skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Redis - Hits count tracking and querying in given datetime range
Google buys QuickOffice App
Yum, fake chicken strips: "Water, Soy Protein Isolate, Pea Protein Isolate, Amaranth, Chicken Flavor (Maltodextrin, Yeast Extract, Natural Flavoring), Soy Fiber, Carrot Fiber, Canola Oil, Dipotassium Phosphate, Titanium Dioxide, White Vinegar" (http://beyondmeat.com/products/)

I'll stick with Pollan's 5 ingredient rule as well.
There's another, very salient reason for selling your company. But only if you are a serial entreprenuer:

An exit validates your ability to build to sell and may move you ahead of the pack when a potential angel or VC calculates your probability for a successful exit, especially compared to others who are "unproven."
Fb login is blocking all Chinese users from using your beta, sad.
To save everyone the math, that's ~20k inserts a second.
You will notice this isn't about security but about identifying pro-Palestinian activists:

Quote: "The agent, suspecting Tamari was involved in pro-Palestinian activism, wanted to inspect her private email account for incriminating evidence. The 42-year-old American of Palestinian descent refused and was swiftly expelled from the country."

http://www.timesofisrael.com/pro-palestinian-activist-says-s...
Aww, I was sort of hoping that somebody had figured out how to build Tesla's "teleforce" device (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleforce).

This was a neat build though.
For small insects drinking from a water droplet can be a challenge when surface tension is stronger than you are!

And of course the classic essay "On Being the Right Size"
http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/papers/right-size.html
Israel does prevent those with sympathy to the Palestinians from entering Israel.

I posted this quote/article in response to another comment but it is pertinent here:

"The agent, suspecting Tamari was involved in pro-Palestinian activism, wanted to inspect her private email account for incriminating evidence. The 42-year-old American of Palestinian descent refused and was swiftly expelled from the country."

http://www.timesofisrael.com/pro-palestinian-activist-says-s...
They need an 'import wordpress template' feature.
AJ007 wrote:

> This just sounds like an attempt to keep individuals of certain backgrounds out of a country.

Absolutely correct. The security officials believed that the individuals where pro-Palestinian activists. Here is a quote and article that details this:

"The agent, suspecting Tamari was involved in pro-Palestinian activism, wanted to inspect her private email account for incriminating evidence. The 42-year-old American of Palestinian descent refused and was swiftly expelled from the country."

http://www.timesofisrael.com/pro-palestinian-activist-says-s...
Could someone at NASA please move away the mouse cursor?
On another note, this gives me an idea for a product. Auto-delete all email in your main account after some designated period or other rule(s), but keep separate encrypted backup.
Sklyarov - charges dropped.
Manning - U.S. soldier deliberately mishandled diplomatic cables.
Assange - I'm aware of no official charges or actions by the U.S.
I take it that you have never owned an old house?

Assuming it is fiscally and temporally possible to eliminate the cause of the water damage I am still going to try my hardest to eradicate the carpenter ant infestation.
Insects seem to trigger xenophobia in a lot of people. Maybe it is a good thing a close contact with real aliens is unlikely. We would suicide bomb them to hell...
Because anyone who thinks the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has a simple resolution is likely unaware of all the facts.

Furthermore, this is a conflict between Israelis and Palestinians without Israeli citizenship, not Jews and non-Jews. Obviously the two are related, but the ultimate question is whether Palestinians without Israeli citizenship, living in the West Bank, should be granted citizenship or not. Israeli Arabs living in Jerusalem, Haifa, etc. were granted full rights in '48, or when Israel annexed the area. Israel hasn't annexed the West Bank, so non-Israelis in the West Bank are stuck as citizens of no country.

Calling Israel an apartheid severely downplays the horror of what happened in South Africa. It seems odd to point out that I learn at university alongside Israeli Arabs and ride on buses next to them, because of course I do. Why wouldn't I?
Good point, and why it's an indispensable seasoning.
But why jump through hoops? You can be a programmer at Exxon (or another big company outside Google or Fogcreek :) and get in sleeping. If you are a so-so coder that sounds more interesting?
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Even then, there are lots of other TLDs besides ".com".
...son!?
I'm just happy not having clips made of PNG's with painful fonts/colours/sizes that don't work on my phone/console/monitor/whatever.
The LSE has a good talk about what they're doing here:

http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/pu...

It helps them find high school dropouts in Maine who might be great employees, but would otherwise never have shown up on their radar.
But stamping down such opinions is actually pretty common. These email searches are about preventing people with those opinions from entering Israel. It isn't about terrorist threats but it is about keeping out pro-Palestinian activists who do not agree with the policies of the Israeli government.
I find the current Firefox to be equal to Chrome in terms of speed, it uses less memory than Chrome, it has much better extensions (including adblock, noscript and vimperator, which are all nicer than their Chrome equivalents), the UI itself is also more configurable (e.g. toolbars, add-on bar; also, we can't even have a bookmarks sidebar in Chrome! In general, if I don't like some aspect of Firefox I can change it, whereas this is not always the case with Chrome), and I like to keep my data to myself as far as possible.

For me, the best thing about Chrome is that it's arrival on the browser scene motivated Mozilla to redouble their efforts, especially in terms of performance and stability, and this has borne fruits with recent iterations of Firefox.
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>There's nothing useless about energy balance. It can be misinterpreted and misapplied, but Taubes throws the baby out with the bathwater and pretends it doesn't apply at all. For example, classical low-carber mythology is that on a low-carb diet you can eat virtually unlimited calories (as usually defined) and maintain weight, if perhaps not lose weight outright.

On the last point, of course it's wrong. I never saw Taubes deny CICO as being true. He repeatedly states that, while true, it isn't useful for answering _why_ people get fat.

It's as if I asked why some people are rich and others are poor. And you simply said that the poor people spent more money than they took in. It's true and yet utterly useless if you keep harping on that single point while ignoring inheritance, education, mental illness, drug abuse etc.

You've further convinced me not to recommend GCBC to anyone, since I keep realizing its possible for people to miss the central point of the book.

I'm totally in agreement on Guyenet's stuff, but he agrees with Taubes on CICO being not helpful:

>This is where I agree with Taubes-- 1) the key thing to understand is what is causing the energy imbalance, and 2) the idea that "eat less, move more" is a practical fat loss strategy does not necessarily follow from the first law of thermodynamics. Taking in less energy and expending more does cause fat loss, but the problem is that it's difficult to maintain-- the body opposes changes in its fat stores.
As someone who releases software under GPL and LGPL, and hardware designs under CC licenses, I don't see how anyone would sue you over a GPL license. Unless, of course, you took something from a GPL licensed software and then did not provide your users the same liberty you had with the source.

Whether or not one individual prefers copyleft (viral) or non-copyleft licensing is largely due to their intent - not to garner the maximum number of users, but to ensure that anyone else who might profit from their works affords their users the same right. And, if you really wanted to people to do whatever they pleased with your work without regards to your desire, you would've made it public domain, not MIT-licensed. You chose a license because you had a desire that the license enforced.
Except instead of asking for Netscape Navigator 4.0 or higher, I get an overlay saying "Please switch to Google Chrome to access the editor" when I try to use the demo
I think you found the answer in your question. If I have to setup a US company because I can't get support in Australia to accept USD on my site, what else should I be doing in the US? It's got nothing to do with business plans or PayPal fees, it's about offering a professional solution on a global scale.
There's a difference between "dissent" and "passing classified information to unauthorized sources". You can get away with criticizing the government here; you can't get away with espionage.

Playing fast and loose with facts continues to hurt your case.
Everyone is not of equal aptitude. It's not possible for everyone to be book smart.

Your attitude about "unfairness" is part of the problem. Schools must stop treating kids as equals when they are clearly not.
I didn't say there is a simple solution but rather that Israeli permanent occupation has become akin to Apartheid South Africa for the non-citizen Arabs and the citizen Jews living in the West Bank. The fact that you didn't mention this as a wart is pretty big blind spot given that the number of disenfranchised non-Jews living in the West Bank is in the millions and this has been going on for over 40 years.
Thanks for the comment. Good points all around. In regards to my background, I'm a co-founder at PostRocket. We recently announced our seed funding here: http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/31/postrocket/. Prior to co-founding PostRocket, my team and I worked as social media consultants for big brands and celebrities. If you check out the TechCrunch article, you'll see one of our bigger past clients, Pitbull.

In regard to your point on feedback, I totally agree that is the most powerful thing that you can get from a Facebook page; however, you can't get feedback if your fans don't receive your messages. Multiple case studies have shown that 90-98% of fans never go back to a page after 'liking' it, which means that in order to get this feedback from them, you must conquer EdgeRank. If you have any other feedback I'd love to hear it.
Andrei Alexandrescu said: "One really cool thing about doing machine learning at Facebook is the sheer size of data involved; most researchers are happy to put together a graph with some hundreds of thousands of nodes. At Facebook samples of interest are in the hundreds of millions and more. It took a few of us quite a while to figure out how to distribute graph processing on many machines, but we finally did it. We should be able to publish the method soon."

http://www.serversidemagazine.com/news/10-questions-with-fac...

Edit: On the other hand, I doubt he had to jump through any hoops to land a job at facebook.
Meat is not bad for the environment. Factory farms are indeed terrible, but they're not the only way to raise animals. On the other hand, grain agriculture is beyond fixing See http://lierrekeith.com/vegmyth.htm for a great intro.

Meat is also healthy. Grains are not. See any of these

Good Calories Bad Calories/Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes,
The Paleo Solution by Robb Wolf,
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/cholesterol/#axzz1wxjdQqRB

Eat real food.
It's a disgrace in both directions. Neither Americans or Canadians should tolerate the rude and invasive treatment we suffer at our borders.
Therefore, less sweeping generalisations and more specific analysis would be useful.

For example, I have have a bit of a problem with the use of the author’s. ’we’ «Instead of deep processes of discovery, we make minimalistic versions of movie posters» Well, i don’t do that. I can’t identify with this image of the designer, even if I know it works for some people as I see these blogs too.

Look at http://www.manystuff.org/ and http://dribbble.com/

Both sites targeted to designers, but obviously not to the same people.

«I am worried that designers as a group are starting to have the wrong conversations with form.»

Designers as a group don‘t exist. So which kind designers are having what kind of relationship with form?

That we are surrounded by images made by other people shouldn’t necessary be a problem: we learn through imitation. So what is different this time around?
"\ command" (e.g. "\ ls") works, you don't need to type exec. It passes the rest of the string to system: https://github.com/silentbicycle/kona/blob/master/c.c#L423

I'm one of the kona developers.
Sadly it is also the problem with vocal members of the animal rights movement. I am by no means a Jianist but I do try my hardest not to step on insects/bugs as I walk down the sidewalk. That being said if I have to choose between my house and the lives of carpenter ants I am choosing my house every time. Comments like the "karma comment" do little to advocate animal rights...
It's weird that you were down voted for being factually correct.
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IRC with your mum's approval
Clickable links:

Copenhagen Suborbitals homepage: http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com

Tycho Deep space astronaut capsule: http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/tychodeepspace.php

Big LES engine: http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/bigles.php

Video of last years launch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmGmymAWI4E&feature=relat...

Recording of a livevideo of a static engine test we made to test the technical setup (one camera only): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVp3JHYqRyA (engine fires at 4:12:07 ;-))
Agreed! Taubes' writing is excellent and Paleo is a great way to lose weight and improve overall health markers (cholesterol, blood pressure, etc).
Interesting that nobody tries to make meat look, feel & taste like vegetables. And that carnivores don't have support groups.
Really like the kaggle platform. First heard about them from a techzing with the founders.1

The challenges can help corporations and others from solving complex problems. No reason why Facebook cannot take advantage of this process.

1
http://techzinglive.com/page/927/166-tz-interview-anhony-gol...
That requires competition. Whenever you mention competition and private schools people scream, "But the poor children! They have no chance that way!"
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I liked the article but I couldn't take issue with the test question.

Is it a sign of a certain way of thinking that I read the test question, read the provided instructions, answered correctly, and then wondered how on earth anyone could miss a question where the answer is printed above?

I'm not being snarky or mean spirited, I honestly do not understand how anyone - whether they'd used a microscope or not - could look at a piece of provided text, look at a question regarding the text, and then answer incorrectly when a multiple choice selection is provided that is essentially snipped verbatim from the source text that addresses the question exactly. They literally give the answer. I used to wonder this when I took standardized tests as a kid, too.

Are they preying indecisiveness, or trying to make them feel it's a trick question? Maybe that's where I should be taking issue? That if they were familiar with a microscope they'd feel more confident in choosing the clear answer?
They are asking you to build a recommendation engine. One tailored for a specific type of problem.

Using some startups api aside (spirit of the competition and all that), anyone interested in completing this should pick up the Springer book Recommender Systems Handbook, it's a very good place to start.

Depending on the size of the Facebook dataset, you will need either a graph library like networkx or a graph database (there are many).

You should probably use python because, let's face it, nothing else will have as many opensource libraries, be as fast, and as accessible from C as python is (use cython for painless compiled code and to link to other C libraries).

Don't use recursion unless your language is specifically built for it. Stay away from ILP graph traversal unless you really know what you are doing.

If you are using some sort of context token/vector similarity approach, be sure to know that the number of tokens you are going to need will be huge, and furthermore you will likely need some hard coded rule sets for low follower/following users.

Try to introduce a time-based decay factor or something similar, and of course take advantage of degrees of "closeness" if there are repeated interactions between nodes.

One last thing: if your approach uses some sort of map reduce solution, it might be better for real world applications, but it will significantly slow down your progress. Just load a box up with RAM and use fast algorithms.

Best of luck to all you out there!
I think human rights activists are probably the juiciest target.
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Your posts which highlight LGBT rights while completely ignoring the elephant in the room (the 40+ year occupation affecting millions) fits well with what is described in this New York Times editorial as Pinkwashing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/opinion/pinkwashing-and-is...
Except you write this:

"Typically, when a person spots a carpenter ant inside the home, they assume the worst. They fear a swarming, thriving ant colony is breeding within the house. This is rarely the case. Carpenter ants live in hollow trees, logs, landscaping timbers, and soil, and will march hundreds of metres from their colony in search of food."

So think about that for a moment. What is a "hollow tree" or a wood frame wall with two sheets of drywall on either side? The Ants may think it is a particularly square hollow tree but hey, its warm, its hollow.

And the 'hundreds of meters in search of food' but they also don't "pass up" food. So for you too see an Ant in your kitchen you know that between where that ant lives, and your kitchen, they didn't find any food yet. That can be explained by a particularly sterile yard, or the home is between your kitchen and the yard. And what else it between your kitchen and the yard, why yes, that warm hollow space known as a wood frame wall.

All of that being said, ants (and many other insects) are machines. Very much like bacterium with all wheel drive capability. They eat, they reproduce, they die. They convert low level sugars into a complex carbohydrates that birds and other vertebrates use to fuel their own growth. And like a machine, they can be running where they aren't needed. So is it some act of bad faith to turn off your car? No it is not. We need look no further than other ant colonies, which, when they detect ants in their home that are not expected to be there, they mercilessly and without delay slaughter them. The machine doesn't care that its elements are processing food other things want, and turning off the machine by neutralizing its agents doesn't incur any 'bad karma.'
ASK HN: Is it possible for hot-button topics like this to be discussed without them descending into horrible flame-wars? These are the kind of topics that could be deeply interesting[1], but which tend to be discussed in a shallowly interesting way.

HN does come pretty close (most of this discussion is, at the time I post this, really good) but these threads often end up as train wrecks.

[1] I need to learn a lot more about many of these political / war / etc situations. I'm a bit embarrassed about my lack of knowledge of Northern Ireland; Israel / Palestine and so on.
Despite that this does sound like trolling: would you like to work with one of the best group of engineers in the world? Would you like to work on an uncommonly small team with uncommonly large responsibilities? Would you like to work on the biggest web property in the world? Would you like to have enormous computing resources at your disposal? Would you like a large salary and excellent benefits? Would you like to work for a very large, very successful company that actual does still feel startup-ish?

Really, yours was a serious question? And by "jumping through hoops" you mean "programming...something you (should) love to do"? Sheesh.
Hey idoh,

I'm one of the developers at mixy.tv -- we are indeed asking for publish_actions and using open graph to publish video watches and likes. However, we use publish_stream for adding a video because we found that it shows up more often in the news feed as opposed to being shown in the ticker on the right of the FB home page.

I think you have a good point though about publish_stream being in the extended permission screen, however. I know you mentioned working for a competitor, so you don't have to answer this if you don't want to, but -- have you guys seen better conversion rates for signups or better share rates by using Open Graph actions explicitly as opposed to a combination of publish_stream and publish_actions?
Initial Traction
I created qChirp.com, a new job board for Tech Professionals. Not very original, but I think design, fair price, and simple search can help modify a cluttered industry - I'm an IT recruiter btw.

I have a few initial recruiters who have posted. However I feel that a job board must present several hundred jobs before gaining exponential traction - the traditional "chicken and egg problem".

There's several postings explaining how to buy/attract initial users. However I'd be hugely appreciative if someone has advice in regards to attracting recruiters. How does a job board reach critical max?

Advertising on Google Adwords? StumbleUpon?
Strategic partnerships?
Blogging?

Also if you want to visit QCHIRP.COM and rip it to shreds on quality, I'd love it. All criticism is helpful :)

Thx!!
> Large wood structures do not collapse in temperatures over 600C like steel

Um, no... no, they don't. :)

Wood turns into a blackened crust of carbon at about 250C. That is, before it erupts into a tower of flame. It's true that it won't collapse before it will burn. But it will burn long before an equivalent steel structure collapses.

But that seems treatable to me. Fire suppression is pretty robust in modern buildings. I think this is great too. But... not at 600C.
This is awesome!
A coworker of mine did the same. Ordered a ring online that she thought she saw in a store window while traveling on business. The ring arrived and it was so mafioso. Gave me the best laugh...but she was out several hundred dollars!!
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thank you!
I've actually worked with an ecommerce site that sells beads and things and uses a flatbad scanner for most of their products. With that site I was able to skip the 'add' step altogether and calibrate images on the fly as they are first viewed.
Unfortunately this is more the exception than the rule, and in most cases there's not enough consistency in etailers' images that I can always assume the same number of pixels per physical inch.

I'm definitely aware of the potential overhead of adding lifesizer images though, so I've developed a bookmarklet with which customers can calibrate images without leaving their own site. And we continue to look at other methods (ie outsourcing this work) to reduce the amount of integration work to near zero.
Thanks for your input though, it's great to see that people see the value.
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I am looking for JavaScript developers to create educational coding projects for a JavaScript course. These projects will be used to teach beginners how to program in JavaScript. I have a list of project ideas and some sample projects, and I need people who can build it out on a per project basis. It is for a good cause. You would need skills in JS, HTML, and CSS.