but at least he's doing something (and not just reading anymore). And who knows, maybe the IRC chat doesn't bring a team but gives him tons of new inspirations and ideas for new ventures.
I personally love the Kindle Fire. I'm an iPad user, but I bought a Fire to check it out. It's surprisingly powerful--and the 7 inch form factor is great for games.

But yeah--the interface is fiddly. I think the only reason why I get so much use out of my Fire is because I'm used to dealing with buggy products. I'd never give one to my parents. Maybe 2.0.

Oh--and the browser is HORRIBLE. Despite Amazon's crowing about their new tech--it seems like Skyfire repackaged. And super hard to use.
The Moon That Embraces the Sun เรื่องย่อ นักแสดง ตัวละคร
This is really cool and I might have found a very good use for it just by looking at it.

One thing though: IMHO it should also be possible to dispatch events over UDP as often times you don't care that much whether the event is actually logged or not.

You do however care about the responsiveness of the application that's doing the logging and you really don't want it to hang while the logging server is being slow with its tcp handshake.

Thankfully, this is open source and n github, so I can fix this. Expect a pull request tomorrow-ish
Top Enterprise Cloud Apps and Services of 2011
Regardless of the syntax for encoding a server event, having a request id (txnId in the post) is an often overlooked detail. See how Google do this in their systems: http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/4/27/paper-dapper-googl...
BlackBerry Curve 8900 Javelin Unlocked Phone with 3.2 MP Camera
"This car will be able to go 160 miles on one charge of its battery pack." Meh: http://www.rimac-automobili.com/concept_one/battery-system-9
Is this link not working only for me?
Cialis
Il Cialis generico è un farmaco che sta avendo sempre più successo nella nostra società e questo perché può garantire la possibilità di avere un rapporto sessuale completo nel giro di 30 minuti dalla sua assunzione.
Victor Hugo ~ Les Misérables
:) Challenging things are often worthy endeavors. And pls don't be afraid to ask questions to the community when you get stuck. I'm sure there are plenty of people wanting to help!
You have already failed your first test as a freelance developer.

What other devs are charging means jack . You will find that same thing for ANY service on Odesk. If the lowest bids always won, then nobody from the West would ever get any work.
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World

A scary tale about the collapse of the various markets across the globe. I constantly had to keep checking to see if the book was from the fiction section. The stories are so far out there it seemed unreal.
Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman
Oh christ. I'm pretty sure my sysadmin friends would murder anyone that tried this on their boxen. As an engineer, while I appreciate the amount of shiny going on here, I doubt that adding yet another layer of tooling requirements to dealing with logs is the right answer--this could lead to serious ax-sharpening of picking the best JSON-to-readable scripts, and you can bet your ass that'll be different on every machine, install, site, etc. etc.

All that being said, I could see this being hilariously useful in game development. Having little JSON crumbs dribble out during playtesting and QA would be really handy, and that is an area where data mining is actually quite useful. Having a trivial way of sorting through crumbs by issue or tester, and then being able to, say, project the bugs into an HTML5/WebGL-based tool for devs to use would be really nifty.
I LOL'd, and unlike other commenters actually loved the article. A smart and fun to read way to promote your own product -- using an overhyped competitor is just a bonus. 37signals' fanboys should tone town a bit. [Bracing for the downvotes.]
API Design for C++ - Martin Reddy
FYI: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/nrptu/iama_real_godadd...
IMO, top-down control of the message is just fundamentally flawed nowadays. Moving away from it would go a long way toward allowing non-anonymous AMAs.
There's at least another case. They are more advanced than us and realize that if we are allowed to develop, we may become a threat to them in the future. They may decide to annihilate us preemptively.
« Salmon Fishing in the Yemen » : la bande-annonce du film dévoilée
Best books I read in 2011:

* "Salonica, City of Ghosts" by M.Mazower. Tells the history of Thessaloniki, informative, entertaining, at times nostalgic.

* "The Cauchy-Schwarz Master Class" by J.M.Steele. A guided tour of mathematical inequalities. Very entertaining and readable (for a math book) and extremely well written.

* "Indiscrete Thoughts" by G-C.Rota. Irreverent anecdotes about mathematicians.

* "Black Swan" by N.N.Taleb. Maybe overhyped and at times annoying and pompous, but extremely insightful nevertheless.
I'd like to mention two books because I can't decide which is greatest (they're very different):

- The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande (often quoted here, and rightly so; it's short and really really great)

- How to Live, or A life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell (a fantastic take on Montaigne's essays by a contemporary scholar with a refreshing take on everything).
REST and Web Sockets?
> Wait, I don't know what OWS is because I say it's incoherent and uncoordinated, and you say it's chaotic and anarchic?

You expect it to speak with one voice. Even organizations like the Republican party don't consistently speak with one voice and you expect an non-organization to produce a clear and concise mission statement in tv snippet lengths.

You're obviously stacking the deck.

> Sounds like we agree what OWS is; you just think anarchy and chaos are good things.

And again.

Many different people are protesting many different issues. It would be ridiculous to try to label them in a simplistic fashion because you'll miss all the nuances.

> I'm not so arrogant as to pass moral judgment on people I don't even know.

Oh, sorry. Dunno where I'd have gotten that idea from.

> another one of those Occupy bums who doesn't work, doesn't pay taxes, and is a net drain on the economy.

Oh yeah, that.
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman

It made me feel like I'm not thinking enough about everything around me.
"How We Decide" from John Lehrer
Berbatov triple effort leaps Man Utd. to 5th consecutive win
Dimitar Berbatov of Manchester United scored hat trick to put his team on high note against Wigan Athletic on Dec 26th at Old Trafford. Berbatov’s triple goal effort has leaped the European giant football club to secure a 5th consecutive win in the EPL
Hardboiled Web Design by Andy Clarke.
I read "Wheel of time" series by Robert Jordan this year. The books in this series are just so addictive.. wasn't able to stop till I read all thirteen books :)
Recycling and its effects on environment:-
Recycling is an important element in today’s world. It is an earth saving and essential part of our lives. Recycling conserves resources and saves our wealth and knowledge. Recycling is an important element in today’s world. It is an earth saving and essential part of our lives. Recycling conserves resources and saves our wealth and knowledge.
Butik Penyedia Aksesoris Bahan Kulit Asli
Selempang.com menyempurnakan penampilan anda menjadi lebih modis dan trendy. Cocok di segala aktifitas sehari-hari. Lengkapi koleksi anda sekarang juga.