skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm skeptical of the legitimacy of any business that advertises itself mostly through spam.
Actually, I'm finding it a bit hard to get the concept across quickly. That's why I added the try now functionality. Do you think a video is worthwhile?
Innovation or hype? Ars examines Nokia's 41 megapixel smartphone camera
Team INA Holiday Fun - Video
Team INA leaders got together during the Christmas season and just hung out together. Team INA, more than anything else, wants to help you be a part of the leadership team and join us for future events. Team INA teaches and trains independent businesses owners to achieve greater success in their businesses.
She was also inspiration for one of my favorite SMBCs:

http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2516
The first thing that comes to mind is running regedit. Despite the elaborate ACL system in the registry windows won't run it without admin rights. You can still use any other program including reg.exe to access the registry, but not the convenient one.
Here is an idea..since RIAA and MPAA like closed deals so much lets every 6 months stage the same protest to remind them that its still somewhat WRONG!
Adding a master password would be fairly trivial, but we specifically chose not to because it endangers users by creating false sense of security. Anyone with access to your account can trivially get at your saved passwords in any browser. Hiding this fact only encourages careless behavior on the part of users, who will naively assume it's unnecessary to lock the machine.

Simply put, if you let someone have unrestricted access to your account, then it's not your account anymore. There's nothing the browser can do to change that. If you need further clarification, I encourage you to read through the bugs filed for this request:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=53
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1397
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=92117
I'm taking their self-driving car course right now, it's in the second week.
Terrains à vendre aux alentours d’Agadir
This is very wise advice. Have you ever heard of Ken McLeod, the Buddhist teacher? Your essay reminds me of him.
I love stories like this! I can understand how difficult these guys will be to introduce back into their original habitat...there will have to be extensive investigation into if they will hurt the local economy (i.e. will they eat plans that people sell for profit or use for food). Australia hasnt had a good history of introducing or removing animals (take those rats as an example, and then consider the Cain toad..not cool)

Just imagine how fulfilling it felt as the first insect escaped from its vacuum pack...serious wow moment i imagine. I wish i was that valuable to this world...
You could use Guy Kawasaki's G+ page.

Shoot him an email and ask. Probably he's gonna love it.
"It could have been FTP or something"

And that makes it better?!
Loaded it on a MacBook. Works well. I really like the UI. It looks like they put a good amount of work into it.
Yeah, guys, I know that.

Problem is data and engine just being available does not take care of everything.

First, someone has to decide to offer this as a service to other people. Nothing assures that.

He then would have to upload the data on his servers and have S.O. grade server setup, that costs a fortune, to serve all the traffic.

Then there would be the problem of transferring the actual user accounts and their credit and status.

So, this line of argument (you can always get the data out and serve them) is more like the classic "it's open source, you can fork it if they choose do something you don't like". Sorry, but this is only realistic if you have the knowledge AND the resources to do so.
and that's what I said. cultures mix, cuisine is imported, adapted to local preferences, exported again around other regions, that's how it works. You were only wrong saying that kebab was invented in Germany, it's just that there's where the modern well-known in Europe Turkish doner started do gain broad popularity - that's probably what your guide meant. I assume it was the saucy thing we have all around Europe.
I learned this from a very wise man* about why you shouldn't take VC money: "The fundamental reason is that VCs do not have goals that are aligned with the goals of the company founders."

While I don't doubt your good intentions... Isn't the fact that WikiPedia is a 501(c)3 and you have outside influences a rather large difference?

*you
There was some switch around 9.10, different drivers or kernels or something. Here's what I used to get Lucid working on an old Gateway with a i915, it might work for you.
http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2010/05/06/ubuntu-10-04-lucid-bl...
I found that manually using my API from the command line using cURL helped a lot (with a bit of cutting and pasting to extract the URLs I want).
The "model thinking" course is up and running with two weeks of material, I just finished going through it. That's from U of Michigan.
Too embarrassed to share
Subscription ecommerce companies are media companies
I was just thinking this - I think < $8 / mo. would be a no-brainer, between $8 - $19 might be worth it and > $19 I probably wouldn't use it.
I upgraded three things at once - OSX Lion, VMWare Fusion 4, and Ubuntu 12.04 - and one or more of those things enabled the fancy graphics, windows fade in and out, the nicer task switcher, all that when you enable 3d graphics in the VM.
I think the point of the PandoDaily post was that you're already trusting apps with access to your data. You've granted permission for the app to access it any time. When I grant permissions for an app to access by data, this doesn't mean I am allowing my data to be published for the world to see. That's what privacy policies are for.
Not sure if you pressed 'reply' too soon?

I'm quite confused, first you say you want to discuss, but then you get all snarky and dismissive on me without going into the substance of the discussion. If there are any rational reasons to want to preserve as many species as possible, I'd like to be convinced. I was just pointing out that your arguments weren't phrased consistently, and then went on to explain my interpretation of what you were trying to say, so as to not get stuck in pedanticism or requiring too much thought into what is, after all, an informal discussion. I'm just trying to make my interpretations of your words explicit by way of explaining the process that led to them, yet you seem to interpret it as an ad hominem.
Only from a technical point. From a business point, it's also a non profit.
Why the iPad 3 Won't Replace Your Laptop
Good luck with that.

Even some of the normals around me are start are starting to get how broken SOPA/PIPA were and how wrongheaded the "content provders" actions have been.

Not many, unfortunately, but still ...
single page link: http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/10778-how-three...
When money isn't an object, people would probably do things like ski and hike and travel until it became boring. Then they would happily work, especially if money isn't being worried about. When people are struggling, they will want to work, but will probably want to make as much money as possible.

I know I use "probably" a lot, but it is what I would do. I could imagine others following the same path. Just my $.02.
The Technomagic of Sphero
That's somewhat true. There's no need to model data structures like trees, maps, sets and lists in a data store that supports them natively.

This article is still useful when using Redis because the article describes techniques apart from modeling fundamental data structures; most of the indexing techniques are still applicable to Redis, for instance.

As an example, the Composite Key Index technique could be accomplished using a sorted set to store the ordered set of keys and Redis's k/v functionality to retrieve the values.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_(programming_language)
Counterfeit is different than generic: it was explicitly defined in Section 202 of SOPA as "falsely representing the source, manufacturer or distributor." As I wrote in a previous essay "You can still buy your overseas boner pills; they're just less likely to say Viagra on them."

The USDA can identify the source of bad pork; the FDA similarly needs to investigate bad batches of medicine.
All dishes are different around the world - spaghetti, sushi, pizza, hamburger, etc. Sometimes a dish is luxury in one country and casual food in the other. It always differs, even across regions of one country, regional influences, etc. It doesn't mean it's a different dish by definition.
Javascript/JSON code formatting for Sublime Text 2
If the server generates custom mimetypes, clients have to ensure they "Accept:" the correct mimetype for every request.

No, he doesn't. First, the server can send whatever it wants - nothing breaks if you reply with your custom media type to a generic "application/json" request.

Second, even if you want to be correct, that's what wildcards are for: the client can simply send always the same header:

Accept: application/*+json

If the server generates custom mimetypes, and you update your API to v2 which produces an article listing in an incompatible format, you either have to introduce a version number into your mimetype (which seems messy and pointless busywork),

I still don't get what's the problem with changing a string. I think you're using a bad framework.
I'm no UI designer but asking the user to scramble for his G+ ID just for a demo is probably not the best thing to do.

On the homepage, you could have a conveyor belt like imagery where twitter, facebook and G+ icons come out as a "qiip". Below that you could have buttons like "See example" and "Signup" etc etc.
I don't think a Danish court would order the Danish government to pay a million dollars to a foreign company for damages due to mistakes made by Danish officials. That's just not how it works in a small country...
Sorry folks... Rackspace server re-size in progress :( brb
Could you please inform me if John Lakos's and/or Alisdair Meredith's teams are hiring and how to find these job postings?
Embarrassed german here too. It's just like the saying i once got told by a friend from the valley.

"In Germany you won't find venture capitalists, just capitalists."

And the Samwers seem to have taken this really literally.
It begs the question what the list of 8000 "legitimate" sites is for...
207 Articles on Effective Web Design - Winter 2011-2012
? The system you describe is exactly what is in NYC cabs right now. Maybe you you were just ahead of your time.
According to the article, it's a voluntary scheme, so presumably the right target of a lawsuit would be the ISPs who chose to blindly trust this data, not the government...

That's the way they're getting away with the lack of oversight: Make it "voluntary" ("or we'll tell the press you support child porn", nudge, nudge)
"When you said X, you probably meant Y. But I bet you don't believe Y, thus you were lying about X."

How many pointless arguments take this form? He should articulate why he considers the situations comparable, so the Pando people have something to disagree with.
Because the user experience has not yet suffered does not guarantee it won't. I am not saying that the user experience will be ruined, only that it is technically possible. We just have to imagine SO is sold and the new owners put more ads, for example. Do you know if the current investors are happy about the current ROI?
Ask HN: base79 dot com, what do these guys do/provide?
I am very confused on what base79.com's services are. Does anyone know
yeah, your sources say that the police, if they have consistent policies about searching arrestees containers, they can search any container they find that is locked.
But they tell us they are against totalatarian governments, so they must not be totalatarian, right? </sarcasm>

There are lots of people who have realized it, but they get derided for being extremists (and, many times, they are). Meanwhile, something that might be awesome has just come on TV, so I have to go...
I don't think he misunderstands at all.

"value not just to the person they are helping but as a searchable help database over time."

I think he is pointing out that what something looks like at one point in time, does not prove it will be that way forever:

"It went defunct and was basically built up from community around 2000-2001. It was a community site at that point, and it grew rapidly as such. Everything was free and community driven."

Most of the early items on SO that made it interesting to me are gone (deleted as not relevant) such as the _single_ question by Alan Kay!

The guy isn't confused, he's just commiserating that things mature and change. It's highly likely that change for SO will be in the direction of a better business model. [Edit: A better business model does not imply bad for the community, but it does often imply change.]
Nice try. No Pagerank for you!
CERN gets new cloud computing platform at the LHC
Thats a brilliant idea. I'm curious to see how the other readers look like :)
Foster parenting
The Maryland foster care experts at Parker Therapeutic Services specialize in foster parenting and helping interested parties become a foster parent.
Didn't know that was a bedroom but they had good beer!
Jeremy Lin, Mitt Romney and the Advantage of Good Looks
Taxis have highly regulated meters, though. How is a credit card more auditable?
wait, how do you pronounce this?
I get the same feeling. MIMO basically exploits that there can be multiple propagation "paths" over the same frequency and that those can each carry information up to the Shannon capacity. Paths can be separated by geometry (reflections etc) or polarity. This Orbital Angular Momentum is probably just another way to create more "paths" that can be exploited with MIMO.

In complex radio environments (like urban cellular networks) you get so many reflections that the limitation to MIMO is usually not too few separate paths but rather too many, with too much correlation between them. I'm not sure this would help very much there.

But in simple radio environments, like point-to-point links you often are limited by the number of separate paths (you can have two based on Spin Angular Momentum aka polarity and there are lots of products out there that do that).

In short; I think these guys are barking up the wrong tree in trying to adapt this for cellular, they should stay in point-to-point. They will be very welcome in that space if they can go from 2x2 to 4x4 MIMO across a point-to-point link.
Döner - not Kebap - is a german (berlin) invention.
A theory exists that the owner of the Titanic - JP Morgan - was the force behind it's sinking and that all the wealthy and powerful men that his group wanted to get rid of were invited to be on that ship. You can read about it here - http://www.titanicuniverse.com/the-titanic-conspiracy
As a German I've never viewed it this way, but its true.

I'm working on creating a better Startup Community end Environment in my surrounding, not only because i'd like that to be here, but also because i'd like to show that there is a another, if not better, way to do this.
Until the VCs are satisfied with their current ROI (and there's no indication that they are), they'll probably push for more monetization - some of which will probably end up hurting the user experience eventually.
That's kind of the very definition to "TL;DR". Personally, I think they are an atrocity, because if everything useful in an article could be distiller to a tweet, it should have been a tweet and not an article that made it to the front page of HN. I don't downvoted them, though (unless highly inaccurate), because they may provide use to some people in deciding whether TFA is worth spending their time on.
There's absolutely no need for so many Windows versions. I don't care what their argument is, neither manufacturers nor consumers need that many versions to choose from. This is just Microsoft's way of nickle and diming their customers, even though I doubt they'll even have success in doing that.
It was a more of a 'dude, calm down'. You're shouting and swearing and getting angry at a couple of guys who's declared motive was to try and fix the information exchange model for everyone and make the world a better place.

I for one am immensely grateful to both of them for making my job a lot, lot easier, has given me pride in the answers I've provided and also for creating something that's a pleasure to use.

I assume none of us here are naive enough to think that there's not a chance that at some point in the future it might get worse, but their actions so far show nothing to be concerned about.
APIConnect - a very easy and intuitive way to interact with APIs.
yay for nerdom.
I've been a Rackspace customer (both dedicated hardware and cloud) on and off for the last 8 years. I've tried other providers, but I keep going back to Rackspace for the customer service. It's just worth the money to me to be able to get someone on the phone who knows what they're talking about and will take my issue seriously.
To paraphrase Daria: its not bad enough everybody in the tech world thinks they're smarter than me, now they think they're cooler than me too? :)
It is.

--> http://momo.brauchtman.net/hackernews-meetup-in-stuttgart/

March 29th. I'd watch that page for changes :)
The author claims that the proponents of NoSQL are unaware they are repeating history. It's not an argument over history, it's an argument over what a certain group of people know. (...) Irrelevant. The point is not whether hierarchical databases are alike to current NoSQL databases, but whether or not the proponents of NoSQL are aware of past database designs.

It doesn't matter if they are aware that they copy the old hierarchical db's or not, this won't change the final outcome. What matters is if they DO copy them, warts and all. And this, you can check.

That said, you can also check if they are aware or not. Read their interviews, papers etc, and you can easily check if this is the case or not. It's not like it's something they keep in their heads.

Again, you valiantly miss my point. The question is not whether Codd invented the relational model, but whether he "was explicitly trying to rectify these mistakes"

And again, YES, Codd was bloody "EXPLICITLY trying to rectify these mistakes". It's DB history 101 that he did so. Read even just the bloody abstract of his paper: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zives/03f/cis550/codd.pdf

Nor are hierarchical databases inherently inferior to relational databases

As a mathematical abstraction for storing data, they are. Relational algebra is a mathematically proven and sound system, not an ad-hoc thing. (Not that common relational dbs respect relational algebra 100%).
A Big Jump in Battery Capacity
The basic argument is this is how it's done, ergo, it's how it will be. That's is weak.

I agree with the conclusion - laptops have a niche. They are precision tools. But laptops carry no value over a fully capable tablet for most people.

As that mass of people vanishes from the market the re-pricing of the laptop as a professional tool will further wall off its niche. Completely? No. But to a large degree, from a mass consumer perspective.
While an egg or cocoon might be airtight, it must also still remain air permeable. Everything must be able to breathe. So while there might not be a visible flow of air, like through an open window, oxygen and CO2 still make their way in and out all the time.

Also initially the insect might break the egg/cocoon open without extra air, just by simple mechanics, but once it's out it starts to pump air into itself.
That's absurd. Back when Netflix was primarily competing with Blockbuster, you would say something like 'Well, if I rent 2 or 3 movies at Blockbuster a month, I'll come out ahead using Netflix'. That's the world that Netflix prices came from.

Now Netflix has grown into something so great that it can replace not only your DVD rentals at Blockbuster, but also your Cable subscription, and for a lot of us, the thought of even buying movies. Suddenly they have gobbled up what used to be $100 worth of money going from my pocket to the industry.

And people cry foul when Netflix raised their prices $5. Get over it.
Livery cars take credit cards. The article explains that lets livery cars cost more than cabs, and that is why cabs are winning. Also, livery cars generally don't cost more than cabs for common trips like airport, so I take that whole article with the usual grain of salt NYT requires for its writing.
I'd prefer something with an integrated keyboard, like an Asus Transformer.
Then you'd have a point where tax = 100%, or at least where income after taxes doesn't increase with increase in income before taxes.

Thus you completely destroy the motivation of some very important enterpreneurs that just want to earn more than anyone. And they build their business somewhere else.
One of my first startup was a webmail service available in 17 languages a few months after launch. The focus on being able to internationalize it easily was a big deal in terms of getting traction, and once we had the infrastructure, rolling out new languages was trivial.

We even launched a Catalan version, and the cost of doing a translation was well worth the PR it generated for even (or maybe especially) a minor market like that.
To be fair, many major religions consider illegal downloads a sin also. What with breaking the law and all.
Tasty Tuesdays

Hungry Fungry

Plate Pal

Burger Buddy

Disco Diner

Eat with Pete

Munchy Monkey

Hungry Henry
TechCrunch is overstating their case a little, here. Certainly, that screenshot shows "PrereleaseARMEdition","EnterpriseEvalEdition", and so on. Obviously these aren't relevant.

The different flavours of Windows are disliked by consumers, and liked by corporate customers. The answer is clear: just have one 'consumer' edition and stop selling both Home and Home Premium. The rest- Professional, Ultimate, Enterprise, etc. are all fine.

Pet gripe: I wish people would stop saying that OS X costs $29.99 and that Windows costs considerably more. They both operate on considerably different models- OS X is released once per year, Windows much less frequently (and with service packs).
Do you mind sharing any details, especially about the issues with the Finanzamt? As someone who considers a startup in .de I fear issues like that.
Everyone could be if they wanted, but obviously it makes it look like someone else's traffic came from your home, so only a good idea if you're prepared for dealing with any complaints that could arise from that.
The arxiv paper quoted therein: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1101.6015v1.pdf

I, for one, think this is neat stuff. (Practicality might well be a different matter.)

Poynting himself mentioned the angular momentum present -- From the arxiv paper:

Poynting, J. H. The wave motion of a revolving shaft, and a suggestion as to the angular momentum in a beam of circularly polarised light. Proc. Roy. Soc. London A 82, 560–567 (1909).

The presence of "suggestion" in the title is also interesting. Wish I had time to dig through this history.
No doubt there are some differences with the US here; the start-up career path perhaps isn't necessarily so widely known about and recognised outside the tech community, nor is it quite as breathlessly cheerled as in the bay area.

But still, this isn't really the UK (or at least the London tech scene) which I know. A failed tech startup is very different to personal bankruptcy or some shady business operating on the edges of the law. And I think a lot of the tech sector here see it as a positive thing if you've learnt from it.