skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think anything over $40k is a great price for their product. The bubble is over, and a giant valuation for something that could easily be re-created in a few weeks just isn't going to happen right now.
For what it's worth, I live in a Vittoria Management apartment in Palo Alto, and I've been satisfied with their management.
If 4chan has had their way with it, I'm surprised it doesn't just answer "Rick Astley" to everything.
Some of Professor Plimer's arguments have been countered elsewhere previously. Please see http://bravenewclimate.com/2008/09/01/spot-the-recycled-deni...

More generally, I would offer http://www.realclimate.org as a blog which offers excellent scientific discussion of climate change.
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The data actually already exists for this. The Wayback Machine stores caches of website data, you could do simple checks for changes, and then report back any significant differences. Possible statistical site could be built to show the highest-moving sites based on the changes to their content.

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Wasn't TMA1 located in Tycho Crater (near side)?
I was going to read this article, but something else caught my eye.
It's actually complementary, aging has many factors.

Heavy water is supposed to make harder for free radicals to do damage in the first place.

Sirtuins should help with switching on repair mechanisms after damage is done.

And then there are telomeres, our natural kill-switch. There is another article, linked from the sirtuins one, about a possible way to slow down telomeres shortening:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16035-elixir-of-youth-...

BTW All three anti-aging approaches have companies working on the products to commercialize the research (Sirtris was recently bought by GlaxoSmithKline for $720M).
No, but if you say McDonalds is unhealthy and you eat big macs all the time then you're just being stupid...

So why would you do something you think is stupid...? unless you're stupid?
you should also have a "what should i wear today" with either a long/short shirt, jeans/shorts, and yes coat/no coat. less work i need to do :p
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A wonderful article about Mumbai. The author couldn't have described it better - "MY bleeding city"
Yeah, bay area apartment searching is a bitch. CL is by far the best tool though, you just have to learn how to do it right.

The biggest tip is to post a 'room wanted' ad - most people will only post a room if they don't find a fit there. Make your post stand out - don't give the same boring life story that everyone does - it's not relevant for a house. Post your phone number and the times you're available. When you inspect, make sure you're prepared to write a check on the spot (and say that you can in your post).

It's easy to get desperate and take anything that is offered, but don't let desperation convince you to settle for something that will piss you off in a months time. Short term hotels are a good solution while looking for a place - you can get a small dorm-style room for around $500 per month, month-to-month rent.

Good luck!
I suspect that what is really going on here is that workers who love their job actually prefer to work hard AND good programmers love their job. So it is probably true that good programmers actually prefer to work hard, but that is not the whole truth...

Also, since most workers don't love their job, it is probably also true that good programmers are unlike many workers. To say that programmers are unlike many TYPES OF workers we'd have to believe that a higher proportion of programmers love their job than do workers in other types of work. From what I have seen on HN (albeit sample biased) I'd say that is true.
I beat it with Shankara, 8th c. Indian religious writer.
That's what I do when I'm already living in the area. In this case, it's harder - I'm in Canada - but may take a trip down just for this purpose.
Thank you kindly, that's just the sort of tip I was hoping for.
Or even more simple. US (you could add Belize): fahrenheit. Every other country: celsius.

AFAIK the UK uses celsius mostly.
how many big sites are down for such long periods? I think twitter is pretty much alone in that aspect
I wrote a blog post about moving to the city a couple months back, it might be helpful to some people: http://is.gd/9sPS
>f the Canadian telecom market were open to competition, why doesn't a new competitor move in and clobber the existing phone companies in the market?

Barriers to entry. Infrastructure costs. Gov't incentives to provide better services where the incentives reward after the fact are the solution. Not throwing money at the problem with no oversight.
This is an idiotic idea and will lead to a) expensive piss, sweat, and breath or b) some horrible disease caused by overly slow chemical reactions. Maybe both.
Al Gore's involvement has made a lot of reflex conservatives who previously had no opinion on the matter into global warming skeptics. They figure since a prominent Democrat is saying it, they should be saying the opposite.
Not unless I need some feature in Silverlight or Flash that can't be accomplished by Javascript or Javascript based Framworks (e.g. Cappuccino). I just don't see the point of putting my users through the pain of installing them.
Citizen consumption is almost irrelevant when it comes to CO2 emissions. Criticizing people for having big houses or driving SUVs misses the point. We need a change in our energy sources away from coal. We have cost-effective technologies already, yet still 40% of our emissions come from burning it to create power.
Sounds like a neat idea worth experimenting - this is obviously very early on in the process though.
I fooled it with Hugo Simpson, then screwed it up when I clicked on some other Hugo during the "teach me" phase. Oh well.
Very interesting hypothesis. This reminds me of when I did my pool lifeguard training. We were taught that whenever someone in the pool complained about the temperature of the water, we should visibly walk into a room that has 'Staff Only' on the door, wait 30 seconds, walk back out, and then smile at the person who complained about the water temperature. Being seen to care can often 'alleviate' the problem.
You really should read Wikipedia or Google around about Global Cooling. It was never a scientific consensus at all. It was something a few scientists discussed as a possibility and the media ran with.
i've used http://page2rss.com/ with some success. no signup required.
Is there something in turkey that makes you sleepy?
Hi, this is Sascha from BaseShield.

Sorry about this confusion, such messages can be worrying, but let me assure you that BaseShield is not doing anything malicious here. Symantec Endpoint Security is reporting some activity that is in fact happening but is not malicious. To achieve its high level of sandbox security, BaseShield in some cases loads dlls into other processes.
This is a common technique that is natively supported by the Windows API and is in itself perfectly safe. We will investigate how this can be avoided and try to make sure BaseShield does not trigger these warnings with this product.

Again, apologies for the inconvenience. Please contact me directly at sascha (at) baseshield.com if you have any questions about this.

UPDATE:
Symantec Endpoint Protection appears to be prone to showing false alerts. This not only affects BaseShield but also other products, including Microsoft Virtual PC.

https://forums.symantec.com/syment/board/message?board.id=en...

https://forums.symantec.com/syment/board/message?board.id=en...

https://forums.symantec.com/syment/board/message?board.id=en...
If you liked that, you may enjoy the kill -9 rap:

http://www.idkwtf.com/videos/latest-videos/kill-9-linux-rap
Ask YC: How many unique HN users are out there?
How many unique users exist in the HN community? Just curious.
Didn't seem that great. It didn't guess any of my choices (Bede, Vita Sackville-West, and Diocletian).
I was referring to development & production deployments in both examples.
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I got a copy of the Apartments For Rent magazine from a friend (I believe you can get it from ForRent.com) and found a lot of places that weren't there on Craigslist or Rent.com. It's useful to just call up the apartments directly to find out if they have anything.
We get about 17-18k unique visitors on a weekday. There are 12385 accounts (by no means all active).

Daily page views are now around 220k.
That is a significant amount. Thanks for the info.
what about other planets & satellites in our solar system??
I'm not living in the bay but HotPads.com seems like it would be useful anywhere.
Ask HN: A Karma API?
Anyone else think it would be interesting to carry your YC karma with you to other websites and have it synch?
I don't think greater risk accounts for all the slowness of big companies. Some (probably most) of it is simply breakage caused by their large size.
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I used http://www.apartmentratings.com when I first moved here.

And based on the reviews of the apartment complexes I decided to go with something private. The best way to find that was Craigslist. I live in a cottage behind someone's house in the middle of Mountain View. The rent is reasonable, I get along great with my landlord, and it's a very comfortable situation.

It's a shame things aren't set up more like Australia. Most apartments there are all privately owned, generally between 8-40 per complex, and a far nicer overall experience.
My thought: aladin /
The answer returned: harry potter
Interesting thought but I really prefer the isolation we have here.
Ask HN: Should I drop out or not?
I am a 21-year-old undergrad student in a public university. A little old for freshman actually. After high school study, I spent one year in lab, and another year trying to start up sth. As I don't achieve any significant thing that can insure the rest of my life, then I said, go to United States and try some luck. But after the half year study, I didn't see any purpose of the college life.

I have learned basic math skills such as differential equations and linear algebra in high school. I self-taught algorithms and c/c++. I am an active contributor to opensource community. Recent two years, I mastered several scripting languages (js, php, python etc.) to accomplish a web project. Especially in computer vision area, I have many experiences. When I participate icpc contest, I saw what 4-year student done. That scared me. They don't have basic programming instinct.

Indeed, a diploma can make life much easier by getting a job in Microsoft or Google and my college's rank is not that bad at all (around 20+). But I don't want to spent so much money in next 3.5 year and gain nothing. Besides, getting a job in big company and establishing own career after 30+ seems not so interesting to me.
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a universal "reputation" tied to your email account might be useful

universally
That's what she said ;)
Beat it with Nynaeve al'Meara.
It guessed Rand al'Thor. (rather impressively. magic user, partial brother, fights with a sword)
.. and matrim cauthon (no magic, brothers/sisters, no sword, no beard)

these always impress me. (even if I do understand some of the math behind it)
Do you feel like you're learning at lot in college?
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It sounds like you have a really solid background outside of academia. That said, I would not advise dropping out at this point. The reason being that you did not mention any concrete plans or anything pulling you directly away from school.

Feeling that it does not have a purpose for you is valid and understandable, but there is probably a lot to going through college that you haven't taken into consideration (internships, finding partners, etc) that could be very beneficial.

My final thought would be that if you at some point in the near future have something immediate that you want/need to do, then it might be a viable option. At this point, though, I would stick it out.
Which school do you go to?

I find my own school to be pointless in terms of teaching me something I couldn't easily figure out on my own. I wish it were more of a "pick your own topic of study" type of thing. Only newer schools are beginning to do this. Olin College has a terrific engineering curriculum that is project-oriented, prevents faculty from being on >5 year tenure, and allows the entire curriculum to be reviewed and voted on each year.

My challenge at school has not been learning material, it has been finding people who are as driven and ambitious as I am. I see that as the only real value a university has: it's a petri dish of intelligence, but there's only a few people who are going to be just as driven as you are.

I am done with school in about 1.5 years and I still regret how this system is designed. I would say find a startup and go work for them. Get paid to learn, instead of the opposite in college, where the quality of material is usually very low. Get to know the very smart and driven employees and co-founders. When you have a nest egg built up, go and try to startup with someone.
I think the central point of his post was that he is does not.
You have to consider that some schools do have great professors and curriculum. Along with that, some companies lack intelligent people and good learning environments.
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Patience, young jedi! You've got the rest of your life to work and experiment with startups, but it's harder to go back to school later in life. It's great that you're already well ahead academically, but try and enjoy college in other ways, be it through challenging yourself with non-hacker-related courses or meeting interesting non-hackers. Good luck sir!
I'm 1.5 weeks away from graduation and I know exactly how you are feeling. So perhaps I can provide some insight.

School has crammed a bunch of useless information down my throat that I will never use again in my life. It has tested me in a format that in no way shape or form reflects how well I can contribute to society (in that, if I had Google, which I do in real life, I can ace every test that I have ever taken). I've essentially picked up everything in school by reading a book since, like you, I go to a top 25 public University where the professors are all on tenure and don't give a rats ass about the students.

But in light of all that, I am still damn proud of my soon to be college degree. At the end of the day you have the rest of your life to be a slave to the "man", but you only really have these couple of years to live up your youth and enjoy the finer stages in life (ie. college frat parties).

So my suggestion is to look outside just college as a means to an end, but rather an end in and of itself.
I'm going to have to say no. One of the largest sources of anxiety in our society is this belief that we have a dossier following us around. And we do. New jobs won't hire us without references from our old jobs. We have to fill in empty spaces in some way. Schools won't let us in unless we have a good record.

The internet allows some respite from that. We can simply create an account and go on our merry way. Screw up? Start over!

Yes, it allows trolls to troll, but it also removes the anxiety of failure and dossiers. It's (one reason) why OpenID hasn't caught on - most people would rather NOT authenticate beyond reasonable doubt that they are who they say they are on the internet across sites. They don't want everything they've said to be traceable to them.

If this is an opt-in system built around a number of sites where you can share karma OpenID-style, you'll find people creating their own shell sites to boost their karma. Good for nothing. If it's a mandatory system in a few sites, you'll find users rebel. We choose our communities because we want to be there and we recognize that when we go to another community, we need to work to gain a reputation there.
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right! I too don't want guys to just signup and post here just to show off their News.YC karma. It's a lot better to be isolated and share stuff rather than showing off karma.
See also http://l8tr.org/
It doesn't have to be a big site, it just has to be one that matters to you.
Two things:

1. As someone else already stated, it doesn't sound like you have any concrete plans or alternatives, so dropping out might not be the best option. When I was an undergrad, I was fascinated by the tales of so many extremely wealthy people who had dropped out of college and gotten rich through tech startups (Gates, Dell, Zuckerberg, etc, etc). I wondered if there was some link between dropping out of school and success in technology. However, I was confusing correlation with causation, as these people weren't rich because they dropped out...they dropped out because they had started something that was growing so fiercely that it took up all their time. If you don't have that something that pretty much forces you to drop out, don't do it. If you feel like you're torn and you're not sure what to do, don't quit school.

2. I mean no offense at all here, but it sounds like your communication skills in English could be improved. This may not seem like a huge deal, but learning to express yourself well through the written and spoken word will serve you well the rest of your life. Others might disagree with me on this, and perhaps there are better ways to improve that area, but college seems like it would be a good environment to do so, though I have no firsthand experience in the matter.

Good luck no matter what you decide.
Land isn't perfectly fungible -- in fact, one of the cornerstones of the tech startup world is that land near SF, CA or Boston, MA is worth many orders of magnitude more than land in eastern Iowa or western Texas for certain people.

There's very little value in preserving any particular acre of land in Iowa (0.8%) -- they're all essentially the same, and the one thing that land is good for is growing corn/soybeans. Likewise with TX, as far as I know it's roughly a gradient of drilling for oil in the west to ranch land in the east.

Unlike ranch land (generally uninteresting as park land) and farm land (crops would be destroyed by tourism), forest land (Washington state, and I assume a fair amount the mountainous portions of the other western states, as well) is a bit different in that the land can be used simultaneously as wood crop land and park space. On the east side of Seattle there are some large commercially owned forests that are legally obligated to provide public access for fishing, hunting, and mountain biking. You can achieve similar results with state ownership of the forest land and logging grants -- making the land valuable to hold as state (national) property.

I think the TX poverty issue could be attributed to the low-profit land not supporting much more than the people it takes to operate it. The overwhelming amount of said space probably overshadows the (moderately-)positive effects of the big cities.
I just moved to Seattle using Craigslist. That's how I found Stanford (http://www.stanfordatuw.com/). Pretty cheap and in an awesome location in the U-district. Good luck.
Just as an interesting side note: is Steve Jobs the only exception to the causality rule? He didn't find his coursework worth the amount of money he was paying, right? But he did continue to stick around and attended classes that were interesting to him.
There are a few things to do this, I personally have used Feedwhip a bunch. The guy who writes it is really nice and they have both email and RSS options. http://www.feedwhip.com/

I blogged about it some time last year http://kid666.com/2007/05/29/oh-whip-me-baby-feed-me-feedwhi...
I am a lifetime MailMan advocate. But you mention tasks that are mostly handled by an MTA (confirmation e-mails, alerts, special offers). Mailing lists are just that -- mailing lists. It's not a simple one-to-many delivery service like, say, sending a confirmation e-mail for account creation or sending out alerts to people who subscribe to some kind specific alert.

When companies say "sign up for our mailing list" it just means "add your e-mail to a list so we can contact you," it's not an invitation to a discussion group.
i believe that's how rapleaf started out.
er, s/ fed //; Not sure where that came from.
Apple must have the last website that still requires a plugin, Quicktime, to view videos on their web pages. This seems odd since most of the videos are marketing related, and they are making it _harder_, not easier, to be marketed to. It doesn't matter how good the quality of quicktime is (if it is better), it's not a video if I can't watch it.
Couldn't disagree more. Here's my .02:

1. I don't think the existence of reputation causes a great deal of anxiety in our society. In fact, until the advent of the Internet, this was largely how society functioned: you were known for what you had accomplished or failed to accomplish, for your associations, for your character or lack thereof. This is still largely the way things are, and I don't think most people think about it very much at all.

2. Drawing a corollary between anxiety over damage to your reputation due to poor performance at a previous job and anxiety because too many people down-voted you on Hacker News and now your karma score is distributed is...well...ridiculous. Hacker News isn't real life, and that little number by your username means pretty much nothing.

3. The proposed idea would not stop people from creating new accounts, fake accounts, etc. In no way would this inhibit anonymity, which seems to be what you're suggesting.

4. I doubt if most people would resist the idea that if they build a reputation in one community, it would be transferable to another community. People are lazy, and generally do not resist anything that makes life easier or more convenient for them.

Incidentally, I strongly doubt that any of the top 10 reasons why OpenID hasn't taken off are what you stated; people will give up just about anything for convenience sake. OpenID hasn't taken off because most people just don't care enough to try and understand it.

Again, just my .02 :-)
I use friendfeed for this.
Two packages that didn't get any coverage on that page:

1) Megasquirt automotive ECUs

2) GNU Radio software defined radio companion hardware

Both fairly esoteric or not generically applicable. I'm glad to see Arduino is becoming so popular -- a lot of people that would have otherwise never learned anything more technical than Adobe Flash are picking up Processing/Wiring/Arduino and making some pretty neat stuff.
Reminds me old thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=303730
Let's start by allowing karma transfers between users here...
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/12/graduating-college-... -- read this
1) College students don't ask how old you are, but what year. Take classes in the summer and winter to change that faster.

2) Since you do care about learning, but want to pick your own classes and also learn more efficiently, talk to your advisors. They will let you take more fun, advanced classes in place of ones you are taking right now.

3) Realize that in the US, the same freedom students have to do virtually nothing and still stay in the program until graduation is the same freedom that allows a student to concentrate and complete their studies much sooner. Rigorous schools around the world make sure students do the same amount of work, but such programs can sometimes limit students who want to go even faster or pick their own loads each semester depending on what they want to do outside of school. Here, schools give you a wide variety of ways to take classes (on campus, online, winter, summer, transfer credit from other schools), majors, credit loads, class offerings, and just enough structure to keep students on a path. However, the freedom to chart one's own path and speed is given to the student--so take advantage of it.

My other post for you: http://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=379988