skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a reusable, manned sub-orbital rocket. That's a new thing. It'll allow low-cost sub-orbital tourist flights. If there's demand for it then it'll be a great way to fund development for reusable, manned rockets.
Your comment is itself a negative, middlebrow dismissal. The OPs negativity is middlebrow precisely because it's accurate, but it's beating a dead horse. This means it gets up voted repeatedly, whereas a genuinely low brow comment like "FUK U GAY WIKIPEDIA" would be quickly down voted.
Most sites are. Lynx is just the web without CSS or JS.
Understanding 50 Million Americans, That Happen To Be Latino.
The market is a summary of the current standing of 50 million Americans that are undervalued. The second point deals with why big brands are confused when targeting this market and the success of Yahoo! US Hispanics. The short answer is that they have folks who understand the general market but do not know how to deal with a differentiated market. We need more people who can relate to the market and evolve with it. Next we deal with how to fix it and why The US Latino Market Needs A Better Elevator Pitch. We analyze the fact that Latinos In Power Have A Responsibility and we are falling behind. We need to band together and claim our rightful place in the new and more colorful America. To do this I argue, that we need to focus in business and not so much in politics. Last but not least, I urge you to believe and then act.
I feel your pain, this happens to me too. I thought extra RAM would help, but it didn't. I thought a clean install would help, but it didn't. I hope "DenverCoder9" is out there. :)
Those are interesting points and luckily I am aware of them. I quite like the angle at which you're looking at this; it made me think again.
That makes a big difference, he can be prevented from personal liability in that case and can declare bankruptcy.
No, that's recognisably the more basic version they serve to older browsers.
Yes, because what he wrote is the absolute truth? We have no idea if that is the case.
Opera has been for profit and proprietary from the get go.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_%28web_browser%29

edit: here is a good excerpt

"Up to this point, the Opera browser was trialware and had to be purchased after the trial period ended. But version 5.0 (released in 2000) saw the end of the trial period requirement. Instead, Opera became ad-sponsored, displaying advertisements to users without a license,[8] which was commonly criticized as a barrier to gaining market share. In newer versions, the user was allowed a choice of generic graphical banners or text-based targeted advertisements provided by Google based upon the page being viewed."
I think the site you were trying to open in your organic browser is called reddit.com, Sir. This way...
How to Talk to Humans
There's a difference between a 4 color interface and a 4 hue interface.
> It seemed to work for Apple.

One of the greatest features of our universe is that the rules break down as you reach the extreme ends of any standard distribution.

The most survivable weeds in my backyard are clovers and dandelions. However, there is a huge vine growing in the corner of my fence, the thing is like an oak tree. No other vines have grown up anywhere else, and even my attempts to encourage vines to grow along the side of my porch has failed.

If I were to focus on the impressive vine and ignore the clovers and dandelions I'd jump to the conclusion that vines are the most successful weeds in my backyard. While in reality I have no idea why the vine grew, but if I take it out of the equation I can better focus on what is making the clovers and dandelions grow.

Steve Jobs, Apple, Bill Gates, Microsoft, The Beetles, Rolling Stones and countless other extremes do not make good case studies for how to do things simply because their extreme success cannot be compared to anything else. They are all like the vine in my backyard; a special case with an unknown history.

The best thing to do isn't to look at the most successful companies or people, in fact, you would be better served taking the top 10% out of the equation and instead focus on what made the top 75-90% successful.
Thanks for the correction; I've added the fix to my parent comment :)
Very interesting, but I think the flaw with this method is that many students will still make decisions based in large part on U.S. News.

For example, I would guess that a non-negligible amount of students that get into Harvard (#1) and Columbia (#4) will choose to go to Harvard in large part because they beat Columbia in U.S. News (and thus they perceive it has a better reputation).

So despite your interesting methodology, it will still be tied somewhat to the U.S. News rankings.
This sounds like it was written by a lawyer, or at least run by one.
This sure is a great story, but when is it ever going to die? I've seen this story revolve around and around on the Internet so may times. By now, I'm actually just more surprised that some people haven't read it.
http://i.imgur.com/mG1pWSN.png

I just discovered this. If you press escape while writing in the new compose window, it will erase the entire body of the message without a way to undo.

Try it.
'Behind Every Great Idea Is a Great Story': Crowdfunding Gets a Boost from TV
That's a very simplistic view. As many AWS, GAE, and Heroku clients will tell you, when your app is up there in the cloud, there are times when all the instrumentation in the world won't help you fix a problem.
We definitely support catching inbound email (https://zapier.com/zapbook/email/ and https://zapier.com/zapbook/mailgun/ comes to mind). I'm curious if there is a clever parsing solution...
I don't think teenagers are the best people to ask when it comes to determining the best institute of higher education. It's no wonder that schools with lax requirements like Stanford and Brown seem to get a boost when kids are the ones choosing.
Window's console app has nothing to do with the ability to run DOS applications and the bit that actually does, the DOS virtual machine, doesn't exist on 64-bit versions of windows.
Yes they are required to release it. 'Release' doesn't have to mean 'on the internet'. Even if it's sent out on 5¼ inch floppies by the slowest postal service known to man and only makes its way onto the internet by a 3rd party its still released.
It's inaccurate to say that wikipedia is fact checked or verified. The existence of a citation does not imply the existence of a fact check or a verification, or verifiability. Even when citations are high quality, the info they're supporting is still usually unverifiable due to wikipedia's disconnection from the community of experts.

Wikipedia is nothing more than the biggest plagiarist / content farm on the Internet. It isn't scrutinized because it has been grandfathered in.

Wikipedia is the ebaumsworld of information. Completely unreliable. Steals credit, traffic, royalties from the content creators. Policies focused on self preservation rather than serving a public good or respecting creators.
Google now for iOS is a huge slap in the face to android users
People are quickly jumping to conclusions here.
Ask HN: Review my startup
A couple of weeks ago I was watching The Masters tournament and started compiling a Twitter list of the top 100 PGA Tour pros. I created a test webpage and added the widget to it. That was interesting watching the tour pros comment before and after their rounds, but I soon found myself wanting more information. I added two more widgets beside the first, one to follow the hashtag #TheMasters and a second for the hashtag #Augusta. Now I was getting the tour pros input alongside the fans. What a way to watch the tournament!

Recently configured similar pages to follow MLB pros and games, the NFL Draft, UFC 159 and the NBA Playoffs.

The site is still a work in progress, but I'd like to get some feedback on the idea, the layout and any other insight you care to offer.

Thanks!
Collin email me at ckluis {at google's email} for tips on how to revamp your blog for conversions.
Over and over, the comical extreme becomes the new normal. :(
This is the wisest thing to do. We have no idea what's really happening and this blog post doesn't really tell much (and it shouldn't if he doesn't want to give too much information to his now enemies' layers).
Ask HN: Got into YC. Where do we live?
Just heard back that we've been accepted to the Summer 2013 class. I have a few days to find a house while we're out here. Any tips on where to live?
Awesome azd325, good job!. Going to add it to the gingerice readme :)
Hey Chris, good to know for any consulting companies (like the OP's) that okcupid/IAC might want to hire! It's nice that you're not so concerned about trade secrets!
I'm a non-professional photographer and a hacker. I've made a very small amount of money when people bought my photos ($4 I think :D).

This is an amazing law. Diligent search includes using Tiny Eye so there should be no concern about stealing others photos, putting them up on a Chinese site and then claiming not to be able to find them.

Also, if you ever want to get in touch with someone you can easily contact, say, 500px, flicker or Instagram to get someones contact info if you want to use the photo for commercial use.

Anyway, this is awesome.
Android 4.x/Holo doesn't get enough credit for absolutely nailing the right balance. It's "flat", but has depth.

Going purely by the strength of their design team, I'd expect iOS 7 to be closer to Android-flat rather than Metro-flat.
Pretty easy to identify the company she's talking about (CSN Stores, now Wayfair). They've significantly changed their strategy, and consolidated their various speciality stores into one shopping destination ... and made it into the top 50 internet retailers.

That said, I'd imagine most retailers have pretty comparable customer support experiences once you get to a certain scale. I'm not sure the 37 Signals experience really scales ... and from my, limited, experience, customer service work get really monotonous fast.
This idea deserves more than this short post, but, in my experience, developers who learned to program in the 80's are consistently better than those who grew within GUIs.

Either that, or I just communicate better with people my age ;-)
Isn't non-notable knowledge still knowledge? They are only interested in a small slice of human knowledge by their own sated goals.
I think it's being downvoted because it's got very little information. It's a seemingly naive random thought about Google's go-to-market strategy for Glass and considers nothing about Google's businesses or the opportunity cost of taking that action. Your post is probably the elaboration that it needed to avoid being downvoted. (I didn't downvote - just trying to explain why someone might)
Or translate it into Russian. A lot of former Soviet bloc countries have high usage of Opera.
Harvard already gives financial aid to all of its lower-class and most of its middle-class students ... and they define middle class as family income in the $150k range, if I remember right. I don't think merit scholarships are really going to make anyone else directly comparable.

Of course, Harvard is rather unusual in this regard. I think only Princeton and a tiny handful of others have a similarly generous policy.
Really? This is quite news to me; I don't think many people are still stuck with feature phones on China Mobile, at least in the big cities.
Why would she work in a call center when she could probably make $200+/hr instead of $10/hr as an actual call girl? (i.e. a prostitute)

Beats me why anyone would do something that pays 20 times less what they could earn WHILE ALSO getting laid, working whenever they want and being more appreciated than in any other job.

And yes, it's illegal in the U.S. but it's not really enforced and she could anyway move to several European countries where it's legal.
So it definitely keeps history nice and pretty, and I use it for simple commits all the time.

However, sometimes I do 'git pull --no-ff' explicitly, because I want a more-complex multi-commit sequence of operations to stand out as a unit of work.

I really wish git had a primary concept of such a thing. I understand that hg might, but haven't had an opportunity to get that far into an hg project yet.
The flat look in gmail does seem to take out a lot of the visual noise.

Here's metro influence gone awry:
http://www.pepsi.com/en-us/d

It's pretty close to a flat look, but I still notice some subtle gradients going on. But talk about tile explosion!
I've seen a dog riding a bus once. It seemed as if it knew where it goes to.
How much $ do they give to startups?
In Praise of Entrepreneurs, Persistence and a Gourmet Food Truck
I can assure you I'd never sue someone for stealing trade secrets. Whatever "trade secrets" means in software, anyway.
If you really want to save a few keystrokes, use a commenting plugin. Vim too :-)
>4. Okay, so this one’s not a huge surprise: people are jerks.

I try really really hard to be as pleasant and understanding as possible when I'm speaking to a customer service rep (and I think that I behave decently). I've found that rather than raise my voice, trying to be understanding of their position and limitations gets me closer to "what I need/want" from the support organization.

That being said I have had cases where the person had absolutely no idea what I was referring to and gave me wrong information, etc. But even then, I can't blame them (a DTC stock transfer isn't something that a bank's retail branch person is going to deal with very often. They didn't even know what a DTC number was, and I don't blame them. I managed to get the correct info on the 3rd try.)
As bad as mountain view is, you'll want to be there for at least the time during YC.

IIRC, YC will send you leads on places to live shortly after interviews.
Yes - looked at all the obvious things you mentioned (though I hadn't seen fs_usage before, very useful, will see if that shows anything up).

There's virtually nothing installed on the box - we stream pretty much everything and it's only used as a media center style machine.

I've made an appointment with the genius bar to see if they can shed some light on the issue.
> With Azure, if SQL has a problem, Microsoft has to fix it,

Not really. Vendor lock in still applies.
Doing the math, as I'd indicated with my earlier post.

1.3 billion Indians generating 0.75 kg feces each per day, comprised of 3.8% carbohydrate, containing 4 kcal/g. Assume that the biofuel process is typical of other trophic levels, and roughly 10% efficient.

Fecal energy content is 148,200,000,000 kcal, or 6.2048376e+14 joule, or 172,357 MWh.

One tenth of that is 17,000 MWh.

Diesel fuel has an energy densigy of 46.2 MJ/kg, or about 0.0128 KWh/kg.

17,000 MWh is 1,324,675 kg of diesel. At 0.832 kg/l, that's 1,592,157 liters. OK, that's a couple orders of magnitude higher than I'd anticipated.

It's about 0.0012 liters per person per day. At 5 liters/100km (roughly 50 MPG), it's enough fuel to carry one person 0.026 km.

Used in a 40-seat bus, at half the fuel efficiency (that's a very efficient bus, or there are more than 40 people on it, this is, after all, India), it would be good for about 0.5 km of commute.

The world ain't gonna run on poop. At least not human poop alone. And even if you could boost the feedstock by some reasonable multiple (say, 2-16x) by including livestock waste, the numbers don't change enough to make it effective except for very, very heavily overloaded short-haul mass transit.

References:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_feces_does_one_person_pro...
http://www.clinchem.org/content/44/7/1540.full
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Energy_densities...
IIRC the low-end smartphones made by ZTE/Huawei are quite popular.
Britannica actually accepts user generated content. They are superior to wikipedia, however, in that they have credible experts vet the content.

The complaint about wikipedia is that it fails to live up to its ideals. If you had ever been a wikipedia editor you wouldn't talk the way you do. Even as a domain expert it's intolerable to deal with the wikipedia amateur hour culture. It's far more rewarding to submit your articles to Encyclopedia Britannica.
So let me get this straight, Opera is suing you because they think you gave away secrets. It appears they have no hard evidence, no emails, no phone conversations, just someone talking about ideas. I would personally laugh at them and think about all of the money I would get when they lose.

Also Opera needs your millions so that they can continue to support a piece of software that no one uses. (Chrome FTW!)
Entrepreneurs say "No!" to the naysayers.

How true.
I was hoping that by getting them to sign up with the recruiter you would have used that to intercept communication.
It's possible that some of the dogs were either previously owned by someone who used that route or were following around a friendly stranger. There's a cat in my neighborhood who will follow me around since I give her food occasionally, and I imagine stray dogs might behave similarly.

Once they've used the subway a few times, they probably learn to distinguish the sounds and smells of the stops they're interested in. Even if they can't read or understand spoken announcements, most dogs seem to figure out what vehicles are for without much trouble.

Once one or more dogs have learned this trick, transfer of information kicks in. At the end of the day, the other dogs at the shelter can probably tell who ate well that day, and they're likely to want to go with that dog to see where the food is at. The subway dog may even encourage his friends to come along; most of us have probably seen and understood a dog's "hey come with me and see this thing" signals, and dogs are pack animals.
I was wondering why nuclear plants require so much power to start up, when really you can't "shut off" uranium's power-generation ability. I guess it would have to do with powering up all the safety and management systems around the generator?
> Hey Chris, good to know for any consulting companies
> (like the OP's) that okcupid/IAC might want to hire!
> It's nice that you're not so concerned about trade secrets!

Snideness is unbecoming.

A more straightforward way to write your comment would be "Since you believe that the OP did not divulge trade secrets and are opposed to apparently frivolous legal action, you must not care about protecting your own trade secrets."

The problems with this position should be obvious.
>This strongly affects my opinion of a company as a consumer. Some companies have great support.

In my experience, the entire _retail_ banking sector is devoid of 'experts'. They are all salesmen/saleswomen. (Yes, even those "Financial Advisors"!)
I think it comes down to scale and cost.

I've spent a bit too many hours in a call center, both as an employee, and a few years later developing the software that ran one.

In both instances, there were people there who really knew what they were talking about, and a lot more who read from a script. I was a script-reader my first month or so, before moving up the chain, and I was shocked by how often the script worked. Something like 3/4 of my calls were resolved with a one-line fix in a knowledge base I could search.

As I moved up, so did my pay, and I cost the call center more per hour (nearly double). So it made sense for them to a.) not have very many people like me and b.) to make sure that my time was spent only on the problems that couldn't be solved by following the script.

In fact, hell hath no fury as the per lower-level call center person who forwarded through a call to me that could have obviously been resolved if they'd just followed the script! I'd berate them in notes for not reading the numerous knowledge base articles I'd carefully prepared, or for not bothering to check a few simple things clearly outlined in their training before even engaging the script, or searching the knowledge base. They'd just wasted everyone's time. The customer who sat on hold waiting for me, the manager who had to approve the escalation, mine because I'd spent thirty minutes assuming they'd done their job when they hadn't (and double-checking just made the customer furious if, in fact, they had.)

You might think that it makes some fiscal sense for companies to ONLY hire people like me, and eat the cost as a marketing thing, or accept that by offering great support, they'll get better customers. But you literally could not find enough support people like me to handle all the calls if you tried.

So you hire relatively dumb, but friendly and resilient people, because that's what you can find. They're cheap and readily available. If one of them shows promise, you promote them. You try to find experts that are desperate for the job, but they're few and far between and generally come with baggage.

You work with what you can get, and optimize around it.
How about a contractor selling the okc source code tree to some Chinese "entrepreneur" who launches a copycat site in China that somehow gains 300M members within a year?

Just one extreme to make your statement look silly.
And because you do not prostitute? There is enough demand for prostitution for men also
Not everyone needs to be a systems programmer, but everyone that need a computer for their work would probably benefit in knowing how to automating whatever task they do on an every day basis. Perhaps I do believe that everyone needs to be a programmer; just that the domains in which we apply programming methodology also should be widened. Programming, taken from its particular domain is a very generic skill applicable to many fields.
This was one of the more interesting topics in my EE classes on "high power" systems. We toured a gas plant in Long Beach California which had 'internal black start' capability. Sloshing all that power around is a complex business and fraught with danger. Since I didn't expect to deal with much over 5V DC I pretty much ignored the boring bits (only to have them come back to haunt me when provisioning power in data centers.)
Always on GPS, not cool with that.
Cybernetic, you are my DenverCoder9. Thank you.
…because I'm betting the joy she gets from not having disgusting men enter her vagina with their penis is worth more than $190/hour to her.
Big companies are most definitely the enemies of this law. They are its most enthusiastic proponents. News Limited will ensure its photographs are kept from "orphan" status, but they will no longer find themselves getting in trouble for grabbing random work from the internet and using it to make money.
Anyone found a good high-quality version of 'the rose' suitable for use as a desktop background? The one they have on the site appears to be too small.
That's nothing. My BANK does the same thing. Granted, they do make you change the password immediately afterwards. But still.

They also had a bug where if you had a special character in your password it wouldn't appear in the email they sent you. I pointed this out to the IT person. They fixed the bug... by prohibiting special characters in passwords.

I need a new bank...
I tried it. My message disappeared from the UI, but showed up in my "Drafts" folder. Perhaps not the most intuitive behavior, but totally recoverable.
This reminds me of an article I read about IBM's Watson. As a demo in front of a lot of people, a researcher was going through a stack of journals and feeding in data about anthrax. Most of the data was about animals, but the researcher was asking Watson to extrapolate possible effects on people. Watson responded "I assume by people you mean humans, and not People magazine."

Edit: found the link (PDF) http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~nilufer/classes/cs5811/2003-fall/hilt... Here's the actual quote:

“Do you mean Anthrax (the heavy-metal band),
anthrax (the bacterium) or anthrax (the disease)?”

“The bacterium,” was the typed answer, followed by
the instruction, “Comment on its toxicity to people.”

“I assume you mean people (homo sapiens),” the
system responded, reasoning, as it informed its
programmer, that asking about People magazine
“would not make sense.”