skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think what they are trying to do is illegal, because they want to use the resources for themselves. Nobody can be forced to sell what they need to use...
http://www.websequencediagrams.com/
Can't handle anything like 300kg, but tons of people here (in Holland) are running around with these:

http://www.bakfiets.nl/modellen.php

As well as oversized tricycles to move really heavy objects.
most likely this is posturing, at least in part. One key difference between Chinese and Western culture is the degree to which "a deal can be renegotiated". The Chinese tend more towards "a deal is always open to renegotiation". Western minds tend to try to live with and work around the ink that's already dry.

btw, I have no idea what WTO agreements are in place on these issues. There may be little details that hold China to being required to export these materials.
Wow I was looking for precisely this demo. Rockin'
Google Aims To Answer The Q: "If I Get Off The Highway, Won't It Just Be Worse?"
> I'll go the serious route: There's no scolding involved.

Yes, there was.

You seem to think that downvotes are a bad thing. They're actually feedback that you don't get in most circumstances.

You seem to think that you're owed feedback that you like. You're wrong.
Alternate headline - world buys magnets cheap from china.
Instead of world buys niobium from china, makes it into expensive magnets and ships magnets to china to build into stuff.

Anyway I though civilisation was going to collapse because Tantalum was only available in a couple of war torn African countries?
Can you try it and let me know what address it shows in the popup bar? If you log a bug on github, we will definitely try to fix it.
Easy. Manufacture Prius in China and then export the final cars.
The nuances of our collective psyches never cease to amaze me. Now to off to do some "heavy" thinking.
> A defining characteristic of academia is publication.

Another is students and admissions. Hiring some students who are already in a PhD program doesn't count.
Okay, so when Helium starts getting scarce (and thus expensive), we'll switch to a new fabrication technique that doesn't use it. Life will go on.
How Chad Ochocinco Plans to Tweet During NFL Games
MacWorld: Snow Leopard: Complete Coverage
This is a pretty decent "hack".
plus it's a phone, you mean ?-)
Firerift - An amazingly unique new CMS has arrived
IPhone Apps price experiment
Not to mention that we could develop more efficient ways of recycling.

I think we waist too much though, and it really depends on the resource-type we are talking about.

Offtopic: One thing that worries me is the systematic deforestation. In our country we've had ugly landslides that wiped out entire villages because of uncontrolled deforestation. It also reduces the quality of the land and has dramatic effects on wildlife. I don't think such effects happening on a massive scale are reversible.
How integrated is this to Django? Would it be easy to adapt to other framework (I'm thinking of Pylons). I'm working on a little website and would love to add this functionality without switching to Django.
Brazil faces fresh HIV/AIDS fight - CNN.com
Tell HN: Chicago HNers will be at Saluki Bar tonight for Windy Citizen meetup
Let's start working on one for Rails
Agreed.

As an aside, I am impressed that someone who went to an IIT (and so had to do well in the most competitive exam in the world) sees the dark side of these tests.

Interestingly, India just scrapped competitive exams for 10th grade (CBSE) which is a great first step.
Searching the laptops isn't the point - we can all protect the contents of the laptops.

What would be more interesting is to know whose laptops they are taking:

Is it just shiny new Macbooks because the agents fancy a nice toy?

Is it from anyone with a certain skin color just to discourage them?

Or anyone who has made a contribution to the ACLU?

Is it people working for certain companies? Anyone landing in Seattle from Airbus, Houston and working for Shell, Detroit and work for any competent car company?
Advice: this comment would seem far less aggressive, yet have its meaning unchanged, if you removed the words "have been trained to" before "believe".
Agreed. Every country has loads of dirt and rock. Just no one wants to dig it up for slave wages. Once the price is right, we'll be happy to do the work.
I'm done with all the hatred, parochial, and ignorant comments out there.

Now I turn to HN readers for truth wisdom -- would the future of the US/global high tech industry really be so adversely affected as the original article tries to imply?
Don't get me wrong. I love speculation. Speculation drives science, and I don't think any interesting scientific idea can ever be conclusively "proven". Just, what's this article doing in SciAm? For an idea to get into SciAm is a big score because the idea has matured and seems significant. This one just sounds like something a couple guys would kick around over a beer without really knowing much about the topic. See my comments elsewhere on this page for specific, well-known problems that the article doesn't address.
No, it doesn't. It says that depression is a useful trait for ruminating over, and thereby solving, social dilemmas, not that the life is really as bleak as it seems when you're depressed.
I assume that you can get most of the rest of the web through your new connection normally?
Instead of working your pitch, why aren't you working on your product?

Don't tell us how wonderful Venture Communism will be, show us by example.

If you won't do it, why should anyone else? (You don't get to argue "I'm not good at real organizations when you're telling people how to build organizations.")
Anyone else get redirected to a fake virus scan from this page?

End URL was: ://live-virus-scanner7.com/1/?sess=pGTyyjzxMS02JmlwPTIxNy4zNS44My4yMjMmdGltZT0xMjU1MgAMPQdN
And if hafnium runs out, we'll have a great new business in scraping it off old chips to put on new ones. The atoms aren't going anywhere.

Helium atoms _are_ going somewhere (up!) but we can always get that in small from fusion if we really need it. Fusion is easy as long as you don't care about getting more energy out than you put in.
All I can say is: wow.

I know you can do a lot with legos, but this is pretty amazing. My inner child is psyched about this.
Allow for the change to bed in. When the awesome bar came out I immediately disliked it, possibly hated it even: now I find it both useful and generally awesome. It [the awesome bar] takes time to learn the best response to each key string, now i rarely need to type more than 3 letters to find the address i want, often just one letter.

Also a UI change can get more plaudits by virtue of the placebo effect, IMO (I've not done double blind tests!), making things appear better simply cause the look has changed.
Agreed that personal contacts and relationships are your best bet.

Beyond that, we use Google Alerts to RSS feed + LeadNuke for a continuous stream of new client leads. (disclosure: I developed LeadNuke expressly for this purpose)
I've noticed that doors on expensive cars are much heavier and "solid" feeling than lower-end models.

Maybe the manufacturers picked up on this.
I understand that and I do not try to just be the wet blanket all the time lol. However the fact is that big corporations do pay attention, particularly to smart people who talk about "What we want in XYZ product/package/aid/software". There's a reason many startups operate in stealth mode - they have ideas that, if they were found out by companies who spend billions on R&D, would crush them before they even made a prototype (or sue them into oblivion). It is what it is.
Where have the light netbooks gone?
If you select a different entry then that entry gets promoted next time you type the same string. So if you type "g" and a gmail address comes up but you cursor down to "engadget" (say) then next time you press "g" engadget is more likely to come up. After a few iterations g will bring up engadget as the first selection. It's awesome!
Have you or your neighbor recently installed the greasemonkey script that gets people banned? I don't have it handy but answer this: "Have you recently installed a new greasemonkey script for using HN?"
Can you connect to other sites containing the word "hacker"?
Everyone always gets stars in their eyes about China, don't believe the hype. Few foreign companies actually do well. Ask Blizzard for instance how it's going for them with WoW. If you're not Chinese you will be manipulated and milked for what you're worth.

China Unicom is also a distant second place in subscriber numbers to China Mobile (130M vs 497M). Add to that that the high price (1.5 months of a typical salary for a Beijing resident) and that this is available only on a term contract (~60% of subscribers in China are pay as you go and most could not change to a contract even if they wanted) and you probably have a potential market about the size of Canada for Apple.

And WIFI disabled? WTF? Everywhere in China has free WIFI and many phones have it. Who's going to want it with that restriction?
The Bug Fixer could probably tell you if you have an ip-non-grata. Such a list does seem to exist:
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=ip+ban+site...
From the developer's point of view, it's notable that you can now use the Qt framework to program cross-platform apps for Maemo and Symbian phones as well as for Windows, Mac and Linux desktops. And with the support for web technologies in Qt, this means Web developers can create native apps using mostly HTML, CSS, Javascript, SVG etc. http://qt.nokia.com/

(Edit: replying here because of the reply limit: I Right, Qt is supported on Maemo 5, will be default on Maemo 6. II Indeed, and Nokia will support Python for Qt development too.)
This happened to me; something weird was going on, so PG blocked my IP. E-mail him with your IP address and username and let him know what's up.
"Finding a problem worth solving that hasn't been done is the hard bit, and that's down to market knowledge."

YC has actually made it pretty clear that they don't believe this is true. Especially in their new thing where they present an idea and ask for a team to apply to work on it.

YC's funding strategy to date has been "fund good teams with a reasonable idea" more so than "fund great ideas with reasonable teams".

Even successful companies don't get the market or the idea right the first time. In our case we got through three product tests before we decided to shut down. When you've lost the confidence of your investors, pursuing different ideas becomes much harder, especially when you lose faith in the market yourself.
But still a remarkable majority still depends on WPA/TKIP, thinking it's safe. Around my vicinity the ratios of various security methods are roughly:
WPA/TKIP: 65%
WEP: 20%
WPA2/CCMP: 10%
Open/MAC : 5%
(data obtained thru airodump-ng)
Yup, I think the world of visual programming is approaching... I know we've tried and failed before, but all the new people trying again don't know that. sssh

Pretty cool stuff.
I found this article from 2008. http://www.physorg.com/news118491348.html It seems reasonable that Helium from the one place in Texas where most of it currently comes from may run out but the article eludes that there are surely deposits in other countries like Russia that haven't been tapped simply because there isn't demand.
Ask HN:  Are Wi-Fi network names being used for advertising?
You could even have a company that sells advertising on their Wi-Fi networks throughout a city. The network name would change frequently throughout the day as it goes from advertiser to advertiser.
Dutch gov't spends $214,000 on 'Weedpass'
No, the page seems totally ok. Perhaps just your computer made the redirection?
I believe an eminent economist named Thomas Malthus said the same thing almost 200 years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_catastrophe

Nothing has run out yet, we're all still here
This is all true. But here's a fun hypothetical. At what costs does mining in space become profitable? How expensive would a metal have to be per ounce?
I have a similar business, we're nearing our third year. We've found most of our clients through word of mouth and referrals, but don't let that discourage you. You'd be amazed how many people need web work and haven't taken action because hiring a web firm is so intimidating, and its hard to know if you're getting ripped off. Its like how finding a good, honest mechanic you trust is worth its weight in gold - web shops are the same way.

Make sure to tell everyone you know what you do, and you'll find work. In the mean time, try craigslist. Its tough to get clients from craigslist but it can be done, and you'll get a lot of great experience winning clients competitively. In our early days, we landed a white-label development gig via craigslist that provided an invaluable source of steady income during that make-or-break time.

For building your portfolio quickly, you've got 3 options as I see it:

1) Make your own side projects and add those to your portfolio.

2) Lower your rates for your initial clients. Be upfront that they're getting a great deal because you are just getting started, and charge full price for support contracts.

3) Make a fantastic website for a local non-profit. You don't have to worry about "cheapening" yourself, and you'll almost certainly get some good PR out of it. Most importantly, the boards of many non-profits are composed of business leaders in the community. You'll gain invaluable connections if you execute well.

If you give free or discount work, its imperative that you treat it with the same respect as a fully priced client. Think of it as a marketing budget, and make sure its having the maximum impact.

Most importantly, don't die. Figure out how much you can survive on, and skip the fancy office for now. Even if its slow, you will build momentum if you make a good product.
Seems like they might be doing this to protect their manufacturing jobs. I read an article one that said one reason countries like Africa are perpetually poor even though many of them have a lot of good farm land and natural resources is because they only export raw goods and materials where as a lot of the profit is in refining these materials to more finished products. I believe the example given was peanuts are grown there but they don't manufacture peanut butter.
Perhaps this explains the American Express Centurion Card (aka "Black Card") which is made from anodized titanium--its weight is immediately noticeable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centurion_Card
Saying it has "nothing" to do with it is a bit extreme. What if "porn mode" (private browsing) were implemented as a password protected sub-session that allowed bookmarks to be saved, cookies kept, etc., but insulated from the standard browser use with files saved in an encrypted folder.

That would also allow for a person to masquerade more easily as different users.

Indeed private browsing mode could be another, hidden, user profile that happens to have encryption - if a username:password is supplied then the session is saved, if not then it's deleted on browser close.
It is possible, I have my phone set up like this now. Use one of your MyFaves for your GV number and another one for the number GV dials out to (347-234-5001). Then just forget about it and use your phone like normal- all incoming and outgoing calls will be routed through these two if you have GV installed. It works seamlessly on the mytouch.
If you're going to play with a dynamically-scoped lisp you might as well use emacs lisp. It comes with a GUI text editor and is handy for customizing emacs.
IF this was the case he wouldn't be able to telnet into port 80.
Agree on RFPs/Tenders. If you suspect that a company has had help with their tender from a preferred supplier, unless you're desperate for work or have a lot of spare time, run away.
Guys, if he can telnet into port 80 and do a get, that means that he isn't blocked (either by HN admins, or by his ISP).

What browser are you using? Some browsers (like chrome) do weird DNS caching that can, sometimes, cause problems.

The fact that you can get it from telnet, but not from your browser, means that you should be looking at your browser.
One more here too
I know but I would have to do it after every login at gmail.
Firefox should just not include substrings.
I don't mean to suggest it would be illegal. I just think that if they refuse to sell us these minerals, then we might refuse to sell them BMWs or the video games... and so on until somebody sees sense.
awesome? you're easily impressed, are you? :)
He says the connection closes instantly which to me sounds like a security measure for blocked IPs. I assume the block isn't at the OS level so he'd still be able to get into port 80 but once he did it would try to connect to the HN software on that server which would end the connection.
Sales figures for the #2 iPhone app
By the time students get to Shakespeare and calculus, they've been reading books critically and doing math in school for at least a half dozen years. If they have six years of CS/programming education, too, then I agree that they would be well-served by a course in C.

There are a whole hell of a lot of concepts in computer science that I think are both more useful and far more educational than understanding how to do pointer math and learning how to carefully allocate and free memory for your data.
Actually, that's not even important to me. Just the 3G data connectivity. I might just keep my razr for calls :)
I'm such a nerd. I read the title and thought, How did someone manage to run Google Chrome's Javascript engine with Lego?
Unless the block was at the application layer.
I dunno, since I switched to a tiled window manager, these types of "lists of cool features in ..." have become so anticlimactic for me.. most of those features just aren't that useful once you go get used to tiling.
What is your favorite programming book?
What about using curves
This is result of (almost) the same algorithm with curves:
http://sites.google.com/site/nsprojectinfo/image-evolution
This is the first thing that lept to my mind, too. There's a lot of that sort of thing in space. Private industry is currently stuck trying to emulate NASA, but when it will really take off is when it finds something it can do better. Space mining is a very viable candidate on the decade time scale.
I was remarking, rather than arguing. More of an expansion of my interpretation of the GP's post. Note that I start "no" as agreement that the two things are not exclusive.

[I think if we're not on the same page then we're at least in the same Dewey classification.]
If "Finding a problem worth solving that hasn't been done" is easy, it wouldn't take three tries for a great team, and failure wouldn't be possible for any companies with great teams.

The experience of countless startups with great teams but failed businesses disagrees with that philosophy in my opinion.

Even in your own example, the team wasn't the problem it was the idea & the lack of market knowledge. You made a product before you knew the market. If you had of done more market research before building, would you have tried the same idea?
I had to read Romeo and Juliet my Freshman year in high school. My understanding is that R&J is a fairly common Freshman text. Your point about Calculus doesn't quite fit either because you don't need an extensive foundation to start programming. That's why we see a lot more 14 year olds programming than doing Calculus. You're a genius if you're doing Calculus at age 14, but I bet a lot of people who read this site started programming that early or earlier. I'm sure we've got our fair share of accelerated math people as well, but they jut are not as common.
I work on Debian Live, a framework for building customised live systems (we also make "official" live images as a special case). Something like this is easy to make and maintain using it.
Downturn Dims Prospects Even at Top Law Schools
Traditional SaaS vs Cloud enabled SaaS
Cool, now how do I make a heavy website?
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Hey Hackers, just wanted to inform you that my HN account was "created 666 days ago". From now the evil and sinister wizards of the dark SEO 2.0 will descend upon you.

;-)
> The main reason there's no equal opportunity law against boycotts is because it would be rather unenforcable

No, it's because it'd be stupid. For example, it is not the government's business if a consumer chooses to go to Jamba Juice because they like Mormons, but it most certainly is their business if Jamba Juice chooses to hire only Mormans. You can claim it's the same all you like, but the law is on my side, it is different, as it should be.

A consumer is free to discriminate by whatever criteria he wishes when purchasing goods, the employer is not allowed to do so when hiring labor. They are different. Employers are in a much better position to abuse their power and when they do it has a far greater impact on the person being discriminated against; that's why it's different and that's why we regulate them.
Ask HN: Implementation projects in Networking ?
I am planning to do an implementation project as my one year MTech thesis, can you help me find some places to find any good work to be implemented ? I already looked into Tor, nmap and some other open-source projects involved in GSOC. Can you please direct me to other open-source work going on in networking ?
FTR, most of Maemo 5 is GTK.
> or P=NP and nature has figured it out.

I know you're speaking loosely, but what is this supposed to mean? The folding is just a physical process, right? We may find it intractable to model or predict, but it still happens.
I think they're exactly right on the developmental basis of these effects. Our thoughts are embodied because that's how we develop. Just because we learn new stuff doesn't mean it's not rooted in the old.

That's at least one clear place where the brain-as-computer metaphor breaks down. I have yet to see evidence of a neural "delete" function. The question is how robust the overwrite functions are. And so far the evidence suggests the formation of new "files" rather than tampering with, or overwriting, old ones. Based on the neuroanatomy, these basal responses are likely to arise from posterior and subcortical structures. The frontal cortex is then used to abstract away and resolve conflicts.
I demand hardware acceleration for my xmonad!
I see. For 3G data, I've found tethering to be good this far. I'm eager to see how built-in (versus Bluetooth) data affects the battery runtime. (Edit: replying here because of the reply limit: The previous Nokia internet tablets (770, N800, N810) can tether with any phone that supports the standard Bluetooth DUN profile.)
The problem is, I do believe it's training. There are large vested interest with absolute gobs of money who don't want folks to believe that resources are not infinite. Because if we did believe resources were finite, we'd change our behavior quite a lot -- thus resulting in loss of profit.

These people have, using the media and effective control of government (the US's is basically an arm of Goldman Sachs), trained people to believe things that will harm them -- and everyone.

It's not a conspiracy, just a lot of disproportionately greedy people behaving to maximize the same thing, and to achieve the same goal.
I think that having Verdana was not the odd bit; it was assuming that anyone would have "Nimbus Sans" installed ;)
I'm not convinced that this is a really great article. But it may be as good as it's reasonable to expect a one-page popular article on this subject to be.

It is incredibly difficult to write an article like this. You can't assume that your audience knows what entanglement is. You can't assume that they know what entropy is. And even if you thoroughly understand those two things it isn't exactly clear what this research is trying to say. It reads like something that is being badly translated out of the original mathematics.
Yeah, the classic. We have plenty of those around here (Berlin) as well but they're quite expensive (hand made!). Other cargo bikes get manufactured and are thus cheaper.