skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The about section on the site says it's pageviews. The sites arrange themselves around one another according to links, but the size is about views.
As with any DNS provider they can presumably spoof any site they wish too; so I'd be pretty cautious about using them for all DNS calls.
The Olympics, as well as most other major world events, are transmitted via broadcast TV almost everywhere in the world. The whole operation and licensing rights are already paid for by ad space.
When those technological institutions were found.

Maybe there were plenty, still I guess east coast had much more. Am I wrong?
I'm glad I could help somewhat. Believe it or not, that's my high school graduation speech, that I delivered a month of two ago. A lot of that lesson was actually driven by the college acceptance process, as well as witnessing a parent do to themselves what I mentioned in the second portion.
Interesting how TaskRabbit decided to go head to head against PostMates. I think PostMates has the cheaper deal, but more people have used TaskRabbit.
As with any dotfile repo, I wouldn't recommend installing the entire thing at once. Instead, try and take the time to read through it and select settings that you want piecemeal. You'll end up knowing what everything does, especially in the case that something strange happens and you want to tweak things.

Edit: I should note that I learned this the hard way starting out, I went backwards by ripping out things that didn't work for me/did not like, but not until after making some horrible mistakes!
Sounds very much like the experience sampling method used by Cszikszentmihalyi who has worked on research into flow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_sampling_method
Good job the next olympics will be held in a convenient time zone in Brazil.

After that I expect all future olympics to be held wherever the biggest TV audience is, so an eternal Beijing olympics for the 21st Century?
Do... people... really believe this?
What happens if someone tampers with the food? Is TaskRabbit responsible for damages?
"E(N)" is not experience but "expected value." The expected value of the number of fissions caused by a fission must be greater than 1, then you explode.

Basically, suppose you can market more. Each time you market a given amount M, you create a new convert. 2M, two new converts. 3M, three new converts.

As E(N) gets close to 1, these converts create their own new converts. There's a sort of multiplying factor for the final number of converts if E(N) < 1, it's 1/(1 - E(N)).

So if every convert ends up converting, on average, 2/3 of a new convert, then M now generates 1/(1 - 2/3) = 3 converts total. That's a multiplication of your investment in marketing by 3. So you can spend one third the marketing money! If you can boost this rate from 66.7% to 80% your marketing becomes 5x more effective. If each convert creates, on average, 0.9 converts, you're now 10x more effective with your marketing money. The moment you get to 1.0 or higher, the system goes viral and spreads to everyone with no investment necessary (think Wikipedia, Google, Facebook).
Uhm... you misread my comment entirely, and then diverged into politics. I don't know how to respond, because I'm not sure what argument you're making that relates to my point.
Really interesting - particularly how much of a theme there is around getting more product/technical knowledge throughout the company.
Hey TaskRabbit, you might make that logo clickable.
Your performance tests seem to have been run on a cluster that lives on one gigabit LAN. Have you tested a cluster that's distributed geographically?
The Gist this submission links to has been taken down.
Except this time around, CTV has done a good job of providing Olympic coverage to non-TV people.

The iOS app is great, and the web portal is great, and it's free.
This coming from TechCrunch? I ended up turning on NBC (because the enemy of my enemy must be my friend).
Almost everywhere, but not in the United States. Whether or not this is right or fair is left as an exercise to the reader; personally, I think it is not. However, the answer to the question is one of three things: subscribe to the required service, be in a grey area, or do not watch.

I honestly cannot see why we keep having these debates. OBVIOUSLY the content providers are making money doing exactly what they are now doing. Bypassing the restrictions and consuming the content anyway does nothing to change this situation except on the micro level. The only way to change the status quo is to demonstrate that the content is not sufficiently valuable to a sufficiently large group of people that the mechanism changes.
Coming to think? Here, let me help you along. A mining company or an oil company can ensure highest profits by cutting corners (on worker safety, on disposal of toxic waste, on the rights of those around them). Those profits come at the expense of the workers, the people who live near the facilities, the environment around those facilities. Examples are almost too numerous, so I'll give a few recent ones: Massey Energy in West Virginia, BP in the Gulf of Mexico, Royal Dutch Shell the Niger Delta of Nigeria.
Verily. Here interpretative skills don't appear to be impaired (see her comments on [paraphrasing] 'this is not censorship it's business practice') and there is so little to interpret in being asked [initially] to remove only live links in order to get an ebook allowed that I can't readily see how it's an issue of objectivity. Hence my inclination towards trusting her presentation of the situation.

My initial thought was that it might be affiliate links she'd included but then her failure to mention such a thing would be brazen dishonesty IMO and not [accidental] situational interpretative failure or simple bias.
Did anybody tried francetvsport.fr ?

It seems to work from the webproxy i used but i'm not sure my ip was properly hidden.

Anyway, for once french television is not behind, they broadcast all the sports live on their website without any commentary.
It was a section of a longer work, which explored human purpose, so I apologize if the abbreviation makes it lose some of its meaning. I don't actually want to share the whole text at this point (some of it is a bit personal), but, on the other hand, you still raise a good point. However, it's my opinion (of course, I've never lived any of those situations) that the same lessons apply. If you do work that good for humanity, even if it is miserable work, you should glean happiness is what you are able to achieve. The conditions are different, but I guess my focus is on avoiding saying "This is what I wasn't able to do", and replacing it with "This is what I have done". Which seems to be a tough task for most any person.
Because developing a new standard always fixes problems.[1]

[1] http://xkcd.com/927/
There's a certain pop-libertarianism that does take this Panglossian view that we live in a perfectly tuned universe, where market dynamics, unless interfered with by the state, always produce the best outcomes, recognizing value and allocating resources. It reminds me a bit of some new-agey environmentalism, which believes that ecosystems always work optimally in a harmonious balance, unless humans interfere with Nature's dynamics.

(To be fair, I would say most hardcore libertarian philosophy is based on natural-rights type views, and doesn't make arguments about maximizing outcomes at all.)
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Not necessarily. Most of those things are iframes, so technically it's FB linking back to FB.
Sounds like ego to me. ;-)

Well, for that, it's probably worth remembering a finding from psychology: everybody likes their own ideas better than someone else's, simply because they're their own. And it takes a particular kind of skill to recognize the good in other people's ideas, and it's really that skill that's what makes you good at working in teams. Some of my managers have been really good at that, and they've been responsible for some great things as a result.

It also helps to rigorously test your ideas against the outside world - for me, it was the experience of doing (and failing at) the startup, over and over again, that taught me that maybe my ideas weren't so hot. In practice, there're usually lots of good ways to do something; it's often easier just to go with whatever someone else proposes simply so you can make forward progress.
Pretty cool marketing tool, but probably not all that practical- no guarantee delivery time (at least not on the front page), and hour-old in-n-out burger/fries/shakes pretty much ruin the in-n-out experience.
One small improvement they could make is instead of asking me to click the login into taskrabbit on the top right, why not just popup a prompt to signup / login to task rabbit?
I'm not much of a Java person myself, but our dev team has told me that the WAR + Tomcat route tends to work best on AppFog, at least at this point in time. This is also our recommended way of running other JVM-based languages.
Or you could hand examples of your favorite rogue web bot a whole pile of confusing chunder.
I guess technically I'm paying for VPN service, but I would have been anyway, so I didn't buy something new.

And, I'm not certain it's illegal. Are you?

Is the legislation specific about where you must reside? What if you're consuming content but you're not in the UK?

If it is illegal for anyone to consume BBC content at the time of broadcast without a TV license regardless of location, what if someone outside of the UK paid for a TV License?
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:)
Sivers once told me most people do not know what they want, so if you do, you're already one step closer to achieving anything. I'd say, if you feel useless, start by setting a goal and define the first step towards it. It feels mighty to have a goal.
Ok, 1 game has 20 million players... there are several million playing any single game at any given time... thus... hundreds of millions.
It is absolutely insane that we can see the space-time continuum being warped with this.
notbitter is right, this stuff is cancer.
Over time, Yahoo seems to have hired more and more people doing 'meta-work' than actual work. Which leads to month long strategy sessions but very little products coming out and very little product building rhythm.
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Feels like a stripped-down version of [Mappiness](http://www.mappiness.org.uk/) -- which isn't a bad thing, really.
U got high speed Internet and b'ful beaches. Why ask? Watch on net while u Njoy nature.
Do you mean Mozilla Persona / BrowserID?

They serve different purposes; Persona is about authentication, OAuth _may_ be used for authentication but its original purpose is authorization - letting websites and applications access your content from other sites (e.g. letting an application post Tweets in your name) without giving them your password.
Actually, market failure is when the allocation of goods and services by a free market is not Pareto optimal. That is, there exists another conceivable outcome where a market participant may be made better-off without making someone else worse-off.

This is entirely possible in situations when nobody wants to buy X and nobody is buying X. One common example is when there are externalities involved -- e.g. companies using highly polluting processes that are bourne by not just the customers but also uninvolved 3rd parties. Another common example is due to informational gaps -- imagine a benign physician selling polio vaccinations to a less educated populace that doesn't want them. No one wants to buy, but no sales of vaccinations is very far from Pareto optimal.

It is well recognized that non-competitive markets and principal–agent problems can also lead to market failure and there is probably a case to be made that the supply side of high-end journalism suffers from both.
> Wasn't the internet supposed to break through barriers like space and location?

The Internet philosophy eschews these things, but the implementation simply ignores them. Of course the incumbents desire to reimplement their archaic business models on top of TCP/IP. It's up to us to carry the philosophy and create higher level protocols that are resistant to such things; fiefdom-based HTTP certainly isn't.
The AppFog command line tool is very straightforward and even somewhat Git-like: http://docs.appfog.com/getting-started/af-cli. If the "af" gem is installed, "af push" is the equivalent to a "git push." You're right that it's not the same thing, but it's pretty handy.

Extra runtimes (newer versions of Erlang, plus Perl, Go, etc.) will become available over time. They're high priorities for our dev team, as are Redis, Memcached, etc.

What do you mean by "no custom app?"
This won't get you live coverage, but it will get you legal NBC coverage on your home TV...
The broadcast industry does not want American's to know this, but they are legally obligated to provide the free "over the air" stations on cable (coax) even if you do not pay for cable service. In other words, do what I have done:
1. You need a modern cable-ready TV
2. Plug the coax into the wall (assumes your residence had cable installation at one point).
3. Plug other end of coax into your TV.
4. Scan for channels.
5. Voila: CBS, ABC, NBC, PBS, and more.

Yes, it's that simple. And this is NOT using the coax as an RF antenna. This is the cable company providing me with what I am legally entitled to: over the air stations in a digital age.

The cable companies are trying to fight this, but as of now, it exists. It's legal. And it works. My son's watching PBS Kids as I type. And we watched many Olympic events through-out the days today - OK, not live, but still I DO NOT PAY FOR TV.
I have been wanting an app that does this for a VERY long time. Ever since reading Letters From a Stoic and The Happiness Hypothesis, my life's resolution has been to be happier than I was yesterday.

I, similar to codegeek, always envisioned something simpler. Just three emoticons:

:( :| :)

Numbers may be more accurate, more quantitative, or what have you, but I think this is about being honest with yourself and not allowing yourself off the hook, "well, at least today was an 8". No. I want every day to be a 10!

Personally, I think trying to account for every emotion or mood possible would defeat the goal.
This is the most important one, that's not been mentioned in OP:

defaults write -g NSScrollAnimationEnabled -bool NO

It disables the stupid "smooth scrolling". on Lion (and everything before that) you could disable it from the 'General' tab of SysPrefs, but now it's gone.

What does it do? When you press spacebar in a web browser, or fn-downarrow in a text editor, it "smoothly" bring new content up from the bottom of the screen and pushes current screen up.

I don't know, maybe it works great on recent machines, but my poor old 2009 MBP's graphics card is not really powerful, and this animation is not smooth at all. It distracts me a lot.

I strongly suggest you at least try it. If you don't like it, just replace NO with YES and everything's back to normal.
I think it's more likely than not that her interpretation would agree with mine, but it's still an unknown. The parent post of this thread was asking if we could remove that unknown, so I think it's quite reasonable.
This isn't "sensible hacker defaults", it's more like "some guy's view of what Mac OS X should be like".
Read the CJDNS whitepaper https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/blob/master/rfcs/Whitepap...
Personally, I think emotions would be more intuitive/easier to choose from than numbers. However, the number of emotions to choose from would have to be low (I'd say 4 or 5). I can see why you'd want to use numbers for analysis, but you can assign a value to each emotion as well.

A list/grid of emoticons would be fine for displaying the options. Nike+ does something similar to this when it gives you the option to say how you felt during a workout.
Is there a way to change or disable the animation time when switching between spaces (or "desktops" as they are now called)?
See my comment above. You CAN get the OTA channels.
I'm nitpicking but I feel it's worth pointing out that not only do UK viewers of live TV need a license but all taxpayers contribute to the BBC by separate payments from direct taxation.

UK ISPs appear to throttle iPlayer traffic so ironically using a proxy might be worthwhile in the UK too.
I DO have cable TV in the U.S. - Suddenlink

I spent 45 minutes online with the Suddenlink support person and got my account setup with username and password

ALL SET right?

So, with the Suddenlink support person on the phone I login to the NBCOlympics.com site and select Suddenlink.

I key in my username and password.

In about a minute the screen pops up and says I am all set to WATCH THE OLYMPICS LIVE.

Joy!!

Then in about 10 seconds another screen pops up:

"You do not have a subscription to view the requested content. Contact Suddenlink to upgrade your programming then log back in to view content."

What the heck??

So I ask the very helpful Suddenlink support person still waiting on the phone: What Up?

She confirms that since I do not have the EXTENDED basic package with optional add-ons with Suddenlink I do not qualify to WATCH THE OLYMPICS LIVE

BY THE WAY:

Did you read the nbcolympics.com FAQ:

"Q: What is required for accessing Live Extra content?
A: You will need to verify that you subscribe to a cable, satellite or telco video tier that includes CNBC and MSNBC. There is no additional charge."

I do have CNBC and MSNBC. CNBC is channel 255 and MSNBC is channel 264 (in my market area)

And yet I cannot WATCH THE OLYMPICS LIVE

In the terms of the Olympics here is my message to NBC
LET THE GAMES BEGIN - THE INTERNETS ALWAYS WIN.
This is a troll obviously but for those of you too young to remember, this link captures most of the debate: http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/1105/essentials/p38.h...

From that page is this quote:

"David Zion, an analyst at Bear, Stearns & Co., estimated that S&P 500 companies would have reported an average of 9% less earnings in 2000 if options had been expensed on the income statement. For tech companies, this reduction would have been even greater; for some, profits would have turned to losses."

Which is the case for Facebook (profits turning to losses).
Looks good. Simple, and to the point. I would love to use it, but just a few points

1. The website link on iTunes is not up (http://www.moodtrack.co/)

2. Is there a way for me to export the data out? Every other app that I use consistently lets me do this (A good example is Dayta that exports a CSV file) and it's absolutely essential for me to do it.

Good job. Hopefully you can answer the above two questions for me.

Thanks.

P.S - I already installed it, but I probably will just play with it till I know I can get my data out.
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By the way, MSR was created as an active attempt to recreate an analogue to Bell Labs. It certainly doesn't have anything as foundational to show for it as transistors or lasers, but it's certainly possible for today's big tech companies to do the same kind of work.
Facebook can easily grab the search queries from the header and use that to serve ads based on explicit searches.
Not everyone has been following Apple as closely, nor does everyone open up their eyes at the same time. Better late than never, though. (And the more people that do this, the merrier. Maybe this way things will improve some day...)

It's sad to see the awful attitudes a company can get away with when it makes such sleek and wonderful products.
This.

I think it was more in line with wanting to know how much Microsoft is charging. I suspect its like salary negotiations where you don't want the other side to know what you've already agreed to with others since that would give them an advantage in the pricing discussion. Same with patent licenses.
One difference might be the consequences of the subscription. A subscription to a big media outlet seems rather icky. I don't want to know what crap they'll try to feed you, pretending that it'll be worth your money. Subscribing to a VPN service presumably just expands your choices in a no frills way.
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I like the loading transition.
Thanks for the feedback.

1. Yep I'll put something up at that url soon, I just wanted to get this out there asap.

2. I absolutely plan on letting people export the data. I didn't include the option in this first release because I first wanted to see whether anyone would even use the app to input anything.
That's a great thing to point out. My mistake. I added a note about that in the article.
Take a look at alpha.emot.io by @nickwsmith

Nick has done a lot of research on this field and with early cstomers. If you don't know him already shoot me an email and I'll do an e-intro
Fair, I don't know if the patent is valid Samsung could just work around it. If Apple have a valid patent as I understand it they can license it for any price that they want OR completely refuse to license it provided they haven't made any agreements or commitments to the contrary.

That is the normal case with patents, exclusive rights. When you step into a standards body and offer your technology you give up those rights unless you specifically and clearly declare that you aren't doing so (in which case other options will be chosen by the standards body).

So there are other ways to look at it. Is it fair that Samsung pushed it's technology into a standard and then holds other implementers to ransom or asks them to give up their legal rights to enter the market?

As I say elsewhere I'm not picking sides on the validity of particular patents or what damages or even FRAND license fees should be but I do think it is important that FRAND commitments are given weight and enforced.

For me forced cross licenses and percentages of finished product price are both discriminatory and not FRAND. Even percentage of chip price I have my doubts about as it discourages integration of chips with its hardware and power advantages. This doesn't mean that it must be less than 1c or even $1 but some mechanism to be fair to all patent holders while not pricing the standard out of use needs to be found.
I don't disagree with you, but for many people it's far more convenient to query an external API than to create their own.
Well, yes - it is a superset of all the little tweaks that experienced and demanding users have found useful at one time or another. Clearly, you shouldn't be applying the whole file all at once before deciding what it is in there that you need or prefer.

Have a look at it - there really is some good stuff in there. This file, and then all the cool tweaks to the Cocoa text engine that you can make, make OS X a tough OS/environment to beat.
Is it really beneficial to disable disk image verification? What does OS X actually verify when it opens a disk image? It does take some time to verify disk images and I want to be sure of what I'm actually disabling.
If you have a proxy to connect to in Asia, India, or Africa (easy to find) you can watch the live stream on http://www.youtube.com/olympic. Simple clean interface with schedule and easy stream selection for the current events happening. It's also commercial free as well as being up to 1080p. You can even change the language of the broadcast.
Also HAR and I believe Burning Man had GSM networks too.
"how would the girl know he is using a dating app?"

My guess would be the guy was so clueless he left this dating app on the list of his active apps that he kept on the equivalent of his Facebook wall. It's a "script kiddie mistake", like the burglar who post his exploits to his Facebook page. And in this future, everyone's become an idiot through doing everything by prompt, so this kind of mistake would be what you'd expect.