skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect it's more to do with the fact that (as Retric alludes to) the atmosphere is not a monolayer.
LISTEN!

People love to bitch about what bothers them. If you know people that work at a big company, listen to them bitch about their problems. Get them honest...or drunk...or both.

Then, figure out how to make those problems go away with software. I don't know the first thing about what goes on in a doctor's office but I'll bet if got the nurses talking I could find a product that would help them to do a better job.

If you can take that software and prove an ROI for the people that would use it, you've got a product.
The MacBook Pro line is solid, especially with the unibody construction. You also have the choice of running Windows and/or OSX. I converted after the Intel switch and haven't looked back.
Yes. You're right, it could certainly be useful. But for now, it just hasn't been the focus to separate it from Django, yet. Tight deadlines and all that, you know. But it is definitely something I want to do, and you're more than welcome to help.
> Note that the eye can be arbitrarily large or small and the magnitude of the wind surrounding it is irrelevant.

Given that the eye can be arbitrarily small, I would accept the statement that the earth would always have at least one circular wind pattern. The paragraph is not talking about just hurricane size.
A useful read for the aspiring parallel programmer :)

I got interested in the topic at university and spent a lot of time in my final year thesis un-learning all my sequential logic.

One of the biggest traps I fell into was "setup, do work, tear down" philosophy. That's the usual progression of sequential logic into parallism (as in set up your parallel threads with data, fire them off, then hang about waiting to combine the results and tear down any constructs). In my tests I found it was better (both in terms of speed and sanity) to give each parallel segment of a program (be it a thread, a process, a computing node) as much autonomy as you can. The wrapper around all of that, the stuff that splits your logic up has to be damn clever - because portioning code on the fly is complex - but what it actually achieves shouldnt be all that much. Recieve some logic, chunk it, farm it out. Done.
A similar complaint about misusing presentation bling was made in Communications of the ACM recently by the inventor of PowerPoint: http://www.robertgaskins.com/pages/gaskins-ppt-at-20-cacm-vo...
"A right to Internet access" != "Protection from your Internet access being terminated as a legal punishment." You can have the latter right without infringing on everyone else's property rights; the former gives you a prior claim to anyone's ownership of devices that can grant Internet access, which is a terrible idea. It's the same as understanding that freedom of the press doesn't give you the freedom to tell the NYT what to print on their front page tomorrow.

I don't think the discussion of human rights can ever be trendy or thoughtless

I don't understand. Just turning the discussion to human rights makes it non-trendy and non-thoughtless? I don't understand why. Human rights are abstractions we use to interact with each other; just like politeness, but backed by force.
The TV industry is where the newspaper industry was five years ago: In denial.
This project has nontrivial pieces written in Squeak, Java, Ruby, and Javascript. The site has a dash of PHP.
I dislike these linkbait kinds of posts. Here's a link to the actual Anandtech story where they talk about the hardware. http://www.anandtech.com/gadgets/showdoc.aspx?i=3579
Perhaps it simply is the case that we’re trapped on this planet, or in this solar system.

When I read articles that discuss the vastness of the cosmos and the trillions upon trillions of stars that inhabit our universe, and the likelihood that there are perhaps billions of inhabitable planets out there teeming with life, the emotion I feel most is not awe, but a deep sadness for all that we'll never know or understand about the universe. Many of these galaxies are tens of billions of light years away, so unless there's some pretty impressive loopholes in the laws of physics as we understand them today, we as a species will never know what lies beyond the tiniest fraction of our little corner of the universe.

And that's depressing.
Maybe it will...
I'm having trouble visualizing how a weather system with multiple layers would allow some points to have a horizontal speed of zero without creating cyclones. Is the implication here that there could be some permanent vertical flow of air, iff the atmosphere is layered?
I'm not a big fan of these statistics that get publicized about how many downloads a product gets during it's opening days. I downloaded Safari 4, but just to try it out. I download a lot of things just so that I can base my opinion of them off of first-hand experience. Once I'm satisifed, I return to my product of choice - in this case Firefox. I keep tabs on all the browsers to see the new features, etc... but that download doesn't mean I'm actually interested in using it.
Great post. I think you highlight the real value of the HN community. High quality discussion makes listening for ideas easier as there is more signal with less noise to wade through.

There are few other places on the web where you can listen for quality ideas, discuss problems, and get feedback at a really fast (and efficient) rate.
Topologically speaking, the Earth is a 2-sphere. It's irregularities don't change that. On the other hand, a hairy coffee mug must be combable (since it's a doughnut).
Will Linux, Mac Adoption Rate Ever Break 20%?
well, 100 is not the max ;-)
And aren't not limited by "must work in realtime" and can use all the computationally expensive visual effects?
"maybe" does not mean "damn sure" 8-)

But I think everything above 200 is worth to be published on the IsItRails.com site with a screenshot...
Productivity gains in software engineering are powering innovation
Slide 7: "What, not how."

IMO, if you can grasp this you are on your way.
No. Neither does Microsoft who has repeatedly spread FUD over all the free-software and open-source ecosystem.

Can you provide any declaration Microsoft supports Mono and promises will not sue those users not under their IP cross-licensing deal with Novell?

Until then, it is a minefield. And that is what a minefield is about - you never know when you step on one or even if there are any mines.
"Art is not about making more realistic copies."

No, but entertainment is about creating a convincing, immersive experience.
As an individual who will likely not be around in 100 years or so, it's mildly depressing to know that I won't see the next 500+ years of advancement.

As a species, I'm not worried. Who knows what discoveries will be made, and what kind of subsequent technological achievements will be made in the future? If the history of science has taught us anything, it's to not underestimate the power of the undiscovered.

If you figure, there are a handful of things that we know we don't yet know (grand unified theory). Just think of the things we don't know that we don't know.
FaceBook Photo Stolen For Overseas Ad (video)
The mid-page sparklines are surprisingly informative.

Simple request: Would love to be able to click on referring domains to visit their websites.
I am not sure I follow your analogy.

I think the key distinction here is that you are not being convicted of a crime prior to having your rights taken away. In the US, this would be analogous to losing the franchise, e.g., without being convicted of a crime. It is unclear to me that a similar bill that included an actual prosecution would be struck down on the same basis.

To be honest your comment really rubbed me the wrong way because I believe it insinuates a degree of bad faith on the part of the decision makers that I feel is unwarranted. I don't really mean to say that every discussion is equally valuable, but rather that it serves no larger good to dismiss the conversations out of hand. If that wasn't your intention, I apologize.

[edit: removed "not" from "it is not unclear" to me. whoops!]
Entirely possible, and I don't know if it's been replicated since the 1996 study; it was noteworthy because it was one of the very few studies that found a large gender effect. If that study is flawed, it further reinforces my main point, which is that there are very few general innate or cultural gender differences are large enough to explain the 10:1 or whatever ratio among Etsy users.
Yeah, right. Operation Market Garden, anyone?
It's wrong because this theorem only applies to continuous vectors. However wind can simply fade (i.e. become slower), and is thus non-continuous.

Edit: I'm getting beaten up in the downmods, but no one has shown me that wind is continuous.
Four Lessons from Y Combinator's Fresh Approach to Innovation
There's an interesting story hiding between the lines in the post.

The first two ventures, polishmywriting and kindling, seems to me to be great ideas - yet the author failed even though he had a working product. The third product made it because of good press. It seems like talent and hard work has gone into making these products, and the first two shouldn't have failed outright. What went wrong?

In one word: Sales. This is an often overlooked component of doing a tech-startup. founders spend their time making a great product and rely on the techcrunch effect (or the slashdot effect, word of mouth, call it what you want) to sell the product. Unless you're really lucky, or have an extraordinarily good product this approach won't make you money. The article is a great example of someone making a product, and then giving up when noone comes to the website to buy it. Selling it is at least as much work as creating it. Pick up the phone and call potential customers, go to tradeshows, stop people in the street, sell to all the people you meet in your local bar. It works.

Note - I'm not in anyway trying to degrade the author (or anyone else). It's an easy mistake to make, especially if selling isn't really your thing. I've made this mistake myself.
Dell Says It Has Earned $3 Million From Twitter
These days, lots of companies are talking about their “Twitter strategy,” but few have figured out how to measure what amassing hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter does for their businesses. Dell has shown that it can go directly to the top line.
Innovation through regulation
All Hell May Break Loose On Twitter In 2 Hours
Might try it again - not that I didn't enjoy it, it was fun.
There is (or used to be) a former porn star in the Italian parliament.
Stolen ?
I've found it's a losing strategy in most situations.

Prisoner's-dilemma problem: being honest about your level of confidence is better for everybody, but if other people aren't doing the same, it's worse for you.
Let's just start with the simple fact cable quality does matter when working with HDMI. I'm not here to argue about the price of one manufacturer versus another, or their relative quality and worth. But I will point out that "cheap cables" and the expectation that for the same $9.99 you'd spend on a serial cable you could get a reliable HDMI cable is somewhat laughable.

HDMI is really bad design, and due to its DVI legacy they've pushed the up against the limits of what is possible. Right up against the limit.

1) it's twisted pair technology instead of coax
2) it's parallel instead of serial
3) it's very fast (10.2 Gbps)

If you just spent money on a new 7.1 AVR, and a Deep Color Blu-ray player then you'll be needing cables that have been manufactured and tested to a highest HDMI 1.3 standard. Resistance, skin effect, impedance, capacitance, cross talk and inductance all conspire to disrupt the data and since it's digital, you will be left staring at a black screen or hearing pops and audio dropouts. This kind of quality control is not cheap, and is much more than a simple continuity check on each line within the bundle.

I've tested some really expensive HDMI cables and seen what is possible with them. I've ignored the "Direction of Flow" arrows on some long lengths and had them fail, reversed the cables and had it work. There is real engineering that goes into these things, and that is what you are paying for.

So for short lengths (3-6') the cheapest HDMI cable might be good enough, and you will probably be happy. But I'd still be looking for the HDMI 1.3 logo on the package, at least then you can be sure it has been tested against the upper ends of the spec.
Actually to be honest, I think it might actually validate the point of the article: women are doing it as a hobby. My gf is a teacher and my impression is that it is very poorly paid compared to the effort that goes into it (in Germany, mind you). Men simply can not afford to strive for such a poorly paid career.

That is my opinion - I won't be surprised if it won't be very popular, but here it goes.

There might be some gender bias, too (women+children), but I wouldn't be surprised if the economic factors are the main aspect.
When Footers Attack
What the article said was that when people had the opportunity to observe both confidence and expertise, they preferred buying advice from advisors who were more confident and advisors who were more expert, but the confidence effect was much larger.

In other words, even when they had ample evidence with which to differentiate, they went with their biologically programmed attraction to confidence rather than their rational assessment of expertise. I'm vulnerable to it too; I just added an extremist Libertarian as a friend on Facebook, because they're just so enjoyable to talk to.
Great talk on the Python GIL [video][slides in comments]
Congratulations. You are the case where Mono makes sense - you can make sure your apps run the same on Mono and on .NET.

Unfortunately, some shops need to use off-the-shelf software that may even run on Mono but is not officially supported and, if something did go wrong, they would on their own.
Tentative conclusions can be a sign of lack of information, too. Nuanced conclusions can equally well be a sign of spending a lot of time explaining the conclusion as of expertise.
The tab thing is a hidden pref.

http://www.switchingtomac.com/tutorials/how-to-force-safari-...
What's the safest way to get an iPhone 3G S as early as possible?
looks good from the screenshots! Have tried to approximate this with visualization etc but that never worked well enough. have submitted my analytics. Waiting for the result.

What about pricing when out of beta ?
heh, polish. I was so naive back then. :)

I love your service btw. I need to use it more often, but can never find it when I need it - won't happen again.
WoW is the natural evolution of addictive gameplay with no true lasting value. I blame the lack of decent single player RPGs recently on MMOs.
Real time search: Not better. Not worse. Different.
I tried, but I couldn't use more than a few minutes:

* no refresh button

* the stop button is not where I think it should be

* middle click doesn't open a new tab

* command + 1, 2, 3 doesn't change tabs, instead it goes to the 1st, 2nd bookmark, which is very annoying
Can work great for competitor analysis as well...
In the experiment, people actually had information about expertise.
Thanks.. you should be getting your results pretty quick (longer if you have a high-traffic site). Pricing is still an open question. We're talking about $5/month intro pricing for now, but presumably it will eventually be based on the traffic volume of the site/amount of data we're processing.
Oh yes, absolutely, but there's no reason why real-time would imply brown/gray color hues...
Do you know what continuous means?
to give something a fair trial you need to look up and try using the hotkeys it does have. cmd-click opens a new tab. cmd-shift [] or left/right arrow changes tabs.
I think they've made a good choice by forcing the issue to happen now instead of arbitrarily occurring in the middle of the night on a weekend. The Friday afternoon part sucks though. If they were going to do this, they should have done it yesterday.
Only here could donating a million bucks to charity be further evidence that Microsoft is evil. Truly impressive guys.
>usually what happens is that there's some cataclysmic event

Don't look now, but the whole of economy is not in a great shape.
How to Catch A Liar
you can make new windows open in a tab instead by holding command, or by using google and quickly finding something like this

defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true
I remember seeing the service and asking you why one wouldn't just go to Mechanical Turk.

Another hidden lesson : Making something very simple to use (and adding a polished UI) can be a winning formula.

Smart idea, I say.
Ask HN, What bank do you use for business?
So I'm starting to get some clients for my business (TV Software services) and I need to open a business account.

Any recommendations for banks? Horror Stories? Awesomeness?
The title's slightly sensationalist. "Hell" will not break loose, although some poorly written 3rd party apps might fail.
Some other reason. It's not the geometry ("perfect sphereness") of the earth that's the issue, it's the topology (that it's a ball).

The other reason is something like "wind velocity is not a continuous vector field". When you get down to the microscopic level, what does wind velocity mean?

"There's a cyclone somewhere on earth" is a pretty good approximation though.
It works on MetaFilter now! Also, comment backbars are now more accurate. Download the latest script for these changes http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/51281
Get Off Google Crack
Well, minus anything that would violate security policy. Which is actually most current desktop apps.
You're dead on. One day I'll write about how I kept hitting my head against the wall, figured it out, and made $$$ then I'll write an innovators guide to selling. You'll know about it because I'll be that good by then. I'm not there yet.
Creating Free Will
"Zynga makes its money selling virtual goods", haha.

It's a pump and dump scheme.
In 1987 Peter Molzberger did a series of interesting experiments combining programming with MDMA and NLP at the University of the Armed Forces in Munich (Universitaet der Bundeswehr).
Considering multiple layers doesn’t provide more insight here. The atmosphere form one "thick" layer around the Earth and the air moves within this layer. Assuming that this layer is closed (does not gradually comes to nothing), what we have is a "thick" sphere. Its Euler characteristic is still 2, thick or not. Now you can think of the wind as a continuous transformation of this solid. This map is homotopic to the identity map and, therefore, has Lefschetz number equal to the Euler characteristic, i.e., 2. Hence there is a fixed point. With some extra work you can show that this implies that the vector field has a stationary point. At that point the wind speed is 0, and not just the horizontal component. That point, certainly, does not have to be a cyclone. However, there is nothing wrong with the conclusion about the weather presented in the article; it’s just more idealized than this.
Small thing about the UI: as large as the "Try Trendly Now" button is on the main page, it didn't really occur as a button to me until I happened to mouse over it. Maybe I'm just not used to a link looking like that.
Presumably the author is unaware that people said the same thing in 1988, and how all the new games were crap.
I'm surprised the average household income of a hockey fan is $89,000. I always thought hockey was a more working class sport. I wonder if this has to do with hockey's gradual southern movement creating a fan base that doesn't mesh with the stereotypical hockey fan.
I have often wondered why not use a MySQL table as a "queue" (or more tables if needed). Basically, you get great performance (MySQL is really fast), you get great language support (a LOT of languages can add tasks via simple SQL) and you get such things like easy backups and replication.
"Hopefully Twitter will be able to resolve this quickly."

Gotta love tech writers and their incompetence.
First google link is: http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/1568.html

The studies mentioned there give figures close to 2:1 when comparing men vs. women; quite believable, when considering my personal experience and accounting for what is undoubtedly a skewed sample.

The gender difference on Etsy being discussed is well in excess of 10:1. That's a 5x difference in the best case. I stand by my original statement.
That's not part of the license conditions. You are quoting the preamble which has almost zero legal importance.
..and walkout in protest.
This post probably should be required reading for people moving from Subversion, since Subversion repositories almost never have clean history. I define "clean" as a history with all changes isolated by self-contained commits, and no "oops I forgot this one file" junk.
According to Mike Malone the official name for a queue built on top of a MySQL table is a "ghetto queue". I believe Flickr still do all of their queuing in that way.
Has anyone got a link to any of the cited articles? I haven't had luck Googling their English website haaretz.com or the Hebrew website haaretz.co.il .
>the earth would always have at least one circular wind pattern

Not necessarily. There may be two stationary points and all winds blowing from the first point to the second. Nothing circular...
Ask HN: Review my students start-up
Agree, but cmd-shift forces me to change the tabs in order, and I like the random access from cmd-1/2/3 ..
See Alexis Richardson's talk, Databases Sucks for Messaging: http://oxford.geeknights.net/2009/may-27th/talks/keynote-Ale...
I want my name Or how you can own your online identity.
Having seen the Hairy Ball theorem posted here a few hours ago I was wondering how long it would be before someone posted the Ham Sandwich Theorem.

The interesting thing is that it works in all dimensions. In 8 dimensional space, for example, 8 convex (or even non-convex, and even non-connected!) bodies can simultaneously be cut in half by a 7 dimensional hyperplane. I actually do that for my work - it's not purely theoretical.
Should've read the fine print ;-) Maximum of 1 million dollars. $1.15 per download (which is apparently 8 meals...), so you could've stopped at only 869,565.22 downloads ;-)
> Really, if you're going for the "I hate college, OMG its so lame" route, you really need to rethink your stance.

Don't troll.

The problem I identified in school is this: my internal motivation (passion, largely unexplained) would be replaced with external motivation (grades, competition). How many great artists became great because they had a strange compulsion to create and learn, versus being paid a commission?
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This is pretty cut and dry. If you're interviewing and I Google you and find something like this in your track record, you're a "no hire".
No crash on Chrome 2 here.
Would be a nice trick but even at volume pricing that is $1-2 a pop.