skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Go to the US, and ask for a 'glass of water' anywhere. Honestly, hardly anyone will get it first time - and usually you have to break down and ask for a 'wadder'.

Same with Butter.

There are some major differences that aren't obvious - us brits tend to be more flexible with mangling of the pronunciation (because everyone here does), but in the US they like it their way or the highway, so to speak.
How Do IPhone Users Find New Apps?
Yeah probably trouble for dishonest mechanics. But maybe an asset for legit ones? I think some customers feel they are being ripped off, even when they aren't. So this could be used positively by both sides.
A few notes on PHP's behaviour to anyone trying to follow the code:

In PHP, GET and POST arguments that look like arrays are automatically converted to arrays. So "key[]=" in the query string has the result that $_GET['key'] = array('');

empty(array('')) = false, because the array has one element.

$wpdb->prepare uses the PHP function vsprintf, which has undocumented behaviour when it gets an array as an argument. The (undocumented) behaviour is (apparently) that if the contents of the array are concatenated together and treated as a single string.
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It's odd, though - in some European countries, the glossy screens are considered ergonomically harmful and are therefore banned from the workplace. So you can't give your employees iMacs, smaller Macbooks, etc. to work on. You'd think Apple would be a bit keener to sell to businesses.
Founder of http://www.crowdvine.com. I built the first version myself, which was enough to get us to profitability. These days I mostly talk on the phone.
Yes, and I couldn't even tweet about it!
Ha. I double dare you to ask an Australian how you spell colour or authorise. They'd argue with you about them not being English 'details' but rather American 'misspellings', too.
I'm founder of penetration testing laboratories. Site isn't launched yet, so I fall into the pre-launch founder status.

The idea is based on providing a tool box for auditors and n00bs to do security testing from. So far the environment is setup and development is slow coming but I expect it to launch in some form by the end of the year.
Hey, the website is down.
+1, we need it!
If you're looking for a specific kind of app I use yappler.com, lot easier than iTunes
I see domain names being too close to trademarks for this to be viable. For many companies the domain name came first, and the trademark came second (e.g. Flickr, bit.ly, del.icio.us). If others could somehow come in and buy your domain name it could really ruin your business. People think of many online businesses as synonymous with their URL, and there is a lot of work that goes into associating the two. The tax would really hurt small startups.

I think domain names should simply have more protections in a way similar to trademarks, and there should be a way to dispute domains as being trademark infringing.
hmmmm maybe a queuetweet service ? while twitter is down you can continue to communicate over a queue.
Thanks for the clarification. I didn't know it.

So the matte doesn't have the glass?

One thing I like of the glass screen is that it is probably easier to clean and in general more durable (except if you drop it on the floor, of course).
Why Streamy Could be the Next FriendFeed
But Isn't Flying Safer than Driving? (Maybe not)
A new superbug found in Britain is major concern
I think you're misinterpreting the author's point about roulette. She never claimed that you could profit off of roulette in the long run. You can, however, almost certainly profit off of it in the short run. The strategy she describes has one double one's bet if one loses. If you bring enough money to cover 7 losses (which means you would have to have roughly 100 times your initial bet), then you have a >98% chance of coming out ahead. You won't be ahead by much, and the strategy won't work in the long run (i.e. you can only do it a couple of times--when you inevitably end up with 7 consecutive losses it will more than wipe out any earnings you make), but it is nevertheless a legitimate strategy to "beat" roulette in the short term.
Why are they raising money just to hire 30 more people?
Amid drought, Sacramento water use climbed
If its good for you business, then do it. From your post, i assume PHP can handle all the needed features. Python or Ruby is just another tool. Don't worry about it now. Technology is just a means to get things done.
Yeah, I like the comments in this sub-thread. These protocols can suffer from Maginot Line type of security. Also, they can provide an illusion of propriety that cheaters can point to when accused and use that to distract, say, a jury from however it is they really cheated. It's important to understand these protocols' failings.
No thanks. All of this stuff already works with existing Mp3 and Ogg containers. We don't really need a new format.
I would always fold the corners down so I could "undo" if I ended up dying. This usually got confusing after a while..
Knowing the labels they're going to price it more expensively than a normal album. I'm betting on $20.
very nice idea, web site, and price!
your blog is added to my reader :D
Tr.im Resurrected
He got the same impression that I got, Java is not functional programming language.
One way that I would 'win' at roulette in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was to always bet equal amounts on red/black and even/odd. My reasoning was that there are 4 possible outcomes. I have a 50% chance of breaking even, a 25% chance of winning, and a 25% change of losing.

You probably can't 'win big' with such a strategy, but you've at least minimized the probability of a loss from 50% to 25%. You've also minimized the probability of a win by as much too, though. I'm no stats guru so I don't know how well this would work out on an actual roulette table...

{edit} I should mention that I worked at a casino for a while, and roulette is the game with the highest probability in favor of the house. Blackjack is the lowest. Casinos really only have Blackjack tables because patrons want them, or else they would probably get rid of them pretty quickly. {/edit}
Yep, creator of Kindling - http://www.kindlingapp.com - Incubated inside my company, Arc90.

Kindling is an idea collaboration engine. Meant to find brilliance within an organization.
Maybe. However, before Apple removed the matte option I have never seen a glossy screen on an apple laptop (except in their stores). Sample size is not that big, though.
How do you know they are hiring 30 people? Also what kind of hire is this?
"The Government XYZ" - what if Public Antique Evaluator Mr Corrup Tianou has a side business finding rare artworks, forcibly purchasing them for their declared value, then hooking them to the highest black-market bidder?
The outcome is severely affected by what the faculty are doing at the school you end up at. Your chances of successfully completing a Ph.D. doing something completely different from what people are doing in your department are slim.
True, I did misinterpret that. And she does own up to it that after 7 streaks you'd need 1280 pounds if you initially start with 10.

Still, the article states that there's a 50:50 chance of landing on black or red, which is simply not true.
The DDoS attack against Twitter continues...

http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_t...
I think this is slightly out of date. Valuations seem to have bottomed in the spring.
Right, because criminalizing the behavior of children just starting to understand social dynamics isn't a way out of proportion response.
re: roulette

What the author is describing is a 'Martingale' strategy, and it is indeed a surefire way of making a profit (with one critical caveat: you need an unlimited bankroll).

After each win, you always earn a profit of X (where X is your base bet), regardless of how many rounds you have lost before.

Without a sufficiently large bankroll relative to X, however, probability of bankruptcy is high.
Rovers rev up for Google's moonshot jackpot
People should be paying off debt, better yet, they shouldn't be living off credit to begin with, it's unsustainable. Getting Americans back to living within their means is not trouble, it's the long term solution.
Cofounder at http://www.hotindianstartups.com and http://www.bollyscoops.com
1. No they're not.
So it's lightning talks with a 20 slide cap in addition to a time constraint.
Remember when Wired.com was the first to launch a site that was XHTML and it was news? Then other sites followed suit and they got attention but slowly it wasn't newsworthy anymore. That's what I hope happens with "X drops support for IE6" stories. And soon.
You hate hiphop generally, right? I think that's an important disclaimer: "this is shitty X, but I don't like anything X"
The Game Design Lessons of Permadeath
It's been a while since I was in school, but I haven't been out so long that I'd be naive enough to think that a child whose parent is leading a school-wide crusade against bullying would be LESS of a target for bullies.
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Yes, founder of http://zerigo.com - cloud-infrastructure services.

I'm with several others... founders tend to do a bit of everything. I'm no exception. :)
nice ui, clean & fresh & still warm. keeep up!
Casinos really only have Blackjack tables because patrons want them, or else they would probably get rid of them pretty quickly.

True, even with a simple strategy you can cut your theoretical loss to about 1-2% (without counting cards).
But casinos have blackjack because most players don't know how to play. Most people don't follow that simple strategy (they often have leaflets explaining it too!).

With counting cards you can make it profitable for you. But casinos will make life very difficult for you if they find out you're counting cards. See also the movie about the MIT Blackjack team: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_(2008_film)
A noble goal, but it seems very unlikely. Shifting Fortune 1000 companies or large recruiting firms to use a whole new system would be an amazingly unlikely and long-time framed change. Best of luck if that's your goal though, it would be an improvement.

Until then though, lack of Word export is a liability for people who build their resumes on your site.
"This was not a public-relations stunt. At all."

Please.

Why exactly should anyone have any trust in such a statement from people who shut down their service with little or no advance warning, but could bring it back up "indefinitely" after some "appeals"?
Not a PR stunt? Sure seems like one from my perspective.
I'm a big fan of the concept of Pecha Kucha, though it seems to be more popular in graphic design/architecture circles than among hackers. Here's a cool nontechnical one:
http://tr.im/wdvt
Fair enough. The article also claims that the outcome of a coin flip is 50:50, which is also not true.
This is a great list, I would like to quote it, especially point 5. Can you please contact me (coordinates in my profile) so that I can credit you properly ?
As the article mentions log( n! ) is the theoretical lower bound on the comparison sorting unstructured data. This is a neat little argument so I thought I'd share it with you. Given an unsorted list of data (of length n), sorting is equivalent the discovering the permutation that will return the elements to their correct order. Now there are a total of n! possible permutations that we need to sift through. Now each comparison can be thought of as a yes-no, since we've all played 20 questions, I assume we all have noticed that with m yes-no questions we can distinguish between 2^m possibilities. Thus we need 2^m = n! ie m = log2(n!). Giving us our bound.
This is an extremely annoying format for those of us that hate bullets and don't suffer greatly from "death by powerpoint".

Some slides deserve 2 minutes, others 5 seconds.
Cofounder of MyMiniLife. Was recently acquired by Zynga: http://www.myminilife.com
Wal-Mart is a public corporation.
What bothers me about the whole tr.im story is that they are basically complaining they are losing money hand over fist at the same time that they are saying that twitter will send their traffic to bit.ly.

So, what's the problem then ? Seems like your cost just went down, you should be happy about it, not complain.

If you can't make money at traffic level X because the model you are pursuing is broken then at level N*X you are in much worse shape. And yet, they seem to want to be in much worse shape...
Apple traditionally hasn't sold to businesses due to Big Corporations apparent desire to quash anything capable of spurring original thought in its workers.

Business is packed full of contradictions from rules they've created for themselves, like using uniforms and team building exercises to help the workers feel part of a group, but positively crap themselves at the idea of their workers unionising due to feeling like part of a group.

Consumers on the other hand are relatively simple, give them something bright and shiny and they love it. Essentially we shop like Magpies, people frequently buy the wrong product for themselves because it's the better advertised and branded product.
Great application! With a bit of work it can jump!
Anything that keeps mechanics honest is a great idea in my book. However, I think this misses the crux of the problem: diagnosis.

It's easy enough for me to call a mechanic or two to find out how much they would charge to replace my transmission, but how do I know that my car actually needs a new transmission? My primary fear when going to the mechanic is that they'll claim that my car's problems are much more serious than they actually are, so they can charge me for the more expensive repair.

They can easily get away with this, because I'm not knowledgeable enough on the subject to second guess them. Oddly enough, the situation isn't much different with doctors and dentists. Every time my dentist decides to drill into my teeth, I can't help but wonder if they just see it as an opportunity to make a large sum of money.

If anything, the situation is worse in the medical industry. They almost never give price quotes up front. What's up with that? And there's basically no way of knowing how much your insurance will cover. Generally I just do what the doctor/dentist says and save my pennies while I wait for a huge, seemingly arbitrary bill to arrive in the mail. This system is obviously broken.

Now, one of you HN readers looking to start a company: go fix it! :)
While previous credit levels were too high, a reduction in credit means a reduction and consumption and hence demand. Overall, this further shrinks the economy, reducing income and thus savings.
If it is, it's inventive. And I'll bet it results in a good hike in traffic+interest.
<em>"Why is it not accessible when I right-click a Flash movie?"</em>

It is... the context menu always holds at minimum a "Settings" link.

For "Why is it on a webpage instead of in the SWF?", it's because Flash is part of a webpage, and is often not sized large enough to display a dialog. Unlike a browser, Flash has no chrome of its own -- it's a component.

For "Why isn't this integrated with the new browser privacy controls?", this is a work item now that browsers offer privacy controls... a Mozilla example:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508167
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290456
Keno has the worst odds, not that it matters. You're probably better off losing quick and going home sober.
Both were taken from the original advisory posted at Full-disclosure...
is this the 3rd time or the 4th time now?
My son put a quick halt to a bullying situation by responding in kind. Luckily the school was enlightened enough to consider the matter closed at that point.
The Science of a Freebie
With the caveat that I found the general whiny tone annoying:

Direct costs may go down, since they have less URLs to worry about. But value goes down as well, since they have less data to mine. There may be some critical mass of data required to have anything of value.
It also has a whiff of mechanical sabre-toothed tigers.
Kids these days!

In fact, laws were passed to stop the practice of having a "going out of business sale" when the business was not failing because it was once a common advertising strategy. In some states, you even have to register such sales with the Attorney General
Wow, I've been kicking around an idea for a DICOM startup but I fear the HIPAA... Maybe I shouldn't. Thank you for that.
ISTM that if you're in a school where not-bullying is seen as the crusade of one individual parent, rather than an issue that a group of concerned parents and teachers are working on together, then the school culture already has serious problems.
Don't learn python in order to redo the site. If you're hiring people that would that much rather have it in python than PHP, you'll probably end up making novice language mistakes that will make them end up hating the codebase and want to rewrite it themselves.
I'm far from an expert, but that was naive. You missed that part about bullies often having problems in school, didn't you?

Generally, you want to stop the bullying for one of the same reasons you want to stop rapes -- it damages the lives of many victims. But you also want to catch this, because the bully often needs help.

Edit: I don't really have an opinion on when/if the police should get involved. It probably depends on bow fscked the teacher subculture is.
So...free pass then. Right, carry on.

You say to the thug, in no uncertain terms, "The next time you do XYZ, the consequences will be a removal from school." And, yes, have the police deal with it because they are actually equipped for such activity, unlike your typical teacher.

...and to be clear, I'm talking about instances of actual assault, and not the vast bulk of things in the category "bullying".
This is more of a statement on the universality of the principles of information theory than a proof that dolphins and humans are alike.
Ah, but in the current climate, where everybody is worried about banks failing, another big bank failure could freak everyone out and cause another catastrophe. So perhaps propping up the banks increases sentiment more than increasing consumption in 2009?
Good. The demand was being supported by artificial means and wasn't sustainable. It's bringing the economy down to a sustainable level. Better a smaller sustainable economy than an artificial one that bubbles and crashes routinely because of debt based consumption.
Yeah, it's only a little memory corruption, no big deal.

I can tell the author is aware of the risks, but I'm sure there are ruby users out there that think this is a good idea.

This is exactly what is wrong with the Ruby community. Rails has an option called "disable whiny nils".

To paraphrase that old quote, "Those that trade correctness for convenience will get neither"
I hear what you're both saying. But I wouldn't call beating roulette in the short term a legitimate strategy exactly because it only works in the short run--strategies are supposed to work for longer than that! The only legitimate value I can see is that if you actually enjoy the experience of playing roulette that it's worth paying for it. Anyone who's willing to buy volatility can win in the short term. Otherwise, stick to a game of skill and get some money on the table while you do it. If you're good you can get some vol. and some positive EV.
This was not exactly a going out of business sale though.
According to POSIX, after a SIGSEGV, the state of the program is undefined. This is the reason that a SIGSEGV usually causes an immediate abort. Allowing a program to execute when its state is undefined is a huge security hole.
Whether this was intentional they were able to generate renewed interest in this product and to an extent their company.
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This assumes that the cake is uniform, and most cakes aren't.

If the cutter prefers frosting and knows that the other person doesn't, the cutter can arrange to get a larger share than she'd get if roles were reversed.

I think that the problem can be fixed by giving all participants knives so they're all cutters.
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Sorry, but this article is total bullshit. Here's why:

They list four possible responses to your child being bullied, including standing up to the bully, ignoring and avoiding the bully, involving the parents of the bully, or involving the teacher/school. They state that these are all likely to be ineffective.

That said, their problem with kids standing up to bullies isn't that it's ineffective, though they paint it that way, but rather that your kid probably won't do so if you tell them to, because if they had the guts to do so, they wouldn't be targets of bullying in the first place.

Their preferred "solution" is to have a conversation with the child and brainstorm ideas and strategies, which essentially come down to: a) avoiding the bully, b) involving the teachers and school. So essentially a mix of two of the strategies they discounted at the beginning of the article.

No evidence or data is presented to back up any of the points. The author even invokes mockery of readers with evidence (albeit anecdotal) that standing up to bullies works.

Feels like we're teaching these kids victimhood and to look to someone else to get them out of a rough spot, instead of having enough confidence and self-respect to stand up for themselves.
"Ours will be a file that you click on, it opens and it would have a brand new look, with a launch page and all the different options. When you click on it you're not just going to get the 10 tracks, you're going to get the artwork, the video and mobile products."

We call it... CD-ROM.
I love my apple products, but I agree, pretty much, with what you're saying. The million dollar question is why nobody with a better outlook seems capable of coming up with competitive products - is it something to do with Apple's approach, or not?*

* No, the assertion that people only buy apple for looks or status is not acceptable. I am fundamentally uncool, have long since lost the desire to become so, and yet I love a lot of apple's products for their usability and attention to detail.
Reminds me of the audit of the home of the chief of the LA Department of Water and Power that discovered that he watered his lawn every day for over a year---even during rainy days.
If a sustainable level of consumption can't support the number of banks currently in operation, then some of them need to fail.
It's the convenience fee! Isn't that convenient.
Totally true.

I prefer they just report the facts of studies rather than have some writer fluff it up.

I suppose that's the difference between a magazine and a journal.
Dare we address the fact that anyone waving an iPhone in a mechanic's face has by almost by definition signalled that he has no idea what he is talking about when it comes to auto repair?
Actually they didn't shutdown their servers, they gave a warning that they would be shutting down by the end of the year.
Not from mine.

They're one of many competitors in an eco-system that's relatively easy to enter, other competitors have a significant advantage over them, and I have no idea what their business model is. When they said they no longer wanted to sink money into their project, I understood why.

I also understand that people often feel entitled to free services, would complain when one goes away, and they might not have been prepared for that kind of social pressure. I understand giving in to it.
As someone who was bullied for the better part of his early school career (kindergarden to grade 6) i'm going to have to say that if a group of kids cant understand that gang beating someone is wrong, they deserve to be put in a special school.
And this is why casinos always have a table minimum AND a table maximum.