skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen it on several wines over $50 from New Zeeland and I've heard that most Australian wines in Australia now come with screw corks even at the higher end (natural cork is only used for exported wines). They seem to be leading the charge on that front. I've also seen it on a couple of French whites. But as others have mentioned, most vineyards are reluctant to do so (especially on wine for export), not because of any quality concerns, but because many people think screw caps make wines look cheap.
Im selling some domains to help bootstrap my startup
I am selling a few domains that I havent gotten around to using in at least a year in order to help bootstrap my startup.

If theres anything you are interested in please feel free to make an offer! Your interest would be greatly appreciated and will help me fund my venture!

Kind Regards,

Matt

*GTLD:*
- appscale.net (idea: web services for apps)
- appscale.org
- energymind.com (my old consultancy)
- godspire.com (idea: javascript MMO i never got around to starting)
- heyreddit.com (was a popular chatroulette thing for reddit)
- mediaparty.com (idea: deviant art for all media)
- wordflows.com (idea: CMS platform)
- wordflows.net
- wordflows.org

*UK:*
- brokersmart.co.uk (idea: CRM for brokers)
- cardiffmedia.co.uk (idea: Local consultancy)
- cashhappy.co.uk (idea: finance comparison)
- deyon.co.uk
- digimall.co.uk (idea: multi-store marketplace)
- energymind.co.uk
- smartbroker.co.uk
- wordflows.co.uk

*MISC:*
- dart.ws (idea: forum for dartlang)
- snapshot.ws (idea: webpage screen shot service)
Personally i don't care about Karma on HN and what others Karma is. All i care about is good link to something useful - technically atleast. "Title" of the post matters a lot.

Discussion: guess somebody will post more links to some good technical material or post some useful comments.
Assuming that π is normal and infinite (that's redundant but for clarity), then yes, it's true -- it contains every finite-sized number, every textual sequence, every secret, every book ever written. Scientific secrets we may never discover. Cures to nonexistent diseases. Everything!

But this is as meaningless as it is true, because the problem is not that those secrets are present, the problem lies in locating them.

I had this conversation years ago on Usenet -- the same question, the same answer. My correspondent seemed to think it was remarkable that all those riches lay within π. He didn't seem to realize that the same could be said of any normal, infinite sequence of digits, of which there may be an infinite number (not proven, but it's possible that e, √2, indeed the square root of any non-perfect-square number, all fall into this category).

If the grains of sand on a beach could be decoded as binary bits (or as digits in any base) by some accepted convention, and making the same assumptions about normality and infinity, then a beach also contains every secret, every book that has ever been written or will ever be written. But it's the same problem - those secrets cannot be located, distinguished from sequences we might label meaningless, simply because they're answers we're not interested in.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number

A quote: "While a general proof can be given that almost all numbers are normal (in the sense that the set of exceptions has Lebesgue measure zero), this proof is not constructive and only very few specific numbers have been shown to be normal. For example, it is widely believed that the numbers √2, π, and e are normal, but a proof remains elusive."
Sounds like your boss fell a little short of the good guy definition offered in the original post, starting with the following:

> Be as straightforward and transparent as possible;

> Don’t waste people’s time, this means saying “no” a lot vs. stringing people along;
Same here.

Unity had a few bugs which seems to be fixed in this release but nothing annoying enough for me to switch.

Ironically, I also ran two screens on an ATI card which I bought to support their open source efforts. The nVidia was much better!
Mapping Tweets with Cartaro
Okay - if you are going for the absolute beginner market, then, in my opinion, you have too much front matter. I'm new to code, I want to build something cool - let me at it now, not 20 pages in.
The text is just a matter of font. The rendering of the graphs look exactly like the original, and that's the hard part.

Edit: as pointed out below, the algorithm was lifted from another version done in Python/Matplotlib by Jake Vanderplas: http://jakevdp.github.com/blog/2012/10/07/xkcd-style-plots-i...
Sounds similar to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem ...

"a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare."
Don't worry, I won't "screw up" the Windows Store by accidentally developing anything for it.

By the way, Adam Smith called. He wants to have a chat with you. Maybe you should "step into his office."
Wouldn't the type system complain that you're returning nil in a function that is not declared/inferred as returning nil?
Edge tech news - my shit hot startup
Edge is a real work in progress at the moment. I learned that the best thing to do is just say fuck it and get an MVP online as soon as possible.

It doesn't matter to start with if it looks like shit or has usability issues, they can all be ironed out. First of all make sure the idea works and then expand on it.

So here it is, the first iteration of my new startup Edge Technology News.

I aggregate content from the webs hottest tech blogs and display it all together in one place.

Edge also aggregates content from kickstarter and github so you can see the latest tech developments around.

There is a lot of work left to do on the site. Clearly usability and design need some work. At the moment I'm concentrating on getting the news aggregation working perfectly before moving on to the development section of the site.

Just like with hacker news and reddit signup only requires an email and password. Then you can favourite the links you want to keep for later.

So check it out! Leave some comments with the feedback plugin at the side of the site.
What is likely to be quicker/easier and the best decision in the long term ... Upgrading to 12.10 from 11.10 or moving to Linux Mint?

This is for my work machine which I run PHPStorm for web development, virtualbox for CS5 and Chrome and various other apps.
Hacker News London meetup was excellent
Native Client is the next hope for Python, Ruby, etc. in the browser. Much better than trying to compile an existing language to JavaScript.

https://developers.google.com/native-client/
Any comment on the overall design or service model?
What would your suggestions to improve this service be? http:/www.sillytrader.com.
We're in the process of changing the name and defining the service more clearly.
Golden Eye was special because it was the first Bond you really wanted to see after a decade and my first Bond in cinema. I went there with my father for the premiere at 0:07 so it left us with a special feeling. Looking at it today, I think it wasn't that good but it was not a Dalton for sure.
No, I meant that Haskell doesn't consider any whitespace that isn't indentation as significant.
Does this mean writing out a normal number is illegal? They encode state secrets, child pornography, pizza recipes, and entire computer simulations of universes where owning pizza recipes is considered high treason.
I understand your point that it's silent. I just don't see how comparing the another laptop to the Chromebook by talking about something that the Chromebook won't run (eg WoW). Personally, apart from 3D gaming I haven't noticed any noise at all from my Air (from compiling, rendering video, etc).

You said yourself that you're not in a position to fully change to something ARM-based because of performance issues, and that's precisely my point: what's the point of saying the Chromebook is superior in it's silence? I might as well say that a piece of paper has superior battery life to my laptop because I can use it for 24 hours without charging. They do different things.

(On a tangent, what are the options for actually developing software using ChromeOS, my understanding of it was there was little to no access to local filesystems for that sort of thing? Or are you talking about installing some other OS on it?

Edit: Read your post a bit further down about putting Gentoo on it. Still curious if there's much scope for developing in ChromeOS itself... did a bit of searching but not a lot of the hits sounded practical or were native.)
Well, I was looking for some implementation for Locality-Sensitive Hashing, then I landed on metaoptimize.com from Stackoverflow, thereby clicking on 'Hottest' gave me this first link, and I know that HN people love this sort of stuff, in fact while submitting this link I had this intuition that it has already been submitted earlier.
As far as the title is concerned it is intact from the source, but if you consider this template : Free textbooks on [choose subject] , then the only thing which matters and can attract people is 'subject'.
Cheatsheet for continuing work when Github is down:

1) ssh myserver.com
2) adduser git
3) sudo su git
4) cd $HOME
5) mkdir .ssh
6) Add people's public keys to .ssh/authorized_keys (in /home/git)
7) git init --bare myrepo.git
8) Push and pull to git@myserver.com:myrepo.git

Voila!
Boxee Box? I love mine.
That's an example. On any open device you can program in any language. There are no restrictions. The iPad is a walled garden and there are clear limits to what you can envision doing, embedded in the way it is designed and locked down.
The only UK shop doesn't seem to ship outside of UK. And as usual, the price is almost $370, so there you go with the $250 Chromebook.
Accents are complicated, but as a general rule, you end up stuck with whatever your brain has learned by age 14. Stephen Pinker has a story about Henry Kissinger and his brother moving to the US just before and after that threshold, one having a German accent and the other doesn't.

Most foreigners never lose their accent, while children of non-native speakers learn the local language without their parents' accent. Natives of Germanic languages, as someone else pointed out, tend to be better at English than natives of Romance languages. And some native Greeks can speak with such a perfect Spanish accent that when their vocabulary lags behind they sound slightly aphasic (until they tell you that they are actually learning the language).

It also depends education: Portugal and Greece used subtitles on tv whereas France, Spain and Germany usually dub foreign films. This makes a difference between the students from those nationalities one encounters, say, in Britain.

I know of a Japanese whose Spanish, learned in a couple of years as an adult, has far less Japanese accent than his English, learned and practiced since primary school.

And now that I'm at it: as with the deaf/mute confusion, when teaching, or just speaking, to a non-native speaker, remember that, rather than having a sticky tongue, they might just not be able to hear the sounds you are saying. This causes much frustration because you repeat the same word ten times, assuming that they can hear the difference, but they cannot. The solution is to point out explicitly in which sound the difference occurs.

Apologies for the dogmatic speech, it's the foreign-sounding generalisation I have a general perception that Europeans are generally excellent at English that triggered it :-)
Sure. If you plan on implementing this as some sort of end-user device that would be hooked up to a phone handset or a software "app" you would install on a smart phone, then all you've got to work with is caller ID. Caller ID can be blocked by the caller (e.g., by dialing *67 first) and spoofed, including the purported outgoing number. In fact, VoIP systems like Skype have made spoofing caller ID and now even ANI, a toll network analog of caller ID, trivial.

So even if you keep some sort of constantly updated database of numbers used by robocallers, you are still relying on the robocallers 1) not blocking outgoing caller ID and 2) not spoofing the numbers of legitimate users resulting in them getting blacklisted.
Yes, that is exactly what I meant. Especially in the context of a course to learn about interactive computing, I find this very ironic that the prize offered is a non-programmable device. Why not offer a washing machine or an oven, then?
That's kind of a contradiction. If you can't predict consumer behavior why would investors give money to experienced entrepreneurs? From their point of view, they would be better off giving money to someone naive so they would get a bigger cut for the same price, while getting the same odds on the "predict consumer behavior" front.
they simply 'pursue excellence' and success follows.

they don't just think about adding a new feature, they are the one's that will say, 'let's re-architect the whole system', 'we need a better programming language'. they will read research papers, follow the latest in technologies and apply them in their field to create prototypes even if it's not part of their job.

good business people will appreciate it and back them up. if they don't they will probably find other people who will because they are passionate about it.

they can start their own ventures but who wants 10 companies like google believing in the same values, competing against each other, instead working for a company lets them focus more on their passion.

this is just what i think and i may be wrong. this is my first comment on HN. :)
I don't see how that follows. Except in a few cases where a paid online course is coupled with a free textbook, why would people realizing textbooks aren't as important mean they would release them as free ebooks?
Well, obviously, everything exists in the infinite - somewhere. A completely trivial realization, however.
I'm more surprised that it took Google so long to launch a really cheap chromebook, after all previous models were almost the same than a lowend laptop with a Windows license.

Its weird since there were not many models to begin with and Google could easily make a ton of the things to bring down costs and thus price. They seem to be doing even more now, switching from x86 to a dualcore ARM, so its no longer a laptop/netbook but a smartbook and that explains the sub-$300 price. I wonder how small the SSD must be since its not even listed, only the size of the cloud gdrive is.

As for success, I don't know: it seems like a good offer but I get the feeling it would far more popular if it ran Android instead, though it would need a touchscreen for app compatibility.
I'm fairly sure that's a made up word, but I like it for its succinctness and don't know any good synonyms.
Only to the same extent that counting is illegal, because if you count high enough you'll eventually generate a numeric representation of every possible datum.
I don't have a strong mathematics background, but would I be right in thinking that the probability of a normal, infinite number containing a given arbitrary string of digits is "almost sure" rather than "sure"? Or can it actually be proven mathematically that it contains such a string?
Java primarily, I'm experimenting with Go at the moment.
Today most children in Finland learn English early on at school, but that certainly wasn't the case for someone born in 1935. I'm just guessing, but she's probably picked up the language later in life. Also, a Finn of her generation didn't hear English on TV all the time and didn't play video games as a kid :)

As a side note, I know a lot of people that are excellent at English but have an accent. I don't think all people make it a priority to get rid of their accent (or to gain an accent), especially if they don't live in an English speaking country.
Bought a customized T510 during Christmas 2010 online from lenovo website. Absolutely no hassles with shipping. Dunno if things have changed since then though.

The reason I love Lenovo is for their build quality.
A thousand times this. I used OSX at one job where everyone else was too and was appalled at how bad it is for getting work done. It's pretty and shiny but broken by design in terms of usability. Switching windows is a pain in the ass (different shortcuts to 'alt-tab' between windows of the same application), maximizing a window doesn't work properly, no way to change the window manager. Those are just my gripes with the GUI. As parent pointed out, the best way to do *nix-based work on OSX is to run linux on a VM. This throws the 'is unix-like' argument out the window.

So a crap GUI, crippled CLI, very questionable company policies and politics and to top it off it costs twice as much as everything else. You have to be out of your mind to buy into this.
Divorcing JK Group
> In the new Bond film, “Skyfall”, Heineken has paid to ensure the hero only drinks beer.

At least it wasn't Corona. Though that's no Bond.
"GOF patterns are indeed language agnostic"

I enjoyed this series of articles published some years ago making the case that many of the useful design patterns are built into Perl already:

http://www.perl.com/pub/2003/06/13/design1.html

http://www.perl.com/pub/2003/08/07/design2.html

http://www.perl.com/pub/2003/08/15/design3.html

The take-away point being "If a pattern is really valuable, then it should be part of the core language". Perl, of course, has very strong functional features, as described in Higher Order Perl:

http://hop.perl.plover.com/
Microsoft misses revenue, falls 1%
Education=Evolution, a problem for those who want to perpetuate in power. Keep it up hackers.
I never said it's the same odds. Maybe "crapshoot" isn't the right term. Maybe "lottery", and its certainly the case that people who can execute well get many many more tickets. They were at 30K users at one point, how many companies get that far? Airtime is only a failure if you're trying to get a $1B exit - which of course they are because they took $30m in investment and that's the deal.

You could take your $30m, throw it at 30 different teams and pray for an instagram. But then you'd have to sit on 30 boards and keep up with 30 companies. Making one large investment is not only easier to manage, but also much more likely to succeed when it's a known executor.
Oh the Oxford comma, how I have missed thee. On the other hand, gret post and interesting to see such a quality turnaround.
This is not true - you can have infinite things without them containing evertthing. So no, this is not obvious. Indeed, pi may not be normal, so there may be things not contained in it.
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I think that a lot of the "Bond World" has a lot to do with Bond's team as a whole than simply Bond himself. That is, the interactions between M, Q, Felix, Miss Moneypenny et cetera.
Uh yes - Struppi you´re right! I should have said that in the video as well. This is just a tool that helps to have an objective reference. That can help the product owner to do the right decisions but it should´nt be the holy grail.
Very good success story of a so-called nerd, or a natural engineer mentality, or, a mildly autistic character, if we prefer a language of a modern science.

It is from this mindset came out the marvels of engineering - first versions of Lisp, UNIX, C and Plan9, and Erlang and designs of hardware and processors, all the best quality engineering we could have.

It is picking and hiring this kind of people is what this site or whole Silicone Valley is all about.

http://karma-engineering.com/lab/wiki/Hiring
Bug prone? The compiler will inevitably warn you about your error at compile time. No such bug will have any consequence beyond that.

This is also not such a big problem when a human reads the function. We can always see at a glance the return type of the function. Either it's explicitly declared, or it's a lambda whose usage is readily visible. Semicolon or not, you can easily guess if the function is supposed to return its last expression, or not.

By the way, the compiler could do the same. Knowing that, there probably will be helpful error messages such as "did you forget the last semicolon?", or "should you remove the last semicolon?".

The semicolon is really just a small confirmation. That's why they didn't chose a heavier syntax.
I love just about everything about dojo. The source is easily understandable (compared to jquery in my opinion, also the extensive inline documentation is very well done), and it is a great framework. Having said that I think dojo never caught on to the mainstream masses not because it lacked online docs or a nice browsable api like jquery has (although it wouldn't have hurt it), but mainly because you simply have to understand what you're doing when you use dojo. jQ abstracts so much from the dom and simplifies it to such an extent that a complete newb can in notime get some web interactivity going (which is all most people have wanted / still want). Also the fact that jquery keeps its purpose domain small (just dom api, no graphics widgets, etc), means it concentrates on the 80-90% common use cases for site owners.
Chromebook for $250
I've studied last year in London and attended nearly every Hacker News Meetup there. It is a very nice cross-section of the tech scene and can purely recommend these meetups!
Juniper trimming up for a sale?
> You do have patterns like 'fold', 'map', or 'nexus'

'nexus'?

The only relevant hit on the first page of the google results for those 3 words together is actually a link back to your post https://www.google.com/search?q=map+fold+nexus
Pheed: 'Twitter with a business model'
Hmm... I just can't imagine either Ms or Apple being friendly towards NaCl as it would basically be a way of drilling more wholes into their boats (like competing with Silverlght or the broader "issue" that webifying desktop and mobile apps would risk making iOS or Windows irrelevant and welcome in even more low-cost Android and Linux solutions... every Desktop/iOS app to browser app transition basically makes these guys loose money one way or another...)
Edge is a real work in progress at the moment. I learned that the best thing to do is just say fuck it and get an MVP online as soon as possible.

It doesn't matter to start with if it looks like shit or has usability issues, they can all be ironed out. First of all make sure the idea works and then expand on it.

So here it is, the first iteration of my new startup Edge Technology News.

I aggregate content from the webs hottest tech blogs and display it all together in one place.

Edge also aggregates content from kickstarter and github so you can see the latest tech developments around.

There is a lot of work left to do on the site. Clearly usability and design need some work. At the moment I'm concentrating on getting the news aggregation working perfectly before moving on to the development section of the site.
I'd agree that the font is too much - it's bordering on illegible for me in Chrome 22 on Win 7.
Nothing really matters
Google Cultural Institute
Oh yeah. All hail the return of shitty "thin clients."

Maybe people will be more gullible this time.
Just wait until you get a corrupt .deb database...
Create Interest with a Novelty Typeface
Novelty typefaces can be the most difficult to use. But when used sparingly and to match the context of a project, they can work wonderfully.
This piece of shit doesn't even have a Delete key.

Pathetic.
mpm_event can do wonders for memory use. Sad that it falls back to mpm_thread for ssl.
You could pose the question the other way around: is the infinite hidden within the finite? This philosophical question is probably outside the realm of mathematics, but an interesting thought-exercise.