skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is a link to a paper by David Charbonneau et al.
"A super-Earth transiting a nearby low-mass star"
http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.3229
It contains more details.

And here is a page about the MEarth project
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~zberta/mearth/
... it seems that some nocturnal animals also find the telescopes highly interesting ...
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Possibly because you don't want your adversary to get one of your unexploded torpedos and copy / reverse-engineer / exploit a design flaw. Tactically that'd be far more devastating than losing a ship or two.
There are other differences, too. The playlist showed up by default on the OS X version of VLC, and I haven't found a way to make that happen on the Ubuntu version. Also, the OS X version has a very nice "jump 10 seconds" feature which the Ubuntu version seems to lack entirely (or I couldn't find it). It's weird that the OS X version of VLC actually seemed to have more features and a markedly better interace than the linux version, to the point that although I used VLC almost exclusively on OS X, now that I use linux I usually use Totem.
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Thanks, will check it out.
You mean... rap singers would have to learn to compose their own melodies? They would have to stop raping great songs with their ugly voiceovers?

I'm all for banning copyright infringement!!
That'd be "[caret]"
(x2-2.5x+1.5)/(x-1.5)
Taken from here:

http://translate.google.ru/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl...
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Online retail has already been changed by private-sale companies like Rue La La and Gilt Group.

This is just another one, but for baby gear.
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Scott Aaronson: hopefully my last D-Wave post ever
If you have an average cost of acquisition through other paid media channels then that may be a good starting point.

One good exercise is to try and determine the current value of the partner's inventory (emails, placement in publications, etc) that will be used to promote the co-brand. Your goal should be to structure the deal in such a way that you can meet or exceed the current value of that inventory for the partner and still be economically viable for you.

Also, you may want to think about developing a tiered structure that gives monetary incentive to the partner if they deliver higher volumes of leads/sales.

Hope this is helpful.
I'm not praising MS. It seems they didn't pick their development partner wisely and they should certainly make it up to Plurk. My objection was based on the fact that MS has already showed a willingness to do this by issuing an unusually candid and fulsome apology.

The wise thing now for Plurk is to accept that apology gracefully and work with rather than against MS to move forward. If they don't want to be acquired, perhaps MS can devote their legal resources to helping Plurk gain access to the China market as a development partner, or lend some development resources to help Plurk package their solution into an API that MS and others can license a la Wordpress.

At present, MS is (almost certainly) spending good money on having their lawyers work out a defensive strategy against a possible lawsuit that will cost them a lot in bad press but which Plurk probably can't complete, given the implication that they don't even have funds or expertise to hire a PR company. I presume it's Plurk's Taiwanese business identity that keeps them out of the market in mainland China (since China technically views Taiwan as a rebellious province rather than a separate country, for historical reasons).

Some Taiwanese companies do conduct business in China, but Plurk is likely too small to tap the necessary diplomatic channels that facilitate such arrangements. MS could surely assist with that...if Plurk will let them. What Taiwanese diplomat will want to advocate for them if there's a chance it could lead to loss of face down the line? By maintaining their aggrieved stance, Plurk risks being given a grudging payoff to go away, whereas if they respond graciously, they might get the keys to the kingdom. The one thing more annoying than a sore loser is a sore winner.
JSB has been hard at work on this. Well done, this is going to be a great addition to the Rackspace cloud.
This is what I meant, yes. Note that you incur the cost on immutable data structures as well as mutable ones. You really trash your caches this way.
There's nothing intrinsically unsafe about serverside Javascript crypto, but there's something practically unsafe about directly using AES anywhere.

In the meantime, serverside Javascript as a rule has access to better native AES code. The browser definitely seems like the motivating use case here.
Bank accounts are free. I have my personal account, my business account and a "throwaway" account I use only for PayPal funds. When my PayPal balance gets over a few hundred $$, I manually transfer to the throwaway account and then to the business account. They can't touch the business account because (a) they don't know about it and (b) they have no authorization to touch it, so if they somehow managed to withdraw funds, I'd be at the local branch the next day screaming at the bank manager.

Make no bones about it, banks take unauthorized withdrawals very seriously!
The one advantage paypal has is the fact that it isolates your site from credit card numbers. If I go to some podunk site to buy something I almost always choose the paypal option even if they have a merchant account set up. Why? Because with paypal I end up authenticated with paypal.com and I know that no important info is passing through to the podunk site's servers.

Otherwise I'm entering my credit card number into their site and I have no way of knowing how good or crappy their security is. I'm basically having to trust them not to do something stupid like store it in their DB, or mail it plaintext to their order processing guy, or some other brain dead thing.
I think you're both probably right. It's a habit I've wanted to break, but I just haven't gotten around to it. ;)

In all seriousness, I think it probably -is- wise to eliminate the procrastination before I go from "intern extraordinaire" to "fully functional productive member of society" but it's just a tough habit to break. I've also found that it's not as bad when there's some passion behind the project. I know that's a pretty obvious observation, but it supports the "do what you love" folks.
I don't think atomic refcounting requires memory barriers. You only need to delete the object when the refcount drops to zero. There is no other memory that needs to be viewed consistently with respect to the refcount.
The mention of the $300 tag price reminds me of the price supposedly paid by Kevin Rose to build Digg. It's a good thing to put in an article but if you think about it for just a second, anyone can see it's not exactly right…
I think before you can convince students of this, you need to convince prospective employers. To a lot of them, GPA is an easy filter.
$30 is expensive; SSL certs have been free for a little while: http://www.startssl.com/?app=1
All "priceless" means is that whoever owns it is unable or unwilling to sell it at any price. This applies to the Mona Lisa, but also to some folks' family photos, and to my lungs.
Of course there's more to the story, but I don't think that's the issue here. Google still doesn't have a way to dispute these kinds of things in a timely manner, and that scares people who rely on them for their business.
it is also the first thing that came to my mind, but i'd argue that we (as are, likely, most people on HN) in the minority, being more knowledgeable about the legal, technical and business aspects of the situation than the average small business owner.
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No, there is evidence that a single person calls it that.

I still don't think it's called the motherland by anyone except people who have lived there personally.

Every country is called the motherland by the people who live there.
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Caldera isn't really that large of a milestone. And this article is definitely missing Gentoo. In today's world, the power users swing towards Gentoo and the rest towards Ubuntu (or fedora). Everyone else just falls somewhere in the other distros.
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They'll have competition as Hautelook and others occasionally have the same offerings (children’s apparel, baby gear, and maternity furnishings) from manufacturers.
Of course not. If you'll forgive a metaphor:

A hard-working craftsman is selling his goods at market, when a thief in servant's livery grabs something from his stall and runs away. Leaving his son to guard the stall, he pursues the thief, following him to the house of a rich man, where guards forbid him to enter.

He wails at the loss of his precious goods, attracting the sympathy of a crowd who have followed the chase out of curiosity. Hearing the commotion, the rich man comes to the gate and is embarrassed. He fires the dishonest servant and apologizes fulsomely to the craftsman, praising his handiwork.

Now, should the humble craftsman berate the rich man in front of a crowd for the fact of his poor hiring decision, or compliment him on his wealth and taste? Would it help if the rich man was reputed to have a beautiful daughter with a substantial dowry, who had been unable to find a suitable husband?
What are you pointing out here? That it doesn't mention the gap at x=1.5?

Okay: what did we learn from that?
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What differentiates this from a product like SuperMemo? I see your licensing cost is less ($9.99 vs $50), but I also know much more about what SuperMemo is and the quality of its results.
You only pay a cost in cache if there is contention over a cache line. If there is no cache-line contention, I do not believe there is any overhead to atomic increment. See:

http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/intel-threading-build...
Skype keep on crashing just when the connection begins. I run Chrome and Mozilla. I turned off Adaware and than seemed to help. Suggestions anyone?
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I just watched them both for the first time (though actually I think I saw the very end of Ataque de Panico on Argentinian TV the other day).

As an SFX demo reel, Panico is more impressive than the District 9 short. However the District 9 short is far better as a piece of directing and storytelling. I'd certainly hire the Uruguayan guy to do special effects on someone else's movie, but I'm not sure on the basis of this whether he has the skills to actually write and direct an interesting full-length movie.
Windows only. Looks useful, wish I could try it.
GPA fanatics usually have few interesting thoughts of their own.

Seems like an overly broad generalization.
Apparently one of the comments that the author took umbrage to: "Socially mainstream means leaving work at 5pm and going to the pub, that’s what 'normal' people do."

When do "real" developers drink their beer?!
You would be highly incorrect. Most employers have a border of a 3.5 GPA or higher as a cutoff. Beyond that, they really care little. If you have a 4.0, you might get some extra "points" in their eyes.

And for those of you who don't believe that 3.5 is a fair cutoff, I would challenge you by saying this: I attend one of the most difficult universities in the United States, and I do not know of a single person at the university who could not achieve a 3.5 if he or she only bothered to focus. Alas, our average GPA is closer to a 2.5.

Yes, GPA is an easy filter, but for good reason. Companies want the very best. And the very best can easily achieve a 3.5 without trying and still have time to do everything this article suggests.
Site does not display right on android browser using tmobile mytouch. Text is weirdly cut off on right with no way to get to it.
Inspiring story of James Cameron, the creator of Avatar
do you realize that we are at the current situation precisely because every IE version is different from the previous one and they are all different from the standards available at their time?

If local network admins upgraded to the latest and greatest IE8/9 we would still be in the same horse shit regarding IE not following web standards. We would be free of "IE6 doesn't have a fucking clue about the box model". But we would be at "IE8 doesn't support canvas (or proper event bubble)".

Microsoft has been using this "network admins don't upgrade from IE6" for too long as an excuse for the mess they keep putting web standards into.

A proper solution for Microsoft now would be to completely ditch IE backend and use one of the current available libraries like webkit. And put in place a IE frontend that can have IE6/7/8 tabs and a proper browser (defaulting to a proper browser). Any other move coming from Microsoft is either PR or evilness.
Six months at a startup
GPA is also a measure of compliance and subordination.

For many businesses this is a more valuable measure than pure smartness. Many employers say they would rather have a dumber but more cooperative worker: a "team player" so to speak.
Hmmm... this is difficult. Usually when they talk about Africans it is a pseudonym for black Bantu groups (San excluded).

That is why statements such as "Africans have more genetic variation than anyone else on Earth" is meaningless. It is like comparing Spaniards to Koreans and saying there are plenty of variation.
Ten years of .NET - did Microsoft deliver?
The soundtrack seems to have been taken straight from 28 Days Later. (Legally or not, I'm not sure.)
I think it's kind of funny that "needing good content" is listed as a "con" in #3.
1. Political power and money. They want a permitting system for most equipment powered by carbon-containing fuels, and those permits will be approved and audited by political appointees. Your pizzeria competes with a Senator's nephew? The application for its oven gets "lost". You organize a political rally against the incumbents? Your home furnace gets audited that winter, and its thermostat locked to 50 deg. F until the "discrepancies" can be explained.

2. Because the necessary remedies would result in severe productivity destruction, probably exceeding WWII (including fatalities). Energy is the life blood of economic activity. The present depression is mostly a result of an approximately 2% decrease in energy consumption for part of 2008. The AGW reduction targets are 5% a year in perpetuity, which by linear extrapolation leads to economic apocalypse.
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Ah, I was rooting for you guys. I really was. But you played this in the most unwise way. You are nothing more than a speck on the bottom of Microsoft's foot. You're not even a gnat causing them the tiniest bit of annoyance. It's harsh, but reality. And what could have turned out to be an amazing opportunity to potentially strike a deal with MS will end up with you perhaps with a bit more publicity, but severed ties because you're trying to be sharks. You've got to bite your tongue and subdue your emotions at times to get ahead. That's a general life lesson.
And yet empirically there is a 20-40% slowdown:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2009-November/...

The message is not too specific; is this on an SMP machine? Are these multi-threaded tests? Given the previous message I cited, I would expect the single-CPU, single-threaded case to be unaffected by making incref and decref atomic.
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> the study singles out Star Trek memorabilia, comic books and energy drinks as examples

Really? Women are repelled by energy drinks? I've known plenty of women that are/where addicted to energy drinks... Or is it just that drinks like Bawls isn't as 'mainstream' as something like Red Bull or Mountain Dew's AMP drinks. If that's the case, then it's women that are being too discriminating. "He's drinking something that isn't a name brand! I totally wouldn't fit in here!"
I think having the user type answers is a huge problem. An SRS where you grade yourself (Mnemosyne, for example) allows for fuzzy answers and typos. Your system apparently does not. There are also SRSes which allow for audio and video in questions and answers. Clearly that is impossible to automatically check.
Or Mnemosyne, which is free and open source. And cross-platform for that matter.
good old Tungsten-Alpha :)
Not to nit too much (because I think this is exactly the right thing to do) but threatening to sue someone isn't the same thing as accusing them of a crime. If someone is tried for larceny, the point is that they are punished by the state to deter future crimes. The goal is not to return the stolen property to the owner; that's what a civil suit is for.

And indeed, in the business world this happens all the time. Companies delay and defer payments to each other all the time trying to maximize profits. The situation usually comes to equilibrium without court action (e.g. "pay me for the last shipment or you won't get the next"), but it's really common. "Payment up front" is a consumer thing. B2B transactions are a whole lot more complicated.
Well, you shouldn't rely on google for your own site. Now you've learned a valuable lesson.
This technology has existed for ages. Kevin Smith made Clerks for less than ten grand, and that was back in the 90s. Cameras and special effects may be getting cheaper, but talent remains expensive, since there seems to be a pretty limited number of people in the world who are actually good at writing, directing and acting in movies. Making a good movie is really hard.
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Where did I say 'just another million?' From where I stand, you seem to be opposed to spending more money on something to make it work, and I'm arguing that by agreeing with having hackers hack on the device doesn't fix it on it's own. It still costs money. Whether it's "just another million" or "just another $100,000" is irrelevant. The thing won't fix itself for free and at $20 million a pop it's a waste of money if the thing is broken.

Note: I'm not goading, trolling or whatever it is you think I'm doing. This thread is a conversation, and I'm responding to what you said.
I like the concept, but think it would be better and make more as an ad-supported webapp. It looks too simple to be worth the time to download, scan for viruses, install and run on my already-cluttered desktop.

By the way, while I like the Einstein branding, be aware that his 'personality rights' (to use his name and/or likeness commercially) were bequeathed to an Israeli university and the licensing is administered by Corbis: http://einstein.biz/ You may want to consider a more generic or abstract image, rather than get hit with a substantial bill later if your product takes off.
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I don't think Plurk is open source.
Patents or some other intellectual property rights might be an issue. Opensourcing a product of that scale can be very complicated. Java comes to mind, for example. It took Sun about two years from the initial announcement to a completely opensource release of JDK.
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YQL gets personal URLs and more cache control
Firefox 3.6 (currently in Beta 4) opens tabs with the same ordering that Chrome does.

You can try it out:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.6b4/releasenotes/
I confess, I don't get it. Was this just clever ad spam?

I did the same searches at the linked site and directly at google, and got essentially the same results. I searched for:

"affiliate links"

unicorn

At least I learned about the 'or' syntax in the 'inurl' tag.
Other platforms will be supported soon, I've implemented this in QT. I just wanted to release as early as possible.
As a Linux user since 1992, Ubuntu is my favorite distro, out of many great distros. Mark Shuttleworth has really done the whole world a great service, definitely someone who has given something back to the world. I use Ubuntu on all of my servers, most of my customers' deployments, and boot it on my MacBook. I hope that Shuttleworth keeps putting a lot of energy into promoting Ubuntu.
It would be a very sad thing if that's what it took to get stories to the front page. Unfortunately it seems that quite a few people have adopted your 'tactic', I always find it a little suspicious when links have been posted literally minutes ago and already have 3-5 upvotes without any comments, especially if they then scroll off the new page without receiving further upvotes.

My guess is that those are simply sockpuppets used for the initial votes. The sad thing is that plenty of times the strategy seems to work.
If you consider this a bug, perhaps you should email Wolfram Research instead of making this post?
"The tragedy of the commons is not about how many people abuse the commons, but about the fact that the commons is abusable precisely because there are no property rights in it."

Now this is rather circular reasoning. The tragedy of the commons relies on multiple persons. The whole theory of the tragedy of the commons says, that since you are not sure how much the other person will use the resource, you will use it as much as possible (even if it results in destruction of the resource). The whole reasoning falls apart if there is only one person using it. You must be working from a completely different definition of "tragedy of the commons."
I'd be careful about using that banner image

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/mar/05-einstein-inc/article...
An alternative for Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales
Every year, we are subjected to the "personal appeal" for funding from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to keep Wikipedia alive.

This year he once again reminds us that Wikipedia is not a commercial website, and that it is community run. He then asks us to make a donation so that every person in the planet has free access to the sum of all human knowledge.

I think there is a better way to do it, because:

i) Altruism is good, but true altruists are few. The majority would want some sort of tangible payback for their altruism. Read "super freakanomics" for more information on this. (Note: The content contributors themselves have a tangible sentence or paragraph to point to, along with some influence.)

I suggest a publicly displayable donor badge system. More specifically, a badge that people can put on their blogs/websites etc that links to their wikipedia donor page, that, for a donor named "Agent Smith", would say "Agent Smith donated $100 to Wikipedia. Thank you Agent Smith." These pages should be open to search engine indexing so that when someone Googles "Agent Smith" the world knows he supports wikipedia.

ii) The charity concept does not work for some (in my case, my charity dollars for the year have already been committed, so in principle i will not do any more except for emergencies.)

Wikipedia is a great service. Sure, it is user contributed, but everyone understands that the servers and supporting infrastructure costs money. We are at the end of the day a capitalist society. There are some of us who live by the motto "please don't do me any favours. I'd rather pay for it, than do charity or leech off it for free.".

I suggest calling it a annual membership fee, for these people. Think of something to throw in for the sake of it ("email support?", "priority bandwidth?"), not that it matters.

You could stop badges/membership once the target collections are reached.
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