skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another thing to take into consideration is that the promo codes were probabably picked up by the usual coupon websites many people check before making a purchase from dell.
To be fair, they just said that 'all hell may break loose on Twitter', not the whole world.
Peter Drucker's "Innovation and Entrepreneurship" ( http://www.amazon.com/Innovation-Entrepreneurship-Peter-F-Dr... ) provides more in depth discussion on the topic and should serve as great food for thought.
Webzzle is to 'explore' what Google is to 'search'. We all use Google to search but Google is using keywords. It's good when it's the first step of your search process but not convenient when you want to know more from a Web page. What keywords will you select ? At Webzzle, we analyse the Web page from which you want to know more (chen you click 'explore' and send one query to Webzzle (to get Real-Time knowledge from the community) and many queries to Google in order to help you find the best results in 1 click instead of multiples keywords queries by yourself in the Google search interface.
I meant the source the client-side sees. I know the `Link` header is sent in the application-end source.
I'm guessing it'd be far easier to have developers just a) check their database schemas and code, and/or b) to multiply all incoming IDs by 10, than for Twitter to setup a separate mock environment.
FB isn't going anywhere. The worst scenario for Zynga is that they start getting taxed by the platforms they piggyback on too highly. And since theres no monopolist in the SN market, thats probably not a huge concern.

Actually since users don't want to seem to pay for base SN functions, Zynga will probably more likely be the type of company the Facebooks of the world will look to buy since they have in fact figured out a monetization strategy for SN.
Sports and society are the two sections where you have to get the facts right most of the time.
I don't know about you, but I find it impossible to read that URL without reading "BoingBoing" instead of "BongoBing."
The confidence thing is probably another leftover from the Stone Age. It probably works better for combat and mammoth hunting.
I typed in Ferrari Testarossa and I got cologne. I tried Ferrari Testarossa sports car and got a sports slide.

On the other hand it is fast ;<)
I thank you for an explanation and not just more downmods.

To explain the wind graph - imagine very low air pressure at the points where it stops. You wrote incompressible, but that's not actually the case for wind (although yes the wind doesn't cause compression, but rather the reverse).

"one place where the horizontal component of the air movement (wind velocity) is zero"

If that's what it says, then yes, I agree that is true for wind. It didn't seem to be what it was saying though, but I guess I misunderstood it.

It said cyclone, i.e. wind moving in a circle, and that is just not correct. Wind can simply move out radially in all directions in straight lines from that point, without making a circle.

That point of course is where the velocity is 0.

To quote "(Like the swirled hairs on the tennis ball, the wind will spiral around this zero-wind point - under our assumptions it cannot flow into or out of the point.)". This is not true. Air can flow out of a zero point - just heat it up, and air will flow out of it.
Um, no. Sorry, commercial in confidence.

However, let me give an analogy. Aeroplanes live in X-dimensional phase space. Three space coordinates, three attitude coordinates (pitch/roll/yaw), three velocity coordinates (usually, but not always, aligned with the attitude) at a given time. Thus we need to deal with a map from one dimension - time - to nine dimensions. If we simplify some things, then look also at the other rates of change, we get a complex representation of non-independent variables (velocity is just rateof change of position, for example), but in the complexity of the representation, some of the behavior becomes simplified.

Now take clusters of these measurements and try to identify from among them which ones all correspond to the same object. Another analogy - not what I do - is to take lots of position measurements widely spaced in time of planes in an acrobatic airshow, and try to identify the trajectories of individual 'planes.

Now do it all in a noisy environment with instrument error, and if you've arranged it just right, finding equal sized cuts of convex or near convex bodies can correspond to separating the plots of different objects.

Actually, I can get a function that lifts, supports and separates convex bodies. I called it the "Playtex Function", but because of the work I do I couldn't publish.

All that is obscure, I know, but it gives some sense of what I do. Sorry I can't be clearer.
Humorously if everyone thought hell was breaking loose they would check twitter to see if it was just them.
Because a Democratic congressman wouldn't have any political problems whatsoever if found to have visited gay porn sites. :)
I think I've seen this presentation before and I thought it was funny as did some of my female counterparts who attended the conference. When Hoss was at the conference I attended, he was very self-deprecating. But this was in Canada, and Hoss is Scottish. Never go to the U.S. and do anything remotely like this in front of an American audience.

EDIT: the part I saw a the conference was his orgasmatron flash animation, not all the other stuff mentioned. However, in context during the presentation, the flash animation was still pretty funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TunHciZxXaY
Maybe s/he should just focus on one particular market - say computer hardware or video games etc - and excel at bringing in results for that market, best current deals etc. Otherwise it's no different than a froogle.com or something similar and would have difficulty competing.
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Agreed for most of us--if you are on the technical staff at twitter, then such a breaking-loose scale might be what happens.
I don't know if any of this was translated to English, the Hebrew articles are here: http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/1091226.html

It was done as part of "Book Week", which is celebrated every year around this time in Israel. They got some of Israel's leading writers like David Grossman and Etgar Keret to take part and some of the stories are excellent.

My favorite touch was the weather report, which contains a poem for summer written by one of Israel's best known poets, Roni Somek. The weather reports talks of hot & humid early summer weather, and he writes (roughly translated):

Summer is the least
sharp pencil of the seasons' box
I write with it
a love letter
to the tailor who cut off
the women's blouses
and skirts
a few inches
of winter.
This year too, perhaps
it will be hot in the valleys

(It's a lot better in the original form ;))
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/1091757.html
It'd also be much less of a potential PR nightmare for them to just have setup a sandboxing environment.
If Grant doesn't see how an "'orgasm simulator', which showed a female face working through 4 or 5 expressions up to orgasm as he moved the mouse up and down. It was crude, and didn't really have anything much to do with his theme, but it wasn't explicit" is sexist, particularly when shown to a primarily male audience, then he's stupid.
Any idea what the paper, English edition of Haaretz had today if not translations of these articles?
I agree with Jeff's general statement "don't reinvent the wheel, unless you plan on learning more about wheels" but I think it's important to keep in mind the costs of going to a higher level of abstraction as well.

Every framework I've used claims to improve productivity, and they all ask why you'd want to reinvent the wheel rather than use iBatis or or Hibernate or JPA or EJB or Spring or Guice or GWT...

Some of these frameworks actually deliver on the promise of increased productivity. Others don't at all. A few do help once I've learned them, but aren't worth the sunk cost (ie., they do improve my productivity once I've sunk 200+ hrs into reading and configuring, but not enough to offset the time invested).

One reason I like "low level" coding is that I know I can get the job done in a straightforward manner. It'll take a lot of typing, and it may be tedious, but so is dumpster diving through log files to figure out why the "wheel configuration file" isn't finding the "lug nuts" tag, only to then discover that volvo v90 has only been compatible with the deprecated version of the hubcap plugin ever since Ford stopped contributing to the "tricked out rim" facade.

"Trivial" doesn't mean quick and easy, it just means that conceptually, you can see a path from here to there that doesn't have any serious question marks. In this sense, reinventing the wheel is often "trivial". Let's not understate how much time a programmer can lose by trying to make sure he doesn't lose time by reinventing the wheel.
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Better advice: Don't input your email credentials into any site that isn't your email host. Simple.
Heyzap (YC09/USV) looking for a flash contractor.
Heyzap is looking for a good flash (AS2 or AS3) contractor. Can you help or do you know anyone that could help?

We have a small, well specified task that we want to contract out to a talented individual.

You need more than a year of flash experience. Experience does not need to be in flash games specifically but it will be beneficial.

Contact us at team@heyzap.com
they had the widget available, we assumed it was okay to embed -- since that what widgets are for :) It was a good way around the copyright issue of using the Super Bowl logo, too
I requested to see my admission file after I was accepted into MIT. My guess is I wouldn't have been there without my medal.

Disclaimers: I can't into the heads of the people in the admissions office. Also, the Dean of Admissions was changed a few years ago, so my input is likely to be irrelevant.
Exactly right, and a self-deprecating meek geek with bad posture who comes to realize that the world works this way can use this information to his advantage. First, observe that social skills can be learned the same way as anything else: by making empirical observations and performing experiments, and combining this with analysis and theory. More specifically: Actively seek out friends and opportunities for socialization and force a constant minimum level of social activity [empirical observations]. Push your boundaries and don't fear unfamiliar social situations [experiments]. Observe yourself in social situations and (dispassionately) note what you could have done better [analysis]. Read everything from pop psych self-help stuff (e.g. succeedsocially.com) to social psychology and evolutionary psychology (e.g. books and papers describing nonverbal communication and social signaling) [theory]. Learn to project confidence yet be your own worst critic. Be extremely aware of the breadth of your ignorance but don't be sheepish about what you have learned and done. Understand when to be a little hubristic and when to be a little deferential. These are things that we all do automatically to one degree or another, but we can all be more effective by actively observing ourselves and deliberately making adjustments. The downside is that getting better at these skills will necessarily involve a lot of fucking up, but the alternative is to just stay where you are without improving things.
Ambitious goals, insufficient supply, unexpectedly capable enemy resistance. Why, in this context, was that a "good" plan?
> This is not true. Air can flow out of a zero point - just heat it up, and air will flow out of it.

I'm having a lot of trouble visualising this. There is no air at a point. A point, by definition, has no volume. Are you manufacturing air?

I think you are using some definitions that are completely at odds with what everyone else, including me, are using. No doubt if we stood in front of a whiteboard you could make yourself clear quickly, but almost everything you have said is, according to my model of how the world works, wrong.

I'd like to understand you, but I suspect that's never going to happen.

I know the theorem - I proved a generalised version of it as a base case for a much bigger result. I haven't bothered to read most of the comments because usually the whole thing is mis-quoted or mis-interpreted, but I just had to say something to try to understand you.

It's true that the theorem does not require a cyclone. The theorem can imply a zero point with the vector field radiating from it, but in a conservative 2D fluid flow that can't happen. In a 3D flow you can get that effect on the surface as the fluid descends to that point and then spreads, but that's different.

Perhaps you're responding to incorrect "interpretations", perhaps you're right and I just don't understand you, but you're really not making yourself clear. Either that, or you're wrong.
"Creating Cyclones" is a mis-leading phrase.

Consider air flowing from North Pole to South Pole at the surface, rising from the South Pole to an upper layer, returning to the North Pole, descending, and repeating. There are no cyclones, the flow is constant, and there are places with zero horizontal velocity.

In reality the Earth rotates and the Coriolis force would create cyclonic circulations, but that's another matter.

Down that path lies chaos.
Papermaking at home
I for one am still confused. I went to the wikipedia page for "disco" and hit Explore. It took me to a webzzle page with a link to a disco band and a list of top disco songs, then a google "enhanced results" list which was basically the standard google results for "disco" but with only results related to music. For example, the Mac burning software "Disco" is #2 on google, but didn't appear on the webzzle results. So I understand that it's working by not showing non-music-related results, but I still don't grasp the purpose. Please give an example of a usage of this program, for example: while at pageA I clicked Explore because I wanted to see X and these results helped me out.
Honestly the fact that you couldn't user certain filenames in the URL wasn't as big a problem, it was the fact that you couldn't do URL rewriting unless you wrote your own httphandler that annoyed me the most. MVC does an awesome job with regex based URL routing. ASP.Net MVC is by far the best ASP.Net solution MS has provided to date.
That would be Friday in Samoa (although not the afternoon)
Your homepage is really confusing to me. The first thing I find is a logo which is a link... to the page I'm on. That's useless and confusing. Next the "Try Trendly Now" bar, which looks more like some kind of horizontal-rule style header than it does a link. Then there's a tiny "How it works" link that sorta looks like a header too, considering there is a paragraph of text below it (which is the same size as the link, and it's just some "about" copy!)

You should make better use of modifiers which produce contrast and a hierarchy of importance, such as text size and color. I imagine this isn't your final homepage, but having it start off more intuitive couldn't hurt :)
As others have said, the presentation -even if you like it - doesn't save it from the fact that it produces no useful results.

I'm not inclined, therefore, to explore why it has a "login" prompt at the top right. One search, zero relevant results, back to Google or Bing or Yahoo or anything else.

My impression is that the presentation seems targeted at 4-year olds, although that may be harsh.
Actually, I find confident people much easier to evaluate - over time it's pretty easy to tell a bullshitter from someone who knows their stuff. When talking to people who hedge their bets too much (or worse still, don't speak up at all unless I have the time to prompt an answer out of them), I'm left with an unclear idea of their original position, so it's much harder to decide whether to trust them.

My favourite people are still those who state their conclusion, but will happily rattle off the list of assumptions they used to get there as well as how confident they are in that conclusion. But those people are pretty rare.
The reason newspapers died was because you got yesterday's news, and the web just offered so much more.

TV and the web don't really compare yet. Not in quality, not in the viewing experience(can't really watching anything with more than 1 person)
Love that poem. Love it.
Yeah, they also should have told people more than 4 hours ahead of time.
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You have to work on the quality of the search results. I did a simple search for ipod, and laptop and got items related to laptops or ipod's but no results returned the actual product. Also there seems to be no way to organize the search results by price either which might be helpful.
Interesting write up, and a nice style.

The filename limitation isn't the only problem. There's also a limit of 260 characters in the URL.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/265251/asp-net-url-maxpat...

Boo-sucks if you suddenly run into that without expecting it!
>Update 2: It’s now past 2 PM and no reports of massive failures yet. Perhaps this really is just like Y2K.

Techcrunch, do a little homework, please.

If they had actually gone to the public timeline and checked, they would have seen that the status ids are still in the 213xxxxxxx's. In other words, Twitter hasn't started the twitpocalypse yet.
Thank you for the great feedback, the students definitely appreciate it, the search results lack relevancy at the moment due to the fact that they are adding a large number of products in the coming weeks so it will improve over time, the feedback on UI/Logo/etc. is very useful.
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The authors didn't really write the whole newspaper, just some magazine-style reports and some of regular features - weather report, TV critic, letters to the editor (by another poet) etc. News, sports etc items were still there, written by the regular reporters.

(BTW, in general, Haaretz in English is quite different and better quality than the Hebrew version. This is perhaps why Haaretz is held in much higher regard outside Israel.)
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[TED] Richard St. John: "Success is a continuous journey" (video)
Using LSD to become a better programmer seems like a terrible idea. Better to just get adequate sleep, take a break, and meditate. If the insights on acid are valuable, it'd still be hard to code right then, and the trip is going to last 12 hours. I'm pretty sure that taking 12 hours to relax, sleep, meditate, will have similar effects on one's ability to step back and see the bigger picture.

I've done a fair number of drugs (LSD, shrooms, salvia, kratom, many more) and had some very positive experiences, but also some negative ones. My observation is that the drugs are best used for purposes that are meditative (alone, in the woods, on a beautiful day)-- LSD is definitely not a party drug. Spending 6 hours meditating in the woods is going to lead to intense realizations and experiences if you're even an intermediate-level meditator and reasonably disciplined, so the drugs aren't even necessary (they can make the process easier, but also more volatile). The major difference, when drugs are involved, is that there's no off-switch.

I wouldn't uniformly disparage psychedelic drugs. They have their place, and are valuable in the right context. However, I think they are very overrated because most of what they provide can be accomplished in other ways, and they're also quite risky.
I briefly had a job with these idiots (for one month in 2005). The whole thing was conceived as a way to gather addresses for one of the largest spam operations in North America, which the FTC subsequently shut down.
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"There is no air at a point. A point, by definition, has no volume. Are you manufacturing air?"

Sorry. Assume an area, heat it up and wind flows out of it. However the air in the area itself is moving, so conceptually all the air is moving out of the point in the center of it. (It's not really, it's moving out of the area, but all the vectors point away from the point, so that's what it looks like.)

"It's true that the theorem does not require a cyclone."

Thanks. That's really all I was arguing about.

The thing with continuous and cyclone: I was assuming, that people were saying, that the wind _always_ has to move - even if in a circle. And I was saying, no, it doesn't have to move, you can have a still area, and wind radiating out of it (or into it).

If I am correct about that, then please edit the wikipedia article to remove mention of cyclones.

Why do you say that can't happen in a 2d fluid flow? Why does it have to be a cyclone? My understanding of weather is you have a large area, you heat it up, and wind flows out of it - but there is no cyclone. (I guess with fluid flow you are assuming there is no way to manufacture fluid, but with wind you can since heat will "create" more of it.)

Tell me if I'm wrong here:

The hairy ball theorem assumes there is hair everywhere, so you have to have a cyclone at the poles. But with wind there are spots without hair, so the theorem just doesn't apply to wind.
Downvotes, really? I thought it was quite clever. And accurate. We are talking about the headline 'Are trolls ruining social media?' here.
How do the particles of air immediately adjacent to the zero-horizontal particles move?
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I think this is spot on. Traditional broadcast video is headed toward a cliff that is just barely out of sight to anyone who doesn't want to see it. It brings to mind the larger point of Clay Shirky's article on newspapers (http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking...): the internet is built to distribute information instantly and ubiquitously. This is fundamentally disruptive to any business built on distributing information of any kind. If that's how you make your money and you treat the internet like it's just another distribution stream, you're in for a short, rough ride.
You start to get it. We basically use Wikipedia content to build the semantic Web and try to dramatically improve the search results quality. We build the meaning based Web. Keywords don't handle the meaning.
The purpose of the explore feature is to save time for the user in the search results analysis process and get higher quality results : go straight to better results. As the community grows, the Webzzle results improve. It's the knowledge network effect.
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TV's "yesterdays news" is the fact I have to be sitting in front of my TV on Thursday at 8:30pm to watch a favorite show instead of being able to watch it when I feel like watching a TV show.