skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The technology looks very nice, if a bit slow to react at times (from the video). But maybe that's just a voluntary kind of "momentum" introduced in their software.

(And getting to make choices for a movie based on his research is one heck of an opportunity to imprint minds with the idea "this is the way of the future" if the technology ever does come out commercially)
Something about Facebook offering an email service strikes me as a new take on Aol.
the fivesecondtest 'fastforwards' button doesn't actually work. It skips to the content, and then is broken.

(Flash ver MAC 10,0,42,34 on OS X 10.6.2)
I don't see a case they describe where luck as a factor has been isolated.
It seems ridiculous to go on strike. If they don't like their client's business practice, why don't they just refuse to do business that way? If they are so good, surely they could afford that?
I'm glad you commented wrt the title. This issue is already over-politicized and the Times seems to be stoking that fire when it needs dampening to make room for real discussion.
What you say is how I understood it too. I am doing Asp.Net WebForms development full-time since a couple years back.

I think User Controls should be denied access to the query string too.
Why not tether a phone with 4G? I like a single broadband fee in practice, not sure I want to carry around another device.
I could totally connect :-)
Pfft.. Minority Report? Make me an interface like the one in Hackers.
Acute Wiiitis
Soon, the British press will print the shocking revelation that there is no such thing as "weather", and never has been.

Edit: ...and I'm at -2. Guess nobody else remembers that the same British press hyping climate denialism now is the British press which hyped the vaccine/autism link a few years ago? Science journalism in general is bad, but the British papers make most others look like peer-reviewed journals by comparison...
Well there's this MIT student's project which looks similar to that Caprica thing (from what I've seen of it):

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/02/ted-digital-six/
How do you know the control software is easy? I would think a touchscreen is primarily a software problem (determining the point of touch from a fog of signals).

That said, I think the touchscreen of my Nexus is fine, so far I didn't have any problems with it.
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You don't have to learn to be lucky; billions of years of evolution have bred lucky right into you.
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Good point about the c-sections, but still, I am not entirely convinced. For one thing, that wouldn't explain waist/hip, or would it? It would then all be hip, and women would get increasingly larger hips? Also, thinking about Asia, I think women are very tiny there, and they still get children. Their babies are probably smaller, too. But making bigger and bigger babies does not seem to be a "goal" of evolution, either. Otherwise a woman's height would be attractive, which I don't think is the case.
It's not as tough as we think it is. When I first found this place, I thought that doing a startup would be near impossible. In actuality, given discipline, I don't think it's too hard. Also, you have a unique path; everybody pursuing their dreams has a different and unique path. I'm excited to see where you end up - ping me if there's anything with which we can help.
I like S5: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ It's quick, easy, open, universally accessible, and as customizable as any web page.
Is it a sign of a more innocent era that one could produce a fiction show without having an army of pundits decrying its "leftist media bias" - even when there was one, deliberately?

Or were they just so bad at getting their message across that "nobody really noticed or cared."
Agreed. I always love when people talk about typography then use a font that look like complete crap when viewed.
"unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else."

Or, those who are too focused looking for something else generally consider themselves to be unlucky.

Self-reporting on if you are "lucky" or not is a reflection on the positiveness, motivation and optimism of the person. Not if you are actually "lucky" or not.

This study for me draws conclusions about people's outlook on their lives and how it effects their ability to concentrate on given tasks. Involving 'luck' in this is just for the headlines.
When is a debate won?
Trust is expensive. Too expensive to spend on the hopes of finding some free publicity, especially from a company that owns it's own advertisement network and can advertise its' own products whenever it feels like it.

I have a hard time believing that this was intentional on Googles' part.
How to design your Business Model as a Lean Startup?
The Lean Startup Business Model Pattern adopts tactics from the Lean Startup and apply these to the building blocks of the Business Model design template.
Considering how often I rebuild my dev machines, I couldn't imagine tracking down all these obscure plugins every time I built a box. Firefox gets installed, along with Firebug and the AWS plugins, then sits idle in the taskbar until I need to use it for testing something.

I'm actually surprised by how many programmers DO have adblock.
I've been accutely aware of this as my reader base has expanded over the last several months to several thousand readers and 10s of thousands of page views. My goal is to stay honest and still be willing to make a fool of myself.

The main difference now, as I prepare myself and my writing to share things I find uncomfortable to share, is that I'm aware that it's possible that my grandmother will see it.

My strategy in dealing with that isn't to be more cautious. Instead, it's to level with my grandmother. Because of the strange dynamic of the net there are things I'm okay sharing with the anonymous masses that I'd be pretty upset if my grandmother or my kids found out. So I'm going through the process of making sure my grandmother and kids know everything there is to know.

That's scary and difficult. But in the end, I think it's positive.
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I recommend reading Shirky's book Here Comes Everybody before drawing any more conjectures.
As well as, not instead of. :)
There's a very long, very good thread on the xkcd forums full of them: http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=22741.

Some (maybe all or close to it, I haven't been paying attention) are also up on http://xkcdsw.com/.
Yeah, really annoying headline.
Well the real question is has DNR orders already crossed the line into euthanasia? I'm sure there have been many people allowed to die who would have made a complete recovery from their injuries.

As far as I know where euthanasia is currently legalized the person has to pass a psych test to see if they are of sound mind and that they're not being coerced into making the decision. If the psychiatrist feels something is off then the euthanasia isn't performed (at least in theory). The person also has to suffer from a terminal illness that the doctors at the euthanasia place can verify.

Emo kiddies aren't going to pass the psych evaluation or the terminal illness evaluation. However there should be a chicken clause that the person getting euthanised still has the ability to back out right until the end.

However with legalised euthanasia the state would be required to cover terminal illness costs in all people who refuse euthanasia for various reasons, because it's unlikely that these peoples families will voluntarily cover the costs when there's the option that they don't have to.
Yeah those equations flying around seemed _real_ useful :)
Note that the article very clearly states at the beginning that the errors in no way change the conclusion that the Earth is warming.
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We're almost the same HN age. My 1033 days on HN have seen a series of interesting jobs, mixed with the occasional panic about my visa. But not nearly as much entrepreneurial activity.

Best of luck to you.
I ran into this -- thought I had opted out (turns out only of the tour), then because of this post, I check the Buzz settings. Reader and Gtalk statuses were shared by default. And I was already following others (presumably they were unaware their info was being shared).
Scientists record fruit fly brain waves
Humour is a far more complex process than primeval pleasures like sex or food
The errors cited are absolutely trivial. They are in vague statements like "there are suggestions that" and "it is more likely than not". The overall conclusion of the IPCC was that "there is no clear trend in the annual numbers of tropical cyclones." Far from contradicting the IPCC, the cited study confirms its conclusion.
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Building Android User Interfaces at Run Time
I'd say the biggest failure is autoenrolling you, and then setting certain things public. Sure they could see my gtalk status, but I never set anything up to let my Reader be public, but it was by default. If I want people to know what I'm reading, I'll tell them!
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I wouldn't exactly characterize the 80s as a particularly innocent era.

Most likely, nobody cared by that point. Doctor Who was in its final stages by then.

Ever notice that in general when a fiction program decides to make a political statement, it turns to utter ham-fisted crap? I'm imagining every show like that, in the kind of ultra-earnest tone of a street-corner communist, and it doesn't surprise me at all that the show was cancelled.
Self reporting that you are lucky is probably positively correlated with optimism.

Optimism has a whole host of benefits that probably account for the "luck" that these individuals are enjoying.
Very nice. Though it apparently needs a bit of polishing, this is something I'd love to have on the site, rather than having to use bookmarklets.

Maybe Firefox & Chrome quick plugins to do this automatically? The dev channel for OSX-Chrome finally accepts plugins.
I don't have a start up (yet...), but my mother, who is in her late 60's, is several years into a medical practices "start up" has really started to take off. (While remaining intentionally vague, I'll add that, no, she's not a doctor.) She and her partners have been taking on a lot of new (for them) business practices and demands -- online presence, politics, real estate purchase, etc. I've found her running problems and ideas by me, more and more. It seems that all the time I've spent particularly here as well as some other places on line -- and in the world of work outside of the medical field -- has provided me some perspective and ideas that work well for her. She takes them and considers them for herself, of course, but they give her options to consider.

So, even if you aren't currently in a start up, this place may be having more of an effect than you realize.

Thanks, HN! :-)

P.S. And you never know when that opportunity may arise.

Actually, one of her "regular job" environments was changing due to funding and politics, and she was lamenting this and speculating about starting up a private practice partnership in a year or two. I was the one who suggested, strongly, "do it now", before the top notch people being affected found other options and became too tied down consider her idea.

That same lunch, we walked by a medical practices building having sign advertising space to let. Three months or so later, it was theirs.
EDIT: I did not found the ideal solution: it breaks when the middle column isn't wide enough.

I finally found the solution (below), inspired from http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/onetruelayout/a...

This layout is source ordered (header article nav aside footer), liquid, and the side columns have a fixed width. You can easily do the same thing with 2 columns only. The only drawback left is the fact that I can't force the columns to share the same height. As far as compatibility is concerned, I think an html 4.1 version will work on any relevant browser. So I think I found my ultimate layout. At last.

<!doctytpe html>
<html>
<head><link rel="stylesheet" href="test.css" /></head>
<body>
<header> header header header header header </header>
<article>
article article article article article
article article article article article
article article article article article
</article>
<nav> nav nav nav nav nav nav </nav>
<aside> aside aside aside aside aside </aside>
<footer> footer footer footer footer footer </footer>
</body>
</html>

/* html5 reset */
article, nav, aside, header, footer { display:block; padding:1em; }
/* colors */
html { background-color:#fff; }
body { background-color:#ddd; }
header, footer { background-color:#aaa; }
nav, aside { background-color:#8aa; }
article { background-color:#a8a; }
/* layout */
body { margin:auto; padding:2em; width:35%; }
article { float:left; margin-left:5em; margin-right:5em; }
nav { float:left; width: 3em; margin-left:-100%; }
aside { float:left; width: 3em; margin-left:-5em;}
footer { clear:both; }
Very nice design.

Looks like pitchfork improved their security a bit. I remember they used to just have an XMPP player, where the XML behind it just had an additional node titled security. It's contents said something to the effect of.. "Don't download these files!". Or something like that.
Awesome portrayal, Max!!
I also liked this xkcd comic very much - http://xkcd.com/137/
The biggest component to US debt is private.

Let me find some figures. Googling for us "total debt" private leads me to http://mwhodges.home.att.net/nat-debt/debt-nat.htm which claims a total US debt of $57 trillion. The site is sensationalistic, but I have no reason to doubt their numbers. Almost certainly they are going off of recognized published numbers from somewhere. That figure includes "all recognized debt of federal, state & local governments, international, private households, business and domestic financial sectors, including federal debt to trust funds". It does NOT include unfunded obligations like pensions and social security.

Wikipedia tells me that the US GDP is 14.2 trillion.

Dividing one number into the other gives me a 401.4% debt/GDP level for the USA. And since we only have the first number to 2 significant digits, we should round that to 400%.

Whether or not you agree with the conclusions in the email, the numbers quoted look accurate.
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No doubt. Not to mention the visual and audio feedback you get when information is sent/received. I feel like there is a real advantage to watching bright colored bytes buzz by me while I explore data.
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JQuery 1.4, MooTools 1.2 Compared
I == Ryan Florence

I recently read jQuery 1.4 Released: The 15 New Features you Must Know over at Nettuts and thought it would be interesting to compare the features of MooTools 1.2 to the new features in jQuery 1.4, released 18 months later.

I didn’t try hard to sound unbiased in this article. I prefer MooTools and it’s evident in the things I notice about jQuery when viewed through my biased eyes. However, please don’t read this as though I’m trying to convince you to switch from jQuery to Mootools, or that jQuery is inferior, or assume that you browse the web with IE, use Windows, drive a Ford, and drink Pepsi. I’m just sharing my thoughts as a mootools developer (I do use jquery on inherted projects)

Anyway, I’ve included a working code snippet for each feature using jsfiddle, save a few, so that you can goof with the code and see how awesome some of these new features in jQuery are, and how awesome some have always been in MooTools. Some of the embedded shells are acting funny so you may need to click the pencil button to really see what’s going on.

Enjoy!
Google applies for patent on region specific content display
Granted, but the stereotypical "ideal" body simply doesn't last through a lifetime, no matter how it's maintained, though a mind can last through even the longest life.
We had this long debate when some people claimed that the only objective measurement of the value of your work how much you get paid.

It's true that's highly objective, but that doesn't mean it's right. Compare this to objective metrics for programmers. Lines of Code? Hours at the desk? Bugs assigned to them? Whatever metric you use, somebody will find a way to game it, proving that the metric may be useful in some cases but it is not strongly correlated with anything other than the desire to score highly.

I have a theory that metrics are best when secret. If somehow we had money but nobody thought it was important, you might get very valuable information by seeing how has the most of it. But the moment people start valuing a high score, then they start gaming it and the next thing you know you've given Bernie Madoff a high score.

To respond directly to your point, people do voluntarily assign a high value to your services or product when they pay you. The trouble is, they do so with highly incomplete information in an environment where the people playing the game manipulate the information to obtain the highest valuations. In the end, money often ends up being highly correlated with an ability to manipulate who receives what information rather than any underlying service or product.
It doesn't look that nice to me. I think that is a font that is designed for Apple/Adobe style subpixel anti-aliasing instead of ClearType anti-aliasing. For someone like me, who greatly prefers ClearType, this font looks very ugly (mostly because it seems semi-bold).
You guys get that you're both on the same side, right? Climatologists are conspiring to take over the world and all that? Just thought I'd save you some time.
Biologically speaking it is very hard to kill a human, at least to kill yourself.

Through the mouth the bullet is likely to bounce off the hard palette, any further back and it's exiting the back of your neck and unless you get really lucky and hit the right bit of your spinal cord to stop your heart and lungs, you'll be in extreme pain.

Gun against forehead, poor angle to hold the gun at and potential ricochet again. Holding at the temple is a good way for the bullet to penetrate, however the bullet isn't likely to cause catastrophic damage to the areas of the brain you want.

From what I've read the best place is actually above the rear of the ear (where the elf-ear spike would be). Most people get a pretty good angle, which means the bullet is likely to penetrate, also the bone isn't quite as thick as everywhere else and also if you're using hollow-points you've got a high chance you'll hit the centres of the brain you want to hit.

If you're going to end yourself by a gun, get a shotgun, use buckshot and build a rig so that you can get it to impact your skull from the rear. It guarantees virtually everything, you'd also be able to arrange it so that your family isn't the first to find you by calling the emergency services first. Also shotguns are typically legal in most countries with limited restrictions placed on their ownership.

However, if you're going this route you might as well go down to a street corner in a shady area and buy a huge wack of heroin and have an illegal opiate overdose. If you want to guarantee the end, ingest a large quantity of rat poison pellets (preferably encase them in gel capsules) before you shoot up and you'll be a gone long before you re-enter comprehension.

Suicide is a messy business, and it appears as though the human body is designed to be incapable of offing itself easily as the weak-parts on our skull (top and back) can only be self-hit using the elbow joints for force and not the stronger shoulder muscles. Although I've read that an aluminum baseball bat has a higher success rate than gunshot. However, it's hard to beat a rope and a fast stop for the most effective method of death (over 3-feet has a good chance of snapping the spine causing cessation of heart and lung function, so over 6-feet of drop would likely guarantee it with a sturdy rope).
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Thanks. I'm not really sure about Pitchfork's security...I know they lock down their mp3s and had some recent trouble (maybe?) with leaking albums? Not 100% sure on that last part.

All the mp3 files that I'm using are provided by 8tracks.com via their API.
The author of the original piece said total debt, not government debt. Total means total, and includes things like all of those mortgages out there (many of which are under water).

Looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_external_d... I see that UK debt to the rest of the world is 365.44% of total GDP. It is not hard to believe that the internal debt within the UK to (meaning debt held by people, organizations, etc within the UK to itself) would be somewhere north of 35%. That would make the total UK debt over 400%. In another response I've pointed out that the total US debt is almost exactly 400%, so that quoted figure looks correct.

The interpretation may be an entirely different thing.
The key focus of the patent appears to be complying with international copyright restrictions.

I'm not sure how it passes the non-obvious test though.
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I grew up with a silver spoon in my mouth. Actually I would probably say it was a golden ladle. I have never had to work a day in my life. My dad’s is the head cardiac surgeon at a prominent hospital in LA. He has always taken care of his little girl.
The last sentence just about sums up personal growth for me.
I'll play devil's advocate here, and point out that a lack of DNR orders have probably imposed torture on many more than have been possibly been euthanized, because the family can't respect their unwritten wishes without huge legal battles.

Though I do see where you're coming from, and the last part is a good point. It'd certainly be abused that way, but that'd hardly be a first for a gov't-supplied service. That's part of why things with high abuse potentials are handled by the government, though; no private industry wants to touch them, and they're nearly guaranteed to lose money. As it's "for the greater good" though, it's worth the taxes (arguably).
Cool, I will...
Sony to stop selling OLED TVs in Japan
But... I don't want to over act.
Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior
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The tale of an Android phone (and Facebook) in the earthquake in Haiti
Although I personally dislike the way people have been duped by De Beers, it should be noted that diamonds have helped Botswana become a stable and relatively prosperous country: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debswana
I found PG's essay on this pretty interesting too: http://paulgraham.com/vcsqueeze.html
In 2005, the National Hurricane Center's chief scientist Chris Landsea resigned his post in protest at the treatment of the subject by Trenberth.

"I personally cannot in good faith continue to contribute to a process that I view as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being scientifically unsound. As the IPCC leadership has seen no wrong in Dr. Trenberth’s actions and have retained him as a Lead Author for the AR4, I have decided to no longer participate in the IPCC AR4."

Do you think that's absolutely trivial as well?
After you figure out the difference between total debt and government debt, you can look for my other comments that show that the quoted 400% figure is indeed reasonable.
It is like Twitter in the early days

It's like Twitter now.
To be fair, it is still possible for a home cook to create something that's better than commercially available food. I'd be very surprised if a homebrewer could do that for a cpu.

I definitely disagree that homebrewing cpus is a waste of time or talent though.
Thanks for making this, collapsing comments is one of reddit's best features.