skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it was not my schoolmates, it was my father's ones, as I wrote before.

Yeah, american people are different to european, here and in asia education (and specially memorization) is very important. Some american people will find it difficult to understand that in Spain you could get to be public worker(and can't be fired) just making an exam.
My solution is to drag mp3's on to the palm mass storage drive and it is dead simple.

It helps that I never got into the iTunes habit.
Techstars was one of the most memorable (and rewarding) experiences of my life. It's great to hear this year's batch of companies are doing so well. Congrats to the 2009 teams!
what is your team size and how much time it took you to develop this app i am really desperate to build a simple app in iphone .. please help me out to make an estimate so i can plan over my expenses
> I don't know how LexisNexis Westlaw are going survive.

I don't think they will. I interviewed with them and there was a general atmosphere of desperation, suggestions of needing to work weekends and hollidays. I mentioned Google to them and how Google will eventually want to get access to _public_ court records, and it seems like that question made them really uncomfortable.

Well, they enjoyed their (virtual?) monopoly for so many years, now Google gets to enjoy theirs.
I don't think it's a barometer by which start-ups are judged. Instead, use it as a single data point for each company and 6 data points (for 2009 alone) for TechStars
The only real way to judge a startup is to wait 10 years and see what the end result is. Short of that, there's a whole bunch of hard-to-fake indicators, including having significant numbers of users, bringing in revenue, profitability, and raising investment.

Funding is a second-order indicator and so less accurate, but at least it shows there's a bunch of folks willing to bet money that you'll achieve those other business goals.
When I worked at a biglaw firm a few years back, we were told that the shelf-price of one of these wide searches was upwards of $800 for the firm and we were encouraged to narrow down the search as much as possible. The cost for recovering a single case: $6. They didn't actually pay these fees and had an umbrella agreement, but the cost of this umbrella agreement was determined by how widely the firm searched.

However you look at this, this is a big blow to Lexis/Westlaw and their monopoly position has taken quite a hit. I agree that they add a ton of value and will still be around, but its hard to overstate how big of a deal this is.

Its especially big for non-profit legal clinics and independent lawyers practicing on their own, which had difficulty doing any sort of legal research without coming to an agreement with one of these duopoly actors.
I've thought this too; the New York Times ought to be like Wikipedia in structure, if not in editorial policy. From any Iraq story I should be able to get background on the whole situation, chronological listings of important events and newstories, and so on; a deep web of information that the newspapers already have but wrap up in this incredibly outdated format with horrible costs.

Instead, we live in a world where a simple report on the results of a study is about 50-50 on whether it will even mention the name of the journal it appears in, let alone reference the actual issue, let alone cite it fully, let alone provide a link to the download site (paywalled or otherwise). It's just unspeakably horrible, and like the guy basically says, the blinders the journalists wear leave them completely cognitively unsuited to seeing how they could be doing such a better job.

The cynic in me observes that most media outlets at this point are just propaganda outlets of one sort or another, but I'll do them the courtesy of assuming this is because that's the only thing the form they use is good for, so who's surprised that's what comes out? If we want better media, we need better writing forms, regardless of the tech used to deliver it.
The chlorophyll in green vegetation reflects shit loads of near infra-red radiation but hardly any red so surfaces with a high infra-red to red reflectance ratio are likely to contain green vegetation. its called NDVI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalized_Difference_Vegetatio...) and its a very common way of detecting vegetation on earth from space. Don't know how well it'd work when you're just looking at a tiny planet billions of miles away tho...
True true, $20 or $5, it's probably less than most people spend on coffee.
I use ... rsync.
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I was saying that I couldn't taste the difference and according to the article, many other people can't either. They are essentially tasting the label and the marketing, which is why the marketing and the label should look different in both cases.

They are people more sophisticated and better at wine tasting, but there are a lot of people who just follow irrational marketing cues.
Mine doesn't seem fixed.
Glad that works for you. But for users who like smart playlists, there aren't a ton of stable (well, relatively - iTunes is a lesser evil) options outside iTunes.
The potential value of this offering is great but it is nowhere close to competing with LexisNexis/Westlaw in its current form.

For example, I had clerked for a federal judge in the Northern District of California in the 1979-80 era. I tried searching for published opinions by that judge and could not get any to come up. I also worked on a large securities class action while at a large firm thereafter and this resulted in a major opinion by another judge in that matter - couldn't get that one to come up either.

Don't know if it is me fumbling around with inept searching techniques, or if it is the search algorithm, but I do know that I can easily retrieve these items through the major legal search services.

Thus, my initial impression is that this Google service is full of great potential but is still at too early a stage to be of use as a systematic legal search service. As one who supports the idea of law being made broadly available to average people, and as one who pays a lot of money for the Lexis/Westlaw type of services, I look forward to the further development and refinement of this service. For the moment, though, it appears to be still too immature to be of real help yet, at least when one is looking for specific things.
This is fantastic personal advice too. Think of something you're doing in your life right now, and ask yourself: would I be doing this if I had just started today?

Job?
Marriage?
Friendships?

It's worth thinking about.
I was a developer (programmer, architect, team lead, CTO, etc.) for about 20 years before I decided to give it up and pursue photography as a career. I was a studio photographer specializing in food. I did it for two years before coming back to development.

Photography is a tough career choice. If you're doing commercial work expect to be told exactly what to do (food is brutal this way - highly controlled). Unless you're at the absolute top (think David LaChappell) people come to you with ideas, expecting you to execute, and are rarely interested in your ideas.
You also need great post production skills, so lots of computer work, unless you want to outsource this which is costly.

I've never done wedding photography but know a few and it's a tough business, highly competitive, very stressful (think freaked out brides and mothers) and very seasonal.
I'd argue that using define_method is a far better solution, for a few reasons.

First, you also should override respond_to? as well when using method_missing so that other people's code that relies on respond_to? doesn't break in mysterious ways. You have to make sure that both of these methods work consistently. This provides a few chances to break things. If someone else is metaprogramming and relying on instance_methods or methods, you would have to override those too to make things work consistently.

Also, using method_missing doesn't let you use alias_method_chain or several other metaprogramming techniques at all. For instance, since ActiveRecord models use method_missing to generate attribute accessors and dynamic finders, it's impossible to use alias_method_chain or something like it on them. You have to rely on ActiveRecord's unique and different kind of metaprogramming methods (alias_attribute, among others) which is, in my opinion, undesirable.

Finally, when using method_missing, you vastly limit your ability leverage inheritance or mixins at all. If you'd like to inherit from a class that relies on method_missing, it is impossible to use method_missing in that class without breaking behavior. It's also possible to define methods in mixins using define_method, while using method_missing in a mixin means it could stomp all over other mixins.

So, in conclusion, method_missing is something that I think should be considered generally harmful and a last resort. The original poster's use of define_method is more durable, less "magic", and a better option.
I use Rackspace Email too, because I figured it's too important to leave to something like Google Apps.

I've been disappointed lately, though, since all the emails I send to @me.com get blocked, and their "fanatical support" people don't want to help troubleshoot (it's always "Oh, our logs show the email was sent).

To me, that was kinda the whole reason I went with them. I think I'm gonna switch to Fusemail or even Google Apps now.
Consider becoming a tradesman or artisan of some kind. General construction labor doesn't pay all that well, and is pretty boring, but if you have the skills, specialty craftsmanship can be very lucrative and fun.

You can make physical things you can be proud of, and you don't have to use a computer. Also, at some level, it is "design" work, because even if you don't draw up the plans, you have to make decisions about how things fit best and what works where, &c.
Yeah, I'm sure they spontaneously decided to break out in song and dance to celebrate their great love for all things Microsoft.

This would be pitiful, no matter who did it.
If you're in the US, you can become a foreign service officer as they need a lot of information technology people in different areas. If you're interested in living in different parts of the world, this would be a good career path.

http://careers.state.gov/officer/index.html
http://careers.state.gov/specialist/employment.html#IMS
How long are you supposed to wait for the email? Why not just call the restaurant and cut the email-sending middleman out of the loop? It costs the same and takes less of your time.
Exploring due dates associated with To-do lists in Basecamp
5 takeaways from Sarah Palin's interview with Oprah
Here's his newest: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Basketball-NBA-According-Sports/d...

I'm a ways in (it's big) and it's enjoyable so far.
Yes the boxed wine tastes better. I also keep it in the refrigerator and take some out some time before drinking it and let it sit. I think that's called "decantering" but I din't know when I started doing it, it just made the wine taste better.
I agree that West/Lexis will still be very lucrative and continue to rule the legal research space for many years to come. I also agree that they add much value (despite competing with them, I have come to appreciate a lot of the things they do to add value). However, their operating profit margins will likely drop from the 25-30% where they now stand.
Theoretically, sure. Might be an effort persuading a judge of that.
Great potential, but still couldn't find something to get out of my gym membership contract.
In a Customer-Driven Society, Doing the Basics is No Longer Enough
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"I don't think it's a barometer by which start-ups are judged."

I disagree-- it's a great barometer for startups at this stage (though certainly not the ONLY one). It's certainly strongly correlative to liquidity (take 100 companies that had a meaningful-for-angel/seed-investor exit and count the ones that took ZERO investment beyond that).

Or, closer to home... Look at the YC startups that are likely make YC a significant return. How many of them took no additional funding?

Or, if you really want to ignore liquidity/return for the investors... Look at the YC companies that experienced the most growth. How many of them took no additional funding?
Try systems administration. Setting up servers, monitoring networks, you even get to do a little bit of programming by writing scripts to manage common tasks.

I think sys admins generally make more than developers do (unless you are an upper tier programmer).
I've seen a really bad CTO hurt a company by keeping MS Outlook running smoothly, but starving engineering resources with gimpy bandwidth and horrendous latency. Then, when engineering would complain about the network, he would attack their credibility in front of the rest of the company. The resulting talent drain was epic!

And no, this wasn't a startup. It was a 30 year old company.
Pulling data from Graffitigeo, FourSquare, and Brightkite. You can now determine which places are hot where and when. For example, using the drop downs on the right you can find “The most popular places in New York, over all time, at 9 PM, on friday.”
I totally agree with the sentiment of the post - using CouchDB has simply been unbelievable amounts of fun (and certain types of applications would be painful if not impossible to design without it).

The existence of projects like couchdb-python and couchdb-lucene are just icing on a very tasty cake.
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Just me. The original version of the app was made in about 130 hours, the iPhone version + desktop syncing feature in about 160.
Static Verification: An External DSL Advantage
Multiple anecdotes does not equal data. Sure there are plenty of burnouts.

If you did a study of software startups, I think you'd find:

* Startups that exit for an amount that returns meaningful $ for the earliest investors (YC, TechStars) are likelier to have taken additional funding.

* Startups who exit for HUGE money (Google, etc) almost ALWAYS take Series A rounds.

If those are both true, do you REALLY think this isn't an important milestone for TechStars, YC, and the founders (if a big exit is their goal)?
Virtual attributes are perfectly fine, as long as they can be translated back and forth to real attributes with no information loss. Not each "reflection" of the model (e.g. in-memory object, database record) needs to expose the same interface, only to be theoretically capable of exposing it because it "knows" the same underlying data. Views, on the other hand, are lossy, and so you can't guarantee that you can regenerate the original record from a view of it, only from a given reflection of its model.

You're right, though: Rails is practical code that takes practical considerations before theoretical ones (and has been basically bottom-up designed from the start without any regard for what the commonalities between applications "mean," only what they can help achieve.) Still, it's good to understand the theory of MVC-type apps in general, as you can then see how far away a given framework starts you off from "pure MVC," and can then measure drift from there (i.e. it's probably a bad idea if you code such that you're not obeying MVC even as well as the framework will let you.)
* an integrated development environment
* standard libraries, utilities, and packages
* a form designer for your application forms
* an event-driven graphical user interface to your application
* interfaces with other programming languages and applications
* integrated 2d and 3d graphics
* memory mapped files for high performance data applications

This list doesn't strike me as particularly "modern" anymore. I know firsthand that there are environments from 10 years ago with lists like this, and the stuff wasn't new and hip even back then!
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I think sprsquish pretty much answered that. We're "content-agnostic" as long as they're feeds. You subscribe to a feed (and that could be a twitter feed and you receive notifications), however, please not that we're an API service, so not for "consumers" directly. Check http://notifixlite.appspot.com/ for that!
Mark has been incredibly responsive, but yeah, this happened mainly over emails :)
I don't get what the point is, when you can just push to Heroku and go off one dyno until people pay money.
MySpace in Deal Talks With Imeem
Free Gmail has gone down for me twice this year, I guess that's not too bad. Psychologically I compared Rackspace with the paid Gmail version although rationally we can include the free Gmail as well as you pointed.

I'm using a Rackspace cloud VPS and I'm happy with it; I'm glad they are moving to other sorts of storage.

The proper way of deciding between Gmail and Rakspace Email (I may end up doing this) is to try both with a spare domain name and see how my team and myself like them.
This lawsuit is only about Leopard, so Psystar was paying $130 per copy.
Cool, I've been thinking about data centers in orbit and on the Moon lately...

Latency and encryption would be interesting issues to overcome.
All excellent points. Sorry if my original comment wasn't clear -- I wasn't trying to say that method_missing is a better way to do it, just that it's a different way to accomplish the same thing.
I love using J when I'm solving Project Euler problems, but other than that, the language just isn't practical.
OpenSUSE-Edu Li-f-e11.2 for children and students is available
I prefer the original article at the The Observer. It describes how you can focus (or refocus when you are already in a self-councious state).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/jul/26/sports-psycholog...
yeah a shared server is all you really need to test an idea out, and that can be had for as little as 2-3 bucks a month.
Xbox Connects with Facebook
Every linguist will tell you that language is always mutating and any dictionary is a biased snapshot of how language is actually being used. The same is true for geography. Locals always know the quickest routes, the shortcuts, the bike-friendly streets. Top-down approaches like Tele Atlas and Navteq can miss these subtleties.

OpenStreetMap is brilliant not only because it's crowd-sourced mapping, but because it allows the crowd to define and create new feature types and place-tags on-the-fly. This means you get a map that shows you where footpaths and dog parks are, but it also means that there's infinite room for connection with other services. Flickr's support for OSM tags is a striking example: http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/09/28/thats-maybe-a-bit-too...

I should also mention that some of my university colleagues are working on map wiki for cyclists in Minneapolis. http://cyclopath.org It is focused on being a research platform for collaborative map-making.
I actually kind of enjoyed watching this guy spin himself into a frenzy and conclude that the NYT editors have no basic understanding of anything, based solely on what could have easily just been a typo. Some people really have too much time on their hands.
Pinker on Gladwell, with Cameos by Sailer and Madrigal
Another minor security nit: when you dynamically add accessors to an AR class, you make it harder to control which accessors should be exposed to mass assignment (foo.update(params)).

It was thoughtful for you to bring security up at all, though.
Karaoke singing
uSing2 is a new online karaoke service, much like the popular Singstar PS3 game.
Wouldn't players want Woods to win all the time as this brings more money to their sport -- and probably also to them individually?
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CrowdStar emerging as new social gaming player
comment #6 on the blog said

"Some well established federal organizations (ie, NIH) do percentiles backwards. That is, 85 percentile score better than 15%. Maybe that's what's going on...."
Reminds me of this interview (see Jobs at 4:20):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1wP6v4maL0
Polymath proposal: The origin of life
Adobe Air 2.0 Beta released
You've got to decide whose return you want to measure - the investor or the entrepreneurs'.

Look at the most profitable YC startups (Weebly, Wufoo (others?)) and one took no further money, one took angel. I can only think of two of the ones who raised big money which are making revenues of the same order that I believe Wufoo is generating and certainly their profits are a fraction thereof.

Startups in the Valley are well optimised for Venture Capital but that's not the same thing as optimising for revenue or profitability.
In Flash Player 10.1, H.264 hardware acceleration is not supported under Linux and Mac OS. Linux currently lacks a developed standard API that supports H.264 hardware video decoding, and Mac OS X does not expose access to the required APIs. We will continue to evaluate adding the feature to Linux and Mac OS in future releases.

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/releasenote...
I don't have to tell a Smalltalker that not-new-and-hip is a poor metric to go by. The serious anachronism here is the lack of open-source. It's hard to see how any LFSP can get off the ground that way any more.
Someday some humanities major is going to get a convincing but bogus partial collapse of the polynomial hierarchy into a major CS journal, then you'll be sorry.
Unsolicited iPhone suggestions #1: email
Someone should just go whole hog and generate a nice new version of Feedburner.
Are there any contemporary opera houses where you actually get boos if you perform badly?
SocialWhale AKA “How Twitter Should Be”
A simple overflow would not matter though, unless you were taking a picture exactly when it overflows.

I bet it's a loss of accuracy when the timestamp gets large, and they start to do math on it.

That means right after the 24.5 day cycle it will be great, and will get worse and worse till the end of the cycle.

Personally I think that's the funniest bug ever.
This is depressing. I spent the last 3 nights working on this same idea, except it was closer to Python's turtle module than Logo, and it used Google's Closure library.

Oh well, I'll continue on.
No, it's not, I was going for a bit of satire, I'm sorry.

"If you call a cab, you also accept "be there in 10 minutes", even though it's not confirmed" is, however, a fair comparison, IMHO.
Wow, I'm really quite surprised at the negative sentiment, that's not what I expected.

1) the world is a lot bigger than just the 'affluent' portions of it, in some countries 3 to 5 bucks per month is a big deal, this server will cost a fairly large multiple of that. If you can get a server with these specs for 3 to 5 bucks I'd like to know where.

2) this is a fairly serious server, not some rinkydink slicehost, you could use it to get to a reasonable amount of traffic before you'd have to scale up (if you took some care at making things efficient)

3) most of the 'free' alternatives are just as 'free' as gmail, they require some amount of lock-in, this idea is a fully functional 'you've got root' (or at least the sysadmin will) server.

4) Nobody gets to be locked in to any hosting contracts but me, the bill is mine, the people that use this server host there for exactly $0 plus a promise to try and make a go of it.

5) hcoop gives you 1 GB of disk space and a few GB of data transfer per month for $5. This box has 500 G of disk space (so, let's say it's 5 'tenants' that's 100G per project), and 30T worth of traffic for $0.
The US Kindle is CDMA while the international version is GSM.
Those that can afford it should probably not apply for this, I'm thinking about people that can't afford it.
IANAL, but I don't think "has other uses" is the legal standard you need to worry about.
With actual GPU-accelerated H.264 decoding I’m guessing those CPU utilization numbers could drop to a remotely reasonable value. But it’s up to Apple to expose the appropriate hooks to allow Adobe to (eventually) enable that functionality.

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3678&p=5

See this Adobe PDF for an explanation about Linux:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/releasenote...