skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Types of Printable Labels 
There are a wide range of choices for people when they browse labels on website. One of the most popular labels is known as printable label. It is demanding product in UK market these days.
There's a wonderful documentary on the NYC subway. At the end of the director's career - he basically stated he could keep building the subway for as long as he wanted - the subway would still fill to capacity.

I think one of the biggest problems was caused by the interstate system that went through cities. I can understand ring roads - but cities like Hartford, Providence, and Worcester are cleaved in two. It's just horrible.
Same here, I don't watch dubbed television shows/movies. The only alternatives are TNT and FOX atm, at least with sky you have dual audio.
Hey, guys i really like your product ... but i think you could spend your newly found venture fund to invest on a good designer.

(PS: Even your email template is exact ripoff from Groupon ... i think you guys can do better than this.)

(Suggestion: Could you please add "Contacts" connector on top of your email widget ... now i have to type in emails one by one for inviting friends)
We thought about exactly this issue a bit (and even discussed it with some in our community) before we implemented the discount.

What we decided was this:
1) We're going to be completely up-front about the discount and talk to people about why we are doing it.
2) Companies that offer the same piece of software for multiple platforms often split that software into different editions (Nero is a good example)... and then can offer different prices per platform by just adjusting the specific edition's price. Since we allow people to run our software on any platform we support... we can't do that. But we can do something that is effectively similar.

All that said, we're definitely interested if anyone has ideas on how to do this better. This is merely the best that we've been able to come up with so far.
Ninja Geddesign - Introducing wrap.js
If I had to guess, I would say it's because early adopters are willing to pay more for novelty. Then 6 months later it allows retailers to put it "on sale" for the same price as the regular Kinect.
Is it illegal to purchase a VPN account in the states and pay for a Netflix subscription?
Let's say you have 8GB of RAM and are watching a HD video which is 7GB uncompressed and the rest of your system only really needs 1GB of your RAM, surely it makes sense what whilst you are watching the video you can use spare CPU cores to uncompress the rest of the video and put it into RAM.

That's not clear to me. Why do something ahead of time that can be done faster than needed on the fly anyway? You're basically assuming that when system resources are needed for something else halfway through your video, processing power will be more useful than space.
> Make the BBC channels, ITV, and a couple other UK channels available as a UK package on DirecTV or Dish, charge $49/month, and I'd happily pay, assuming they were uncut feeds.

From the other side of the pond, I'd like to repeat that sentiment in reverse.

Please don't forget, Americans, that we have just the same problem waiting for American shows, which there are many more of, and therefore also many more great shows.

American sport TV is generally already great from the leagues themselves, with MLB TV, NFL GamePass and whatever the names are for NBA/NHL... but general entertainment/drama/comedy/etc, it's pirate a few hours later or a long, long wait.
If it's convenient or solves your problem, it's illegal. Just use that as a rule of thumb.
I implied in another comment that my FUD about browser memory came from being wrong by an order of magnitude in the wrong direction when applying my notion of memory footprint to web browsing.

You and others just filled that gap, thank you, I feel less stupid now.
The solution is to realize that the MPAA and RIAA took it upon themselves to start a wild-west no lawful due process to enforce their rights tactic with no discussion with the tech industry or user of the internet.

Its the same entitlement that allows them currently to abuse copyright producers by 'bribing' lawmakers to pass laws exempting their extortion.

Its time that the RIAA and MPAA face investigations and rico charges, the sooner the better.
James, I'm kinda in a similar situation like your old-self and now you have a gun.
Human resources look at you like you look at a server.
The default has to fit these requirements:

- The OS/desktop manager-specific stuff needs to be there, or else you fragment the overall UX for the computer.

- The browser needs to give immediate access to the actions that a typical user will use all the time.

- Tab mode has won out over separate windows, so you need a visual indicator of what tabs are open and which one is active.

- And the contents of the web page are the contents that you care about right now, or else you're looking for a way to navigate away.

Modern browsers do a pretty good job with all of those requirements. I'm surprised that Bray is even interested in a notional "home" page, since everyone I know, technical or not, either wants their session restored from last time (on startup) or a very fast search page to come up when they tap for a new tab. People don't reset tabs -- they close them or go somewhere in specific.

Best of all, this behavior is all customizable by normal people who never have to type about:config.
CA Judge: America's war on drugs 'biggest mistake since slavery'
Can we agree that limiting the career opportunities of your employees and firing recruiters who will not take part in this illegal practice is nothing like taking away bagels or personalizing search results? It's very close to the regular meaning of "evil", harming people for your own gain, illegally and without justification.
Demi Moore 911 Call.News
Or they keep moving it :)
Visualized Git practices for team: branch, merge, rebase
How To Learn -- From Robert Bjork, Director Of UCLA Learning And Forgetting Lab
Interesting. Yes, that could be a good part two.
I'm in total agreement with your statement with respect to when "Google does something they dislike."

That is not the case here as Google and the others embroiled in this scandal were evil in that they willfully broke antitrust laws.
Google Flailing Wildly as Facebook Nears IPO
Former Apple Exec goes to JC Penney and slashes prices by 40%
May I remind you the dinosaurs died because they had neither nukes nor rockets.

Nor telescopes, but that's beyond the point.

Mankind puts all its eggs in one basket. Our odds of survival against planetary catastrophes increase with the number of planets we colonize. The more spread we are, the bigger the chances. The timescales involved are huge but, just like someone wins the lottery every week, I'm willing to bet that, as we discuss, a civilization we know nothing of is being wiped out by an unforeseen catastrophe precisely because all of them lived on top of a single rock.
I haven't tried Excel compatibility, but everyone is able to read .doc files, and yet compatibility with Word fails for almost every non-trivial feature (especially layout things). So, I'd be wary of that.
> Every field engineer is trained on the proper use of a static mat and wrist strap.

Right, and they still don't use it and mock it as they are being trained.

> It takes only 30 seconds to put one on.

To dig out the mat and wrist strap, fold it out, put the machine on the thing and clip it properly takes longer than 30 seconds, even if you have it around already. On top of that, you have to do it every time you want in and out of the case, on every call or event, every time. That adds up quickly.

> Just because the field engineers are lazy and are ignoring their training doesn't make the risk of ESD any lower than it is.

If ALL field techs without exception don't use it and mock it because in practice the risk is so ridiculously remote that it's not worth dealing with, then yes, it does make it lower than people like you make it out to be. I'm actually going to trust the guy who does it multiple times a day every day for years and years over the guy who insists the risk is greater than has ever been proven.

Either way, why should you care? I'm the one who will supposedly be paying for all these random dead components. I mean it hasn't happened once in years of being a field tech and never once using a strap and neither has it happened to anyone I know and the people I know are mostly techs and never use straps, but who knows what the future will bring?

> Inexplicable component failures; random errors weeks or even months down the road. These are all caused by ESD.

How convenient. We get to blame all potential future failures on ESD too. Nothing is a bad part or wear over time. It was all caused by you touching it without wearing the magic strap.

> Just because you want to ignore the laws of physics doesn't mean they don't apply to you.

Or Apple, Dell or UofT either. I'm just going to have to assume there is a magical anti-static field over Canada then.
Agree totally.

NetBSD uses the more sensical /usr/pkg for package-managed software, leaving /usr/local for the admin.
I agree. It's time to not just resist further expansion of copyright and copyright enforcement, but to push back.

* Reduce copyright terms to 4 years, non-renewable

* Require registration of works with the copyright office

* Assess an annual fee proportional to revenue earned from the copyrighted work

* Provide for stiff penalties for asserting copyright over works you do not hold the copyright to.

* Affirm that public domain works can never be copyrighted.
You're right, which would explain why they experimented with vodka. It seems this filter is better at filtering water out of a substance, rather then filtering substances out of water.
There are many components to cognitive ability. For example, there's the Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory that has several different abilities:

Crystallized Intelligence
Fluid Intelligence
Quantitative Reasoning
Reading & Writing Ability
Short-Term Memory
Long-Term Storage and Retrieval
Visual Processing
Auditory Processing
Processing Speed

This was cut and pasted from wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattell-Horn-Carroll_theory). If you've taken an IQ test, you'll see that they test various types of cognitive abilities, not just math or logic, but also the ability to rotate objects in your head and visualize them.

I know plenty of people who are "smart" who have a very hard time with that. In addition, I know plenty of people who aren't academically smart, but who are great visualizers. There are many different components to cognitive ability. I have a friend and both he and his father are exceedingly intelligent. My friend's son also is also a gifted child. However, when the son took some cognitive tests, his spacial/visualization scores were average, whereas the verbal and math were off the charts. I don't think that affects whether or not the kid is smart, it's just interesting how cognitive ability is broken up into different measurable areas.

Is it so hard to imagine that computer programming takes a certain subset of cognitive ability that some people, who are considered smart, just don't have? I know a lot of very intelligent people who wouldn't be able to program at all. It's not because they're "dumb", but as I've said, but the way they process information is completely different. You most definitely could develop the skills, however, if their brains are wired a certain way that causes them to be predisposed AGAINST programming, then they won't enjoy it very much at all.
Interestingly it sounds like these "recognized" copyright holders want registration of copyright too ... they say they are willing to provide a regularly updated list of all the copyrighted works they want to be censored.

If that's what they want, give it them. Bringing back copyright registration might not be such a bad idea, at least in a form where after 14 years of free copyright, you have to pay $1 per work per year and provide the contact name and address of the registered copyright holder. All unregistered works older than 14 years would automatically fall out of copyright into the public domain.
Don't do this.

If you've ever seen the mixing desk in a big recording studio or concert venue, you'll understand that maintaining buttons and knobs is something of a preoccupation for sound engineers.

The solvents in WD40 will clean switches quite effectively, but WD40 leaves behind a lubricating residue which isn't very conductive and will attract dirt. Using WD40 as a contact cleaner tends to be a vicious cycle - you end up using WD40 to remove the old WD40 gunk.

The best thing for the job is Caig Deoxit. It's not especially cheap, but neither is an iPhone 4. WD40 claims to do a million jobs, but Deoxit does only one - safely clean electrical contacts.
I am the author of this PaaS, I wanted to push this note on HN Monday to have time to answer the questions, but the cat escaped the box faster than I wanted. I am here to answer questions but do not expect "instant" answers.
I had uncompressed data in mind, but it was only a rough guess. I'll do a more in depth calculation.

2 seconds of uncompressed sound, at 44.1 kHz, in stereo and 8 bits per sample is 170 KiB. 17 images of on average 24 by 24 pixels at 32 bits per pixel is 68 KiB. Three other, bigger images give another 40 KiB of uncompressed data. A total ~280 KiB. There's a few KiB of HTML but I don't know whether and how I should count that. Even if we take into account headers, padding, objects and higher quality data (e.g. 16 bits per sample), I assume all assets will still account for less than half a megabyte.

Now that I look at the code, I see it's including a bundled version of jQuery. I don't know how big the representation of Javascript code is in memory, but 29 MiB seems a bit much (correction, while I was typing this, it went to 31 MiB).

It might seems disingenuous to single out this extensions, but truth to be told all my extensions need a similar, way too high amount of private memory.
But I think that we should not dilute the definition of Evil.

Tell that to the employee who was "terminated within the hour."
We should be able to tell the OS - "don't give app X more than 300meg" and let the OS handle swapping directly, regardless of what the actual RAM is.
What is and how to use EnumMap
Wait, people still set a homepage?
MPAA exec admits: "We're not at this point comfortable with" the Internet
It seems to me that Jobs orchestrated the whole ago affair, approaching key managers in various companies to set up this agreement. If Google gets the Evil tag for the decisions of some executives then surely Apple should be described a duck, perhaps more do since Jobs was Apple for all intents and purposes
True , with video decompression that is probably the case.

I'm sure there are lots of examples where doing complex calculations whenever you have CPU spare and swapping them out to disk as needed would be preferable to having to contend with whatever else needs to use it at the time.

I think the key is how to OS deals with memory contention issues rather than just minimizing memory usage.

Someone with a better understanding of OSes than me could probably clarify.

I guess the performance hit is when you write a page of RAM to the disk, perhaps there are some cases where you don't bother to do this if memory contention is high?
> Human space travel is a waste of money from a scientific standpoint.

It all depends on your kind of science. For an astronomer, manned space travel is pointless. In fact, space travel is pointless unless we invent some kind of FTL propulsion that can actually put a probe close to some interesting phenomena or allow us to look from another direction.

OTOH, a thousand rovers will tell us nothing about how human societies would organize in artificial habitats. A machine cannot tell how it feels to be able to hide Earth from view with your extended hand.

That's what manned space travel is for. It's not to bring back measurements or soil samples. It's to bring back stories that reminds us how extraordinary we can be.

And to inspire us to be extraordinary.
I built a very similar PaaS with mongrel2 about a year ago (though all applications were untrusted and running inside an OpenVZ container) - only to change it to be nginx/HTTP-based because of stability.

Great to see this technology is ready nowadays and can be used for production systems :)
Based on this data, geeks are most likely vikings.
Scientists use silk from the tasar silkworm as a scaffold for heart tissue
In broad terms, this same concern (sedimentation of layers of interface) was one of the original motivations for the MacOS's otherwise unusual single menu bar at the top, rather than separate menu bars for the OS and the application. But that of course hasn't carried over to webapps: while Safari might use the OS menu bar, Gmail inside of Safari layers a new one inside it.
Would be great for viral marketing. As far as I know it is possible to forge codes that are valid but have an image embedded. A stickfigure giving another one oral pleasures for example. Place it in the streets and people who think of QR codes as random jumble will see it as a funny coincidence, take a picture for the funny pages and maybe decypher it and visit your erotic gadgets shop.
In markets where even a delayed rebroadcast is vanishingly unlikely, online streaming is absolutely thriving. For example, a whole lot of anime hits Crunchyroll and Hulu before the fansub groups ever get a crack at it. These sites and a few others are also expanding into live action Japanese and Korean TV.

However, I think this only works when there's very little competition (from broadcasters) for individual shows. The BBC is probably in the worst position possible for an attempt to move to this model due to interplay between company-wide policy and the negotiating power of its international counterparts. Previous agreements with cable companies can't help much either.
I don't think that's still a valid assessment of how Linux works today. It's been a long time since my last driver problem. While it's true Linux users may be more adventurous and resourceful than their Mac or Windows (or HP-UX, AIX, Solaris) counterparts, I don't think that's because they need these abilities to set up their computers.
Not a rails plugin, but earlier this month this was posted to HN :

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3428369
A. Copyright infringement is not stealing.

B. The internet thrives precisely because it is transnational. This allows for quality programming to span the world.

C. There is an international market for current episodes of popular TV shows. There is such a large market that people are willing to commit copyright infringement.

D. Just because your business model doesn't adapt to the market, does not automatically mean that your business model deserves protection in the market.

E. Media content creators have long protected their international licensing agreements with anti-customer technology like DVD Regions.

F. At the end of the day, the customer doesn't care. They will find a better product in the market.

G. It's my experience that people who pirate out of this frustration, are happy to pay when it is available. The person who pirated the Christmas Special would have paid money to see it, it was just not available at any price.
Most likely it's the javascript etc, it may also be holding syntax trees etc in memory too?

If it causes the load of another library which nothing else was using that could count especially if it's a different version of jquery etc.

If 2 processes are both using the same library and it is linked to their addresses spaces, who's memory usage does it count against?
A friend of mine works in BBC sales. He tells me that selling rights for their TV shows to channels in various countries is highly lucrative for the BBC.

He also tells me that he understands this model won't last much longer. But until then, for economic reasons, the BBC doesn't want to make it too easy for you to watch their content directly in your non-UK country without going through a local channel.
Free online games
Free online games at Dr-Games, 4 New games every day and a lot of categories for children.
OpenCV Washing-up Detector
Kinect Russian Roulette (video)
How would you know how much RAM is going to be needed by a process?

Let's say you load up you video editing program, maybe it only needs 512MB of memory to fit the whole program into memory, now what happens when you load in LOTR directors cut?

Especially if you aren't running any other large programs, would it still make sense to restrict it to 300MB (or 1GB , or 2GB etc)?

I think it's safer to assume that OS developers know what they are doing and can be trusted to handle memory contention issues better than most of us can.

As an aside some programs (like redis , memcached etc) do allow you to restrict the amount of RAM which they use but this is because they are explicitly greedy with memory and are probably used by people with enough skills to measure actual usage and tune accordingly.
Where are the bars in San Francisco where people are likely to know what Y Combinator is? I just moved here and don't know of them.
A better way of validating an email address
Agreed. It reminds me of the Facebook RWW login fail. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_yo....

To us, this was hilarious, but it painted a picture of how unintuitive the browser abstraction is to some.
Giving a fig for negative research?
Negative data has merits. Consider too the volume of unused data generated in research projects and its possible uses. The question has been where to put it and how can it be re-used?
Its opposite for us. At work, we dont use branch, only git pull --rebase on master. Any idea on when and why to use branches often ?
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Very nice post, thanks! I'm looking at experimenting with Mongrel2 to see if it would be a nice fit at work, where we still use apache2/mod_wsgi (we have modest needs) to interface our Python + CouchDB app. However, we've started adding WebSockets stuff to the system, and it would be nice to run everything in a slightly more coherent matter. We also use ZeroMQ to pump messages around the network (that later get converted into WebSockets frames for web frontend consumption).

- Is mongrel2 getting good development? The latest release was in June, and the latest commit in the canonical repo seems to be from July...

- Is there good support for RFC-version WebSockets yet?

- Is there easy/performant stuff for simple asset serving via mongrel2, or should I use nginx for that?
It's a bit old, but imo a really interesting book that still has good insights (and has been very influential) is Douglas McGregor's The Human Side of the Enterprise (1960): http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071462228/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

It originated the idea that management is based (even if implicitly) on a combination of two competing theories: "Theory X", which assumes employees are inclined towards laziness and misdirection, so management is the science and art of controlling, steering, and incentivizing them; and "Theory Y", which assumes employees are motivated and self-directed, so management is the science and art of enabling them.
Rakudo Star 2012.01 released (Perl 6 - New Object Model branch)
I went through some of your links but didn't find the whole shebang. Is there a plan to release all of it.

I love the detail that we went through when describing it.
Please stop using the term "ghetto testing." Nobody knows what the hell that means and nobody thinks that that's okay.

The proper course is to apologize, take it down, and move on. Not make lame, half-assed excuses which just perpetuate the situation.
The Xtion Pro Live for $200 is depth, RGB, and audio. The Xtion Pro for $150 is depth only.