skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to second-guess you, but extra-large reserved instances going full-time for 3 years go for $250/mo via http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/08/lower-pricing-for-amazon-...
Welcome to web 2.0: where half-assed blog posts count as journalism and people actually pay attention to idiots!
And GRE vocabulary, I don't even need to take the GRE(maybe) but I think I will study these, improve my vocabulary.
He probably meant to write 'trawling'.
Steve Jobs Actually Uses iTunes 9?
Google plans to offer micropayments service to media owners
here too...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/scavenger/detail?entry_i...
Cocoa for Scientists (XXXI): All Aboard Grand Central
What's so bad about no marketing?

I've got a chip on my shoulder because we severely disappointed customers by shipping a product that lacked tons of features that marketing had hyped up beforehand. Most of their ideas to win back customers were good in spirit but were bogged down by banal details and deceitful trial terms / payment rules. I fully accept the idea that this is just an example of terrible marketing and not representative of marketing as a whole, but I haven't got a personal experience of marketing being a huge boon.

I can't say I'm a good example because the end users of my code are company employees, I make internal tools, but even then we try to set our own deadlines and keep them with no external dictation of when stuff must be done.
If you made this story into a blog post, people would listen. (I'm actually serious, it's an interesting story and a lot of people might benefit from hearing more of the details and the thought process behind it.
Ask HN: What tools do you use to automate the testing of your websites?
From unit testing to link checkers. Is it possible to automate testing of display and layout issues from release to release?
O'Reilly just released a recently recorded GIT webcast by Scott Chacon as well http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/e/1394
If you put it online, it will fall out every time
Could you go into more details into SRS for math? "Fact Memorizing" type systems seem to fit well with things like supermemo (languages, law, history, biology, a bunch of sciences), but not so much with things like math (other than memorizing formulas). And did you really add homework questions like find the kernel of this subspace in the first few weeks of the course?
By "took over" of course, I meant "assimilated", not "came into existance." Those of us old enough to remember what this country was like 40 years ago know what I mean. Unless they're in denial about the stagnation of wages and the huge concentration of wealth at the top
Why Is Google Not Participating In Remembrance of 9/11?
The most popular digital goods are virtual money, weapons and gifts
>I've been saying for a while that Turing's premature death set back mathematics by years, if not decades. :(

That, as the British say, is utter bollocks. His contributions to Mathematics were done before the war. Plus he was pass 40 when he died...
I do like that they make it easy to get to the best negative reviews. In general, I find that they tend to be the most useful by far.
They always use steve@me.com in their marketing materials.
If I'm reading the charts correctly, the negative-rated comments have at least as many (and often more) replies than positive-rated comments.

I'll remember this next time someone asks how Glenn Beck is still on the air.
Mnemosyne is actually very good

http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/

it works on Win, Mac and Linux - written in Python
If someone can talk you out of being a writer, you're not a writer.

This is the kind of stupid romanticism that pisses me off coming from writers.
Magnetic fields drop off as the cube of the distance, because the molecules further away will experience much less force you will need a much larger magnet anyway.

That's not 'somewhat' stronger, that's a lot stronger.

If a mouse is 25 mm high and you would want to levitate something the size of a human of say 1.75 m high with the same density as a mouse then the required magnet would have to be roughly (8^6)/2 times as strong for the same effect.

Then you still have to take into account the size difference at the base of the field, figure another factor of about 10 or so for that.

If you take the 'easier' approach and levitate a person while laying down (probably a wise thing) then the required magnet strength would be smaller, but still not that much smaller, you now have a vastly large surface area to work with ~40 times as large, (30,000 square cm opposed to 75 square cm), and the height is still 10 times as much so figure another 8^3 as much for that.
I actually think you might have an easier time selling something that used to be free. In any case I certainly don't think users are less likely to buy something that was free. If it's free first, users have already seen it so they know what it's worth.

You're arguing that there's a set of people who would have been willing to pay for something had they not been given it for free first. But because it was free, all of a sudden they don't want it anymore once it costs money. I think that's a stretch.

Also consider joe video-uploader who had never thought of paying for something like analytics, but since he's been using it for free and knows how valuable it is to him he can make a better informed decision as to whether it's worth $10/mo or whatever.
Argentina's wired city
See my other comment. I would be willing to bet that more top performers under the JSL system compared with top performers under a reading / writing focused system will end up being much more successful in careers / life in Japanese society.

Japanese people take for granted that Kanji is hard and are forgiving when Westerners aren't that great at it, but it's painfully hard to listen to someone speak with non-native intonation and poor grammar.
Exactly what evidence do you use to characterize the loan as predatory? The other story I've read on this (in the Times as well if I recall correctly) characterized Leibovitz as being bad at managing her finances. If you pledge property as collateral for a loan and you don't pay the loan back according to the terms that you agreed to, then the creditor has the right to foreclose on the property and sell it, what's predatory about that?
John Cochrane (economist) has some excellent tips on writing for PhD students:

http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/john.cochrane/research/Paper...
Loopt Sneaks Background Multitasking Into Its iPhone App
There is no way they could pull that off on that notice, from a Starbucks location. If nothing else, 3500 of them would be cold.
Is there someone I can try this out for free? Are there ready made flashcards for something useful to learn?
One could plausibly scrape a significant portion of the adjacency of the network from chained searches for '25 things' and similar notes.
Thoughts on artificial bodies
Hanuman, known also as 'Anjaneya' is one of the most popular concepts of devotees of God. He is also referred to as Bajrang Bali because his body was hard like a diamond. Recently one guy from Maharastra,India became popular and considered as Hanuman rebirth took place. The reason for considering him as a Hanuman is if you hit his body with a spoon it sounds like your hitting an iron rod. Personally as a science student I don't believe this. But what puzzles me is when can a body become as hard as an iron rod? what made his body different? Is it gene related?
hey Foppr,

It is almost impossible to have any rational discussion about 9/11/2001 and the events leading up to it with anybody, there is simply too much emotion involved.

So I've flagged this, sorry.
I notice that.

I find it funny that Apple uses Steve Jobs to sell its products. If Steve Jobs uses it then you should use it.
I can't speak for google, but personally I feel like it's starting to get over-played. There's constant specials on TV of every order, on every channel. Though "We Will Not Forget" I don't think we need another 500 reminders as to what we're not forgetting.
Has anyone made their own notes private, and then tried searching like this? I assume you'll have to wait a day or two...
EY is super expensive. Also most of the cost is for support techs who can read/understand ruby code and gems. Chances are the github guys don't really need that.
It seems awfully true to me. Of course, just because you can't talk some one out of it doesn't mean they are indeed writers. You kinda need to be able to spell.
Yeah, it's confusing. They say Wozniak pulled that prank, then it devolves into Jobs making a phone call where he doesn't order 4000 cups of coffee.
Kind seems a little bit douche-baggy to me. People ask for favors all the time. Hell if everyone acted like this, what would be the point to networking?

If I was in his shoes, I'd definitely take the time to read a few on occasion.
My profile is still entirely unfindable.
Rare, but it happens ..

"President Bush apologized Thursday for the humiliation suffered by Iraqi prisoners at the hands of U.S. soldiers.."

"President Clinton has apologized to the elderly black survivors of a government-run study of untreated syphilis."

"The significance of a presidential apology was recognized recently when the President apologized to those harmed by Cold War radiation experiments."

"In 1990, the U.S. president apologized to and compensated Japanese-Americans for their internment during the war."
I partially agree with you that authorship is still visible, even when writing to a very strict coding standard. I'm thinking of a colleague who wrote a little mini-templating system to solve a particular issue. That style of solution was very characteristic of him.

But the point is, I could read through it almost at the same speed I could read my own code from a few months ago.

And, when I was modifying someone else's code, I didn't have to make any hard decisions. For example, if my predecessor had named functions inconsistently, I could make some lame attempt to follow what had been done, or try to carve out a chunk of code done "my" way. But at Google I never had that problem. And that's why people at Google can modify each other's codebases all the time.
If the expectation was to be paid, then EY would have offered a contract with a future non-free date. Nobody expected this eventuality, or if they did both sides were OK with reaping the benefits in the short term.
I think the point is that if you come looking for a pat on the head from a person who has actually put in a huge amount of time to gain their experience, you're setting yourself up for failure.

The article is a lot more about how it sucks that he's in a spot where he has to look like a dick, no matter what he does.

I'd never ask, but if I ever found myself leaning on someone's good graces and got told no, I would be thankful. I'd rather know I was out of bounds!
Does the iTunes Store not sell pure digital goods exclusively? I would think that their billions of dollars in gross revenue completely dominates these trinkets.

Beyond that isn't commercial software a digital good?

I'm tired of this breathless bullshit in support of a 'market' for 64x64px icons on your Facebook wall.
Well, to be fair to GWT -- I know the guys who developed GWT, and they are really smart people who just didn't like having the client/server language distinction, and who believed that type-unsafe languages suck for programming, and who wanted to use Java IDE tools to debug client-side issues, etc. etc. They were and are very smart JS developers, for obvious reasons -- they write the infrastructure that supports GWT in raw JS, at least initially.

However, internally, at least at my project, they liked GWT because they thought it would liberate them from Javascript. Slightly different focus there.
"There's nothing personal about it"

Then maybe he should phrase it in a less personal way, like "I don't read scripts".
If you have to be logged in to view a "private" note, how is the Google bot able to access it?
Sad to see a site like Business Insider using those super spammy contextual Kontera ads.
Name That Ware, September 2009
RIP Fravia.

Good guy, engaging speaker, great friend.

Always good to see a searchlores link.
"Most sexual relationships, feel free to prove me wrong, don't have a 20+ year age gap."

There's no need to prove wrong a statement based on speculation.

Gay men, go ahead and prove me wrong, are no more likely to have relationships with wide age disparities than homosexual men.

Besides: what of it? Most people don't have an IQ over 130 either. Most people don't drive Jaguars. Most people don't have a second home overseas. What's that a measure of? NORMALCY?

I agree that sometimes people who are hurt in life-at-large turn to inward pursuits in order to avoid further pain. It's certainly true that a lot of professional scientists have little or no use for 'social success', and see most of us as quite foolish, unreasoning creatures. But I don't think of their success as an excuse to run around torturing young men ... or driving older, very successful men to suicide after decades of loyal and very valuable service.
Architectural Intent
Are we sure that these notes have privacy settings that are non-public?
Credit Checks
I think there's a parallel here to something most of us have found in our own lives- When people don't value the work you do, they don't accept it as an imposition to ask you to do it for them.

One place that many people have found this is in investing- "Would you please crit my deck?"
If you're a good friend, of course, I want to do everything I can. I want to see your company take off, and I'm happy to do you this favor. If you're a girlfriend of my cousin who I see once every few years, and you have "The next big thing", I'm put in a spot where if I don't help you, I look like a jerk. That's not a fair position to put someone in.

This is also common in IT work- "Can you take a look at my computer for a few minutes? I have this problem." or even "Can you come to my house to take a look at something after hours, I'll be happy to pay you.."

In a situation like that, I want all the best for people, and I want to help them as much as I can, but the create a situation where you either have to help, or risk coming across as a dick.

The offer to pay you just makes it more hurtful- It's well intentioned, but it implies that the transaction is about money.. If I'm helping you, it's because I'm want to do a kind thing for you, a favor because I respect you.
I'm happy to do favors for my friends, but it can cause difficulty when people want to reduce it to something impersonal.

Many articles on HN have also remarked on the "I have the idea, you bring the implementation, we'll split the profit" element that Josh mentions. It comes from the same basic problem- If people don't value what you do, in this case, the implementation and actual coding of a site, they're going to offer you what you'd consider an insulting deal.
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How different is this from what PG says in "A Student's Guide to Startups"?

"If it can work to start a startup during college, why do we tell people not to? ...[the] answer works out to be the right advice for everyone. The ones who are uncertain believe it and give up, and the ones who are sufficiently determined think "screw that, I'll succeed anyway."
Clueful colocation facilities, from Paul Vixie
Why link to this and not to the original article in the Village Voice??? Sorry but this is straight up copyright infringement. That woman just copied the entire story word for word from the village voice and put it on her website.

I as pro fair use as anybody on here but there is absolutely no argument here for fair use. This is pure copying. And then we wonder why newspapers fail and nobody can make any money writing.

Please link directly to the original site. Let Nikki Finke of deadline.com write her own stories.
Yeah, its one thing to not forget, its another to obsess over something. Overplaying it doesn't show respect and support for the family of victims any more than not mentioning it all, especially when you consider how politicians and news networks use 9/11 for their own profit and benefit.

Perhaps Google decided to stay out of it for the very reason that everyone else was already talking about it.
What about "Hackers and Painters"? And then there's most of the Ruby community ...

People love to make their work seem larger than life. Nothing wrong with it :)
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Not only that, she lost every perspective. I'm surprised it ended - for the time being - as well as it did. She probably should not be managing her own funds at all.
It pains me that I can't grab a decent train from Phoenix to Los Angeles or San Diego. ABQ would be real perk.

Being able to join up events in those areas would be a boon to all involved.
This is what we do at http://www.skritter.com for Chinese and Japanese. Spaced repetition is definitely still in the geek realm, though. Even after automating almost everything (vocab creation, addition, even grading), there are still a lot of people who don't want to practice on the computer, or aren't as interested in efficiency of the learning process. I think as spaced repetition moves away from raw SRS like SuperMemo and toward integration with classrooms, textbooks, and other software that provides content as well, we will start to see more widespread adoption and recognition of its power.

There was a recent thread here about whether SRS will evolve to appeal to non-programmers:
http://globalmaverick.org/archives/169-repetitio-est-mater-s...
But, he does. He just won't read your fucking script.
Even a negative review can be spun to make the product seem more positive.
Ex: "Two stars. Works great and beats the other XYZ brand by a mile, but it doesn't have [random obscure feature that no one else would ever care about], so I'll stick with the XYZ brand."
(see what I did there?)

The other problem is that negative reviews are an open mic for people to complain about whatever, and they tend toward the extreme. Ex "One star: Mine broke, and only a few months out of warranty. Piece of junk."

How many people (what %) ever leave comments when the product is just mediocre?
How can I save other peoples submissions?
The original article:

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/09/...
I can't help but draw parallels in my bind between this and being the "guy who can fix your computer." I don't want to, and I don't know why you think I want to do it for free.
So, the new Github architecture is shared nothing?

This is a pet peeve of mine -- what does "shared nothing" even mean?

A database, a "NoSQL" key store, and memcached are all sharing something, and that something is a contention point.

Specifically in this context, how do you implement transactional SCM semantics without sharing something (such as a distributed lock system?).
at first, I focused on production of kanji from a keyword, e.g., discuss -> 談, at this point there is no Japanese and I spent four months getting through all the kanji. I still test daily and have gone through 21k kanji tests.

Currently, I am reading みんなの日本語 wherein I am focusing on sentence mining and grammar. My current deck of sentences is around 800 sentences that I review as well, wherein I review recognition and speak out loud. My level is currently in between basic to low-intermediate. In the sentence mining I learn the readings of the kanji in context and could care less about kunyomi/onyomi, e.g.,幼稚園 -> ようちえん (or infancy-immature-park in RTK keywords).

The method I am using is summarized at: http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com I don't follow it all, but some of it is good.

I studied Japanese for 12 years half-assed never getting anywhere. For the first time I am making progress and I have a plan (which is the part that I lacked before).

BTW, to retain vocabulary, I would recommend Anki http://ichi2.net/anki/ it is open and regularly updated.
How about non-pornographic scripts?
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I think I learned more about retention (for me personally) by reading your comment than by reading the article.

Thanks for sharing.
I feel your pain :(

Here in India, I can only purchase a few selected O'Reilly titles, for which I have to travel across the city. Apress, Wrox, Packt are all available somewhere, but I still haven't found an accessible (read: near a Metro line) retail outlet that keeps those books.
http://siong1987.com/eventmachinethin-vs-twisted-vs-tornado
http://browsershots.org/ is useful for checking layout on every browser/os combination imaginable.
IIRC, you already have libraries for thread pools on Leopard. Core Foundation would be where I'd start looking.
Agreed and yes, you must focus on the language as a spoken form and written form. So I am not advocating reading only, but Kanji must be overcome and the best time to do it is NOW.

I studied Japanese for many years and always had the Kanji wall. It was daunting and hindered my progress. In the end, it made Japanese seem mysterious and not really possible for western-minds to grasp.

I used RTK and got through Kanji in four months, now I focus on sentences and reading wherein I speak out loud while reading. I also speak with my family in Japanese as much as possible (this is my primary reason for studying).

In the end, you must treat the language as a living language and understand all forms it is presented in. But, you already get this point, just saying it for others. :)
Google is also happy to bump up your quotas if you have a genuine need.
I wish you were my teacher. That's a theory of education I've been pondering about for ages. Glad to see it formalized like this. Please consider running for office and fixing how we go about learning. :)
or the classic three wolf moon tshirt

http://www.amazon.com/Mountain-Three-Short-Sleeve-Black/dp/B...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=816562

Just sayin'
Actually Japanese know it is hard, and focus on it like madmen. A top Nintendo DS game for adults in Japan is a Kanji re-training game.

In any case, Kanji is so visual - until I learned it many words didn't make sense to me. Knowing how to say it, but not understanding the real-underlying meaning is not fun.

As far as intonation, Japanese is one of the easiest languages with regards to that. Once you get the basics it is simple, but still you must talk with others (Japanese club, co-workers, neighbors, skype, etc) and listen to real Japanese (anime, news, etc.)
NEWSFLASH: As people get older, they start turning into the old people!
yeah, and they are already forcing symphony 1.3 onto our computers via auto-update. the team I'm on still uses office religiously though.
It seems to me that, right now, location polling is really the major reason people request background processing. If Apple would put a feature into the settings that let the user regularly push their location to Apple, and then a section in the Notifications settings for whether each app could access that location once pushed, a large swath of complaints would be eliminated at once, and the battery life would only have to be spent in one place, instead of being hacked in by each app that you want to track you.
Not really surprising since I believe IBM already uses Lotus Notes for email. Office is just the next logical step.

Anecdotally I haven't heard very good things about Lotus Notes though. (http://search.twitter.com/search?q=hate+lotus) So I wish all IBMers the best of luck with the transition.
I buy Windows machines because after about 8 years of fighting to get various distros of Linux to do what I want, I realized that XP was as stable as Linux and there was no reason not to move to Windows and stop pulling my hair out.

Most people buy Windows machines because they are good enough. Just like they buy Toyota Camrys and not Rolls Royces -- the Toyota gets the job done.

End of story.
That title is very misleading. Finding a way to get location from sources other than the phone when the app isn't running is far from "Sneaking Background Multitasking."