skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something tells me that the bitterness from Sonics fans will be around for a while.

When the Thunder advanced to the finals, a Washington-state newspaper ran the headline "Sonics advance to Finals, oh wait // Oklahoma City steals team, and steals game from San Antonio":
http://deadspin.com/5916713/pacific-northwest-newspaper-head...
> Remember the recent polls saying 40% of Americans don't believe in evolution? Something is surely wrong with this picture.

Yes. You actually believing that statistic. Seriously?

> It is not until college level that the US performs better than other countries.

That depends on how you define performance. If you define it by creative endeavors and behavior, I would say that's patently false.

How is it that such a poorly educated populace produces the most vibrant culture and economy on the plant? Must be a miracle.

> And then (for the majority of people) you would need a scholarship to be able to go.

The overwhelming majority take out loans or work their way through. At times, parents help out. Occasionally scholarships pay some of the way. Very rarely does a scholarship cover the entire tuition.
I always feel hipmunk has the most expensive prices out of any other airline search engine. They might do it differently, which I like, but their prices seem higher than any other site.

I also love what priceline offers, their price negotiator!!! It always hits well below what the prices of airlines currently offer. Any plans to put this in the future of hipmunk?
On "Changing the World"
That's a good recommendation. I have a feeling it wouldn't change the results much for pop songs.

I know Pandora has done some analysis like this for their database, but I thought it was limited to things like major or minor tonality, upbeat tempo, etc. and didn't delve as much into the nitty gritty harmony. One reason for this might be that these patterns are so universal (spanning lots of genres), that it might not be too helpful for determining what types of music people like. I could be wrong about this though.
It's a reasonable question. My answer is: Thunderbolt.

The only Apple display that can simulate pixel-for-pixel an iPad Retina display is the (discontinued) 30", and only in landscape orientation. The only way to test a Retina Mac app today (short of buying a new Macbook Pro) is to view it double-size.

I know bigger-than-15" Retina displays would be super-expensive today, but I assume the eventual Retina external displays will be (like the current 27" display) Thunderbolt-only, and that Thunderbolt requires CPU/chipset support (right?), which makes it sound to me as though no current Mac Pro will ever show (correctly-sized) Retina content.

That's not a dealbreaker for me today, but Mac Pro buyers tend to buy them to last for several years. Nobody really wants to pay more for a new expandable machine that only supports an end-of-life expansion port. A Thunderbolt Mac Pro would at least stand a good chance of being Retina-upgradeable (with a new graphics card).
Juniper wants you to know it gets software defined networking
The factory isn't really an additional risk.

There's not a networked man-in-the-middle attack via the readers (they're not connected devices). You can't change the algorithm (it needs to be the same one implemented by the online bank). The algorithm is already essentially public (the devices are identical and widespread).

Pwning the factory doesn't really give an attacker an advantage.
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apakah Htc One X akan mampu menyaingi Samsung galaxy S III
You don't think the string of tweets starting with

"Whats the fuzz with jews. You can't even see if a person is a jew, unless you see their penises, and even if you do, you can't be sure!?"

is "painfully awry" for a twitter account intended to promote tourism to Sweden? What about the tweet about the "hungry gay with aids"?

I doubt those encourage anyone who's jewish or homosexual to visit Sweden.
very interesting UI.
This is not even the full article, just an aggregated snippet.

The article can be found here: http://www.informationweek.com/news/mobility/smart_phones/24...
WordPress.com Sits Get Infinite Scrolling
Hmm, one could also use a Markov chain on those 1300 chord progressions....
Apollo the Great
My personal experience with Garmin (hopefully not too off-topic):
I purchased a Garmin hiking GPS. Hiking GPSs, unlike the ones you get for your car, often don't come with maps. So, I purchased Garmin's U.S. Topo 2008 map, which covers the whole country with modest resolution. They also sell more detailed regional maps at a higher price. I found that Lake Nockamixon, one of the biggest lakes in Pennsylvania (1450 acres), was missing from the map. Marsh Creek (535 acres) was also missing. I reported this problem to Garmin, expecting them to apologize and vow to fix it in the next release. Instead, they claimed that the map I purchased didn't have enough "detail" to display those lakes and tried to get me to purchase the more expensive regional maps (which they confirmed did have the lakes). Both of those lakes were man-made lakes constructed in the 70's by damming up small creeks. The Topo 2008 map showed the creeks that were there 40 years earlier, rather than the lakes that existed in 2008. I pointed that out, but they continued to insist that it was due to a lack of "detail" rather than outdated data. I asked how the map could have enough detail to display the tiny little creeks from 40 years ago, but not enough detail to display huge lakes. I asked how the map could have enough detail to display 20-acre lakes but not enough detail to display lakes that were over 50 times larger. They had no answer for those questions. I asked to have it escalated to a manager, and I was told that the manager was in agreement -- it's just a lack of detail. No matter how hard I tried, I could not get them to care about the inaccuracies in their maps.

This article, with Garmin's CEO ignoring warnings of the threat from smart phones, reminds me of that experience. Heads buried in the sand, not wanting to listen to anyone.
Coding with 2 Hands Free ;-)
But we doesn't the second group care? I believe it's simply because they don't know what is out there. Are you claiming that they would t care if they knew that a better alternative existed? I was an early android adopter, I now own an iPhone because it is simply better. I've never used ICS because the phone I had was never going to see an update. The phone I had, which was less than a year old.
Can someone verify that the Steam version is DRM'd?

Does it play inside a Steam window and is the UI any good?
Now I feel the need to go buy some bacon.
[crossposted from FaceBook]

The best customer service I ever got was when I was buying an engagement ring (about 12 years ago, from Blue Nile's website). It took weeks to resolve, but every step of the way the rep (Sean P -- made a big enough impression that I remember his name) communicated clearly what the problem was on their end, what solution he was looking into, and how long it would take before he had an answer for me. He was also laser-focused on making sure the solution would work for me -- right style of ring, equal or better quality to what I'd ordered, in time for me to propose.

Excellent customer service consists of being dedicated to fixing the problem, making sure that your fix will work for the customer, and being so responsive and persistent in communication that they know those things.
The point he is making is Newegg shouldn't have to warranty a defect in a user-installed OS, not whether or not Linux is user friendly.
I think one of the reasons for that, can be derived from "How to Win friends and influence people"

People like to feel important. Now, that's not to say your customers are arrogant, or self-centered, but, people really like it when you make them feel important by complying wit their ideas, and responding to them, in the most sincere way possible.
Porsche flew a new transmission in from Germany at a cost of thousands (very heavy) to repair a defective one in new 2012 911 with only 400 miles. The new transmission was hooked up improperly by the tech (forgot to snap something in) so they had the tech return from home that night and fixed the problem.

The problem wasn't even major and the car was functioning.
Another variable is the subject matter of the question. Anecdotally, it feels that the audience almost invariably nails the answer by a wide margin on pop culture questions. On questions of a scientific or technical nature, the audience opinion is much less clear and more often actually wrong. Phone those questions to a domain knowledge expert.

About the worst thing you can do, but contestants love doing this, is to burn the valuable audience lifeline early on a question when you already have a good sense of the answer but just want to "make sure". What a waste! Save that for a question when you have no clue, which WILL happen before you reach the million level.
[crossposted from FaceBook]

I can't stress how much I agree with you, Tom. We should really highlight this on the blog, wish you posted it as a comment.

I can't help but ask...do you think that's because the industry their in is high-margin, or ?
If I had a kid, I'd definitely get it. Just knowing that my kid reached school safely and no weird creeps are calling my kid is priceless.

Edit: This just proves why parents should know what's going on: http://www.channel4.com/news/should-you-let-your-child-play-...
So that other applications cannot steal the generated code. I think the easiest way to steal the code is to OCR a screenshot.
If you want to rent rather than buy, you can rent on iTunes for $4-$5 (depending on whether you want HD): http://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/indie-game-the-movie/id5224...

I'm sure it's on other platforms as well.
Exactly, all the best books are in 250-300 pages IMO. If you can't teach me html5 in that amount of pages, you wont be able to in 500.

Please don't make one of those books that are like a reference(that becomes out dated quickly) where I can almost find your whole book verbatim on an html5 website.

Good luck! We told you what you shouldn't do, now if you want $$ you need to figure out what you SHOULD do. :)
Germany Is Making the Spanish Bank Bailout Worse and Worse
Computer model successfully predicts drug side effects
How is the system calibrated? Are the cameras at fixed angles or mounted to a base that measures their angles?
I'm a creative professional. I do most of my work on an iPad 2 during the day. I use Adobe Proto and Photoshop on it, OmniGraffle, Coda Lite, and Apple Pages and Numbers. When I get home, I get my files from Dropbox/Adobe.com/iWork.com, and use my 2004 PowerBook G4 to turn it into an InDesign document, if it hasn't been published on the web already.

I also have a recent Mac mini, but even though it's the beefiest machine that I own, I only use it to view movies.
When I was first getting started, it was common for new users to find little bugs here and there. I'd generally be able to fix them within minutes of the customer contacting me, and that really impressed them. The customers who found bugs were actually happier than the ones that didn't, because the people that didn't find bugs never had an excuse to contact us, so they didn't know we offered great customer service.

I used to joke with my co-founder that we should intentionally add a small bug for all new users so that we could "fix it" immediately after they reported it. We obviously didn't actually do that because it's incredibly shady, but I think it would end up resulting in happier customers in the long run.
Thanks benholmen. I'll put this under the 'things to learn banner'. I don't use rss so didn't even think about it. I'll be getting it sorted asap.

edit: Subtle button now under the post :)
Polideportivo
www.clubdeportivos.com tiene la utilidad de hacer uso como tablón de anuncios del Club deportivo, polideportivos, gimnasio y socios, pudiendo añadir partidos, clasificaciones deportivas, rankings, torneos, clases deportivas, venta de articulos, etc....
Pay (less) to publish: ambitious journal aims to disrupt scholarly publishin
> This isn't new. My XYZ already does all of this.

This is exactly the attitude used by some negative minded mediocre people to demotivate free thinkers. To be fair, to most of them it probably also doesn't seem new in reality, because their grey cells lack the sophistication required to understand the difference.
Ivy Bridge vs. Sandy Bridge
Unfortunately the article doesn't distinguish between high/low GI carbohydrates, which is the main focus of low card diets.
Embotics Raises $8.4 Million Series B for Private Cloud Management
Here's one of the times: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3420303
It seems pretty clear that the US public has democratically decided to delegate the commission of war crimes to its military and not be told about the details.

This has been going on for far longer than we realize. (http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/bookauth/battle... -- excellent article on WWII linked on HN a couple of weeks back.)
-Sometimes books clutter lessons with too many words. I look for concise books that cover what I need.
-It's like laptops...make it big enough to be useful but small enough to carry in your computer bag.

-Make examples as small and concise as possible. I hate paging through example code in a book.
-Consider the book a complement to people working through code samples you provide on their computer.
-Make a single place to download all of the examples easily.

-Build a good outline and refine it carefully.
-Build a way to track your progress through the book. Ex: a jar of candies counted out for each chapter or milestone.

-Write with as much maturity and wisdom as you can muster as that will make an exceptional book.
-Plan how to handle every distraction that will come up.

-Smile when you write.
It's a complex subject, but don't think about it as TCP being "low performance". In fact TCP will vastly outperform basically any hand-written UDP protocol at large sequential transfers over fat networks (or I guess it would be better stated that any hand-cooked protocol that performed as well as TCP would be isomorphic to TCP).

The characteristic you want from UDP is out of order sequencing: you want to see the most recent packet as soon as it arrives, even if some got missed before. No version of TCP does that, because TCP is a reliable protocol which presents a stream metaphor. Packet loss will always show up as latency burps, though as I point out generally that burp is one extra RTT.
Seconding this guy. It was great when I got it stock, and now I've put AOKP on it, it's even smoother, more responsive, and can do even more.

Sounds like there might be a hardware issue with the previous person's device perhaps?
Ask HN: How do you create a small development shop business plan?
I'm in the process of creating a simple business plan, well actually it's more like an spreadsheet of what to expect.

How much income will we generate? how much time we will dedicate to finding project vs actual work vs training?
How much will we pay employees and so on...

Did you write one for your freelancing company?
Can you recommend any useful information or template?

any additional tip is welcome.

thanks!
Kind of a niche question, but I'd really like to know if Adam thinks his debate experience helped prepare him for running a startup.
So you actually only worked for 7 days? (£1,785.25 / 250 ~ 7)

Also you say you entered a programming competition, can you share which and why you chose that one?
A player's free throw ability does not need any real visualization. It comes down to number of attempts, and percentage made. Adding them would skew these visualizations and wouldn't tell you anything you couldn't easily figure out by looking at a player's stats.
They're mainly dominant in coffee shops---their overall laptop share is less than 10%.
Siri's father comes to her defense
Now I feel bad, maybe I should have voiced it in a way that sounded less sure. I base it on two things. 1. Similar genes do similar things in different species. 2. There are an incredible amount of possible proteins.
The issue the parent points out is that the situation that the game player has worked himself in is most likely artificial. It's really, really easy to keep your land squeaky clean and productive in Civ 2. If you've played to year 4000 and haven't won yet and your land is trashed, it's because you wanted things to turn out that way.
Do you understand the meaning of the word "anecdotal"?
That is false. I've had titles of my own submissions changed by someone else, and as the submitter of the Light Table link replied in that thread, he or she did not change the title, either.
Does it read your card (magnetic strip) or it uses the card's chip for encryption services to generate the tokens? It's not the same thing. Card chips are not easy to clone and have more data than the credit card number.
I thought of this too while I was reading, but I think the results would be pretty bland.
Great to hear about your progress.

I have been freelancing for the past 4 years and have done so for 6 years in my programming life of 11 years. All said and done, I find doing a honest job in estimation, no over billing and writing code to the best of your ability is the key to success.

Documenting your own knowledge helps a lot. Knowing what is the latest and greatest, even if you have never tried it helps in keeping your client informed about their choices.

Not living in your comfort zone is the best thing you can do to yourself. What I mean is, don't give your clients what you know, give them what is good for them even if that means you have to learn a new tool/trick/language.

Maintain a healthy pipeline, it helps in keeping the stress down.

On a day to day basis freelancing is more stressful then a regular job, but on an average over a month or quarter you will find it to be more relaxing and it lets have more time for yourself.

Best of luck.
The problem you'd have is a simple Markov chain would have trouble lining up the chord progressions on the larger intervals that chords line up on. You'd end up with a song that sounded sensible in the microscale but just sort of wandered around at weird intervals.

And if you fix this... well... you'd end up with chord progressions essentially indistinguishable from the sampled pop music. But that would be an awfully complex way to obtain results that you could just as easily do by hand. :) In fact many people can just vamp those chord progressions in real time if you don't expect too much creativity.
My eyes are burning.
Seems crazy expensive for a "knowledge base". For comparison, ZenDesk starts at $20 per year for much, much more. UserVoice is $15/month. Etc.
No. The iTV is going to be a very big deal. Not sure what Apple will do for an encore after that, but it should keep them on top and growing for the next several years.
and nokia had killed the alarm clock in late 90s for me.
Henrik Stahl on Java Embedded
Is there a simple compiler for a simple language? (StackOverflow)
One big reason to keep using a dedicated GPS is offline support—as far as I know, both iOS and Android require an internet connection to calculate a route, so if you don't have cell service, you're out of luck. Since dedicated GPS devices have everything locally, they just do all that work without having to talk to a server.
The Grocery Checkout is a better analogy for understanding how to tune lower level settings that affect web site performance such as max open file handles, timeout, and total worker threads. Overall you're trying to maximize

* how many checkout lanes are open (total worker threads, max file handles, max port per connection)

* how are customers directed toward the shortest line (load balancing strategy, poll vs. epoll vs. select vs. accept)

* how many items can each customer pay for at once (keepalive, persisting connections)

* how many customers can stand in each lane (receive buffer depth)

* how long to wait for a sleepy customer to put their items on the counter before kicking them out of line (timeout)

You can observe real world traffic jam scenarios in actual checkout lanes and easily picture the same thing happening in a web server stack, and fortunately each layer of the web stack gives you settings to open as many lanes as your servers can handle and keep those lanes moving.
hahaha too good
This kind of analogy is useful to have on hand to explain things to non-technical people, who may not grasp the subtleties of threading vs asynchronicity.
If it were done using a hellfire missile from a drone would that be called an illegal "assassination"? The idea that assassinations are more illegal or immoral than -- say -- firing hellfire missiles at suspicious looking people in countries we don't care for is pretty silly.

That said, I'm sure that if the US was involved there was some kind of backwards hoop jumping so as not to technically break the law. "I just had a chat with him on a park bench when we bumped into each other. He said he'd look into it."
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>Even traveling at the speed of light is instantaneous communication... from the photon's frame of reference.

Photons don't have a frame of reference. It makes no sense, in relativity, to talk about a frame in which a photon is at rest, and trying to talk about them only leads to nonsense.

I say this not to nitpick, but because the fact that you're trying to use the concept suggests to me that your grasp on relativity might not be that strong.

>But that doesn't mean that if these neutrinos were traveling 3.7 miles per second faster than light that it would enable instantaneous communication. C + 3.7 miles per second would still take a long time to travel interstellar distances.

An object travelling at c+3.7mps in your reference frame is travelling at infinity miles per second in some other (sensible, subluminal) reference frame, that's the point.

This is all undergrad-level stuff.
Seconded - they've been great.
Yes, there are moderators. PG and a handful of people can change such things.
Timeline of whatlanguageis.com: my first Django project
How does this compare to what Music Theory says about chords and chord progressions? Any Music Theory experts/aficionados around? I've unfortunately forgotten most of what I learned in my one class on it.
I don't think that is the case, as I have coworkers with both who've agreed with my assessment. However this anecdotal argument is rather pointless.
Thank you, @eviral
Apple vs. Google: Starkly Different China Experiences
The policy quoted states you can't return it even if it is opened.

"The following conditions are not acceptable for return, and will result in the merchandise being returned to you: Any desktop PC, notebook or tablet PC that has been opened"
"Good enough" being a compound factor. The best common smartphone (e.g. GS III / iPhone 4S) still pale compared to a decent P&S, but the convenience of being able to share/upload/utilize those photos overcomes the imaging deficiency.

Just thought it was worth mentioning that. I love my T2i, but most of the time I leave it sidelined simply because it's such a PITA -- relative to a smartphone -- dealing with the photos.
Great quote. I also really like Jeff Bezos one that goes like this;

“If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends.If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.” – Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com
Productize your services.

Have standard website packages, or monthly retainer packages, or prepaid hour packages, or a strict control on how many hours you bill a month.

Now that you've packaged them up into units, you can compare it to your burn rate, and see how many of those units you need to sell per month.

The smaller the unit, the harder life is gonna be. My advice: Skip the hassle and go make a scalable product :)
$RANDOM-USER testing. 50c/test.