skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flash demo! http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/581168
Babies would probably be considered "transformative work".
Redbox moves in on Netflix's turf
Sure, but even in the domain of animal tracking I imagine very few cases involve capturing the animals afterwards. That seems labor intensive (and prone to biting, scratching, etc).

If 'afterwards' is when it hits a certain geofence or known network - you still are still stuck with waking up the device and querying the network interface...or doing some non-C friendly code to interpret a geofence coordinate.
patent it and then sell it
Really? You might enjoy reading this article: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-02-29/the-germany-...
I ended up doing the equivalent so many times I wrote a sequence command that had masks and could increment (count) through arbitrary series of characters (AVF => A, V, F, AA, AV, etc). Good for dataset fills.
This inspired me to do FizzBuzz in CSS: http://codepen.io/SachaG/pen/jCpba
Done as well! Thanks for the heads-up.
Linkception, sharing links and text like never before
hi, this is a new idea i came up with
what do you think?
http://linkception.co
This part of the article jumped out at me as well. SF residents of rent controlled apartments beware! This is the perfect excuse for you to be evicted.

Not sure if you actually need the whole fake customer scheme you describe though, I am sure a landlord could easily get enough evidence without doing this.
If you were like me back in the 80s on a PET you did that and then moved up to more complex randomness with other graphic symbols like the four corner curves or bends. I think they had that line in one issue of Creative Computing with a bunch of other character graphic effect snippets.
How do you submit polls? Is it unlockable? </tangent>
If you click on your own name and then click on "saved stories", in theory it shows you stories you upvoted. Mine is currently blank:
http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=Mz
I have seen others report problems as well. So I don't rely on that supposed feature.
10 PRINT MID$("/\",1.5+RND(1),1);:GOTO 10

Run it on another old-school computer, like an Apple II, and you won’t get the same transfixing result, for details that have to do with the Commodore 64’s character set, called PETSCII.
What's with the need to see a conspiracy in everything? Is it so hard to see how housing laws, which NYC residents LOVE when it comes to rent control and tenant rights, inherently conflict with the freedom for a renter to rent out the apartment for a profit?

I'm all for critical thinking, but not when it flouts occam's Razor just for the hell of it.
It's usually good enough, however I've found a number of lower quality USB enclosures that handle things better when setting it as high as 32MB so that as much data is in buffer as possible for them at all times. any higher and I've not seen any speed difference but below 16MB and they'll run at nearly half speed for some reason.
Sqoop - ETL for Hadoop
American Higher Education: Not what it used to be
Sounds Just Like
Using the new L2C signal will require a new receiver, but the current L1 (C/A) signal will continue to be broadcast. So you will not need a new receiver to continue the same level of service.
You could set 2 versions: text and html. Email clients that do not support html will fallback to displaying text.
2012 Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar
I've never come across a website that I felt needed a responsive layout, though I regularly think emails are a pain to read on a phone if they use html.

However, most html emails are marketing emails, so I'm still not sold of the idea of responsive templates. The emails I really care about are plaintext (the best type of responsive design---so simple!)
I hear a lot of hoopla over big data, but this is a clear example of an application that demands a large set of discrete points of data, and makes use of it in a meaningful way.
• find 2 cofounders who complement your strengths/weaknesses, build enough of the idea together to test with prospective users and raise money
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A version that works in bash:

yes 'c=(╱ ╲);printf ${c[RANDOM%2]}'|bash

Source and credit: http://stackoverflow.com/a/13612327
Is it the same as this C snippet?

main() { while (1) printf("%c", rand()%2 ? '/' : '\\'); }

Edit: Golfed my original snippet down, then put back original after mmphosis's identical translation.
I've been thinking that this could be an interesting idea, especially when you consider that the Webvan model now seems to be becoming a reality. A larger size delivery box for everything from dry cleaning to packages, maybe with a refrigerated portion for groceries. Maybe with some kind of access control so they couldn't be targeted by thieves, with codes that could expire?
I don't get it, this is just one example.
I spent many long hours playing with this on a Vic-20 back in the 80s. Commodore BASIC was so weird that you pretty much had to hack it.
Thanks for the feedback! We're not yet A/B testing the landing page yet (working up to a more public push where that will come into play). That's a very interesting point about discussing our competitors instead of ourselves.

Xander looks pretty cool. The Google Analytics tie in is crucial. I'll probably be testing it out in the coming weeks.
That doesn't work with non-premium accounts. You can't guarantee that any given note will be there next time you fire up your offline client.
Pepperoni pizza will always be the first to go.
You may want to look over your current contract to be certain that anything you build on nights/weekends is indeed your own and doesn't end up your employer's by default. Otherwise... go for it!
You do need a certain amount of karma to post a poll though. It's quite low, IIRC. I think it was only 100 or 200.
Did you mean to to type 'oh for Peet's sake?'
Epidemiologically, coffee consumption (even up to >6 cups/day) does not appear to be associated with risk for heart attack.[1] This is a large cohort study (128,000 people). Obvious limitations include the fact that the coffee intake assessment was via a questionnaire administered every few years, and that it's a cohort study and not an RCT.

I understand that there may in fact be organs in the human body that are not the heart, but when I hear people talking about caffeine risk, they generally seem to be referring to heart disease, so that's the kind of article I pubmed'ed.

1) http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/113/17/2045.long
General Law 5-14-1 covers: "any money, jewels, jewelry, watches, ornaments, railroad mileage books and tickets, bank notes, bonds, negotiable securities, and precious stones"

Framing it as an absurd, antiquated law is hardly charitable.
If your current company is decent I would stick with it through launch and to see if it gains traction. You could work on it nights/weekends but that's not critical. What is critical is finding like minded people who you could tap to be co-founders when the time comes. Unfortunately, as good as you think your idea is, it's probably not that great.
From H.P., a Blunder That Seems to Beat All
This is interesting, in the sense that the question is two-fold; (1) how much disclosure is needed; and (2) are there any special protections for short vs long terms?.

Arguably a sub-letted property needs to be habitable (landlord to let), so this should be ~covered. And with "yelp" style reviews hopefully discloure is possible (ie, are the linens Ok or is there mold etc). But there are some things that have health considerations...cross-contamination, rodents, etc. And who is responsible? Is this OK at "caveat emptor"?

These are interesting fundamental questions about how much its possible for private contracts to work with/out Gov't regulation. Its exciting to think about ways to solve these problems (ie, not just gloss them over) with technology rather than with politics/bureaucrats, etc. That is: if it is possible, or not.
These are awesome, but how is the backwards compatibility? I know I've seen coworkers having to deal with old versions of Outlook and Mail.app using terribly outdated rendering engines, not to mention strange-ass quirks that are even harder to test for than browsers. Web based clients are their own mess. Some escape certain things, some don't.

The final conclusion was to stick to table layouts for a few more years. Has this changed?
I'd be very concerned about Spotify, which is losing money. Although they have massive revenue, they end up immediately paying nearly all of it to record labels. http://hypedsound.com/news/details/SPOTIFY-FINANCIALS-DEEMED... - Link includes a talk by Dalton Caldwell about why anyone doing what Spotify does is basically doomed.

And content portability is definitely a problem with Amazon. Instant Video and Kindle both use DRM, so an export service would likely be illegal, and certainly nontrivial. Amazon could suddenly deny you access to your “purchases”: http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2012/10/rights-y...

The other services don't seem as risky in terms of data loss, although Facebook could suddenly make your photos more public than you set them to be; they've taken many similar steps before.
Thanks. So it's deliberately not on the nav anywhere?
> I was going to write that Twitter is a one-to-many medium that, in my opinion, does not promote the sort of intimate conversation that Facebook does.

I had the same assumption, but realized after I began using it that I have lots of one or two person conversations.

That twitter hides @replies from your stream that refer to people you don't also follow obscures just how much back-and-forth conversation there is.
yes.

#include <stdio.h>
main() { for(;;) printf(rand()%2 ? "/" : "\\"); }
A link to the project page for Sqoop - http://sqoop.apache.org/index.html

A link to an overview of Sqoop from Cloudera
http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2011/10/apache-sqoop-overview/
The laws certainly do exist in most places where airbnb is used most (ie, NY, SF, other big cities).
When you look at arts explained in the tutorial, objects are getting their shape from simple square, rectangles & circles. It is easy to comprehend.

In your case, even not many programmers would understand whats SDL.

Why shouldn't be writing C++ game programming or operating system, easy to comprehend for Artists?. If we had made writing OS easy for Artists, OS landscape would be much different than whats today.
I think what you're trying to say to me has merit, but you keep overreaching in your choice of words to a point that makes it extremely difficult for me to respond positively

You could call them thorns, and see if you can draw any parallels to your own communication style, like the way you constantly overreach the actual points you're able to make. If your OP was so terse, how were you able to boil down your points from three paragraphs originally to a single sentence here? (Hint: you left out all the extraneous flamebait in this version).
This came up during Hurricane Sandy. NYC is a point of entry for a large number of undersea Cables. Some of these are pretty important, and there was discussion about what would happen if the surge or debris were to take out a couple of them.

“Given the duration and strength of this storm, you have to worry about the cables getting disrupted,” said an executive with a data center company who did not want to be named. He said problems with the cables is “ the kind of thing companies will keep close to the vest. If either AC-1 or AC-2 were to go out there would be major, major issues.”

http://gigaom.com/cloud/superstorm-sandy-wreaks-havoc-on-int...

edit: citation added.
"Sorry, you need 200 karma [points?] to create a poll."
As a web developer who does at the very least one HTML newsletter per month for a client, this is a breath of fresh air. Developing a HTML email is like developing a website in 1995. No Javascript, flaky support for most CSS attributes, the fact you have to use tables for layout, the fact you have to use a premailing tool to bring all CSS inline to work correctly (especially for clients using Lotus Notes 6...) they're a pain in the ass.

I will definitely considering integrating these into my workflow.
Show HN: Awesome geek art kickstarter project.
oh this looks really nice, what's the backend like?
What would be awesome: a way to sync my nvALT/Simplenote notes (in Markdown) into Evernote along with mixed-media content (scanned receipts, web clippings etc) that I'd create in Evernote only
If you have a machine with a UTF-8 terminal and a recent-ish Perl (tested on Perl 5.10 + Mac OS X 10.6), you can play along at home by running:

perl -e '$ |= 1; binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8"); while (1) { print chr(9585.5 + rand()); select(undef, undef, undef, 0.01); }'
Show HN: Simple sinatra app for sending notification w/ Google GCM
I'm Ruby& Android beginner. Struggling to find a simple webui for sending notification on Android so I build this small app.
It gives them significantly more resources to fund expansion and educate online shoppers about BufferBox. Based on some other Google acquisitions, there is likely significant upside if they execute on their vision.
So you read blogs in order to flatter your preconceptions, then?
If you're designing email HTML from scratch, Campaign Monitor's guide to CSS is incredibly helpful for knowing what to use and what to avoid.

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/

I've also found Litmus to be an incredible resource for cross-client test (Outlook vs Gmail vs Yahoo! vs ....). If you send a lot of emails as a part of your user retention strateg it's vital that you test this. You'll be amazed at how different they look and how a few hours of tweaking can optimize things across a large number of clients.

http://www.litmus.com
Beautiful: http://i.imgur.com/tsFR9.png

I can't believe I've programmed for 15 years without knowing about this.
There are starving children who need the money more than you do.
I'm the author of the feature, so I figured I should give some explanation.

REQUIRED_FIELDS is used internally in one place -- in the createsuperuser management command. When you run that command, you are prompted for the minimal set of fields to create a user object. REQUIRED_FIELDS is that list of fields.

Could this be used elsewhere? Sure. A model form, for example, could use this list as the minimal data to create a user object.

Could this be replaced with some model introspection? Possibly. On my first pass through, this is exactly what I tried to do. And the code got messy really quickly.

At a first approximation, any field with blank=False and no default is essentially "required". However, what about BooleanFields? BooleanFields have an automatically default to False, but that doesn't necessarily mean that False is an appropriate value. And what about custom fields that use the same "built-in default" pattern?

There's also a possible edge case where a field strictly isn't required (e.g., it's blankable) but from a business logic perspective, you always want to have a value.

Ultimately, I came to the conclusion that the mess was worth it. That said, I'm not 100% opposed to cleaning it up. Essentially, if someone can make createsuperuser work without the need for REQUIRED_FIELDS, and the code is robust and isn't a mess, I'm willing to look at the patch before 1.5 final. However, I'm not planning on looking at this problem myself.
Yes - that's the primary goal of the change. However, there's lots of other possibilities, too. The point is to make the definition of the "User" model as flexible as possible.
You can get a feel for this by running netstat -tn and then running a traceroute to each connection you currently have open.

For example, my connection to news.ycombinator.com takes this path:

Salt Lake City
Denver
Dallas
Houston

My connection to en.wikipedia.org takes the same first three hops and seems to end in a data center in Dallas.
I do have two desktops, but have so far resisted the temptation to steal my PM's 24" monitors that he never uses. I need the desk space for my marble track anyway.
When developing a HTML email it's best to have style tags at the top and not link to them using <link rel> because the way HTML email works and various clients, you have to bring the CSS inline for it to work properly across different email clients anyway.

It's a trial and error process. Build HTML emails using tables for as much as possible, you can't use background images just background colours, don't rely on floats or other common CSS properties (even using height or width in your CSS isn't as supported as well as you'd think) and the number one thing to remember is: the day a client complains it doesn't look good in Lotus Notes, you will want to throw your computer out the window and become a farmer because it's never going to work in Lotus Notes.

Always make sure your images are set to display block to fix issues with various email services like Windows Mail and Yahoo! Mail. If you need to set them side-by-side, add in another td inside of your table row.

Always make sure you write alternative text for images. Most email clients are set to not to display images in emails unless told otherwise. Another convenient feature not many know about is that you can style the alt text that shows. <img src="ourlogo.png" alt="Acme Company" style="color:#000;font-size:20px;" /> — doing this ensures even if someone without images still sees something that doesn't look like hideous empty squares.

With later versions of Outlook, Microsoft also stripped back support for various CSS attributes and HTML tags compared to previous version so you'll find you will encounter a lot of frustration with that as well.
Pursue it, you could be starting a revolution !!!
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This is a little harsh, although this is good info/context. The salient nugget is that the laws are ones that are both old do not get updated often. It would be more fair to say words to the effect that "the counter-argument is they have withstood the test of time". But the fact that they still write "railroad mileabge books" instead of "Transportation Tickets" or some-such, is indicative of the lack of iteration. At least at first glance, to an outsider. Nothing against RI.

It does suggest that looking at these laws en-toto and updating them for modern living (lifestyles, technology, etc) might warranted. And that updates might-be net-beneficial to society. Its not clear they need whole-sale revision thought.

We're going through this now with e-mail and cloud privacy laws that are out of date, too. Its not just a cheap shot at one state or one industry.
Is there anywhere else that I can send HTML emails from? It sounds very limited and difficult to do, based on your description on your site!
I pay for Spotify, and paid for Mog before Spotify was in the US. I suspect Spotify is break-even or makes money on paid users, so I'm not worried about it.

Amazon is a more interesting case because I'm paying per piece of content, and I don't get to keep the content. If they shut down Video, I'd lose the value of my library (~$200). But the chances of that seem so low compared to what I have at stake to lose.
B then D ;)
Social Codes: Sharing Your Genes Online
cool.
so, you have to promise quite high rewards (ballpark of a monthly wage) to attract serious, otherwise altruistic job recommenders? otherwise, how do you find people whose interest it is to get others a job- and not recruiters (in which case you turn into a normal job board)?
Those people don't pay for the privilege, and they are people you already know. You aren't providing a service in exchange for payment.

The situations really aren't comparable - in the same way that (topically) giving a ride to a friend isn't comparable to running a taxi service.
I posted an issue re. the license type on the library's github page, the author replied with MIT License. Updated the post as well: http://functionn.blogspot.com/2012/11/tabindentjs-javascript...
Ask HN: What to expect at first Hackathon
I currently live in Des Moines as a first year CS student, and I am lucky to be going to:
http://thenextweb.com/dd/2012/11/12/dwolla-announces-hackathon-in-des-moines-first-prize-is-a-cow/ tomorrow. It is literally the only one all year I believe, and I have never been to one. I don't have much programming experience, and I have only been flirting with web development for about a year or so and really only know how to do basic things. I am going to take at as a learning experience either way, but should I even expect to do any actual coding? My guess is I would sort of like to be in the background of a group so for the next time I know what to expect. Is this unrealistic? Do you have any tips for someone with little development experience at these kind of events?
Go to http://www.random.org get a number from 1 to 100,000

use as line number in Bible

http://www.sparrowos.com/files/BIBLE.TXT

God says...

39:20 And they made two other golden rings, and put them on the two
sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart of it, over against
the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.

39:21 And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of
the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the curious
girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from
the ephod; as the LORD commanded Moses.

39:22 And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.

39:23 And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of
an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not
rend.

39:24 And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue,
and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.

----

all my underwear got tears. You fucken do that?
> having proposed an alternative strategy that would have worked exceedingly well

Indeed! I, too, have proposed numerous alternative strategies to many people which would have worked exceeding well had they been implemented.
If you feel that one of the options has a much greater chance of a payoff and your time is limited in any way, the choice is obvious.

Of course if it'd be no effort for you to pass the Google interview, you might as well.

edit: to clarify, by a payoff I meant a job offer
The first question is what YOU want. The next question is how to make this happen.
I would proceed like this :
1/ talk about it with friends you trusts and could bring you objectives review
2/ contact people in the industry that could be interested in your product and ask them if the that product is really usefull to them and if so, how much are they willing to pay ?
3/ start to code the product (MVP)
4/ launch with few clients (like a beta) to make sure the product make the job and find the bugs
4-bis / when making enough money, resigne from your current job
5/ launch worldwide , get techcrunched, rise from Sequoi and retire the next day :)
Why secure SIP communication is really broken
I'm generally not one to get excited about the concept of gamification. However, I thought the variable reward stuff was novel and interesting (and obvious, in hindsight).
The fastest web server is IIS
The NUC is a neat little machine for general purpose computing.
That sentence stood out for me, too, but I took it to mean "It's essential for every entrepreneur to think that their company is going to be successful." It seems that your quibble is with the post's (narrow) definition of success, not with the general notion that entrepreneurs should believe in what they're doing. I think the rest of the article is still worth reading.
Am I the only one who is far less likely to read an HTML email? If I see that I need to click to allow external images for my email to load, I'm probably just going to delete it. It's amazing to me that HTML email can be effective for marketing.

If you send me a paragraph of text, I'm going to read it on my mobile. If you send me an HTML email, I'm going to archive it right away on my mobile. If you send me too many HTML emails, I'm going to eventually be motivated enough to find your 'unsubscribe' button.