skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, ditto on the curiosity and revulsion. Is this a normal occurrence when juice fasting? What kind of juice? And when it was all over, any after-effects?
A deeply stupid article. Supercomputers use a lot of power, oh noes! Clearly we could solve climate change if we shut down all the supercomputers...?

The Daily Mail loves this kind of thing because it makes their elderly, luddite audience feel smug that "oh, those computer thingies, all they do is pollute the environment!" which is why they still drive to the bank every week rather than doing it online.
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Maybe they only paid $50,000 for it or something. When people see "Acquires, yada yada..." they expect it is for millions. If someone sees 5 figures there or even 6, they are disappointed.
As someone who runs AdWords, thanks for wasting my money.
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John Gruber was claiming recently that the iPhone SDK didn't allow your own codecs:

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/08/24/rhapsody

Was he mistaken, or has Spotify started streaming songs in a different format from their desktop app that uses Ogg Vorbis?
Whatever the motivation, the result was unambiguous--it's not like he was driving a Hummer H2 everywhere besides those sessions. There aren't many use cases where an electric bicycle is better than an acoustic bicycle, but a commute that's bikeable except for sweat production is one of them.
What could be the possible positives with revealing that information?
Wow, geo-engineering. The Orwellian Earth.
hush! There is this another one now.

How many more js frameworks do we need?
Its not definitive, still experimenting. Might change my mind you know. :)
I live in Portland, and bikes are huge here. The most common complaint I've heard about electric bicycles is that they enable new, relatively unskilled riders to wreak havoc in heavy bike-traffic situations. This mostly involves complaints of passing too close to other riders.

http://bikeportland.org/forum/showthread.php?t=2995

This really isn't a problem with electric bicycles themselves, but with rider education.

I will also say there is definitely a sense of smugness from some riders against electric bicycles, but I'd say there are at least as many people who support the concept and want to see more people out on bikes.
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It's a slick site, but the lack of streaming from the CDN would be a deal breaker if I were looking for a Web video hosting solution.
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Summary: Jeff read the Gamasutra article about bad coding practices. He then notes that "Apache" is a play on "a patchy", and that he recently refactored some StackOverflow code that had been patched in the past (code not provided).

Also, there is a picture of a dog.
the iphone application is only available to users who pay for spotify, not ad supported.

and its nothing like radio, I can play what I want when I want, without adverts, apart from the logistics involved in being online, there isnt a practical difference between it and itunes.
Upvoted for using acoustic bicycle as the opposite of electric bicycle. As to the article, the bike is lame if it doesn't do what he wants it to do otherwise get over what other people think.
I really do not intend to take away from the awesomeness of this announcement, but I am curious. How big are these companies?

Bing Search (3,150 results)
http://www.bing.com/search?q=avecora&go=&form=QBLH&#...
Google (30,000): http://www.google.com/search?q=avecora

That doesn't seem like a lot of hits to me.

Googling "Avecora Ondemand" only has 708 hits:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=avecora+ondemand...

I guess, I'm just trying to understand how "big" this news really is.
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Perspective on what the prevailing market rates are for startups of this scale and scope.
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More info:

http://www.hhi.fraunhofer.de/en/departments/image-processing/computer-vision-graphics/virtual-mirror/virtual-clothing/
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Regular bikers tend to be somewhat snobby both towards other bikers, and any other types of traffic they may encounter (walkers, rollerbladers, cars etc.) So the fact that some Portlander-bikers are being annoyed isn't saying much, and I doubt there's enough of them to be a problem.
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/08/least-surprising-corr...
That's true, it's always going to be a hard letter to get, and I'm sure that most of the time it's being sent to people who deserve to get it. I think a rewrite should simply dispense with the dire accusations, the fake politeness, and the implication that there's a significant human presence behind the individual decision. Don't waste people's time or patronize them, be direct about what's happening and acknowledge that there may be some kind of recourse if you want to work through the process. 'We're disabling your account because our algorithm told us to. We regret if this is an error, please see this page for more information if you feel this is the case.'
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Maybe I should clarify - what are the positives for the involved parties? In other words, what do they gain from posting that information?
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Next time an insect is bothering you: It's not a bumblebee, it's the US army robot.
Reminds me of the Eclipse trilogy by John Shirley or The Fifth Element.
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Everything operates in landscape mode except the phone?

On my iPhone, landscape mode usually means two hands, whereas portrait means one, using my thumb to point or scroll.

It's not a huge thing, but an important feature for me. My phone is on and working about 80% of the time I'm on the move and either not driving or talking to someone. So whether it's drinking coffee, carrying stuff into work, or handling toilet paper (hush!), all of these require effective single-hand operation.

Yeah, thinking about it here, I'd estimate large percentage of my iPhone operation is portrait and single hand. YMMV.

This Nokia Linux phone looks great, however, and I'm nitpicking. I am looking forward to choices in the marketplace.
No. Did you read the article? They removed ALL of them not just this one.
That's not really a good thing... I hope the icon isn't widely used.
It's easy to explain that phenomenon without calling upon meritocracy or inherited traits: people with more resources (human and material) have more opportunity to become smarter.
Developer here. If you're talking about "streaming" as live playback from one location to another, we don't do that, but that's a totally different product anyway. If you're talking about "streaming" as auto-buffering, we can definitely do that. It's temporarily disabled on some pages to keep file transfer costs down.
Why? Do you prefer for HN to be a place where only TechCrunch, NYT and Mashable get submitted? Such a button would greatly improve the variety of submissions here.
2. Never return anything in a function, especially not some type of value that could demonstrate your function succeeded or failed.

First, why would you do his in a language where the idiomatic way to express that a function has failed is to throw an exception? Second, this is a pretty extreme failure and probably rare in (useful) Python code; why complain about about this when there is a real, extremely common problem in Python programming: not documenting your exceptions, so users who want to distinguish between different failure modes are forced to experiment and/or read your code.
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Things like that make me love HN :D
As has been pointed out here before, Google are essentially a customer in this situation, therefore they are under no real obligation to keep buying ad impressions from you, so I'm not sure 'lost revenue' liability would be particularly fair or enforceable.

But I agree that reimbursement for the cost of a call that results from their inability to deal with your problem through any other channels would be appropriate.
I agree. It could be confused with a commodity content site. This is very much not "Hacker News!!" It runs the risk of raising the noise level.

I like introducing people to this site.
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At one point in my life I had grand plans build a flywheel into a four wheeled bicycle. I could replicate regenerative breaking, I could spin up the flywheel at stop lights, it was going to be great. I mentioned this idea to a civil engineer friend of mine, who pointed out that I could probably get better power density with a battery. When I realized I'd reinvented a heavier version of the electric bike I wasn't so excited about the project.
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I think the overhead of paying people to manually update stuff is somewhat under-rated in the article...and what happens when the artist changes their facebook/twitter/myspace/etc... password and you can't get in? How do you convince other sites to use your API? How do you convince artists to switch to your hosting, especially without any existing users?

Not a bad strategy if you are HostBaby or a similar existing site, but there are big hurdles for a newbie...unless you have some kind of "in" in the music world.
Jeff Atwood's blog would be improved immensely if it was just pictures of dogs.
Live instruction is more valuable than self-instruction to a majority of children of any age.

The point can be made by taking your question 1 step further.

If the information is available to kids via books, then why have school at all?
In the Adsense cases, the argument can be made (not sure I fully agree, but I don't use Adsense so I can't really speak specifically about it, but customers can be held accountable for interfering with business operations). In the Adwords cases (patio1, e.g.), Google is the vendor.
I'm a biker and _I will never own a bike like that_, too proud I guess but... I completly support people who are using electric bikes. I bike for two reason : health and environment. If they are only in for the environment, it's more than OK to me.
Easy: to make it look like you are always active. Brent Ozar did a good piece this week on how he "appears" to write so often when, in reality, he goes through bursts and then schedules his posts to be uploaded: http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2009/08/building-your-blogg...
Google is the customer here. They happen to be a very big customer who is aggregating and organizing adspace inventory for thousands of their customers. But as with any such relationship, they are free to walk away at any time.

And yes it sucks; but there must be advertisers out there who think that a site that gets 10,000 impressions a day and is linked from most of the popular news sites is worth something; selling to them is a better move than whining about how Google doesn't love you anymore.
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Here's what you have to overcome to get me to try you: why should I trust you with my twitter username/pass? I'll admit it: I'm ignorant of how Twitter/you do authentication. If there's some way you could help me over that, I'd try it.
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The Boston Globe article is only a comment. Read the original source instead:

http://www.psych.ubc.ca/~edunn/publications/dunn_aknin_norto...
> "Do you really feel like you need a motor to help you pedal?"

Not all environmentalists are ideologues, but many are (not to say that other points of view are better or worse in this regard). Much of the problem that I have with left-wing ideology is that people look at things as MORAL or RELIGIOUS issues instead of ENGINEERING issues.

It's like Clay Shirky said about online communities [ http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html ]: one of their purposes is the veneration of the religious viewpoint.

"Hey, I've got an electric bike!"

"That's not a REAL bike; it sucks; you suck."

"Yeah, but it uses 1% of the power of a car"

"That's not a REAL bike; it sucks; you suck."

"It's good for the environment"

"That's not a REAL bike; it sucks; you suck."

<sigh>

The reason that high school sucks [ http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html ] is because it's filled with human beings, who care about "religious" issues an in-group loyalty.
They probably used the distance-from-lip-edge-to-ear metric.
That's really cool that this guy thinks dynamic languages have the potential to be faster than C++. Maybe he can write a second article when they are actually faster, with some properly done benchmarks or some valid technical examples.
No this is COMPLETE BS. I haven't cared about Google Voice and all of the other apps that were rejected. But I have personally used iStat and it's predecessor app for a long time. It was the only bloody way for me to know if my edge & 3g phones were going to crash from lack of memory. I have never had problems with these apps. As long as you followed the clearly written instructions about how to free up more memory, you were fine. This is some official bullshit.
Another developer here. I think you may be referring to an actual Flash streaming server. We're currently using Amazon CloudFront that doesn't support it. We're taking a good look at Limelight and others that do support Flash streaming for the future. Thanks for your feedback.
To clarify: I was not in the least suggesting that the fact that it might be possible to get your money back from Google by suing them means that Google haven't failed. I was suggesting that it might be a more effective way of getting them to take notice than going through their (clearly rather useless) support channels and blogging about it.
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The concept of "free memory" on a modern system also makes no sense. RAM that is not used is wasted. (Up to a point; the OS will try to keep a percentage actually free so it can always do some work, but this is not much compared to the total.) The more of your RAM that is taken up, the more data you have cached.
We're trying to do something similar at Flooha. Anyone can create a free website, which they own, using the software of their choosing. We will open it up very soon so that developers can upload their own apps which users can then use to create sites. It's only PHP apps right now, but we'll add rails apps very soon.

Sites like Weebly and Yola are great and really easy to use, but can you move that site to a different host? Maybe you can export to html (I haven't checked), but you sure can't keep all the drag and drop / site building functionality if you want to move to a different host and you can't host it on your own server.

Also, you're limited to the addons and "apps" (photo gallery, eCommerce, etc...) that they develop for their platform. If your site is built or hosted by Flooha, you can take it anywhere at any time and use any app or addon you want. Even if an app isn't available on Flooha, you can still install it like you would on any other web host.

We're trying to make apps "user-ware" instead of "nerd-ware".
When I lived in a small town, I used my bicycle as my main mode of transportation and I thought it was great, but I lived in a town that was fairly cool most of the year and I only had to be in business casual, which allowed button-up short sleeved and polo shirts.

I have to sympathize, if I had to show up in a suit, especially in a warmer place, I would not have taken a standard bicycle. I probably would have gone on to a car, so I think an electric bike is a good compromise.
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I think the vast majority of possible non-human intelligences would simply leave earth
The scores are mostly all in the average range. I'd be curious to see the income graph for scores at -2, -1, +1, +2, and +3 standard deviations from the mean.
Rough summary:

"A bunch of American politicians have worked themselves into a right tizzy over something they don't even come close to understanding. In response, they are trying to pass a law saying that they run the Internet. When asked his position on the bill, a senior Senator emitted a series of 1990s-era buzzwords."
qooxdoo has been around for ages. tried and true technology.
Twitter uses OAuth to authenticate users. Before you type your credentials, make sure you have been redirected to the twitter.com, after that, you're pretty much logging in to twitter itself.
Just to clarify, this is just an interesting article I found. I'm not the owner of an Electric bike. I have an old fashioned normal road bike. London is about to roll out electric bikes throughout the capital
If you actually expected them to fight it all the way, that might be true. I suspect, though, that "Google found guilty of stealing customer's money" would be an unpalatable enough headline that they'd settle pretty quickly once the threat was made.

But yeah, not being in a country where Google has enough presence to bring them under its jurisdiction could be a problem.
I think it's more about distance and sweat than not caring about health. If you're in Austin (like the author and myself) you're not going to go more than two miles in a reasonable amount of time without sweating, especially if you're dealing with hills. For commuting, that shouldn't really be an issue, since any reasonable workplace should have some means of storing a bike and changing clothes. For unreasonable workplaces and situations where sweating is a dealbreaker (if you're going shopping for clothes and you're going to try things on, please don't bike far), an electric bike seems like a good idea.
A few years ago Discovery Channel aired a fun disaster 'docudrama' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervolcano_%28docudrama%29) about the worst case scenario for a Yellowstone eruption.

It was surprisingly well done...ie entertaining, more tied to facts that the garbage coming out of history channel lately (eg http://www.history.com/content/nostradamus)
the things you mentioned would be harmless, not harmful. at worst they would waste some resources. they certainly wouldn't requisition resources by force (unless you want to talk about ideology as a "technology" :)
I didn't actually start to hate bicyclists and bicycling culture until I became one.

They are one of the most fundamentalist group of people when it comes to two wheeled bikes. I've met all kinds of tolerances but it seem to mostly lean towards "not".

Any kind of suggestion about violating the ordained formula for a bicycle is just inciting religious hatred. It usually goes like this:

Want to consider a shaft driven bicycle for easier mainteinence? THEY"RE STUPID AND EXPENSIVE! Internal hub gearing? THEY'RE STUPID AND EXPENSIVE! Electric motor? THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!

And if you're not wearing spandex and have the right gear, the right bike (or at least the wrong one), you get looked down on again. I hate it.
I bike (or unicycle) to get from A to B.
With a not too outlandish set of assumptions, the environmental footprint of an electric cyclist is smaller than that of an acoustic cyclist. Unless you're some kind of raw-food vegan:

http://ebikes.ca/sustainability/Ebike_Energy.pdf

The potential hole in the reasoning is the assumption that a human-powered cyclist switching to electric would start eating less.

In either case the environmental footprint compared with driving is so miniscule that you're really splitting hairs.
wth. If I read that right, he just stated that intelligence is something inherited.
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Well that all depends on how light the flywheel is and how fast it's spinning.

I'm sure a 1kg flywheel spinning at 20K RPM would hold plenty of power, and it's certainly not too much extra weight.

That aside, I still agree that it's impractical :-p
The bike shop employee's attitude sounds very familiar. If serious cyclists want more people to get on bikes, they need to put some effort into making cycling more welcoming to newbies.

I live in San Francisco, and about a month ago I decided to buy a bike, the first time I'd bought a bicycle. I know how to ride a bike, but I am in all other ways a noob -- I've never owned a bike with gears (the last time I had a bike I was 12), know nothing about road bikes vs. mountain bikes vs. hybrids, etc.. Surely, in a city as self-consciously eco-friendly as San Francisco, I could find a bike store full of earnest, well-meaning hippies to point me in the right direction for planet-saving happiness, preferably on a budget?

No such luck. I walked into store after store to be greeted with barely-disguised contempt as I explained I had no idea what I wanted, just "a bike to ride around on", which turned into sneers of disgust when I said that I wanted to spend less than $500 on it.

Even co-workers who bike were of little help. One described buying a bike for less than $500 as "like buying a netbook". I countered that a netbook was a great analogy, as I wasn't going to be commuting on the bike, just riding it every so often, the cycling of equivalent of "just checking my email".

Eventually I got my bike (at Valencia Cyclery) and I'm enjoying it very much, but it's easy to see how people can be put off. Any cycling is better than no cycling, and "bike people" need to get over themselves and be more welcoming to the new and clueless.