skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An introduction to iptables
Totally agree.

He uses a tactic of providing a teaser and little textual content above the fold in order to lead one to scroll down. The article author uses the fold in a comical sort of way with reference to the iceberg. Nice idea though.
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity." - Albert Einstein
The real question is not why, but why not?

(I've been meaning to do this for a while but I'm still awaiting delivery of my round tuit, so thank you to the submitter.)
On Android too, if you use the browser on Android, you can interact with Hacker News same as usual, login, vote, etc. But you'll find yourself zooming and panning a lot. The rest of this comment is off topic: Speaking of voting, here are two people asking about voting at Hacker News, but yesterday was an election in Illinois with Obama's old senate seat at stake, and not one of about two dozen co-workers I talked to bothered to vote. There's more interest in voting for a Hacker News article than for a US Senator?
RomanticSingles: Profile Registration
If you've got chicken pox then stop scratching
Lots of people do their own EV conversions from ICE (internal combustion engine) cars. Trouble is, up until now they've all used lead acid batteries (and as such, were heavy and didn't have great range).

The next step -- and what I'm really interested to start seeing -- is homebrew EV's using Lithium Ion batteries. I think this is going to be the next step.
I could see this being the case, but it's got to be very narrow timing, and it probably only applies for the same type of action. A friend and I used to do a drill with his Glock 9mm. (After ensuring the gun was unloaded) one of us would point the pistol right at the other's head. The pointee would initiate action by grabbing the gun and the pointer would try to pull the trigger. It was impossible to pull the trigger in time, action was always faster than reaction in this case. We did it many times over, both of us with the gun. Semi-automatic handguns will not fire when you keep the slide from moving, which is what happens when you grab the whole barrel like this, though I don't think I'd be willing to try the maneuver in real life.
I think its a mix of both, but mostly yours.

When you are 4, turning 5 is another 20-25% of your life. When you're 39, turning 40 is more like .025% of your life.

Perception of time changes because we have more of it to compare it to, making it feel like its accelerating. But that is all relative.
Maybe it's the first step of integrating mysql.com into Oracle's web-site and developer site into OTN as they are doing with sun.com now.

They promised MySQL will be a separate division inside company, but said nothing about the site AFAIR.
This is crazy. No one is doing anything about the commercial waste, and this fellow wants to bring military-trained engineers in to create more waste?

To this date there are tanks full of liquid waste at military sites that people are concerned about touching in any way, because no one knows what's inside them, and there's the possibility that disturbing the contents might create a fissile mass.

I've got a better idea. Stick the corps on cleanup and have them report back when finished.

[edit: Just to be clear, I don't argue from an uninformed position. I do have a BS in nuclear engineering.]
When my parents moved from the US to Japan several years ago I showed them Skype. Now they use Skype more than I ever have and even bought a netbook because they could use the camera for video calls.
Ah, you are probably right about the playback. I have both installed - if you say it's XiphQT that enables Safari to use Theora, you're probably right.

As for the encoding, I was using ffmpeg2theora 0.25, which according to the release notes bundles libtheora 1.1. Whether or not I'm using it optimally, though, I can't say. I was loosely following the instructions for batch encoding here:

http://diveintohtml5.org/video.html

.. but no matter what I do, the .ogv comes out looking like a poorly encoded DivX.

Anyway I'll keep trying, thanks for the correction on the QT plugin.
I would peg it somewhere in the memory pathways too. Still, generally, when I for example see something for the first time - an ad, say - it feels much longer than it will on any subsequent view.

Then there are the dreams: an immense amount of information, minutes or hours of "dream time" but only seconds to minutes of real time. (For the adventurous: you can actually get to a state where you can experience this while awake by causing yourself severe sleep deprivation which leads to, essentially, waking dreams.)

There is a flipside, too: the slow-motion feel you get in a dangerous situation.

Maybe it is simply that the brain is capable of a higher processing rate than what it usually uses, and it is employed when necessary. Usually in cases of manipulating the memory pathways (including dreaming), but also triggered by survival situations.
There is demand from industry, but not from students. In my class at NCSU I was the only one; the years before and after there were less than 10.
I've lived in Canada for 5 years, I still have a 'token' paper presence there but I'll wind that down this year because I definitely won't be going back.

Also plenty of my domain names are still registered to the Toronto office.

So that's really not your fault :)

I live in the South of the Netherlands right now.
FYI: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=950321
I rate your startup as spammy. ;)
My personal theory is that the novelty of an experience is not the only factor. I think the notion that time passes slower when you're young is because you didn't have much of it yet. When you're 10, 1 minute compares to your experience: 10 years. Now when you're 30 that same minute is now compared to 3 times more, based on your experience.
Why Design Can’t be Billed by the Hour
Ask HN: Where can I find an temporary intern for my business?
I need some assistance with documenting and refining business processes and I'm considering an intern.

Its unpaid work though (is that too cheeky?)

Looking at about 5 hours a week (1hr a day)

Anyway, if anyone is interested, or if someone can help me, please email at khuram@xs-pro.co.uk or tweet me at @KhuramMalik

Thank you.
Guess Denmark won't be the third spacefaring nation then.

http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/
Using Web Fonts in CSS3
Wild guess: The libvorbis, the "official" codec is using floating point numbers, hence the decreased performance on mobile devices that don't have native floating point support. There are integer-based codecs for MP3 (such as libmad) so it's not an issue with MP3.

I suppose the solution would be writing an integer-based codec for Vorbis as well.
You mean 2.5%... or maybe your perception really has accelerated. :)
Auto insurance Florida
Car insurance in Florida. Car insurance rates, car insurance policies, along with companies to help you find low auto insurance.
Derek Sivers on Business Models and Profitability (LessConf '09 Video)
I'm curious, when people say salary, do they mean compensation? 80-90k starting in NY is almost month to month, but there's a nice pot of bonus..
Hence, the approach of creating "niche" sites described in the article. Not saying it will work, just that they have to spend $40 million some way.
These fancy new blogazines, as the kids are calling them, make me really wish I had design chops. My regular old blog looks so lame and uninteresting by comparison.
It's still a small department at NCSU, but not that small (so I've been told). I know some guys graduating this year and looking at graduate opportunities.

OT: Hello fellow Wolfpack-er. I think there are a couple other NCSU grads on HN, too.
There are more serious things than Bill Shock: modern telephone fraud
Forget Google, social search is all about mobile
Good call on Parsec. Unfortunately, I haven't found Haskell nearly as practical as Python for day-to-day work.

Treetop I had not heard of. It looks interesting.
He's got to be aware of their business practices (content scraping/aggregation), whether you phrase them as SEO or not. This article is a long read, but it clearly points out the issue that many of those arguing against Google in one form are using Google (and search engines in general) to their advantage in others.
All? of YC investments--left sidebar
HP EDS ordered to pay BSkyB £200m interim payment
A Practical Attack to De-Anonymize Social Network Users
Did YouTube Block Marijuana Questions in Obama Interview?
Comet (long polling) for all browsers using ScriptCommunicator
James while John had had had had had had had had had had had ...
There is a relatively new form of psychology called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). It basically marries eastern philosophy and meditation with western science. One thing it does try to do is combat this sensation by living in the moment. In one of my ACT books (written by the founder of the movement), he advocates that as you drive to work you should practice staying in that moment, take it all in, don't let your mind wander. Doing this makes that 20 minute drive feel like 20 minutes.
Reuters pulls 'Backdoor Taxes' story written by former WSJ editor
The BCI X PRIZE: This Time It’s Inner Space
Google Plans Store for Online Business Software
-1 ? You don't have to share my opinion but I'm not sure it deserves a down vote.
This is called the "Gunston Technique":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Gunston#Format

(Scroll down a bit ..)
BETTER THAN FREE By Kevin Kelly
It may not be a "spam" blog, but if this is without John's permission, it is a wholesale lifting of copyrighted material that can't possibly be considered "Fair Use".

Somebody will say "Yes it can", but no, it can't. Fair Use considers the quantity used, and using 100% of a substantial body of work is not fair use. Furthermore, even if this is satire, which I would consider dubious, the satire is not in the use of the original material. This can be proved by the fact that the "satire" still stands if you just provide a link back to the original work, then a comment section beneath that. This is actually not a bad idea for a site or family of sites, but only if it works by linking the original. You know, like reddit or HN, neither of which would be in a safe legal position if instead of linking to things they copied them onto the site in bulk.
Ask HN: What do you think about this movie distribution model?
We're trying an experiment with one of our feature films. Alongside the full-featured, full-priced DVD we're making available a "Bootleg Edition" of the film which is produced as cheaply as possible (DVD-R, no special features, no fancy packaging, etc.) for about a quarter of the price of the "Standard Edition".

http://2soc.net/breakdown/bble.html

In addition to making the discs cheaper however we've made one other change to the Bootleg Edition copies: They come with absolutely no copyright restrictions whatsoever. Not only do we encourage customers to duplicate the film themselves but we explicitly encourage them to do this for-profit.

Our hope is that some creative folks will take what we have made and cut it up, part it out and recycle it into something new, and when they do, we want to allow them to distribute it however they see fit, as a new, separate piece of art.

We'll see what happens and we encourage anyone who takes us up on the offer to share their work with us we can contribute to promoting what they have done. We're not exactly sure where this is going to lead but if it turns out interesting, we're planning to do the same thing with future releases as well.

We're curious what the Hacker News crowd has to say about this, as consumers, producers and entrepreneurs.
I think without qualification the question is silly. Are you teaching Grad School students? Middle school students? Who?

I taught my younger cousin very basic programming via StarLogo. He still needed help, but he learned.

I just started teaching my girlfriend a bit of ruby via irb. REPL is a great learning tool.

As far as teaching CS majors, I have no idea.
Sounds interesting.
But I'm really not interested in having my commute feel any longer than absolutely necessary.
Found via http://www.baum.com.au/~jiri/ae/blog/01265203596
Fantastic! HN does not scale well at all to the Droid/Nexus resolutions. Thanks for doing this.

Maybe I'm the only one, but I much prefer reading black text on a white background. The inverted color scheme is hard on my eyes.
Matt Cutts: Improving Arabic searches and talking more about ranking
How the hell a $10 lunch is worth $10,000? Even if you work every single week (no vacation), 5 days a week, 52 * 5 * $10 = $2600.

Plus, you don't have to spend $10 for lunch. There's a bunch of places in NYC where you can eat a decent lunch for $5-8.
Are there screenshots available somewhere?
Internet addiction' linked to depression, says study
Electronic throttles eyed in 'runaway' Toyotas
I guess the Chinese aren't people? Or maybe you're counting from index 0?
Schneier-Ranum Face-Off: Should we ban anonymity on the Internet?
You assume you need a stylus!
His answers are pretty biased, Visual Basic (really?), C#, Visual Studio. Not that any of those things are bad (except I personally find VB pretty disgusting), but can they really compare to the simplicity, immediacy, and interactivity of Ruby and irb? Just as one example. Of course, as chasingsparks points out, the question on its own is pretty worthless without context. I think what language to use for CS 101 would be a pretty interesting debate.
It's not really right to think of "reddit" as a monolithic site anymore. The default front page is garbage. The old programming reddit is fluffy with occasional good stuff, but making good comments without getting them modded to hell has become difficult because it's pretty much numerically dominated by inexperienced programmers now who don't want to hear any suggestions that they may not already know everything. The forked-off "coding" reddit (in rebellion to the crappification of the programming reddit) is pretty good in content, seems to have attained a critical mass, haven't played with the comments much. Some of the language-specific reddits are pretty good, too. Science has tanked hard ("hurr hurr religious people are teh dumb" is not actually science) and if anyone knows a "real-science" reddit I'd be interested to hear about it.
There is an integer implimentation called tremor. I believe it is more to do with the fact that there is often a dedicated mp3 decoder in these portable devices, and it has to burn the cpu for decoding vorbis.
Child Pornography, and an Issue of Restitution
It's just an exercise :) But I guess rereading my comment I didn't really make that clear.
If Java becomes assimilated into the Borgacle, then how does the ease and openness of developing for, oh, say, Android change? Are others seeing a less open future or am I paranoid?
Sounds amazing. NIN tried this recently and got some pretty amazing mixes out of it. You could consider starting a remix/fan/discussion forum and a featured work youtube channel.
There is integer-only decoder for Vorbis, called Tremor.

What is missing is decoding by DSPs built in mobile devices. You need to bug TI, Broadcom and other DSP makers for that.
Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_D... .

It's a private theory of mine that the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods were so lively because "this is an excellent shoulder of pork" sounded exactly like "I will attack your city at dawn"... :)
The only problem I had with Treetop when I tried to play around with it is the same problem that I tend to have with lots of Ruby libraries. No docs other than code. Treetop has docs, but they were kind of sparse last time I looked at them.
"Without powerful blocks and lambdas, you can’t have Rake. You can’t have RSpec. You can’t have Sinatra’s clear REST syntax."

Can anyone explain why?
New Iphone app. Enter rates per minute of inspirational moments. Different rates for different levels of inspiration. When inspiration hits, set the level on your ipod design timer and think away. ;)
A main take away point: Ruby is better for writing DSLs (which is what I am doing for one customer right now)
Surely there is a bias in my sample, but my sample is representative enough to counter a generalization about "almost every single website."
Design released for "2 Finger Heroes" - a whimsical gesture game (now dead)
And possibly decided that it would be more fun to leave a good story behind and not be seen to loose :-)
So optimally you want to be startled into action by something other than your opponent drawing. Then you get the speed advantage & a head start...

Wonder if anyones done any research on training this for martial arts.
The advancement of motor and power convert technology is also worth noting. AC motors are a huge upgrade over the old dc motors that used brushes.
For the love of god not VB.

When I started I learned c++. I would say this is a pretty good starting language since its very easy to transfer to c#, java, php, ect because of the similarities. But it also let the professors explain garbage collection, pointers ect. However c++ had so many annoying moments because the compiler messages were so cryptic which are really bad when starting out.

So that makes me believe that c# would be a better choice because of what visual studio can offer. It would allow the students to run through their programs 1 line at a time, see exactly whats going on as well as give much better error messages.
Cognitive fluency shapes what we believe, invest, and who becomes a supermodel
I am one of those people who accepted the lisp religion of "syntax is evil". I have a descent knowledge of python, and I've read a few ruby tutorials.

Neither python nor ruby are lisp. Python is not cool because of generators, list comprehensions, decorators or any other feature. Ruby is not cool because of blocks or monkey patching(im suspicions of anything called MONKEY patching). Ruby and python are cool because of really cool libraries and the way people use these languages, not because they have especially well designed syntax.

Instead of arguing about how cool your crappy syntax is, argue about which has the better libraries, which implementation is better, which is used for cooler projects. Non of these languages can top lisp when it comes to expressiveness and flexibility.
From what I remember of KravMaga gun disarms they agreed with your experiments. They taught moving your head out the way at the same time as grabbing.
Well yeah the opinions are biased. Teacher bias is a clear factor in success. That's the point. The second point is exactly that qualification is needed. What age group or goals do you have. hga seems to understand.
Stop the World by George Packer
Penn State busts out 100mm graphene wafers, halcyonic dream closer to reality
Well worth the read to learn the design decisions and the capabilities that are opened up with Redis by keeping just the keys and least used data in memory.

Antirez is my hero of the week :-)
I disagree. Its a parasitic site with no original content that causes confusion with the original. That's spam.

Even if there are no ads, there are secondary benefits to MacHeist. In addition to the free press, they'll get a nice link source.
It's not that I hate sudo. But I encourage people not to use it because:

1. You're adding to OS X. It's very important that stuff that gets built definitely didn't touch any files in /usr or /System. Build systems for some projects are big pieces of half arsed software. It's quite a risk — and an unnecessary one at that — to trust them to not break the bit of the system that only Apple fully understands and controls.

2. Homebrew is for developers. I dev software. Mostly I am installing x library and will want to upgrade and fiddle with it readily. Sudo is basically unnecessary for most of Homebrew's packages. Although I agree some stuff should probably not be installed without a sudo. But with Homebrew at least you can decide which to do on a per package basis.

Also, this isn't rationale, but it's still worth pointing out: most people install software on Mac without a sudo anyway (eg. almost everything in /Applications), so it's not such a big step to suggest you do the same for the handful of tools you need that OS X doesn't provide.
I'm happy that IntelliJ is getting into Ruby, PHP and Python, but I wish they had a unified platform, as I'm a committed polyglot.
Thank you for your answer; it's exactly what I was looking for.

One last question: how's religious tolerance in India? Assuming that a foreigner doesn't go around proselytizing, does religion come up often as a point of discussion?
Python doesn't have multiline lambdas, so there is no way to create an api similar to rake's:

task :name do |t|
# do stuff
end

I'm not sure what's the closest equivalent syntax you could create in python.
There's a "Downloads" tab right there at the top, I'm assuming that the "Community Server" is the free version, no? I haven't set up MySQL in years so I don't know what the site looked like before this but I wouldn't exactly classify it as hard to find...
That is because of the fuel types used. The Navy is using cheap fuel from the weapons program, which provides more than enough power and fuel for their needs. However the cities would likely use a Thorium reactor, which can easily be made to not produce weaponizeable (sp?) byproducts. I refuse to believe that France can handle itself with fission plants and we cannot. We must not allow irrational fears to drive policy and we must stop the use of fossil fuels to provide the majority of our power.

I say gimmie a few hundred fission plants, a new electrical grid, and electric cars & trucks. Our greenhouse gas emissions will go way down and our geo-political strength will rise.
In a series of mock gunfights with colleagues Bohr always drew second and always won.

Heh... Considering that all the participants were scientists, I'm surprised they concluded that one event caused the other.
"Lisp chainsaw"?

Definition or reference, anyone? Although I can probably guess where this is leading....
An alternative to SASS, if you are looking for one, is "less" (http://lesscss.org/).
Tetuan Valley Startup School Spring 2010
Disagree on "REST syntax". Python could do just as well:

Sinatra:

get '/hi' do
"Hello World!"
end

Python 2:

@get('/hi')
def hello():
return "Hello World"

Python 3:

def hello() -> "/hi":
return "Hello World"
I am downloading it right now. I use IntelliJ and Rubymone several hours each work day. While I appreciate Eclipse and Netbeans, the Jetbrains products are a bit better.
Python's answer to blocks tends to be the with statement, so your example would look like

with task('name') as t:
# do stuff with t

It's not really the same; the task object doesn't have control over whether the block is actually run, but sometimes it is sufficient.
You sort of have this with IntelliJ, which I use for Java, Scala, and Clojure. (Also supports Ruby, but I prefer RedMine, or a non-IDE like GEdit or TextMate)
I wonder why Xobni was listed twice.
Yes he can :)
Ask HN : Alternative to SkypeIn in Canada
Here in Canada, the CRTC makes its own subjective rules about what should and should not pass. They decided to protect the canadian citizens from SkypeIn (online number) because it can be dangerous.

I want a canadian phone number that calls me in Skype so I can have all my telephony centralized instead of using a mobile for inbound calls and Skype for outbound calls.

I guess I'm not the only canadian with this problem and I'm sure there's a solution.

Can you help me please?
Malkovich, malkovich malkovich malkovich. Malkovich?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur3CQE8xB3c
Much easier to just go to http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/MariaDB

:)
I like your analogy, but...

A website, unlike a disco, can make tons of money off the unwashed masses. In fact, Digg can probably make more off the masses who remain than the "hip" crowd who founded/left the site.