skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The duplicates indicate a kind of tie. What I've noticed before are sequences like 100,101,101,103, suggesting that the two middle signatures happened at more or less the same time.

5704, 5705, 5705, 5708 is a little odd - there should be a third 5705, or a 5707.

More: http://citizentools.netalyst.com/2012/liberating-signatures-...
This is where a seemingly good ux and anti-spam measure actually gets in the way of some users.
Plug in the cable , fiddle about with the function keys to get it to display on the TV at the correct resolution then try and load up the game by trying to control the trackpad while inches away from a massive screen.
Virgin Galactic's first space tourism flight to launch next year
Gosh, I don't recall saying that he was my bitch. Really. Can you point out where I did?

Writing code (which is what most of us do here, I think) is a lot like writing books, so it's not like I don't understand blockage or the whole "having a life" thing. Heck, I could understand him never writing another word again if his muse died. That's human and understandable. The thing that draws my ire is not the lack of productivity, but the attitude he has about it. (Which is less that GRRM is my bitch, and more that he considers me his.)
Sued by who? Holders of CRT patents?
I am not saying the Canadian system is perfect. However it's worth noting that they cover everyone for the equivalent of what we pay in the US for Medicare and Medicaid alone. We can afford to do better. Unfortunately often we don't.

If we block-granted the money for Medicare and Medicaid to states, they could choose to mimic the Canadian system with no tax increases, or they could choose to do something different. But what I really like about the Canadian system is that the control is localized. This is what gets me labelled as a right-winger for proposing it.
DEA installs license-plate recognition devices near Southwest border
Women's fashion changes quickly, so if she keeps up she may only be wearing whatever it is for a single season. It doesn't make sense to make something durable if it's only going to be worn a handful of times.

Men's fashions change much more slowly, and within much narrower parameters. It actually makes sense to spend a few grand on a suit that you're going to wear to work every week for a couple years, and it has to be pretty well made to last that long.

The hipster doofus stuff is as shoddy as women's wear and for the same reasons.
Tabu Products Launches iPad Guardian Angel on Kickstarter
This would be a better project if you sold a license to company and not a saas service. I don't want to put ssh-keys on my network from another machine I have no control over. If anyone ever got access to your service they could have a field day.

I would give it a run through if you offered it as software though.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17654781:
Research published last year by Mercer HR suggested there was a statutory minimum of 14 in Spain, 13 in Portugal, 12 in Greece, 11 in France, and nine in Germany and Ireland.

It found US and Australian workers get 10 public holidays, Canadians nine, Chinese 11 and Japanese 15. However, there are regional variations in many of these countries and employment laws differ as to whether workers should be paid for these holidays.
I don't bank with them anymore, I only have a credit card there that I use for all my recurring payments. (I use Schwab and AmEx for everything else. Not a credit union but good enough.)
Wouldn't you have some sort of ability to outsource some of it?
I think you might be underestimating amazon's position. They already have massive revenues, and better mindshare than most of the brands they sell. They aren't some new startup, they bring in millions of dollars a day and are historically proven to be a successful company. Your post would make sense if amazon were a year old. They aren't. They've been doing this for a long time now and are very very good at it.
Merchant Accounts Suck
The research is very far from done.
Disclaimer: I'm not a physicist but at the lab the guy to my left is one and he's doing a PhD about memristors. I have an experimental device in front of me with wires coming out and stuff, it's based on some titanium alloy.
They basically don't know why it works. They have some theories, like conductive ion micro channels forming in the material or something like that. They have two mathematical models of simulation, completely different of each other, and each one "works" under different set of conditions, but unlike transistors, flash memory and other components, the underlying effect that make most memristors work is currently unknown or theoretical. I was quite suprised because they don't tell you this in the news.
I'm sure this small detail will not stop HP or Intel from selling it anyway.

Edit: "the concept of a memristor, that of a large amount of small devices storing chunks of a larger piece of memory" <-- this is not the concept of a memristor. Not even close.
Reggie Jackson has his place. He has a big mouth (attention), hits monster homeruns (fans go wild), and is Mr. October for a reason (big time in big games).
Thanks I'll investigate.
There is a big difference between the act of allocating more money to a budget, and having the capability to do so because you're being more efficient. Which was my point.
Lahore Matric Result 2012
I agree that it's probably a viral marketing campaign, but I think you may have the wrong idea about reddit users solving this. Looking at the ones who seem to have cracked it a few are accounts over a year old, which isn't bulletproof but still is usually a decent indicator that they're legit.

Also, I don't think this puzzle was all that out of reach, apparently the name of the cipher itself was encoded right in, along with various other hints in other languages. The cipher itself isn't all that complex either.

Just being pedantic.
Technukem
Younger people flock to systems which are the easiest to setup and use. Facebook has a larger moat than twitter especially with regard to the default settings vs Twitter.
Quantum Physics, Consciousness & The Afterlife
The problem is that "with" statements basically disable lots of JIT optimizations in actual implementations, with browsers either falling back to a much slower baseline jit or running the function containing "with" entirely in an interpreter.

So they _can_ be used effectively if one really knows what one is doing, but they're a bit of a footgun.
Warren Buffett, hypocrite
Stereotypically, because men tend to care less about clothing, fashion and the like, and so want clothes they can wear for a long time, while women worry more about changing fashion trends and wear clothes for relatively shorter periods of time.
But it's intrusive as hell. It takes me out of the world of the TV show and kills the immersion.

I would much prefer, for instance, just watching a five-minute short film / ad at the beginning and then getting to watch the whole show.
The anti-adopters
Nothing. What's your content worth if nobody can see it?
>Does anyone here remember catalog stores? That may not be the right name, I've only been in one once, and it has to have been over 15 years.

Oh yes. When I lived in a small town we had a Sears catalog store. You went in and ordered your stuff there and then picked it up at the same place (this is pre-UPS). There weren't enough people living in our tiny burg for anybody to operate a full-blown department store, but the catalog store only had a couple employees and allowed us to pick up and handle a reasonable selection of the things we could then order through the catalog. I think the staff would help you measure yourself so you'd get the right size when you ordered clothing.
I would use this tool & have backed it.

It looks like it runs very similarly to our current server management systems, but the web UI is a huge plus.

I agree that open sourcing it to run on your own infrastructure would be a big benefit - people tend to be a bit protective of where they put their root ssh keys :)
What's web app name?
I'm wondering what some of the legal consequences would be if a project like that were implemented in Europe.

In Germany (and other countries), if you as a private person do not secure your wi-fi, and someone else piggybacks on it to do something illegal (say, download pirated data) you are liable.

What is the situation in the states? If the legal situation is similar, does it make a difference if the open wi-fi is provided by a city rather than a private person? Obviously it wouldn't be piggybacking when the free wi-fi is intended to be used by others, I wonder if that makes a difference. Also, could ToS be used to avoid the liability issue for a city?

Also, in the EU, ISPs are required to store the connection data of all customers for six months. Would a city that provides free wi-fi be considered an ISP and thus have to store all connection data too?
OK, I'll bite. It's only $25/month, and I got a good vibe from reading swombat's notes from the one course. I just signed up, and am looking forward to gaining some useful knowledge here.

We (Fogbeam Labs[1]) are still in the "Customer Discovery" phase of Customer Development, and I'm hoping some of the material on Mixergy will: help with finding people who will participate in the CD process with us, and help us nail product/market fit.

[1]: http://www.fogbeam.com
But what is being authenticated exactly in this case?

My understanding of Browser ID is that it's a way to provide an email address to a site operator that doesn't need to be confirmed. It's a single-step subscribe/account creation, rather than an authentication per se.
Unless progress is accelerating no?
FWIW, the critical "97%" number is made up: http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/pz8kz/til_cab...
One of the reasons FB and Twitter OAuth became so popular is because they solved a problem for the user (remembering passwords) and also gave the site owner a big carrot (social growth mechanics, more user data).

This seems much more one sided -- it's good for the user that doesn't use FB or Twitter but 'meh' for the website. I'm not sure we'll see fast adoption like we have for OAuth.
Is FB really that hard to setup and use? I'm most likely to respond to someone on FB and often find myself wondering if it wouldn't be better to respond somehow with a CC: to Twitter but it's not obvious how to do this effectively.
Online advertising is such a small revenue stream for a network like Viacom that they have no incentive to put anything online at all. They only use online streaming as an experiment to test new forms of revenue. So far, it hasn't been showing itself to be a worthwhile endeavor anyway so why worry about the slight dip in revenue if it will help you accomplish your goal of getting more money from DirecTV.
Vaguely related, if anyone is interested in tracking their own typing (and individual key counts) check out http://whatpulse.org it's pretty great :-) (my profile, http://whatpulse.org/stats/users/210575/)
My calculations give me approx $0.29 / household... I'm not sure I understand the fuss.
A TV now is more like a large monitor to hook other things upto, whereas in the past the TV set itself was responsible for decoding the broadcast stream etc.

A TV still has it's advantages however, they are cheap for their size because the resolution can remain relatively low (imagine how much a 42" retina display would cost).

There's also a big social aspect that a laptop does not address, you wouldn't want to bring your friends round for a movie or a friendly game of wii sports and all crowd around a laptop would you?
I don't think they realise who has the real bargaining power in this negotiation. VEVO needs YouTube - YouTube no longer needs VEVO.

Google will be more than happy to let them walk away and allow remixes and user posted content to fill that hole (it's how YouTube started). VEVO will just come crawling back.

YouTube has a monopoly on online video and they may just turn out to be one of Google's most valuable acquisitions (along with DoubleClick/Android).

> Morris: If Justin Bieber and Adele are somewhere else, that will be where people will go. If you don't have the content, no one will come

YouTube has the people now (daily standing subscriber audience + network effects) - the content comes to YouTube not the other way around. People pay/share video revenue on YouTube by posting via Machinma/IGN just to get exposure.
Companies are only required to pay state sales tax if they have a physical presence in that state. Amazon wasn't bluffing, Texas was. We went through the same thing in California. Amazon agreed to pay the sales tax, but only after it had decided to open distribution centers in the state.
I wouldn't say it was "bad". Women's shoes are designed with fashion and daintiness in mind. They seem flimsy because they are flimsy, and they are flimsy because well crafted, long lasting shoes are big and burly with lots of material and stitching. This goes counter to the point of the shoes: to look trim and to make the woman's foot look small and pretty.
Ballmer had both the plans and source code for an identity product that would have been 10x more advanced than Facebook

ANYONE can make an identity product that is 10x more advanced than Facebook.

The problem is making an identity product that is 10x SIMPLER than Facebook, without relying on a single source of identity verification.
>In short, I think this list is closer to a European caricature of the US than it is to reality.

I think this is a pretty good assessment. It's not as if any of what he says is untrue, in some place, at some time, but they do not hold as generalizations. As generalizations, they are way off. It's like stepping into a country for a couple of weeks and trying to write a definitive review of a country --and writing that which was most impressive (glaring differences, for example) in an exaggerated way.

>I do miss Taiwan's quite a bit. It amazed me how it was cheap, high quality and somehow supported by a very low tax rate.

This impressed me too. Altho I understand that one way they were able to afford it was by capturing medical students for like 7 years (or something, like that. i.e. pay for schooling, but then have them under contract for 7 years at below market wages) In addition, salaries were cut several times and now the system is looking to be reformed because its becoming indebted.

One other thing I never quite understood was the big packets of 20 pills for a cold you'd take several times a day for several days. I can't imagine what was in them.
Chrome’s Flash implementation now fully sandboxed, internal settings coming.
"Shift" is a big omission, though you can guess at it from the emphasis on certain numeric keys.
One of the great things about Python is that there are fewer chorded characters. It's also one of the worst things about Lisp on a standard keyboard.
A variable of an interface type is a pair consisting of a type descriptor and a concrete value. It is only when a concrete value of a statically known type is passed to something expecting an interface type that such a type tagged value is constructed.
Texas would have collected double taxes in the form of use tax from its resident and the sales tax from Amazon.
It's actually in reverse - it's damn annoying in logos, but it's quite nice for the headings.
Totally agree with this analysis. The Dark Knight Rises comes out the next day, July 20. Homeless guys handing our ciphered messages with $50 bills sounds like the sort of weird techno-cultural thing you might find in a Chris Nolan movie.

But it's not like that movie needs any more hype. Maybe this the first shot in a longer lead-up to a movie later in the summer.
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Just noting, provinces in Canada with CDC-like organizations did pretty well regarding SARS. Ontario, OTOH, had one of the highest mortality rates (and public health impacts) in the world. Keep in mind Toronto was closing hospitals due to the spread of the disease there during the public health crisis...
I agree with this. I am not surprised that some people could decipher the note in a matter of hours using online tools. Assuming that it couldn't have been done is the shakiest inference made by grandparent.
Sued by people who shock the everloving crap out of themselves by messing around with this kind of stuff.
That assumes you care about the speed more than the results. Quicksilver or Alfred completely replace Spotlight for anything frequent; I'd be happy if it took 5 minutes, if it could always find what I was looking for.
You could also pitch to a VC , "We need $X million to make an awesome video with an all star cast. We will use this video to raise the remaining $Y on kickstarter"
Currently, the scraping code to extract data is in JavaScript, but what I am building is a mechanism to "record and replay" solution (like Selenium), that can do the scraping with no coding.

Other features include:
- Multi-page scraping (example retrieving AA.com frequent flyer miles)
- Mechanism to execute transactions (such as buying a ticket)
Why isn't this the default...? Many thanks :)
"I think this will partly depend on who has been donating. How many of these are developers who want this to develop on..."

The Developer Special, which is the lowest level package ($699) that seems to specifically target devs, is capped at 200 (and sold out).

So if a large portion of the people signing up for these are actually devs, a high percentage of them are being crippled right out the gate. Not a great strategy IMO.
Am I missing something, or is this "perk" the exact same offer I get as different forms of junkmail in my mailbox about 3x a week?

Or - alternately - right on Dish's site: http://www.dish.com/entertainment/packages/ - where I see the exact same offers and savings offered by AnyPerk? Maybe the "perk" is the $75 gift card - but you can get a $100 gift card signing up straight through Dish here: http://www.dish.com/redirects/partners/amazon/ - of if you'd rather have DirecTV - you can get a $120 Costco gift card with that at: http://shop.costco.com/feature/directv

I'll stop now - this just feels at best a bit disingenuous, and at worst - like HN spam.
You've succeeded in life in being a troll.
I've been comparing this to the GP2X, which I loved. Great emulators, great ports, and some fun original games, with no need for a giant userbase. That coupled with a media center would be entirely worth it to me.
Why don't they call them lightweight themes?
Gene that fights Alzheimer's may inspire new treatments
there's no reason to not release it without a FOIA request.

How about the cost of digging up that information? Or the effort to ensure each piece of information released is indeed safe for release? Or the effort to put it all together in a coherent set?

The government has a TON of records. Releasing them is not as simple as picking the "public" checkbox in the settings pane.

There might also be a general concern that if someone had access to the entire database of records, they could mine that database and start to infer other information that is not supposed to be known. This sort of tactic has been used in wars past. Compiling supply chain records to infer troop movements, for example.
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I feel Exec is a niche of what TaskRabbit is aiming to do
In case it wasn't obvious from the other comments, this is a pretty tremendously bad idea. Not to mention easily circumvented by anyone interested.
Most definitely. The one thing I try to be constantly aware of is whether I'm trying to learn too much at the same time, and whether what I'm learning is applicable to what I'm trying to achieve. Occasionally, I'll reward myself with something else that I'm interested in that isn't "pragmatic" per se. All about finding your personal happy balance between learning something applicable vs satisfying that insatiable curiosity .
You just made my day yogrish; seeing one of my HN posts referenced. Your comment was a good (and much needed) reminder to stick to that methodology.

For anyone curious, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3555237. Post compliments of Redditor 'aceex'.
BrowserID provides a way to say to a site "I own this email address", as well as a protocol for the site to verify such an assertion. What the site chooses to do with the information is up to them. It can be used for account creation or signup, but works equally well for authentication to an existing account.

In the mockmyid case, you are saying "I own the address xyz@mockmyid.com". But the MockMyID server will happily let anyone make such an assertion, so you get a simple kind of mock identity.

Of course, you shouldn't use that as your identity on any sites that you care about. Mail to anything@mockmyid.com doesn't go anywhere, and there's nothing to prevent other people from using the same @mockmyid.com address. But it's a neat example of the sort of thing that is possible.
It'd be useful to use the histograms to distinguish between different programming languages for automatic language detections of something like gists.
I own a 32" TV 720p that I bought for only about $230. It's nice to be able to recline on a couch and watch shows with a larger screen. I watch everything from a computer running XBMC, though.
During the course of the interview, it was clear Kay was very much talking about computers as consumer devices. He's really fixated on making them far easier to interact with and giving them UIs that do not require users to adopt the computer user mindset to get work done. Getting around that need is part of his attachment to WYSIWYG, ease of use, simplicity of design, and the rest. That quest for ease of use was a theme present in many one-off remarks on unrelated topics and tangents.
Once 3D printing tech gets off the ground, same-day delivery could end up becoming common or even the standard.
Do We Need Laws To Stop App Makers From Taking Advantage Of Children?
PC Killer?
Shouldn't shift be twice as hot as the parentheses?
What if we had an "enterprise" version like GitHub which you could run on your infrastructure? Compelling?
I can understand 0 and 1 being frequently used. But I wonder why 5,6 & 7 seem to be under-used compared to the other numbers?
The takeaway ...

"Police can be alerted automatically in real time when a wanted individual passes by one of the devices. Agencies around the country have been affixing the machines to the outside of patrol cars and receive an in-car notification if they come upon a license plate connected to a wanted felon or stolen vehicle. Vast amounts of historical data also may be searched and used to map where someone has been, making the intelligence value of license-plate readers attractive to law enforcement."

Big Brother gets Big Data !
EPIC FAIL:

http://www.freeimagehosting.net/us75p

This buq with webfonts are reporter year ego and stili NGASF on Windows xp Firefox 13.01 its start on Firefox 4
> It's not just about recycling its about reuse.

No, I get that part. It just strikes me as a stretch.
New study: People prefer choices that come first
awesome tech..... but i don't think kids will care for the animal planet stuff.
Nice
Nice, nice
If a Steam console does come out, we'll get to see that for ourselves.