skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
somewhat cheaper ($110/ft^2) [http://www.cusatocottages.com/buildingyourcottage.php] and more beautiful: http://www.katrinacottagehousing.org/original.html, http://www.cusatocottages.com/photogallery.php
As I understand it, the oldest record we have of past CO2 levels is glacial ice cores that go back about 600k years. In those, at least, CO2 has never been higher than today.
I loved my Moka for awhile, but in the end it lost out to the ease of the k-cup machine at work. Most days I just don't want to spend 8-10 minutes making a cup (between prep, brewing, and cleanup).
Objective-C is required the same way Java is required for the Android. You could skip to assembly, but then you miss out on all the Cocoa Touch APIs.

Also, Gambit Scheme is a generic system designed to target C so that it can compile to all kinds of architectures. It's a mature, robust system that comes with a lot of stuff.
What about native-style widgets? Are they finally fixed? That's been my gripe with firefox since day 1, and the only thing still holding me back to Sarafi.

Although buttons look native-ish, dropdowns (from the <select> element) still look hideous. Check out the following bugs:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402625
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430745
The person sending the message doesn't know you're using sms. If I post a link saying

Look at these cats. Teh Lol! http://bit.ly/zzu3

then that message is meaningless without the url right? (in as much as it had any meaning at all)
So we are supposing that our declared dept figures are accurate?
Ask HN: Using Django with PostgreSQL schemas
I know, I know ... this isn't stack overflow, but that site is too cumbersome to use and I trust the brains on HN ...

I'm trying to wire up Django to a pre-existing Postgres database that makes heavy use of schemas and am not having any luck. Anyone have experience with this? Should I skip Django's ORM and use SQLAlchemy?

Any advice would be appreciated...
Ask HN: Would you use the Canvas element in production?
If you want to display relatively simple graphics, what are the problems with using the Canvas element? Deployment would include explorercanvas (http://code.google.com/p/explorercanvas) to handle IE compatability and use standard DOM for text. Are there some browser issues I'm not aware of?
MS published BrowseRank, IANAL but it sounds different

http://glinden.blogspot.com/2008/08/browserank-ranking-pages...
Ask HN: What are your thoughts about Don Tapscott?
Hi everyone, tomorrow at Santiago - Chile, I'm going to see Don Tapscott on EntelSummit
( http://entelsummit.entel.cl/ ) as a speaker.. and I'd like to hear your thoughts about him, their books and his worldwide work
Whew, it's a good thing that everyone remained calm and no one overreacted about that issue.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a...
It would be even better if when viewing a page that is only a flash object Safari on the iphone would have some sort of message saying that Flash is not supported on the iPhone. Of course that is advertising for flash...
I do believe the Treasury's statement, even though it adds little information (i.e. the Treasury would be expected to say the same thing regardless) since reasonable bloggers have advocated the same conclusion with some degree of supporting detail about who probably did it and it being a classic scam.
it would be a ridiculously costly coin flip, and i don't think microsoft would sue google over anything equally questionable, either.
Why Can’t We Get an Accurate Battery Life Test for Laptops?
The co-working spaces in SF are for the weird startup crowd. It turns out most of them are for the weird social media consultant crowd, because that is who runs them and they tend to be cliquey. They aren't business incubator spaces.

I'm pretty familiar with the spaces and people who run them here. One of them has to charge a lot because the space is really expensive. Another one has to charge a lot because they have trouble keeping it full, which I attribute to poor location. At yet another one, the guy is obviously making a profit because he's in a super cheap building.

I don't think the pricing is ridiculous from the perspective of the people running the space. They have to pass costs on. However, the people renting the space aren't getting a good deal unless they love the community. You're just renting a desk, which is free at the library, or a few coffee refills at any of the myriad coffee shops in the city... and you probably live somewhere, so you could just work at home, etc...
It occurs to me that I'd be more interested in reading articles written by experts in sex reassignment surgery (sex change) than most of the tripe on there.
It seems like reality has outgrown the individual states sales tax regime. The current tax system sounds like it contains ridiculous levels of distortion. Seems like time to rewrite.
It is hypothesized that Earth's atmosphere initially contained much higher % C02.

"Based on today's volcanic evidence, this atmosphere would have contained 80% water vapor, 10% carbon dioxide, 5 to 7% hydrogen-sulfur, and smaller amounts of nitrogen, carbon monoxide, hydrogen, methane and inert gases."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_atmosphere#Earliest_a...
Agreed - they've been corrupting my search results for far too long. Its refreshing to see this in its place.
The Green Dam Phenomenon
Looks like stackoverflow put in Quantcast a few days ago, so you can see their direct traffic numbers. ~250K daily uniques, which I'd guess puts them easily above 2 million monthly. Compete numbers suck, as usual.

http://www.quantcast.com/stackoverflow.com#traffic
Same here. What really bugs me is that Google could have made their users happier and put this thing to rest years ago if they just gave e-e an ultimatum, or better yet, dropped them from the index without warning. That's what they did to other sites, for example: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4685750.stm
power from an outlet, higher electricity bills for cooling (more people, more heat) -- Hypothetically, this would be counteracted by people buying more drinks, but how much sugar can one consume, really?

Myself, I'd suggest some low calorie drinks people can drink to keep going.
Parrot is indeed interesting, kinda like .NET for more 'fun' languages, and of course with full FOSS spirit. But is Parrot currently actually usable for 'real' work? Is any language implemented extensively enough for normal day-to-day-scripting?
Tetraplegic.
Well, since I wrote that blurb on the luciddb website, and this ycombinator article has given a nice bounce in website hits, I guess I should respond. :)

So evdawg, I'm curious: what is it about those features that makes you think they require a DBA? Since I was chief architect at LucidEra through the end of last year, I can tell you that we ran many many LucidDB instances with no DBA at all, just well-designed applications (of high complexity) and automatic management frameworks. The netops team never had to mess with LucidDB; they just kept the servers running.

From the MonetDB website: "MonetDB is a open-source database system for high-performance applications in data mining, OLAP, GIS, XML Query, text and multimedia retrieval." I'd call that multipurpose.

Anyway, one day I should come up with a less inflated blurb, but hey, I'd rather be working on the code.

JVS
This article says that scanned document is illegitimate:

http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2009/06/italian-job.html
Interesting:

The assessment is statutorily presumed to be valid and correctly determined. The burden is on the taxpayer to prove otherwise.

The criminal prosecution for failure to pay the drug tax and the civil tax assessment are separate actions. What occurs with the criminal case, for instance, does not necessarily affect the Department of Revenue's tax assessment.
I think his valuation was really low!
Universities should flag up which websites to trust
Thanks for the tip, Dylan. Google reveals this excellent video: http://www.blog.thesietch.org/wp-content/permaculture.swf

Very cool stuff, worth checking out. And much better than pumping sulfur into the atmosphere . . .
http://whos.amung.us/
http://chartbeat.com is super duper awesome
In Defense of Low Correlations
Mint has not let me down: http://haveamint.com

It's a self-hosted solution, and you can see how people are coming in via referrals, SERPs, etc. in real-time.
Iran’s Rural Vote and Election Fraud
Krugman advocated the housing bubble
Real-world usage is where Scheme and most Lisp dialects really shine, specially when you're not fighting against the deployment platform. I say that because this Scheme on iPhone hack has a lot of GCCisms, shell fudging and other not-too-lispy kludges. The day you have a Scheme repl with nice bindings for the system libraries is the day the fun begins ;-) it almost feels like cheating; you do things on the system live, where others have to cross compile and upload it :-)
You could patch your models to execute "SET search_path 'schema_name';" before emitting generated SQL.

This will work fine until you need to do a cross schema join; at which point you will need to write SQL.

It looks like support is slated for Django 1.1 (maybe)
see http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/6148

That should at least point you in the right direction.
You don't believe it? You've got to be kidding.You think it's Black Helicopter Tin Foil Hat time? First of all, if they were not fake, it would quickly be found out they are legitimate from other sources and the government would look ridiculous.

Nevertheless, you really find it more believable that they actually seized $135 Billion in bonds from the 1950s from two dumb dumbs crossing the border in Italy? Cool. I have a bridge you might be interested in and for only a fee $50,000 I can give you access to vault filled with $1Million US in Lagos, Nigeria if you are interested.
That's the stated policy, but it hasn't been my experience. I've done many days at waaay over 2 hours.
I really like the idea of having one VM for many languages, but having just watched the Google IO video on V8, I think there might be some real performance advantages to specialized engines.

An specialized VM (both for the source language and the deployment architecture) would leave anything generic in the dust. Languages do not have the same usage; the truly unique ones (i.e. worth learning) encourge different programming styles. The G-Machine is as different from the Warren Machine is as different from a SECD machine and all are different from P-CODE machine or an SKI graph reduction machine.

Smilarly, a custom made application DSP would rape any other binary for a stock hardware platform of the same speed (ignoring all costs, of course.)
How people are promoting new sites that are not newsworthy
We use http://www.helpspot.com
I can't complain either. Scrolling down is slightly annoying, but the answers on EE are as a rule, much better than other google results.

Stackoverflow is popping up with great results now too.

Can't we be happy to have both and not bash one or the other?
The iPhone 3.0 SDK is available for free from Apple's Developer Connection. I just downloaded it this afternoon.
Damn. I was hoping to be able to write off a cool hundred-bill from the national debt. :)
http://reinvigorate.net has been great for me. I am curious what else is out there though, thanks for bringing up the topic.
Bug resurrected after 120,000 years
Could be the start of a bad SF movie. Bug wakes up, starts to grow, mutate, eats the scientists, grows big as a city, gobbles up the earth.
Robert Full: Learning from the gecko's tail [TED]
Obama Calls For Regulation Of Venture Capital
*pm = paying me
How To Save Money With Bareboat Yacht Charters
Citi Mortgage
I knew an entrepreneur during the nineties who started his company with an office in a 10 by 20 foot rental storage unit. He went onto raise millions in venture capital, turned down a big time exit and then lost it all after the crash. Last time I talked with him he was living in the storage unit. I lost track of him after that but have no doubt he eventually succeeded. He was smart, fearless and had amazing drive.
But Reinvigorate is in Beta mode and one needs a key for registering on it.
Moreover is there any daily limit on page views it can track?
Slowloris HTTP DoS
Been using Clicky Pro for a year now and I like it. I use both it and Google Analytics.
Preventing unit tests (or 5 Whys in action)
Even better, just click on that cross button so that the whole search result goes away. That's what I do whenever I see an entry from experts-exchange.
Yahoo Is Now Resorting To Selling Killer Domain Names On The Cheap
If you wrote a specialized VM's for Python, Perl, Smalltalk, Ruby, and JavaScript on the x86 would they have any components that were largely identical?

I would postulate that there are features of a VM that are common, like garbage collection.

It would be worthwhile to work out the features common to many VM implementations and put them in hardware. Until that happens, sharing some of a VM implementation seems useful.
Important to remember that where Microsoft's strategy is to compete with flash via silverlight, Google's was just to build a new browser and create a better HTML by hiring all the people important in the process and throw its weight behind them.

So, yes, youtube is interested in HTML5 video, for the same reason google is interested in Chrome.
I'm not suggestion everything has to be implemented in php, however, I'd have thought the answer was pretty obvious in this case. FAIL!
Plus, after the update broke IE8, they tried to fix it and failed: "It appears the Compatibility View list cannot be overridden."

If the press does its job, this whole thing will be a net loss for Microsoft.
Krugman advocated the housing bubble (take two, don't kill)
Not sure why this is being killed...not a duplicate.
That seems consistent with the graph when you change the view from uniques to just visits.
At least Experts-Exchange has a legal agreement/TOS page. rolls eyes at StackOverflow
For some reason we like killing submissions without looking into them now? This is not a duplicate, it is evidence that a very influential economic leader (Nobel laureate) not only is incompetent, but lies to protect his reputation.
You're a little harsh. It sounds like you're looking back at the old places you left from java and guest what ... they're old ... everyone left, just like you did. In the meantime though the Java language has moved on and become the JVM platform and there's plenty of energy in it. Take a look at Grails, for an example. And there are new modern Java frameworks as well (someone else mentioned Stripes, and I agree with them).
I mean this in the nicest possible way: if your time to learn a new analytics tool is cheaper than the $100 or so it costs for Clicky for a year, I would reevaluate whether you need real time analytics. Are you sure staying glued to a constant stream of updates is a productive use of your time at this stage in your startup's life?
You can signup for a free beta for the product I have been developing: http://www.wingify.com/

In addition to real time analytics, it provides built-in behavioral targeting and multivariate testing (website optimization) capabilities.

Mail me at paras@wingify.com if you are interested
We use Mint and GA. GA for goals and long-term trend planning and all that stuff; Mint purely to see the source of traffic spikes and search keywords that are driving traffic. I've been told that there's good stuff in Peppermill, but haven't been bothered to investigate. (Avinish is pretty insistent that you don't try to track the same stuff with different programs, otherwise you'll go mad trying to reconcile.)
Hold on now, this isn't a hack :) It's a full Scheme implementation compiled to C and then compiled for the iPhone.

And once you get this far, it's easy to compile in the Scheme system, but load all of your code at runtime and edit it live. I'm going to add a remote REPL for debugging which will let you attach a REPL to a running app the iPhone, for example.

Maybe my blog posts on that will be more of the real world you are looking for!
In any situation like this I've been in and tried to attempt django, it's turned out to be a complete failure. You need an ORM that knows how to construct SQL properly and map existing tables. Go with your second option: SQLAlchemy. Use that with SQLSoup (an extension), mapping tables on the fly is a breeze and you can manually tweak your queries to do about anything you need: polymorphism, correlated subqueries, etc. I have a feeling that if you attempt the Django route, you're going to spend more time wondering "well why the hell doesn't this ORM do _____?" That's my opinion on the subject.
404 on attempt to create account =(.
No offense but that's as silly as not moving to Australia because of organised crime. If you're going to become a cropper by either means you're doing something drastically wrong.
I think it would be even more fun to get a big farm/orchard/ranch with an old farmhouse, sheds, etc., and then bring in high speed fiber, cheap/sustainable utilities, and then put a bunch of 200-1200 square foot cabins in the less-productive, more-scenic parts of the property. Walkable community, private housing, cheap, and then big common areas for workspaces.
I can see why some would argue it violates the Commerce Clause. But interstate commerce has been well contorted for a long time to the desires of the feds (e.g. marijuana) and states (e.g. alcohol). The North Carolina position is most likely a sign of things to come as state revenues continue to decline.

The choice is simple from a state perspective: follow a strict interpretation of the constitution or have funds to open public schools this fall.
Microsoft Research Summer School 2009
How to become a better entrepreneur in 30 minutes
Expert Exchange FTL.

Last time the same phrase above got down voted. This is just another stress reducer for EE poor fanboys.
OK, "18000+". Same thing in this context.

Beyond that, there are a range of flaws with self reporting that are immediately apparent when you look at the entries and rankings. Most entries are grossly incomplete, and they are all very inconsistent. Some say "PHP" some just say "wordpress" others just say nothing more than something like "postgresql." The result is that "PHP" in the rankings doesn't actually represent PHP, even among the small number of sites that have been listed in your app.

Furthermore, when I looked an hour ago, Erlang was ranked higher than Ruby, and now, apparently, "Django" represents 10% of the entries and "Ruby on Rails" is ranked much higher than "Wordpress," which is ranked just above "Rails," all of which are well above "JavaScript," "HTML" and "Linux." And so on.

Normally I'd like to see any indie web app succeed and appreciate the time and effort involved in making one, but in this case the information is grossly skewed and claiming to represent something that it doesn't. People look at things like this and form opinions and beliefs on them.
Information from the 2008 summer school is online and free to download. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/2008summerschool/
Yes.

And to anyone who does not care about a fancy admin interface, I'd serious recommend Pylons.
A follow-up: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=662669
How come nobody has mentioned that if you are coming from google, you just clicked the "Cached" button on the search results page?

They allow google to cache the entire page, with the answers. No login needed. I've never checked if a referer thing or not. Don't really care to investigate since the cache works fine.
It's possible to set search_path to include multiple schemas, so a cross schema join would be easy as long as tables have different names.
"We regret to inform you that the North Carolina state legislature (the General Assembly) appears ready to enact an unconstitutional tax collection scheme that would leave Amazon.com little choice but to end its relationships with North Carolina-based Associates. You are receiving this e-mail because our records indicate that you are an Amazon Associate and resident of North Carolina."

There are two factually false parts to this quote.

"enact an unconstitutional tax collection scheme"

Its fine to say it should be challenged in court, but its not at all clear its patently unconstitutional.

"would leave Amazon.com little choice but to end its relationships with North Carolina-based Associates"

I'm willing to bet if other states followed suit, Amazon would find the "choice".

State taxes on internet sales are going to be sought after as states look for ways to solve their revenue problems. I'm not arguing in favor of such taxes but do see this as a sign of the times.
Show success before asking for help.

This is exactly what VCs always have in mind.
...unless you hit the upper limit of 5,000 simultaneous users on your site. Then, it's only sort of awesome.
Twitter etc messages from Iran, collected on one page.
Dropbox and flickr? Are you serious? In order for those to be obsolete, even supposing Unite is technically superior, this would require people actually using Opera. I think this is a bit naive.

As far as "Welcome to the Peerweb." Wow, talk about drinking marketing Kool-Aid.

As far as a new paradigm is concerned .. not really. I think a new paradigm would be more like a rich technology that doesn't use the Web/HTML/HTTP at all.
It doesn't have to be lonely at the top. Here are some ways to burst through the loneliness of being an entrepreneur.
It's free if you don't want to put the program on an iPhone. Good place to start though. If you have one person with the paid SDK you can send your code to them and have them compile and submit it to the app store without having to pay a second time.
That's generalizing a bit. As a "hackelor" myself, I can tell you I don't function well at all in small spaces and can't productively live anywhere that lacks copious empty space. I live in a three-bedroom apartment with one other person, expressly because we couldn't find a two-bedroom place with enough open space.
Experts-exchange may be lame to many of the folks on this list because it is perhaps more useful to a 'light weight' crowd with a more IT bent (rather than hard core developer). I would venture to say that StackOverflow will NEVER match experts-exchange in traffic. There are just not that many smart programmers compared to the masses of IT folks and the general public that EE caters to.
You might be able to do it if you have the corporate version of the developer license. I don't know for sure though.
The mistake here is in believing universities are always correct. They don't even come close.

Remember Citizendium, Larry Sanger's credentialist Wikipedia competitor? I'd pick Wikipedia any day.
sorted list

http://www.dnsserverlist.org/index.php?oby=Q_RTT
Most PC manufacturers might use MobileMark, but Apple tests with 50% brightness, Wifi on browsing "various websites" and editing text in a word processor. Even other than the iPhone, Apple seems to do better than other manufacturers at battery testing and disclosure.

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html #5 on the bottom of the page as the source for this information.
Why is it Best to Shop for your Extended Auto Warranty Online?
Today it is possible to accomplish almost anything using the internet. We never have to go out of our house in the cold weather or scorching sun if we dont want to. Everything can be done from the comfort of our home sitting at our desk and that is the power of the internet. The same holds true for buying our extended auto warranty too. We can conveniently shop for our warranty online.
This is really interesting. I've been trying to come up with something similar for use in forums but it's really aggravating as everyone insists on using a different format to store everything. I miss usenet :-(
Which is why Jeff and Joel are also rolling out serverfault.com and superuser.com

experts-exchange gets most of its traffic from gaming Google. It isn't that useful of a site.
I liked Woopra when it first came out - http://www.woopra.com/