skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got a call from Time Warner Cable a few months back saying that they detected traffic on my modem at 6:14am that morning that matched a known worm/virus (forgot the name, but they mentioned it specifically). Sure enough, a friend was staying over, and his laptop was infected with that same virus. Who knows how thorough their monitoring is, but I wouldn't say it's impossible that they can snoop in real time.

I don't know that they
If monks can build a temple out of beer bottles, what can you do?
There is a very old saying that undercuts a lot of the type of learning styles he mostly discusses : "Hear it and forget it, see it and remember it, do it and learn it"; which is mostly concerned with the student's interaction with the material. I am very poor at learning material aurally, but I have noticed that even people who can respond more effectively to aurally presented information still seem to have more trouble remembering that information than things visually presented.

Also, he claims that no learning styles theories are well supported; but I have used learning style theories based on 2 different bases that seem to help. First is groupers vs stringers (see Lewis and Greene's "Thinking Better", 1982), some people seem to learn better by encountering small groups of related facts simultaneously, while others absorb one at a time like beads on a string more easily. Second, is whether you begin with lots of details and build up to an overview of the subject, or start with an overview and fill in the details later. Both of these "styles" are continua, not exclusively either-or, and people tend to use a slightly different balance of style on different materials.

Also, I saw a review of his book mentioned in the lead to this article, "Why Don't Students Like School", http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/200909/why... , and he seems to be a bit out of touch with real world classroom and student behavior.
I know I got scolded for this in the other thread, but I disagree, and I'm working on a longer refutation of that "social network pattern." So give me a bit and I'll have a response for you.
A lot of hotrodders love to claim incredible power outputs for their engines when tested separately, but those usually do not relate much to real world use. There are all kinds of tricks to make your engine look powerfull on the bench.

The Vyron was EPA tested so its power rating is for the engine in the car which is much harder.

But I have no idea why they used a carburated engine. That seems too low tech.
"...exposure to green products can...license us to act immorally."
"How many businesses will revisit their iPhone support now that they know Apple shipped and promoted a product as fit for business only to later find that the device had a major security flaw? "

Probably not many. Many products, including ones never patched without a paid upgrade, have had known security flaws. Including products like Windows, Exchange and Office. Hasn't stopped their acceptance as industry standard tools has it? In terms of how it effects the iPhone enterprise user base we should consider a couple facts:

iPhone OS 3.0 was released at the same time as the iPhone 3GS hardware (June 19th 2009)

iPhone OS 2.x did not support Exchange.

So I think you can make a reasonable case that before June 19th 2009 very few of these encryption-required companies were buying iPhones since they simply didn't support Exchange. Post June 19th 2009 how many companies were buying non-GS models? We could further sub-divide this based on the discovery of the encryption loop hole which you would hope any of these encryption-required companies were aware of. So by my crude calculations I think there is probably a month period where companies may have been buying non-GS iPhones with an expectation of pure encryption-required support.
Well, I know that I consider internet to be a necessity (granted, it's part of my job) and so I have to be spending that $40 no matter what. The $1 RedBox I don't have to be spending. Now, I'm sure there are people for whom broadband isn't a given expense, but I know that most of my friends wouldn't cut it out because they need it for everything from communication (skype, IM, email) to information (Wikipedia, news) to fun (hulu, youtube). And so the broadband connection becomes a given for things other than entertainment.
Americans spend in the neighbourhood of $200/month on clothes? Wow.. I'm so far below that, I doubt I'm even in the 99% percentile on the low end.
I agree with the comments on the linked article, I liked the Speed Racer movie too. On the other hand, I thought the Lost In Space movie was worse than the original series. I was a kid when all three of these Astro Boy, Speed Racer, and Lost in Space were originally out, so we'll see how it goes. What's next though, Marine Boy, that's the only other major cartoon from the 70s left, that I can remember. Or maybe they'll do an Ultraman movie rather than the pukey Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers that supposedly evolved from it.
I take this to mean no one is "stuck" with a particular learning style. If that were the case, few auditory learners could earn PhDs because of the amount of required reading. Instead of trying to accommodate different learning styles, why not teach people how to learn better using available materials? There is a massive amount of print material in every field. There is not much audio or kinesthetic material in many fields. Therefore, we'd better learn to be visual learners if we want to master the broadest range of material.
Many, many more images below. I think the OP goes way over the top in terms of describing its environment credentials ("single-handedly redefined recyclability") and aesthetics ("fuses practicality and spirituality to create a whole new forum for aesthetic design"), but it certainly seems to be an impressive project.

http://images.google.com.au/images?hl=en&q=thai%20monks%...
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Well, assuming that it is worth somewhere around $1.8b (either because of its intrinsic value or because you could sell it for around that), it has already added about that even if they do nothing but just own it.

If they have any sort of plan for really integrating (I think they might have a history of doing this), it probably means they want the mature sales/consulting/customisation part of the business. The technology side, as mentioned elsewhere, is not that interesting.
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Wait, hold on, what's wrong with judging? How would we get anywhere without judging? We are judging machines!
Cringely - IBM's "Logan's Run"
Download PwnageTool 3.1 And Jailbreak iPhone OS 3.1
iPhone Dev Team has now once again taken the lead by releasing an updated version of PwnageTool 3.1 for MacOS X - the updated utility lets users jailbreak iPhone OS 3.1 by creating an custom IPSW file without updating the baseband and hence retaining the Ultrasn0w unlock and jailbreak.

The bad news is that the current release of PwnageTool 3.1 is available only for Mac OS X and supports iPhone 1st Generation (2G), iPhone 3G and the iPod Touch 1G only - that means no jailbreak for Windows and iPhone 3GS/iPod Touch 2G/iPod Touch 3G users as of now.
It's simply not true or as simple to say that Canada hasn't fallen into the same issues as other institutions because of regulation. Yes, consolidation was denied but investment banks were part of retail banks long ago.

Megan McArdle has a good post on this: http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/05/canadia...
Don't forget Amazon is also footing the (continual) wireless bill.
When I was at digg, where a significant aspect of our audience was under 21, I was concerned about the exclusionary aspect of drinking. I think that probably applies here too.

I can still be found going to all-ages shows and appreciate the democratic aspect.
Amazon took more than 4 years, and nobody is complaining now. Loopt is a success now, and will be very successful in the future, and it is very impressive considering Sam started it when he was an undergrad.
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Private companies rarely share all their revenue / profit numbers. It's amusing that lots of HN outsiders speculate and wildly miss on how YC companies are actually doing in real terms.
Question: are Android apps resolution independent? Because if they aren't, I'm going to be really angry. 50% of the J2ME apps[1] out there refuse to work correctly on my phone because they were designed for a different screen resolution/size.

[1] Yes, I still use an old J2ME phone.
Thanks for the images. I am currently travelling through Greece and Cyprus and what caught my eye in museums is that the glass would probably survive for ever. The Temple is not only a good example of recyclability but also of engineering. But you are right the OP went over the top with the 'green language'. I guess someone got too excited :)
Well, all queries are accessed through URLs. There are two types of queries: temp views and permanent views. You can use apache/nginx to redirect all query through URLs for temporary views. Permanent views are stored on the db. That way, your client can't execute arbitrary queries. Then, the client can only be limited to views/queries that the web dev set.

http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Nginx_As_a_Reverse_Proxy

Then as long as the client can keep its identification token secret from others, you can implement "user can only query their own blog entry"

I suggest you look into couchDB a bit further. CouchDB is a different beast altogether from relational databases. Therefore, the assumptions you make about what a database can and cannot do coming from a relational world doesn't always apply.
I agree. I want to play Wii games using my android.
Nice post. I'm glad he didn't bother to say that they're responsible drinkers. At best, it wouldn't be necessary to say it because clearly they're in control. At worst, it might offend some who think that the only way to drink responsibly is to drink moderately (according to gov't guidelines) or not at all.
This will hurt them more than one might think at first. One of the selling points of their Blockbuster Total Access plan (the Netflix competitor) is that you can return movies to a store and pick up new ones. Unless their new kiosks will let you do this, it's another reason for many people not to pay for Total Access.
I think a bit of friendly competition will help both projects.

The Twisted devs may have some hurt feelings, but I think they can learn a lot from this.
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Hi HN. What cost-effective tools would you use to broadcast your screen in real-time to paying viewers and a (configurable) delayed transmission to non-paying viewers?
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(Disclaimer - I wrote the blog post)

"The Twisted docs are lacking in many ways, I just don't understand how Tornado is objectively better because it doesn't currently have that problem -- they aren't the same thing!"

Of course it's the same thing. If your documentation is lacking, don't complain when people point it out. It's awesome that Jean-Paul (who commented on the blog post) is available to help people...but if there was more documentation then the simple questions disappear and you are left answering the really tough ones. Easier said then done, obiously.

Upon reflection, this is really a comparison of Twisted.web with Tornado. The rest of Twisted got dragged into it, perhaps unfairly.
I've been working with on integrating Omniture for the past month or so with a lot of the sites for the company I work for. Everything works, but it's not very intuitive. The Site Catalyst suite needs an overhaul and they really need to spend a lot of time working out how to easily customize report suites, a lot of it is not customizable whatsoever!

In my opinion, it's a bloated piece of software, but hey, I'm just a developer.
Except if you double-click the slides (for editing). Then the formatting is fixed. But yeah, it's a drag if you happen to be using IE7.
When you say "Vyron", I can only assume that you're talking about the Veyron, which decidedly is a performance car:

BHP: > 1000 bhp
0 - 60: < 2.5 sec
Top Speed: > 253 mph
Braking: 249 mph to 0 in < 10 sec
1/4-mile: 10.2 sec

Not a performance car, my ass.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugatti_Veyron
Apps.Gov source of inspiration for start-ups?
Hey, since you said you are a big fan of Eric Reis/Blank, I had to ask you if you are doing the customer development survey(http://survey.io)?

More here: http://startup-marketing.com/free-customer-development-help-...
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Hopefully the 50+ year olds will manage to transfer the key piece of information to the 18-25 year olds - what they get paid and how to get that same salary.
They might also like to know about his personal fighter jet:
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Definitely agree on the learning curve. I'm using twisted for a distributed computing framework that is custom tailored for our requirements (looked into Hadoop, disco, etc. but decided against for valid technical and/or logistical reasons).

I go to a lot of pains so that clients of my framework never have to touch or even see twisted though it is under the hood. I think I spent about a week in the beginning really wrestling with Twisted and what was the appropriate way to transcribe my ideas into the "deferred" model. Once it clicked it was relatively smooth sailing (all in all, Twisted is a pretty sweet framework but not without its gotchas that you have to learn the hard way). A week spent learning a new framework isn't much time, but when clients want to get their app up and running ASAP it is an eternity and ultimately would prevent their adoption of my framework.
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Somebody tell me why this isn't boring.
My co-worker ran radio stations and shows (independent) you have no idea how fucked up they can be!

Basically they want metrics on what you play, how much of it for national tracking so they can pay the artists/songwriters/record labels according to some fucked up laws. And you have to have special licenses to play the song online vs on a radio, etc. Its all insane. Basically get really familiar with online-radio broadcasting laws.

Also while I'd love to chat about co-founding there is no "about" page were I can at least have an email or number to contact.
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Depends on how boring you think making a lot of money is. Servicemagic.com makes upwards of 100M/yr. Boring or not its a great business.
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I thought TC50 was about innovation. I was expecting something disruptive coming out as a winner. This seems to be a good business but what is innovative about it? I am disappointed.
of course it's possible. isp's require equipment like this to troubleshoot problems and detect/isolate denial of service attacks.

i used to work at an isp and built two sniffers like that that were used on a per-incident basis to watch traffic going to certain places (usually all traffic to and from a particular colocated server). in my case the devices weren't anything more than openbsd servers with tcpdump, snort, and other pcap utilities, but at larger isp's they would use something more proprietary to handle larger amounts of traffic. i'm sure if we had a good reason to we could have just left them on all the time and used something like snort or another deep packet inspector to trigger alerts on certain traffic.
There's countless startups doing the exact same thing.
Could you try to watch the first 15 seconds of the video on that link?
Quoting myself, now: "Using a generator expression works just as well, though, and is probably clearer in the long run."

It's just that my first instinct is always to use all(xs, pred).
That makes a lot more sense but it unfortunately is not working on my browser. Clicking on a thumbnail does nothing. Probably a bug with WebKit nightlies I guess.
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I don't remember being told (or even taught specifically as if I were) one of the three "learning styles."

I do remember being told, "Stop asking questions and finish your worksheet. If you have questions, stop after school." And then after school: "God, you're stupid. Didn't you pay attention in class?"

Of course, this was 6 years ago at a magnet school in an honors math class.

Since then, I've taught myself (rudimentary, but useful) calculus... go figure.
Last night as I was about to drive past a Blockbuster near my office that I hadn't looked at in a while, I wondered if they would still be open. They were. I'm guessing this one will be one of the 960.
The first emulator only had a dpad and a couple of buttons. With more devices coming out, it looks like they added more key support for various things.

The old emu also only supported QVGA and HVGA, the new one appears to let you pick a custom size and DPI for your build.
It's also good for loosening people up a little bit. I've been to a number of networking events with alcohol and it's pretty effective.
So, now facebook would theoretically be the 4th most populous country. Damn. Countries like China and India have been around for thousands of years. And then, 3rd up, America: under 300 years. And facebook: 4 years.
That doesn't mean it's a completely useless concept.

...except that according to the article, it is a useless concept, with that conclusion backed up by data.

So you're really saying that you think the research that the article is based on is somehow wrong. Which is possible, for sure, but without finding the article and actually looking through it, I can't comment on that.
Don't confuse "cool/trendy apps" with "cool behind the scenes implementation"

You could combine stats+data mining+python to create an app that may not be sexy, but makes a lot of money.

My advice, if that's truly what gets you going: find a business niche with a data need, build a solution, and be the next Omniture
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A home made Christmas gift has ample scope of creativity and innovation associated with it, the more you are passionate towards designing it, the more they seem to look beautiful and attractive.
when you have crappy selection, you'll make a crappy choice. The competition this year downright sucked, there really wasn't a single company(I'll admit I wasn't really following TC50 that closely) that really made me say "WOW, what an awesome service"
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Good grief. This reminds me of the SNL sketch where Trump is giving his wife a diamond encrusted front door. Point being, this is what you come to when you run out of stuff to spend your money on.

Why have this thing custom built when you could have a Tesla roadster for substantially less? Probably because he already has two of those I guess. To each his own...
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Quite a few seem to care a great deal about the private lives of others...it seems really strange to me. Why would anyone worry about what these guys do on their free time, if at all?
I thought CitySourced and LocalBacon were pretty cool. They solved real problems and actually listened to their customers' pain points.
Doesn't the AGPL cover this problem?
I know a lot of you guys are saying "where's the innovation". If it's so innovation-free, why does a service like RedBeacon not exist yet?

And if it's not so simple, then wouldn't it require innovation to build the platform and the marketing to make it all gel?

I don't know if these guys can pull it off. But if they do, they will need a lot of <unsexy> innovation.
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I experienced this a bit before I was 21, but interning at a company that went out after work a lot. The solution is the venue. Not all bars are 21 y/o and over only, usually only the ones that are strictly bars or nightclubs have that restriction. Your average hamburger & burger place with a bar will let anyone in most hours except maybe thursday/friday/saturday nights.
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". I love that I can whip out a 2-file application in Sinatra --- one file for the Ruby and templates, and another for the jQ js that'll run on the client."

Yeah, I love that about Ramaze as well. :)

"What does Ramaze do better than Sinatra for me?"

Appears to be faster (at least in some simple benchmarks I ran). Choice of templating language may be key.

Has a better-sized set of robust standard helpers, should you want to load them.

More built-in adapters for a wide variety of template engines (Haml, Ezamar, Liquid, Markaby, others)

Unbeatable community on irc (#ramaze on freenode)

Way cooler shirts and coffee cups: http://www.cafepress.com/rubystuff/4904578 ;)

Whether or not any of this works out as "better" for anyone is hard to say. I like that Sinatra doesn't dump a ton of must-load crap on you just to get started, but neither does rolling a plain Rack app. Or Ramaze, for that matter.

It's also nice to have a reliable set of built-in libs to pull from, and as best I can see there's a stronger choice in Ramaze.

But, to be honest, Sinatra just never showed enough value to me to dig into all it's possibilities, so I may be wrong in my observations.
But at some point, when your liabilities far outweigh your assets and your brand is horribly tarnished, why not just start a new company?