skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here are a few basic thoughts given some physics and geometry arguments.

First off, the ring-shadow would be seasonal. On the northern Summer Solstice, the ring-shadow would fall on the southern hemisphere to the fullest extent. Near the Equinoxes the rings would be lit mostly edge-on. (For the math types, think about the sun's angle at noon wrt the Equator over the year as a sine wave. Then change in position is the derivative of sin(x) which is just cos(x).) In short, the sun's angle changes the slowest near the Solistices and fastest nearest the Equinoxes. That means locations near the Equator should be minimally affected by a few yearly ring-shaded days while low-mid latitude locations would have a significant number of mostly ring-shaded days each year.

Given the ring width in the video, it looks like most ring-shaded locations would have at least part of the day in direct sunlight. Also, because the shaded days occur around the winter solstice, plants already in hibernation shouldn't have a problem with the lack of direct sunlight. So, temperature would probably be the main concern for life. The ring-shadow should make winter colder and start cold weather earlier in the year. I would suspect weather patterns to be affected, but I couldn't even begin to predict those sorts of changes. However, at a global scale we're talking about blocking some reasonable percentage of incoming sunlight (10% per day near the solstice maybe?) so global temperature would almost have to be lower with an impact that large.

One other note. The ring system wouldn't be stable with our moon - tidal forces would distort the ring shape until ring particles hit the atmosphere and fall out of orbit. So I'm afraid we'd have to choose one or the other. As pretty as a ring system would be, I think it would be bad for our satellites and make it that much harder to send people into space. So, my personal vote is that we keep the moon.
Yup. I just submitted that article. It is only the second article I have submitted.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=498910

is the list of banned domains, it is not on there.

I checked another tutsplus submission:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=632213

and it too is dead.

So chances are it is on the banned domains list.

I think it is because tutsplus steals content:

http://blog.tuvinh.com/top-20-mysql-best-practices/

vs

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/other/top-20-mysql-best-pr...

I think this is the non-syndicated link to the same article:

http://blog.caointeractive.com/how-to-make-all-browsers-rend...

It does contain a link to tutsplus at the bottom.
what's the technology? is it java based? i can't see any relevant details on that page... [edit: i've searched around and can find no answer, although the underlying os is apparently linux] [edit2: see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1066942]
I wasn't aware that it was an Ancient Egyptian artifact. And the trademark was actually Rosatta Stone as errnatX stated.

Nonetheless, if it reminds me another, possibly direct competitor of yours, it can't be a good think, can it?
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Short answer, no.

This is an evil plot or noble attempt (delete as appropriate) by Mozilla to promote royalty free audio and video standards on the web over popular standards with patent fees.
Wait, so let me get this right. You have had no customers. So where are the customer reviews coming from?
The whole thing sucks and is confusing. There are going to be a lot of people LEAVE t61 over this so-called "new" re-vamp. What in the name of Hell are these guys doing to what was, a perfectly acceptable program (admittedly with a few bugs)? There very well maybe a mass exodus from t61.
The BBC rejected Sesame Street in 1971 because it was "too authoritarian".
they do work fine once you replace the ends, I did it with mine
He could live 6 months in the Northern Hemisphere and 6 months in the Southern :) (Australia, Uruguay, wherever :) ).

That solves the Winter thing.
Nothing a digital signature can't take care of.
Interesting conceptualization of the minimum viable product, connected to disruptive innovation at one side, and customer development at the other
As I have no doubt said before [1], the idea that forums will be run like code, in which everything is DRY and after the first day nobody posts anything but #includes pointing to their former words, is crazy and has always been crazy. Forums are conversations.

Teaching is all about saying and doing the same things over and over, with variations depending on the local audience and the immediate issues at hand. So it most of the rest of life, really.

---

[1] Yes, I meant to do that.
> In December, Oracle tried to address those concerns, by saying it would "continue to enhance" MySQL, publish programming details of MySQL to help others create applications, and would not to pursue copyright claims against other companies that incorporate the software. Those pledges are nonbinding

If the EU had decided to hold Oracle to its pledges regarding MySQL, Oracle wouldn't have any right to complain.
You can implement that with regular HTML/Canvas/SVG on-top of the video. That's the beauty of the whole thing.
I do wonder if full-screen will be supported someday.
all i can say is wow. my favourite music site on the web just got even more kickass
Can someone make a PDF reader for the Kindle? It would display PDF's somewhat sanely and it would allow bookmarking and annotations.
If this is true then why are the vegetarians I know are lean and the people who eat a lot of meat are not?
Yes. There's some working demos available which aim to explore this area so it can be standardised:

http://blog.gingertech.net/2009/10/06/new-proposal-for-capti...
Hey Ideahacker, I work at Kindling (http://www.kindlingapp.com) - if you want a free 30 day trial I can set you up with one. Let me know.
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I have heard Mark van Steen talk about something similar but wireless. A bit more tricky but much more interesting. Devices sleeping most of the time waking up once per minute to send and receive. The programming gets really tricky I guess
I think the "careful chooser of segments" tool risks defeating your defense based on fair use because it embodies an intention to deliver the complete work.

For that to work what you would need is an annotation protocol reviewers would adhere to (hash, start-end) that could allow a downloader to locate the missing pieces. The locator tool would also have to be designed in such a way not to ruin the fair-use defense too.

This is not a trivial problem and, I must add, we are talking about a tool designed to violate copyright laws and to get away with it.

It would be much wiser to direct our efforts towards a more rational copyright system instead of trying to break the law.
Last I checked they had it refurbished for ~400
Hedge funds have no direct protection from the federal government. If someone can find me a direct example of a cash infusion into a fund, please let me know, but there is no evidence.

However, they did indirectly benefit from some other government voodoo such as bailouts of AIG and others, but it wasn't exclusive.
jcnnghm, you should check out Kindling. (Disclaimer, I'm the founder - but I still find this problem very interesting.)

What we've done is provided each user with a set number of votes - by default 10 per room - and each user can put as many votes into one idea as they'd like. This forces them to make hard choices about which ideas are the most valuable to them.

This economy of votes has worked out surprisingly well for us in practice, and people become very thoughtful about how many votes they want to expend on an idea. I'd be curious your thoughts.
Amazon: Keep Kindle for free if you don’t love it
There's no real information on that page:-/
Unlicense'd
Official government data sites around the world
Hillary Clinton to Make Internet Freedom a Policy Priority
"Programming Clojure" is a really basic book and a bit outdated by now. A good way to begin but not sufficient to become good at writing idiomatic code.
Yes, siphoning bit of ambient radiation until a capacitor is full enough to fire off a single packet.

Finally you'll never lose your keys again.

This is RFID on steroids.

edit: Don't you mean Maarten van Steen ?
The conservative case for Net neutrality
I don't think anyone seriously believes that China is a communist country (in practice). It's a good old-fashioned dictatorship.
How To Set Up An SSL Vhost Under Apache2 On Ubuntu 9.10/Debian Lenny
I dont know why but this has been my favorite post on HN.
Navigating to old.sixtyone.com brings up a big red "hacker" warning in Chrome. I tried to dismiss it an go anyway, but I couldn't proceed. Just FYI.
PyDanny: My pre-history with Plone
You are not contradicting what fgimenez said, its the same condition stated differently.

edit: if two statements are not essentially same (and I am wrong), could you please explain it.
It could be Java. The IDE in the picture up top looks very similar to Eclipse (although Eclipse handles more than just Java).
Linky please?
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I have an idea and ongoing project that I'd love to run by you in case you're interested. Drop me an email at petkanics@gmail.com
I like his font. Anyone know what it is?
That's something I've also been wondering lately, since the Kepler and Orbit projects haven't seen activity for ages (at least according to their webpages).

I found this Sinatra clone for Lua called Mercury (http://github.com/nrk/mercury), but it lacks documentation and does not seem to be very mature at the moment.
Grocer lauded for recall alert via loyalty cards
Right now two of the top ten paid iPhone apps are both $0.99 and over 10MB. I'm of the impression that this is quite common.
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I really like this. The site design is something that will translate very well to netbook/tablets. If feels very relaxed and puts the music front and center. A great way to unwind while sitting on the couch.
Any plans for an iphone app?
Smart Dust (2001)
potential to use this instead of a dropbox account? the code could be substantially easier to write.
I love the new design! I just have one question: how do you save songs now?

Edit: I think I figured it out. The dropdown plus symbol under the logo on the top right adds the currently playing song to your playlist.

I definitely second the call made in another comment for tooltips so people can learn what the icons mean.
The issue is not if you eat a lot of meat or not, it is if you eat a lot of carbohydrates or not.

I know plenty of fat vegans including a family member who became diabetic and suffered a stroke because of it. Of course your and my experiences are both anecdotal, but I do believe I have heard studies showing that vegetarians do suffer disproportionately of heart disease. I'll try and google it.
View Source is your friend

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="http://informationarchitects.jp/wp-content/themes/iA3/css/ia... />

@import url(typography.css)

http://informationarchitects.jp/wp-content/themes/iA3/css/ty...

font-family: Georgia, "Hiragino Mincho Pro", serif;
Is it just me, or are the YouTube html5 videos of degraded quality on the Linux Chrome beta?
Interesting that they consider pg's site a blog.
I'm also curious about this process. I also had a submission killed yesterday, and I can't see an obvious reason.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1065167

(How Common Lisp programmers view other languages)
So what's the "business model for the 21st Century"? Advertising? No thanks.
Blog engine in javascript
I guess meteor impact would be of greater concern than it is currently
Ask HN: What is the hierarchy of programming?
Meaning...what do you learn 1st, 2nd, 3rd... There are bound to be differences of opinion further out the curve, but are there universal truths about the early stages? How long does it take to become proficient in each?
Yeah, I've poked around a bit as well, but didn't find anything that seemed like it was getting traction.

I was excited when I heard that mod_lua was going to be included with Apache by default [1] ... but I haven't really heard anything since then.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=452396
It could be that vegetarians are more likely to be health conscious than meat eaters. Someone who is vegetarian (and comes from a meat eating nation) has definitely put some thought into their diet, whereas the meat eater may not have.
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Zope3 renamed BlueBream
We would have reached the conclusion that Earth isn't flat much more quickly.
Thanks for the input...very much.
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> We invaded some else's land and nearly wiped them out.

Wow, really? I though that new land was discovered and pilgrims from the English and dutch settled it, that there was a general cohabitation period and then the whites did not like the godless heathens and the godless heathens where stealing and raping women. So the whites decided to kill the infidels and the infidels decided to kill the whites. I don't remember where the Normandy style invasion happened perhaps you could point me to that in your revisionist history books? I suggest you go back and read some simple child history books like the story of Captain John Smith and how he was ambushed and almost executed. Or of the reason that the Dunmore's War was started.
Not sure whether the SDK will be Java-based, but here's some info on the software that runs on the Kindle: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2007/11/linux-on-ama...
In short: Put prices upfront.

First question was, I already use skype chatrooms, why do I need a twitter-like client internally?
And I got the answer right away on the home page. Good job.

I then went to the pricing and saw that its a 30 day trial, and after that, who knows how much Ill be charged. This deters me from trying it out and then invite my team to use it, simply because I dont know how much its going to cost me and I dont want to invest time and effort having my team use it, so that at the end of 30 days, I will be charged an unknown sum of money.

It is kind of like a really weird bait-and-switch, "lets do business, but dont worry about the price yet, just trust me"

Other than that, the design is pretty simple and straight to the point, there seems to be no learning curve for people that have already used twitter, which will work perfectly for my team.
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There's a difference between web-delivered UI's and application that run on the metal.
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Mentioned in the article: possible Itunes.com - the result of the Lala purchase?
Java is a safe bet for this kind of thing: you can sandbox things up pretty well and keep people from doing Evil Things. Also, it's pretty popular with Big Companies, so it's a likely bet for that reason as well.
Spotify now makes record labels money
The perplexing question (in my opinion) is why didn't they hold them to those pledges? Really makes you wonder - I suppose they think MySQL's smaller market share wouldn't hurt the market if it disappeared. This is really so far from the truth.
> Forums are conversations

Yeah, and if you're like me, a conversation means you're repeating yourself all the time because you don't have a hash table in your head keeping track of who you've said what to.
Einstein was addressing Georg Cantor, not you ;-)
But at least there is a reasonable reason for the Gomboc's high price: the exacting tolerances on the shape.
If you want something 'universal', Knuth's books might be a decent place to start, although you won't be doing anything practical for a while.

I think the field is too new, changing too rapidly, and has too many people with widely varying goals (computer science vs make a small web site in PHP) to really have much that's 'universal' besides "get out there and practice!".
would you prefer he just go retire and not give a crap about MySQL?
Thanks. That was the first thing I did and I used Firefox to search for "font" in the viewed source. I didn't realize that it excludes markup.
I have about 5 years of informal/independent mathematical study and routinely use Wikipedia to crack fields open. I usually skim the intro then head straight to the references.

Once I have a vague idea of what it is, I drill down MathWorld using the new keywords.
I really hope that app stores are on their way out, for exactly the reason the article gives (lack of openness). So even though I am at this point doubtful about them actually being on the decline, I like seeing articles that suggest they are. Maybe the articles can help with this decline.
Comparing returns to the S&P is way too simplistic. What if the industry that company is in did particularly well?
I do think it in bad taste for him to complain about what's being done with something he sold for a very large amount, especially since he quickly ejected from the acquiring company. It's kind of like selling your house and then going to the neighborhood council to complain about what the new owners are doing with it.
advertising has powered the web for the last 10+ years. I'd expect it to be there for the long term.

Advertising is nice because it's optional. You can click ads, or you can just ignore them.
As a creator of MySQL isn't his course of actions that are ultimately responsible for this fate for MySQL? Why is he crying now? I don't get it.
This study that Taubes references says that certain groups of vegetarians often identified as being healthier are frequent nut eaters:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10479222

Interestingly if I recall correctly he mentions that 7th day adventists (vegetarians) have roughly the same heart disease level as Mormons (meat eaters).
That's part of the issue. Eating slower has been suggested to help losing weight for that reason - it gives your satiety response time to kick in.

The issue with calories in minus calories out is not equivocating the word "in", though. It is that it doesn't provide a useful model of how weight gain works. "Calories in" and "Calories out" are not independent variables, they are managed by the body's various feedback systems. Changing one of them will almost always change the other. Going for a run will make you hungrier, and undereating will lower your energy level and probably make you hungrier as well.

Based on a lecture of his I've seen, I'm convinced that his major hypothesis is God's own truth - that "calories in - calories out" is not a useful model for controlling weight, and that the regulatory systems of the body are what you have to get at to have a real effect on body weight. I am sold on the idea that diet is one way to get at those systems effectively. I'm eager to read his book to find out more about the case he's making.
I didn't flag your submission, but I wouldn't be surprised if others did. People prefer meaty links, and HN gets its share of substantiative Lisp evangelism without needing silly bits of it too.
It obviously helps if you're paying his salary.
It's a StackExchange site so just like any others, you can subscribe to a tag. Since most people are kind enough to either tag their posts as the language, you can do just that. E.g: http://www.irosetta.com/feeds/tag/polish
Actually, I remember 2 things from business school. Thanks, ryanwaggoner, for reminding me of the other.
That was my exact thought too - and from there probably some other conclusions too.
The logarithm function is convex by this definition but has no maximum/minimum point and never has 0 derivative.
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You don't even need a digital signature - just have them publish a hash value for the files.
Easy prediction: this will be big even if range of applications is limited to low bandwidth network apps.
Interesting to read this. I thought Google only used C and JVM-based languages as a company policy. Perhaps that's still the case except for this one example?
tutsplus steals content? Are you kidding me?
Analysis of 32 million breached passwords
David Lynch?
So, his one bit of proof is that the LiveScribe digital pen's app store didn't work? A digital pen is very firmly a peripheral in the minds of users. Since it lacks its own display, it's going to be very hard to position it as a platform. Do users use it to unify data from other devices? Do users currently think of it as something to install stuff on?

No, LiveScribe is not going to have a future in App stores. But a Tablet device might do very well with one. The downside of App Stores is control. But the upside is the same. Do modern consumers want the chaos of the free market, or do they want safety and convenience? There will be constituents for both. But right now, safety is something that is still lacking for personal computing.

My prediction: there will be more App Stores. These App Stores will only be viable for platforms. Once they are widespread, there will be a backlash, but the App Stores and their highly controlled platforms will be a fixture in our digital future.
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To me, the interesting part was the fact that the App store was basically an after thought. Given how popular it has become indicates that it is filling a need. The long term viability of it is in question, but I think it has a good chance of sticking around.
On a related note, none of my submissions are accepted any longer.

I suspect this has to do with me getting a bit upset at a wave of down votes for a pretty innocuous comment (I wrote 'applause').

I was wondering if there was a way of getting un-banned?
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I would bet that Youtube already has h264 encoded videos, which means no re-encoding to support this.
Either that or the other way around, there is no way that those two texts were created independently.
Kindle Simulator... on Mac, PC, and Linux desktops.

Simultaneous release? It could be another VM, but it smells like Java to me.
stackoverflow framework needs a subscription model and not just a notification service for answers on your questions.
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Wrong, wrong, wrong. Consoles show that he is totally wrong. Closed platform, totally controlled by the vendor and software sales are increasing compared to the 'open' platform of PCs where sales are falling.

And who are these 'prominent' programmers he's talking about? Only prominent programmers I've heard of are famous games programmers saying that if they started now they'd be programming for the iPhone as it's so good.

What is it with people prematurely calling the demise of the app store? Wishful thinking won't make it happen.
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Write a client proposal that sells
Steve Blank: I’ve seen the Promised Land. And I might not get there with you.
That is really cool. Great redesign.

FWIW, this makes it feel more like a great radio station then a music discovery site. More Pandora than Hype Machine. Not a bad thing at all.
this is amazing. i've always been a big fan of you guys, but this is crazy good!

one piece of advice: the polaroid-type photos flashing in front of the main picture are annoying. either keep them relegated to one spot on the page or give me an easy way to turn them off.
Agreed, decide on pricing.

Also, make it clear wether those things are public or private (it's not immediately clear, and for workgroups they should be private)