skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Infographic: LinkedIn just surpassed 10 million members in the UK
What I meant above is that currently it's perceived as a hobbyist device. It's not a necessity, or even something that improves one's efficiency and quality of life (like the computer is/was).

I might become interested once I'm able to pay for and download the new iPhone model and print myself one, instead of ordering one online or waiting in line for it. :)
I've thought that I could raise my rates for over a year now. But Brennan's book gave me the drive to actually do it.
Interesting article in NY Times: For Weight Loss, Less Exercise May Be More

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/is-30-minutes-of-da...

Most of the current research points to diet as the most important weight loss strategy, far more effective than exercise (for weight loss ONLY to be clear).

And by the way, 90% of people that lose weight gain it back. That's a higher percentage than any other additive behavior (drugs, alcohol, etc). Maybe if science started working on that area we might find it a bit easier to keep weight off.

Anyone that says - it's just eating less - has never been overweight (and is a dick to boot).
Ask HN: Why TechCrunch posts often do not make it to the front page of HN?
I assumed he got thefacebook.com because facebook.com wasn't available.
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This is in situations where there isn't the time nor the budget for A/B and it's one person's word against another, which is a much more likely scenario for any website plucked at random.
Im on a iMac late 2010. So yes, the issue is with Macbooks and Macbook Air.
There have been plenty of hugely successful and highly regarded titles that were filled with bugs and crashed a lot

I think it's false, and a huge mistake. There is rare cases, but not plenty. Video games (I mean video games for core gamers) are products that demand first and above all quality to be successful. There is rather plenty of common games with a huge quality which become hits (Kingdom Rush for example or Starcraft which was finally kind of common in its time). One of the rules in the delovepment process at Blizzard is that they ship a game when it has less than 100 known bugs. Also, I would add that, it seems that, ID software did not make a successful games since Doom. Quake wasn't a commercial success, Quake2, Quake3, Doom3 and Rage neither (that's why ID software has been bought for only $100M). After all, ID Software lost one of its core value co-founder a long time ago (John Romero) who was responsible of the gameplay of ID's games...

Quality in video games are everything, that's really my opinion. It's also really an edge for every indy developper which want to start a company in this sector, cases are countless.
I have access to a decent-ish 3d printer and after several months I still don't haven't had any practical use for it.
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I know this has been repeated ad nauseum, but I'd really like to see blogs put what their product is somewhere on the page.
It initially didn't fix the resolution issue for me. The trick, according to MacRumours, is to touch the .app files. A Mac caching issue. E.g. "touch /Applications/Microsoft Office/Microsoft\ Word.app"

see http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1446182&pag...
I doubt it. It could just as easily be a pro-Romney PAC or Super-Pac. If you look at this tracker, many of the PACs are spending 6-figures at a time on "Internet/Web" ads:

http://projects.propublica.org/pactrack/#committee=C00490045

The PACs aren't allowed to have direct contact with the candidates.
This was discussed on Hacker News 23 days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4441245

My Facebook friends mostly just think it is funny. (That's regardless of what their political opinions are.)
They often make it to the front page
I agree that it’s disingenuous to give a specific-sounding label to a somewhat ill-defined thing, but you must consider the perspective of a dyslexic person. I have a close friend, intelligent and hardworking, an excellent speaker—who simply finds it difficult to read and to express himself in writing, or to learn foreign languages. Whether he can meaningfully be called “dyslexic” is of no import. Having that label to attach to his difficulties when he was younger let him more easily find resources to improve his written language skills. It doesn’t matter if a term is historically or etymologically inaccurate; what matters is the actual usage.
Hackaday mentioned that it would be closed-source: http://hackaday.com/2012/09/19/introducing-the-makerbot-repl...
I was a hacker there. I actually think some of the coolest projects went totally unnoticed. My personal favorite was http://www.bbcat.co/, which some Rutgers people made.
There were also some pretty sweet hardware ones out there. Some guys used electrodes attached to a person to play that google doodle running game.

I really thought the ones that won were pretty sensationalist and not particularly complex.

(they also needed to feed us better. Some dark rooms would have been nice too...)
Need better A/B testing of titles. Not a lot of data either.

Also as others have pointed out already, your incentives (get landlord leads) are not aligned with your viewers (uhm... feel good helping another Redditor?).
Small size required (1-10 length, a-z, 0-9, Symbol 14 !@#$%^&*()-_+=) for a rainbow table needed for the hash would be around 438TB.
because the quality of the content, not the source, determine the number of upvote
so trident is apparently a high level api for Storm, but I don't see any mention of it in the Storm book. Is that right?

I am very interested in Storm, but wondering if the book is already out of date.
No one can really convince you. You need bring your imagination along to see beyond what is currently possible to what will be possible.
Leaflet wasn't used on the real site though, it was used to here for easier navigation (and it's an awesome JS library). Here's the JS library xkcd.com was using

http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/1110.js
Mac 2.3GHz Intel Core i7 OSX 10.8.2 and VirtualBox 4.2.0 r80737

Same Error. mayday
"It's got more pixels yes, but that doesn't make it N orders of magnitude more useful."

FOR YOU!!. People use to believe they really are the center of the Universe, so if they don't find something useful, NOBODY does!!

I know some professions in witch it certainly makes it 10*N times more useful.
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> Anyway, nobody here, is still playing one of these games - starcraft for example, is a game still played.

Well, I wouldn't say nobody. I, for one, play/watch Quakeworld and Quakelive on a regular basis.
Ask HN: What is the best time to submit a story here on HN?
It's not just that template, it's an "obvious" 3 digit number, a 4 letter dictionary word, and "123" with shift held down. If you had some sort of statistical password ordering it wouldn't be that far down the list.
That may be due to a lack of imagination.

I've made $500 contracting a short 18 hour gig designing enclosures. I've made shelving. I've made chess sets. I've made heart gears that delighted others. I've made spool rollers, and desktop ornaments.
>I see Romney as the top sponsored result every time I try the search. Apparently it started several weeks ago. For me it won't stop showing up, even when it's clear that I have no intention of ever clicking on it.

It's most likely designed that way. While it might not work to make YOU click it, most likely neither do paid search ads. Fortunately, 2-3% of searchers do find them useful and those 2-3% of people usually translate into substantial revenue that makes the continued advertisement worthwhile for the advertiser to continue.
How much tech can one city take?
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There's a great animated short from the 1980s called SKY WHALES. Check it out if you can find it.

I assumed this was the reference...
Yeah, I agree. More food and fewer nerf guns and the budget will balance again
I would recommend reading ray dalio's principle as a complimentary to munger's writing

http://www.bwater.com/Uploads/FileManager/Principles/Bridgew...

Both changed my life

Good luck
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Look at the new page. If the time on the last story is at least an hour ago, then it is probably a fine time to submit. Generally you want more time on the new page (since that is your only hope to get up votes at first).
This has been discussed many times - have you searched for an answer? If you're really a hacker, why not do some research and tell us your findings.

Define "best".
Agreeing with what the first comment said, but expressing the idea in different words, let's turn your question around and ask why TechCrunch posts should get to the front page?

A good-quality submission will be from a source with good content, close to original reporting of the facts, with some balance and sound judgment. Once in a while articles from TechCrunch fit those criteria, but much of the time there are better stories from better sources submitted to HN, and with luck of the draw in who is reading the new page at a given moment, generally better stories get upvoted, while average stories (frequent on TechCrunch) and below-average stories (not rare on TechCrunch) are ignored. I'm always looking for a pleasant surprise when I scan the new page

http://news.ycombinator.com/newest

(as I do several times each day) to look for stories to upvote. I try to submit stories that taught me something I didn't know before, as suggested in the Hacker News welcome letter.

http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
If I were you, I'd delete this and start again with a different tone. You sound a little desperate, and that will push people away. Repost under your own name, asking for advice about how to find a job in SF, and mentioning your skills in brief. Don't ask for anything except advice, don't talk about being laid off or the poor state of your finances. You'll probably get a few spontaneous offers.
Hmmm. I see Obama as the first returned result. Not sure where the difference is. Could it be specific Facebook "tweaking" based on profiles?
This was ISyE, not stats, and it was 5 years ago, but I was amazed by how much extra work some people would do to avoid having to learn anything but Excel (meanwhile, I was messing around with R and whipping programs up to get better results in less time). This was at a highly ranked engineering program, too.

Based on a few people I've kept in touch with, it seems like it hasn't changed all that much at the undergrad level. The grad level was where the problem sizes and difficulty really forced you to use better tools.
Agree with all of you who say it is all about execution and timing. Zuckerberg had the right vision for what he wanted of Facebook though: a casual place to procrastinate. That is something that nobody else saw as clearly as him...and that's why his product won.
So when somebody says a language is "slow" ... he picks arbitrary and unspecified parameters fitting what he wants the result to be, and then declares he was right?

That's natural language for you, but if you try to understand what the assumptions are behind a statement then you have a good chance of coming to an agreement.

"It's a nice day today"

"Actually, a day is a unit of time it's the weather that is nice"

That's what you are doing.
Oh, yes, I agree that this guys behavior was probably inappropriate. My post was simply addressing the use of consistency as a metric.
It depends on what you mean by strong. A lot of times, the strength depends as much as the structure that you're printing as it is the material. Most of these objects are printed hollow.

Generally, PLA is stronger against stress, but breaks quickly, whereas ABS is less strong against stress, but bends before breaking.
AV companies like to share samples with each other, so guessing they had at least a bit of a head start. Still, brute forcing a 10 character password that uses the full ASCII printable character set looks like it'd require.. 9,500 years on a single high end GPU.

No idea what the current state of cracking is, but probably they used some rules based approach (like John the Ripper used to have) to massively reduce the search space.
I think what's truly revolutionary is that it helps blur the line between those categories.
On the topic of dystopian literature, I feel like its actually more similar to Brave New World. People are simply content, ignorant or just don't think it affects them. They are so distracted by all the other stuff (mostly stuff that could affect them dramatically less) in our society that they let it happen. It is not like this information is completely hidden.

Try talking to your parents or friends that are "not into politics" about this stuff. People generally don't care, don't know, or don't think it will happen to them. The government wouldn't do something so bad, in their minds.

This is just my personal opinion and experiences on the subject.
PennApps was awesome this year! I had never done a Hackathon before and now I want to do another one ASAP.

I definitely saw some amazing hacks that didn't get prizes. Someone made a robotic bartender using Arduino that had an iPad app that would let you choose drinks. It could mix from 16 ingredients and accept payments from Venmo. The best part is that team didn't bring the hardware to the event (minus the Uno board), they spent 24 of the 48 hours scrambling around Philly buying things (they're from Michigan). That's true hacking spirit.

I made PokeBattle, it's just a silly little hack but if you're interested check it out at http://pokebattle.herokuapp.com
(I'm not even sure if there are directions for use or what it is, we were rushed for the demo).
Can you provide explanation on how to compute that? Thanks.
To me that's why its so magical. Its actually expensive in time and effort to navigate, so you feel like you're investing something in order to explore. This also means that its difficult to see every part of the image, so you're left with a sense of frontiers yet unexplored when you navigate away from the page. The zooming versions are cool but, to me, actually take away from what Randall is trying to achieve here.
Both the Replicator and Thing-o-Matic could, but you had to get your printer tuned very well. The default was ~300 microns. If these come out of the box tuned that well, that's quite nice.

I don't think (though I'm not sure) the Cupcake was capable of that, at least with the stock Z axis.
Don't you think this is somewhat naive and limited? He was 19 years old when he made that comment. Other people with far more power over your life have done and said far worse things. Think about your bank accounts.
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Just checked out your LI profile (fellow data science guy here) -- I think you basically need a bit more work experience or some github code to show yourself off. The big data guys like Google who have best practices, brand, and provide great onboarding should be your focus IMHO.
It is not moot when considering whether to use facebook's services or not (which is what OP was talking about).
Ha I loved bbcat! 21st century tomagachi. That was another one of the really polished designs that stood out - couldn't remember the name
Huh, I saw him speak at a conference this past weekend and didn't think he was awkward at all.
Tried getting a job?
The option for ABS is for the previous Replicator 1, and Replicator 2X.

ABS is a bitch to work with. Makerbot is making as many moves as they can towards something that's a consumer appliance. And if PLA can help them get there with an 80% use case coverage, so be it that you can't print parts you can leave in your car.
I don't think the target demographic of Lisp is "CS-trained" people. Do you? Why? Because functional programming, which is actually a lot more like the math everyone else learns, is somehow for "wonks?"

When you say things like this, part of me hears you saying, "I have not invested time learning this skillset. However, people argue I should. So I have decided said people are 'wonks,' and therefore I can safely dismiss them." Basically anyone with any differentiation from your skillset falls into that definition.
I must have done something wrong. I filled everything out and it had me print a form that I'm supposed to mail to my registrar in order to register... which of course is registering via mail and not online.
Wow that's a crazy amount of devices. I guess Apple has the money to pay any fine but it's the "do not steal our innovation" image that could really be damaged if this goes the wrong way. Once again I think Apple might have the advantage, if this goes to trial, because of the technical aspect of the claims. It's sickening how smart it is for Apple to sue over easy concepts that non-technical people can grasp.
If you do want to write a system of equations and solve for happiness...

http://lesswrong.com/lw/4su/the_science_of_happiness/

http://lesswrong.com/lw/bq0/be_happier/
Latest version (10.8.2) of OSX incompatible with Vagrant
Is it too much to expect a little more cleverness from our Pizza Hut tablecloth-on-head brethren? Instead of Operation Yabba-dabba-do (or whatever), Operation Prophet and Loss?
Ok you're right. I've deleted that. I say right because we could discuss hours about what nobody means. Oh just a question, so did you bought quake?
Question for HN: I'm graduating this Spring with majors in Systems Engineering and Physics, and I want to work as a data scientist, preferably at a startup. What can I do to position myself for such a job? If any of you work in the field and are willing to provide some 1-on-1 advice, please shoot me an email - mail@philipithomas.com
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There's some stuff up in the sky that I don't know how you would find otherwise.
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It's just a Hackathon. It's meant to just build something for the sake of building it. I made something that lets you stage an internet argument through a Pokemon battle. I don't think I am a "smart kid wasted on a stupid webpage".
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Amazon probably qualifies. eBay, sure. iTunes (sort of; arguably, the hardware drove everyone to iTunes originally, and the hardware was not cheap to produce or bring to market; but once the install base became stable, it grew VERY quickly through word of mouth).

Also: a high viral coefficient does not necessary = social, even though that's what people assume these days. I think the world has seen way too many businesses in recent years that are "social" for no other reason than that social is supposed to have magical network effects. The reality is that not every product, experience, or piece of content is truly social by nature. Trying to tack social onto a use case that doesn't support it is not going to yield a viral coefficient.
Is the quality good enough to support remote pair programming?
Actually, when I searched it came up like this:

http://i.imgur.com/VycSD.png

Not sponsored (for me). Just showing the opposite in the search results.
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It's probably just the number of permutations times the length of each hash.
http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html

This is the url all iOS devices request as soon as they are connected to wifi. And It is currently down.

Edit: It is back now. And this is the response:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Success</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
Success
</BODY>
</HTML>
for MD5 GPU bruteforce would be practical and not require any storage. You can do hundreds of millions of trials per second per GPU without having to manage all that storage.
Startup Hypothesis: Do users want to be social with coffee?
So I started work on socialatte.com as I noticed a ramp up of users who love to post about their coffee experiences on Twitter. Being that I love websites that leverage currently large social networks, love niches, and myself love coffee I thought I would test out the hypothesis that users want to share their coffee experiences with other users in a coffee niched social environment.
I set out and built the current prototype for socialatte.com from Ruby on Rails (one because I knew the framework and another because it is good for quickly getting something up) as well as used twitter bootstrap for responsive design (needed it to work in mobile browsers). Took about a couple days of work but got it to where it is today.

I had added instagr.am support and now, as of today, ios6 users have the option of file uploads where they can take a picture from there directly. Now all is said and done, I have been trying to market this via social networks and having very little luck drawing in users. My analytics report is getting an average of... 10-20 users a day?

I am doing something fundamentally wrong marketing wise or my hypothesis is proven invalid... which I think that is far too early to tell. I am sort of stuck on where to go from here. My hope is to eventually get coffee related vendors on board to advertise with us, get an app going, and maybe eventually sell the website to someone who wants to take it over but that is thinking far too far ahead.

Any advice would be beneficial.
Speak to these people:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bigmac

I believe they're both hiring compsec people at the moment.
This is where I go to find tech content and authors I wouldn't normally be exposed to.

If I wanted to read techcrunch, I'd go there.
640K should be enough cool for anybody.
"Quake wasn't a commercial success, Quake2, Quake3, Doom3 and Rage neither (that's why ID software has been bought)"

Do you have actual sales numbers to back that up or is this based on anecdotal evidence, or is it just because you didn't like the games as much :)? Publicly available internet numbers show that Doom 3 sold 3.5 million, and even Rage sold 2.31 million, making Doom 3 extremely profitable and probably putting Rage a little higher than break even given the long development time and much larger team size.

Two of the Quake games are listed on wikipedia's top selling PC games and sold 1.7 and 1 million. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_PC_video_g...)

Although none of these numbers are 100% accurate unless they are wildly off I wouldn't call any of id's games except Rage unsuccessful.
I was pretty weirded out when the fake account I made specifically to use Spotify (and which has absolutely no information about me in the profile), got a friend request from someone from my grad program.
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I just got a chromebook and I HATE it. The software is ok, but I hate the hardware. Particularly the touchpad. Just awful. Doesn't do tap-to-click correctly and scrolls poorly.

I couldn't recommend it to anyone for anything other than a couch surfing machine, but then again, a tablet is just as good for that.
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You can make your RepRap for $400. I know because I did it.

Very useful, but the material cost is too high. The main change in the recent future are not the printers, but the "personal filamnet extruders" that are appearing now that will make material cost drop 10X when they are improved.
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I fully believe that Zuckerberg is every bit the scumbag his former friends assert. But bitter, much? This is a diatribe more than an essay.