skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Usergrid ( https://apigee.com/usergrid ) addresses at least some of what you're looking for. If you try it, let me know, as I'm part of that team that's working on it.
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Yes, thank you. This. I was talking about proportion. I'm aware raw traffic means nothing.
I am not sure that this poll was representative of the whole programming community. We are a Berlin based startup and we're looking for a Python developers and they are a lot harder to find than Rails devs. Not to talk about PHP, C# and Java developers.

Also there are tons of existing libraries and you don't have to implement anything but your actual business logic.
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Fair enough. I clicked on the link expecting to get something like graham's number or TREE(3) or some other monstrosity, and felt kind of cheated when it was only 10^43 ;)

Do those mathematical methods really allow us to comprehend these numbers though? They only really allow use to express them as configurations of other numbers don't they? Even if you understand hyperoperations and stuff you're not really gazing upon what those figures really entail.

I suppose all mathematics involves notation in the end.
I'd encourage you to listen to his georgetown talk. He admits his vanity and talks about how those things seeped into the show.

It actually made me think of startups and raising money. Person after person after person asking questions, making suggestions, framing questions that have really detailed answers, but sometimes it is easier to nod and be seen in a better/bigger light than to clarify.
Feeding The Creative Monster
Not with that attitude, we won't!
He has the special power where he can formulate and present a question that is intriguing enough so that Congress might break out of their daydreams about what it was like being a kid in the 20s and how these people just sit here and bitch when they really got it so easy long enough to think, 'hey, this scraggly looking feller has a good question. Maybe we should make the TSA answer this one since it sounds intelligent and we can't understand it, rather than trying to come up with questiosn of our own.'
Clearly, on a commercial building the budgets are entirely different than for a residential installation.

Of course, in that context you are right.

And yes objects are sucked off due to the pressure differential but objects are also blown over and this structure looks like a very efficient wind-trap to me which means it will incur significant loads at high wind speeds, far higher than panels mounted in a regular fashion with those forces concentrated in a much smaller area.

Btw, there are millions of roof mounted panels in Germany because of subsidies, the biggest problem seems to be that the panels live substantially longer than the roofs they are mounted on...
Detroit making news again :)
Skype/iChat video automatically mute my music.

The big thing for me will be trying to get past the webcam light being on all the time, and could something be recording?

They should really come up with filters that obfuscate people to some extent, but still pick up motion, then this would feel better...
I also converted the 450mb tiff
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I agree. It's kind of like saying "I agree with keeping drugs illegal, I just think enforcing the laws has been done in a bad way, and that's why the war on drugs failed".

Maybe it's time to take a step back and realize that the decades or centuries of patent legislation can be proof enough that they are not necessary to promote innovation, and in fact it has stifled it. In any market where patents have been disregarded, and heavy copying was done, innovation has increased (by wanting to stay a step ahead of competition), prices have dropped, and the quality of the products have increased.

The bigger the patent enforcement, and copying restrictions, the bigger the monopolies, higher prices, less quality products. And what is "competition" anyway? When you say a competing product or service for X, aren't you really thinking about a similar product or service; a product that copies a good portion of what X has? Or are you thinking about something that is completely unique and has no relation to X? At that point it's already in an entirely different product category.
A read it later feature.
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Ok, you being tptacek I'll trust that's a fact :) Even though I really wonder why you'd have seen their internal emails (??). Still there's two things (and they both could be true):

First there's the possibility that MegaUpload has no duplicate checking at all, meaning that if anyone would upload the exact same data they would just store it twice. Or thrice. That way I suppose they could get to the 25 petabyte mark.

Second, you say "majority of their video content". I can believe that too. That is, the whole "it's 25 petabyte" argument goes nowhere if we're just discussing a part of the data.

Then all I'm saying is, even if they're storing all possible MPAA protected data, in several formats and encodings, it's still a tall order to claim that involves more than a couple percent of those 25 petabytes, and taking it all offline just because a small part of it is infringing (even if that small part is rather huge), isn't quite fair. It'd be like taking the Internet offline because people are doing illegal stuff on it, right?
House Stark?
For those of you who are confused about the 'button system' (virtual currency), here's what I think they're going for:

By introducing virtual currency, the money put into the 99dresses stays in the 99dresses system. If real money were traded, a person could easily dump all of their unwanted clothes and be done with it. This isn't what 99dresses want. They want to build a community. They don't want to lose you after dumping your clothes - they want you to engage and interact by picking up secondhand clothes from other members of the community. They want to be your primary clothing provider - or close to it.

It's also worth noting that spending 'buttons' doesn't feel like spending money (even though they are equivalent to real money), which leads to impulse decisions and less friction. For the users, it feels more like an exchange than pouring in your hard earned money. The obstacle, of course, is drawing in new users, but once they're in, they're in.
Women tend to know their size within a given brand. As long as they stick to those, they'll be fine.
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There are lots of well-known sitcoms with extended families in them: Everyone Loves Raymond, The Cosby Show, etc. But if I were you, I'd get some illustrations made of a family (or buy them on istockphoto), name them The Leaf Family and then have copy on the front page like "Meet The Leaf Family! Take a peek inside their FamilyLeaf site and see how they're using it to stay connected."
I love this idea. I am a poor, but fashion-conscious man. Is there a similar service for men out there?
My guess: they haven't solved the "fit" problem, they won't bother trying (too hard), and it doesn't matter.

These dresses are equivalent to "found money."

Woman has a closet full of dresses. They're old, uninteresting, unwearable, etc. She posts them online, earns "buttons," and buys dresses that look like they might work. Some do, some don't. Net result: more dresses to wear.
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I've been reading this for a while. I'm hoping to get started on my first "big" project (I'm 14), a better GBC emulator for Android.
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UGrokIt was one of my favorite companies at LAUNCH this year, together with Local Motion and Minbox.
That has changed apparently.

"Rovio to get Angry Birds Space for Windows Phone: CEO" - http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/23/net-us-rovio-windo...
I don't imagine that crowd-sourcing would work well -- body types vary wildly withing a given size. A size 6 isn't a size 6 isn't a size 6 . . .
+1 are private by default (the +1 section on your profile is only visible to you).

You can +1 things all over the web and your friends will only know about it if you actively share the +1 on your stream.
Please hyperlink any mention of Meloncard or any other product that remains live, you're on the front page of Hacker News make the most of it! I had to search for your product, that's so backwards!
disagreement, is a very respectful thing, when done like you did. thus we sometimes respectfully disagree.

however you'd agree that calling people names, injecting malice is not ok. a comment like this, would add value to the argument, as i'd happily go ahead and say "i hear what you say, however ..." just like i did here.

but if you call me retarded, my idea stupid, there's no room left neither for me nor anybody else to take it any further. (thanks for kudos btw :))
"that's what allow us humans to invent new things and improve our way of life."

I don't think this can be stated as fact.
And those that don't can just go back into the system again, too. Positives all around.

The "buttons" part is even more clever, in that they're building a real ecosystem that doesn't center on cash. Also, I can see this working incredibly well for pregnant women; they only need their maternity clothes for 5-6 months or so.
You just described the payment model Apple negotiated for the iPad. No contract, no subsidies, just a flat payment: $x for $y GB in 30 days. If you don't use it in 30 days, it's gone, but if you use it in less than 30 days, you can just buy another block of bandwidth (and restart the 30-day counter).

I think it's great, especially when travelling to different countries (which seem to all offer this option - only for iPad).
We changed the name of our product, same thing as safeshepherd the blog it was written on :) that happened much later
To be fair, if attachEvent exists and is not a functions then some deep shit must be going on. In the first case you at least get an error to tell you about it.

But in general I prefer to use `'prop' in obj` instead of testing `obj.prop` for undefined. Some methods in IE browser objects have funky getters that sometime throw exceptions if you try to read them so using `in` is safer.
I'm afraid I still can't imagine a large system that could not conceivably be divided into small, independent components.

You mention dependencies that are "not completely baked", but isn't that just another way of saying "bad design"?
Reading some of the comments on this thread it astounds me how many people still buy into lie that patents foster innovation, particularly as it applies to software.

Read Ben Franklin [1] on the subject.

Everyone should familiarize with the nascent days of the aviation industry when the Wright brothers' patent on the three-axis control method used in planes left the United States completely unable to produce planes when it entered World War One [2], ultimately forcing Congress to intervene [3].

"Intellectual property" is an oxymoron.

[1]: http://movingtofreedom.org/2006/08/31/ben-franklin-on-patent...

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wright_brothers_patent_war

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wright_brothers_patent_war#...
As long as you're here: can't post from my iPad because the login link on top does nothing if I tap it. Would sincerely appreciate a fix, since light writing (like this comment and Askolo questions) are perfect for banging out at the cafe on my iPad prior to going home and doing real work on my PC.
Why? Don't you want your wife to dress well?
They're probably propagating the likes and views independently. Which still doesn't explain why they allow counter-intuitive gaps like that instead of fixing them up on the client-side in javascript.
Please, people. If we mean "use" can't we just use the word "use"?
Start your own?
I agree. Peddling the illusion that a woman can remain 21 -- or should even want to -- is depressing.
Airports are not that special relative to bus terminals, train terminals or perhaps any public venue where the "bits" are actual people. So someone who had experience in providing security at a large public venue would have skills applicable to airport security.

But computer security (knowledge of cryptography, hacking etc with the exception of perhaps "social engineering" ) really is a different animal.

A secret service agent who knows nothing about the bulk of what Bruce knows about most likely would be better qualified to evaluate threats based on their specific training and experience.
I don't have a mute button. Actually, my laptop has one, but I'm usually on an external monitor with the laptop lid closed, so I couldn't get to it anyway.

There's always the speaker menu that I can pop up and select mute, but it's unnatural enough that my brain goes into panic mode when it needs to shut off the sound quickly. I'd probably just slap the power switch on my external amp.

So, this strikes me as a much, much more natural user interface than what I assume most people have on their existing system.
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A side note - Ursula Le Guin was pissed off when the screen adaption of "A Wizard of Earthsea" used all white actors, despite her writing them all as Polynesian or Asian (except the evil Viking-raider inspired Karg).
While unsuitable for a bio, it is also worth noting that his algorithm is one of the five finalists for the ongoing NIST SHA3 competition. This is further than Dan Bernstein's algorithm went.

He is also the author of blowfish, which is the basis of bcrypt, which you may have heard people preaching about on HN.
I really don't understand your reasoning. You say that "it's completely outside the bounds of what an average consumer would ever do", yet the average customer that walked in, in this case, did indeed have that exact usage requirement.

In that case I would say it's a perfectly valid challenge. confused :S

Silly of MS to deny him the prize initially, but kudos for settings things right.
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except that feelings are not patentable. mechanisms are. it's the same mechanism and the same technology.

specifically, the patent covers updating what's on the screen depending on what portion of the screen is displayed. that's exactly infinite scrolling.
While I'm all for equality of dress, pun intended, I doubt many guys would actually use this service even if society was fine with it.

That said starting with women and dresses and later expanding to guys, say for dress suits/etc.. wouldn't be a bad idea.
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I don't know what kind of deals agents might be able to find, but I do know that some of them are a little loose on the facts, like leaving out bits of your history or nudging values into ranges they know will give better rates (like how far you expect to drive your car, etc.).

There might also be discounts for home owners insurance, good grades, etc. that could be in effect.
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If this is the case, they really need to work on the wording... If I hover over the +1 icon on this article, the popup text states "Publicly +1 this as <MY NAME>".
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these are as stupid as dotsies :) such that i'd love some of them get implemented to hackernews. "curmudgeon" badge would be very useful in fact. not to belittle people, but to encourage them. as long as we know that person has that tone of voice in general, nobody will judge the content by that. and the person will be free to express himself in anyway he/she sees fit.
2) Wouldn't http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/docs/backbone-local... work for local development?
I've always wondered if adding something like "font hinting" would cover most use cases. Although I suppose for e.g. icons sometimes at the smaller sizes the actual graphic is pretty much a completely different image, rather than just a hand-tweaked rasterization.
How the hell does a gawker blog post covering a tumblr troll aggregating tweets from nobody important get voted up?
I'm guessing the long term of the suggestions would be you would see that this dress fits similar to how a dress you own fits, thus implying that you could probably wear it.
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I agree that this is a problem for men. However, I don't think a clothing exchange/rental is the way to go.

If I find a pair of pants or a shirt that fits me well and I enjoy, I will keep it and wear it repeatedly until it is too worn or stretched out.

In a lot of ways, that's the opposite problem form what this site is trying to solve.
What I'm saying is of course from anecdotal experience. I am certain that many women I know who would otherwise fit the target market for this website would definitely not want to post publicly their measurements.

Obviously your experience is different. Happy to agree to disagree about the outcome, but lets not pretend like either of us have a definitive knowledge of all women.
Let me be the asshole:

First I don't see how it's relevant to Hacker News in any way.

Second, it should be established that quoting Twitter postings is the lowest level of journalism possible for one reason: a twitter posting caries very little to no information. There are racist people are everywhere and I am pretty sure they were pissed when they put Will Smith in I Am Legend: So What ? Is it worthy to report that?
How do you have a strong enough grasp? Do you have insider information?
Far too much focus has been spent on the QR codes rather than the content or experience behind the code. QR code technology works...done and done...now let's move on the the next stage: mobile friendly landing pages for business or personal use.
Another long "I am boldy lecturing Google" post. It seem to be the new sport everyone must learn at least once. But this guy missed the most interesting bit (or I skimmed too fast): the removal of the logo as home of product links are indications that gplus home (your stream) will soon replace the empty Google home. How much do you bet?
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This is interesting. My wife has a closet full of literally ~300 dresses. Many she has worn only once. They range from forever 21 to Bebe, BCBG, Dolce and Gabana and the like.

This would be ideal for her - however I think the button thing where you get button credits, but when it says "the seller pays for shipping and handling" this seems a little like a disincentive.

Do you get button credits for the shipping costs?

Who determines the button value of a given dress? The site or the seller?

Whats the typical shipping cost - and are savvy selleres accounting for this in their set button price?

It would be a hell of a lot smoother if you would print out a shipping label from 99dresses which has the buyers address etc on it. The cost comes out of the buyers button credits etc..

When I buy something from Amazon, I pay the shipping cost as the buyer - why the heck is it good to make the seller pay this, get a box fill out the label etc...

This alone will prevent my wife from using this service. Even though she is an ideal candidate.
Segregation is an unsustainable way to deal with the problem. The answer is women in tech, in larger numbers and with greater influence.

Women speaking out has an influence. It puts the issue of sexism and responses to it on the table. Katie and Shanley, thank you.
I'll settle for OS/9.
Windows does much the same thing w.r.t. policy refresh (which sucks down files from domain controllers) and update of "occasionally updated" metadata like last logon timestamp.
Article titles should match their content.
That is an excellent point. To further refine the estimate we need measurements of the number of galactic clusters and their various densities. For example, in the Local Group (Milky Way, Andromeda, etc) there are about 50. The Virgo Supercluster contains over 2500. Getting those estimates is beyond me at the moment.

Galaxies are strung out across the universe along filaments, with vast voids in between. The voids are mostly empty and very cold, but recent observations have found hot spots in some up to millions of degrees. Overall, the universe has a soapy appearance, i.e. lots of space with the "stuff" strung together.

One thing to note is that, at least to my knowledge, there are galaxies in all directions. There may be voids along the way, but you'll always see them closer or further away.

One of the reasons that this ESO deep field view is important is that its bigger than the original Hubble Deep Field, so we can start answering questions about density and distribution.
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does it stop them from watching videos or in any way hinder their enjoyment of the content?
New plastics 'bleed' when cut or scratched—and then heal like human skin
Google is a corporation with tens of thousands of employees. In addition to that, the actions of the corporation are influenced by many outside organizations and individuals (competitors, regulators, customers, the list goes on). Even natural disasters affect the course of corporations.

However the business press always anthropomorphizes them into this unified figure because it allows them to tell a story. But it seems like the longer the narrative gets, and the more speculation it does about things that can't actually be verified, the further away it gets from having any predictive value, and the closer it gets to being cargo-cultish, something akin to religion.

This story seems a long way out in that direction.
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Hello,

I'm a 12 and I just made my 1st HTML website dedicated to kids who need help to study for their tests and quizes. At my site, they can look at detailed notes and paragraphs regarding a certain chapter. I wanted to ask you guys, what can I do to learn the most and best that I can? I just learned CSS3 and am learning HTML5. I also want to do iPhone and iPod app development. What techniques should use to learn the most. Spring break is coming soon and I am going to my uncle's company: flutter(he is one of the founders) as an intern and I am hoping to learn a lot of coding there. Please give me you guys' feedback and I would really appreciate it. Thanks!!!!!
Umm, yeah. It still took one hour of his time, regardless of how much experience he has. If someone rips of this idea, and he loses out, he has lost one hour of his time; not ten years.
Engineering has nothing to do with user adoption. It could very well be that the author is reasonably smart and can read between the lines of Google's PR statements. It has been well documented that statements from Google could be read as misleading (for instance: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/01/how-go...)
seems like this is definitely something that's most useful as an app prototyping tool rather than a deployment environment. and if its a prototyping tool, i'd want it to run locally so i wouldn't have to deal with remote admin / debug

so it should probably just be open on github.

just throw express or restify in front of mongodb with some minimal scaffolding and generators. if i get a minute i'll try to get something like that up
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Looks like a fun place if they have Mad Men theme work days: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdDisQuqIAg
old school hustle meets lean startup management. love it!