skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I moved from the UK to Canada and the one thing I've noticed is that Canada loves protecting its monopolies.
I'm used to my cell phones being usable anywhere. Here's the list: France, Holland, Spain (and multiple Spanish islands), Turkey and the US. However, when I arrive in Canada I'm sent a nice message saying I can send and receive SMS messages, but I can't make calls. This is apparently considered nice as my phone connected to Rogers, from what I've heard they're the only company with deals to out of country companies.

Needless to say I'm happy that the Canadian government is considering legislation to open up the cellular market to outside owners.

However, when I go to buy a book I have a nice choice between Indigo, Chapters and Coles. Incidentally, they're owned by the same company. They're the only bookstore I've seen in my whole time here and they're one in the same. Amazon is restricted to hell in what it can do, it apparently can't own warehouses inside of Canada so they struck a deal with CanadaPost that allows them to use the entirety of one of their warehouses in (IIRC) Mississauga as their Canadian distribution center, and apparently Indigo/Chapters/Coles wanted Amazon kicked out of the country, their one and only competition.

The monopolies in the country are insane. All big companies are completely protected from outside competition and because of this they exploit it to hell. Bell Canada actually sent out modems to people who aren't their customers and then said if they don't return them they'll charge them $200. Not too long after they'd stopped doing that they started sending us Cancellation of Service notices demanding we pay a late ~$40 off the bill due (IIRC the first one was) July 11th by July 2nd. We were supposed to pay between July 11th and August 11th, they wanted a late payment for that month by July 2nd before they accept payment. After multiple months of that crap we're now switching to Cogeco, only because we've got a friend who works there. I'd like to go with Rogers as lots of people have said good things about their customer service, but no shit I can't get internet where I live! I'd have to go with their rural service and I live in a city.
The color of the yolk has [..] to do with [...] if they eat beta carotene.

Lutein. http://www.google.com/search?q=egg+yolk+color+lutein
I've often wondered how much of this "Programming is like playing music" is true, and how much of it shit we make up to make ourselves look better. I mean, musicians are much cooler in the popular psyche than programmers.

I play a bit of guitar and I can think up of all sorts of seemingly valid comparisons, but I don't if they're just too general to draw any conclusions from. After all, many of these are just as applicable to something like photography (another thing that seems common amongst programmer types)

One thing I can say for sure is that true or not, you can use these musician/programmer analogies to impress girls, who'll start to think of you as the "creative type" many say they like ;)
I can make a nice library out of this scratch. Or maybe create a repo and host it somewhere.
But only if i know that people will use it :)
If you think something is spam or egregiously offtopic, you can flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link.

Seems to fit the bill. Or at least let it die away.
Btw, for me only on the third level (e.g. http://stylous.com/#/jewelry/charms_pendants ) the cursor turns into a pointing finger.

(Camino 1.6.6, OS X)
Next-is-This
Multicast does not work on the Internet today. But it could work if ISPs invested some effort.
You are refuting arguments I never made.

I agree with everything you said, but in the end, the direction Google is pushing things will end up creating lots of opportunity for innovation.
Red Hat set to surpass Sun in market capitalization
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If your friends think you have been rude, then you have been rude. That's how "rude" works. There's no official definition for what is rude behavior or not.

Why don't you ask your friends why they find you rude and aggressive. They probably can explain better than we can.
That's a really tragic story. Most awful part is the ending: "...[I] still feel good about it today."
Can you overuse a design pattern? You can use them incorrectly or when it's inappropriate, but that's not the same thing.
Heyzap Embeds Video Games Anywhere [video]
In many cases P2P streaming would cause more congestion (especially upstream) than edge servers. However, P2P is cheaper than edge servers, especially for extremely bursty workloads like the inauguration or the Victoria's Secret fashion show.
We're using Cappuccino which requires you to manually set the finger cursor in each place you want to use it. At first we were going to completely leave it out (since almost everything in the interface is clickable), but users were confused when it didn't appear. As such, we've decided to add it as we go.

We make money when someone clicks on a product and buys it, so product images were our first priority.
It seems like a fun idea, but it doesn't feel fun. I think the tag cloud is detrimental. It makes drinking feel like work.

The logo doesn't appear in Safari, as was noted.

Beyond that, this feels like you could have much more than drinking games on the site. There aren't enough drinking games to make a directory seem worthwhile unless you're adding some other features to the site to make it seem big.
How many times must Mark Cuban say that the economics of content delivery on the internet are fucked, before people listen?

http://blogmaverick.com/2008/05/04/the-ala-carting-of-video-...
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=economics%20vide...
I'm not a UI guy, but I found this incredibly useful. It'd be interesting to find the anti-pattern in all this and implement that instead. Seems ironic to standardize such a creative aspect of development.
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I launched my blog 11 months ago with the aim of giving startup founders a voice and delivering it in the form of short interviews for the benefit of anyone with entrepreneurial ambitions.
Here's my question: How do I make the most out of it? I'm not talking about monetizing my blog.Rather,how can I add more value a blog that focuses on interviews?
This might be worth looking into after something happened to see exactly what happened. But for prior detection, it's next to worthless.
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but today's Ubuntu systems do come installed with OO"

It's good if it does, but I wouldn't know. If there is a problem between OO and Word, the simplest solution would probably be to save in .rtf as I've never seen a problem between any program saving in .rtf and it being opened in Word. I even worked this way for a long time when I worked as a reviewer, I used a simple blank canvas type of text editor and then I just loaded everything into word, did a quick spell check and sent it off. There was never a single problem.
Is there anything more to this other than giving out embed code for flash games?
'Unfavorable' may be a loaded title term, but properly understood it captures the essential point of both the article and your own expert observations: results that are 'unfavorable' for a researcher's career go unpublished.
screenflow for OSX is fantastic.
In what way? I can't think of a technology better tapping into the wisdom of the crowds than 911.
Floping around making mountains out of mole hills is what gets attention, from short attention span crowds.

Is is just me or has the HN crowd's attention span noticeably shortened, since the recent big bump of visitors pg reported?
It's pretty cool, but I'm not sold on it being $15 of cool.
A great Russian poet said (paraphrasing), "A good book is one from which you can't take any word out without losing the meaning."
We have an API coming and a few other cool integrations that will hopefully satisfy you.
If you are arguing evolution against ID, forget it. Their minds are cast in concrete and wont change. This is pretty much whenever arguing facts against beliefs, particularly true believers. If you are arguing pseudo-science, you are the one needing a little head cleansing.
New whitehouse.gov Analysis; uses Akamai, jQuery
My Dev Goals for 2009: 5 Projects in 5 Weeks
What's the purpose of your argument?

If it's to prove that you are right and they are wrong -- well, sounds like you're pretty good at that.

If it's to understand what the other person is saying and to come together towards a common understanding of a respectful disagreement? That's mature discussion. It's like level 20.

I find from working with really smart people that proving yourself right is not an extremely difficult thing to do. Actually getting inside the skull of another human and helping them understand something is much harder (and more useful)

Depends on what you want, I guess.
I saw it if I selected Cambridge then tried to sign up. If I selected somewhere else and clicked on sign up, it worked.
Some people should never start. It's hard enough to tell the good programmers from the ridiculously bad programmers as it is.
I tend to agree. TechCrunch writes what it needs to for the pageview numbers they need to hit.

The best part is that this story is syndicated onto the Washington Post's tech page. That version of it is now one of the top stories on Google News.

Out of all the stories being published today, this particular one has been deemed one of the most important on the internet, due to Arrington being such a smooth operator.
I second that. I've tried a ton of them for both Mac and PC. ScreenFlow is hands-down the best.

In fact, I'd even put it in the top 3 best apps I bought last year.
I thought at first you were talking about a real program, but I see that 'Halting State' is a actually novel.
Sorry if I came off a little crass. I recently got out of a startup in the casual gaming world, so I'm rabidly interested in the industry.

I didn't really take in your value proposition at first, but I understand it a bit better. I'm still at a loss for the target, perhaps because I'm not in it.
I'm thinking it would be the easiest to do this via DOM manipulation. Sequentially set visibility: hidden to all elements except one, take screenshot, continue on to the next one. Not the most elegant solution, but it's quick and you don't need to understand WebKit or Gecko's source.
I noticed a handful of sites having thir screencasts done by http://demogirl.com

I had this problems of converting my screencasts sometime ago Most tools I found were either trial or were putting a big moronic "limited version" text in the center of the screen apart from limiting but found a good and free converter called "Super" (it's for Windows and uses ffmpeg).

Download super here:
http://www.erightsoft.com/S6Kg1.html

Just browse and move to the bottom of that page and find the text "Download SUPER". That page should also serve as a guide to how to use Super although you'll figure it out yourself.

The direct download link:
http://www.erightsoft.info/GetFile.php?SUPERsetup.exe

But there seems to be bug with converting .rm files. The last time I tried an rm file it popped errors.

P.S-- Their dirty website design might give you an impression that the software is really dumb. But actually it's really cool and powerful with a nice pretty good UI and plenty of options (it uses ffmpeg in the background). I waded thru the pages to give the exact download link.
Anti-porn online law dies quietly in Supreme Court
No, browsers won't do it. But, you can do it in Java and I think Flash 10 lets you do it too.
To be fair, though, people are aware of this issue and working against it. For example, there's the Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine (http://www.jnrbm.com/), which provides an avenue to publish these sorts of negative results. That said, I agree that this is definitely a major issue for research in most fields.
Ya i use Jing to, works pretty well
So, could I embed it on my Facebook feed or in a blog like sharing a video? That sounds pretty cool.

Edit: Messes with my browser back button function. Not cool.
Hey thanks for that! Cool tip! (and also love the fact that its free)

But sounds ridiculous to me. TechSmith also has Camtasia Studio which is a paid software that does the same job.
Innovation might still take a 'staycation'. Those driven to innovate will do it at their current employer, or as a limited moonlighting project, or otherwise on a smaller scale.
I really like the concept. A few suggestions for the UI:

1. Why make me choose a city at all? Start me at the US and let me enter an address and show all places on the map.

2. The map is very small. At the minimum it should take up the available area. Keep the same height / width ratio if that looks better.

3. The color codes should be visible from the start so I know what I'm looking at. I'd suggest moving it above the map and out of the tabbed part.

4. Make the Top Rated part into a table with columns and alternate colored rows. It looks messy.

5. The tags section is messy too. Give me a list of tags and the number of restaurants in each tag and let me click. And definitely don't show me tags that don't have restaurants.

6. Actually, dump the tags and categorize the restaurants. There's too much potential for an overabundance of tags.

7. The text in locality filter overlaps.

8. I'm not a fan of popups in general because it covers too much of the map and makes it very difficult to click another restaurant. Consider moving all of the info on the popup to the area below the map.

In general, figure out why people are coming to your website and engineer the UI to fit that purpose. I would think people are looking for where to go out to lunch because of your domain name (which looks it may change). So let them zoom into their office and see all of the places within a few miles. Colored pins are good but your customers have to know what they're looking at.
Hi ph0rque, funny you should mention that...Theresa Neil, who put the patterns together, was very instrumental on helping me get the new mockupstogo.net site together (I thank her here: http://www.balsamiq.com/blog/?p=617). She was planning on putting all of the patterns on Mockups To Go as well, but if someone wanted to do it for her I'm sure she wouldn't mind... :)
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Being a programmer is like being a garbage collector. You drive a huge truck, don't mind noxious odors, make frequent stops, you lift heavy things, your job is extremely monotonous, and you get paid better than teachers.

The parallels are really much closer to the arts than they are to the service sector.
This is cool and all, but what's the utility? You can already isolate individual windows and arbitrary screen regions with the built-in OS X screenshot grabber.
Does DRM-free music on iTunes really matter?
XSS prevention cheat sheet
X# - XML Oriented programming language
what incentives are preventing the ISP's from investing effort?
Exactly, and thank you for reminding me -- I meant to add a comment pointing to this overview of what a monoid is, and why they're useful, from sigfpe:

http://sigfpe.blogspot.com/2009/01/haskell-monoids-and-their...

Very clear and accessible, IMO.
It just depends on the game itself. Auditorium is art, Whack-a-mole is not art. Same as for any type of media - The Godfather is art, a video teaching you how to play golf is not art.

By the way, if you haven't played Auditorium, you should!

http://playauditorium.com/
Trying to upvote a game didn't do anything - the number didn't change, I didn't see any message telling me something went wrong - just nothing.

At that point, I got bored and left.
Get teksavvy. If there's bell internet in your area, there is teksavvy. It might be the same bell lines, but they dont pull bullshit like that, give you a 200GB/month limit and have simple overage fees of .25/GB (or you can buy extra blocks of 100GB for $10 each)
So ... IANARS (I Am Not A Rocket Scientist) ...

The lunar night is about 2 weeks long. The night-time surface temperature is about -230 C to -150 C.

I'm not sure how long it would take a lander to cool down at local sunset, but it might be pretty fast. That kind of cooling can create stresses and actually break mechanical connections or electrical components.

It's a lot warmer at about 1 m under the surface, but you have to get there somehow.
Another insidious angle is multiple publications based on the same data, which create the appearance that there is more evidence than there really is.
Cool, what was the start-up?

In a broad sense we want to make it easy to put games anywhere. We have been integrated into a lot of blogs and random sites such as: http://www.6-eren.dk/spil/ http://www.dhingana.com/games and http://successaffiliatemarketing.com/adventuregamerzone (that one has it at the end of every blog post!).

Its still growing so thats the best bit.
Sad; It seems the best product is not always who wins.
Yeah. I am going to fix that, sorry. Its a relatively complex issue related to using # for cross domain scripting.
http://sgn.com
Camtasia Studio kicks the crap out of all the free products I've tried (Wink, CamStudio, some builtin Windows Media thing).

It's easy and produces small, high-quality output files in just about any format you desire.

I plan on trying some of the ones mentioned here, though. Anyone know of a good one for Ubuntu?
Worked out great for Gerald Bull
I think when a pattern is used widely enough, it just fades into the background; when the navigation tools are in their expected places, then the users who have gotten used to the pattern can spend more time paying attention to the content. Which is what we want, right?
I think that no such message is necessary, period.
Cool. I know Adam Gries pretty well (he used to work there). Were you acquired by sgn or did you start there?
I'm sure the State Department would love that. Trying to comply with ITAR alone could set you back until after the contest deadline.
Good pick up; it was the first thing I thought of when I read the title too :)
How Google’s PageRank predicts Nobel Prize winners
If you're trying to get someone to change his views by debate, it most likely won't work. You'd probably do well to read up on influencing people, Dale Carnegie or NLP or something. If you're trying to convince undecided, rational third parties, and your interlocutor is "playing fair," you could trying proceeding from a set of assumptions, getting agreement on each assumption, then presenting your conclusion as necessarily following.

For example, say you're trying to convince someone that String Theory is bogus pop physics:

Seertaak: "NonScientist, would you agree that a framework must make testable predictions to be considered a scientific theory?"

NS: "Sure, yeah."

Seertaak: "As you can see by these references I've just pulled up on my iPhone, many physicists agree that ST hasn't made any testable predictions, so until that changes it can't be considered a scientific theory."

NS: "You were right all along, Seertaak! You're so smart!"
Fun, but not particularly practical.
> I realise that it would be near impossible to have the Earth visually see the transmission on a consistent basis, so what about a satellite in earth's orbit that essentially matched the moon's orbit, creating some kind of relay station.

Expensive.
I recommend Wink. It works in Windows and Linux and creates it in a Flash file you can embed on your site with notes, etc.
> The reasons most commonly given for not publishing were that investigators thought their findings were not interesting enough or did not have time.

not publishing to a blog is the same as not publishing elsewhere. It's not the medium that's the problem.
Maybe do something like a video service?
Typo from the About page: "If your still reading this..."
That's pretty cool. I guess you could say I started SGN.
Sun failed miserably in embracing Linux and cloud computing (as a service). They hung on to their old business that was getting commoditized rapidly, plus having huge dependencies on Wall St. customers didn't help.
Gotcha, Only logged in users can up vote. Don't want abuse of the system. Will have to display a message that says something like that,
Thanks that was actually funny, unlike the original link which was funny lite: Same great taste zero laughs.
Are Logo Design Contests Even Legal?
I was asking my self the exact same question. Should I just put drinking games and move on or should I build up the site more. I don't know how much real type of advertising I can get with this site so I was thinking it might just be a waste of time to put more into the site. What do you think?
It can make many joins easier since you avoid field conflicts. This way you do not need to include any 'AS' statements in your SQL query.

After a query you can also easily identify which table the field came from.

That's my guess at least.
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You get everything in one-click.
I read recently (sorry - can't remember where) of a scientist at a party that was also attended by a number of astrology (not astronomy) practitioners and aficionados. He noticed that they were in discussion, and although some clearly disagreed with others, they were accepting of positive points, and offered alternatives to those points with which they disagreed.

In constrast, he noticed, the science types would attack every statement, poking, prying, stressing, stretching, twisting, and generally trying to find weaknesses.

This is what scientists do by nature and training, and non-scientists often find it aggressive, intrusive, and downright rude.

I've found that striving for agreement and then working from that, is more successful than presenting what you think is a robust rebuttal, followed by a water-tight case. Find good points in what they say, and then lead them step by step. Be constructive, and respect that their opinions are their opinions. Telling them they're wrong won't help your case.

In short, you can't debate with non-scientists in the sense you mean. You need to create consensus and build on that.
IMO, GTA IV is art the same way pulp novels and Dickens is art. Yes, they where created to make money and entertainment, but entertainment is art by definition. "Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature." It's still a silly question.

PS: The question of good vs bad art is a separate issue.
I totally agree. What whould your suggestion be in regards to the consultants who bill no matter what. How to prevend such a thing? I guess a clause in the contract is a start.
http://www.synium.de/products/screenium/index.html is what I use.
256 colors on the Linux terminal
So the big question is: can you compress this data using Javascript?

Has anyone seen a packing function?
A large pepperoni pizza is cool, but I'm not sold on it being $15 of cool.
Ask HN: Should You Publicly Post Uptime Stats for a SaaS site?
I have gotten burned a lot lately by vendors whose sites go down too much. It's pretty much impossible to tell a priori how good a site's uptime is, and I wish people posted their uptime charts. I thought about instituting a policy of only using vendors that do this, but frankly I can't find any that do.

I run a few SaaS sites, and am wondering if I should eat my own transparency dog food and post our own uptime stats...

Thoughts?
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