skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
pdf link anyone? i could find on scribd, and the slides aren't showing for me (chrome 5.0, mac 10.5). thx.
I still don't see where the carbon is going in this process. If it's not emitted as CO2 then what?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercar
Give this a try: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiYDJ432b0U
They are actually way outdated. This is from Leiningen 1.0. Leiningen (now 1.1.0) has changed a lot since then. Best to refer to the source: http://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/blob/master/README.m...
Are you going to throw the Rolling Stones and hundreds of other classic rock bands under the bus too, because they use swear words and talk about all the girls they boink?

If you ask me, those lyrics are awesome and memorable. You have to be pretty tightly wound to take them seriously.
For a while I've had a vague sci-fi-like idea that the first true "group minds" are going to evolve from the intersection of Mechanical Turk, augmented reality, personal virtual assistants, and Twitter/Aardvark/Facebook/Ask MetaFilter.

How do you know it hasn't already happened? Are the individual cells in your brain aware of your existence? To a group mind such as you mentioned, would each of its component minds not seem as insignificant as one brain cell to us? Maybe that's why we have internet addictions. The Overmind does not want parts of itself shutting off. :)

A more alarming possibility is that just as it took us countless generations to arrive at a point in our evolution where we are aware of ourselves and even more generations before we know our minds are made up of cells (with the capability of each cell remaining more or less unchanged), the group mind might be an emotionally immature infant. I suspect though, that if it already exists, it is a reflection of ourselves, with 4chan and the like being the child within and wikipedia and such being the intellect. Do you think we might hasten the group mind's journey towards self-awareness by spreading this idea so that it takes root in more and more of its component minds? :p
I work for an online gaming company ("The House," as it were.)
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http://xkcd.com/386/

It'd be nice if people recognized that sometimes when folks don't respond, it's because they have better things to do, and not because they agree with what's being said.
Perhaps you simply need to better enforce the HN Guidelines: Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation.

If someone posts something that you strongly suspect they wouldn't say in person, suspend their account until either (a) they verifiably attach their real name to it, demonstrating their willingness to say it without the cloak of pseudonymity; or (b) they retract the offending post.
"Oh Shit: You need to upload 3 public documents to download that PDF."
Most of the reason that natural gas generators are not more efficient is that utilities aren't willing to pay for that efficiency. Natural gas is more expensive than coal but it can be used in realively inexpensive gas-turbine generators that can be spun up and down quickly to meet rapid swings in demand. Since those plants are only opearted part-time, utilities worry more about capital efficiency than fuel efficiency. Unless these things are cheaper, their added efficiency might not win many existing natural gas generation customers.
Yeah, apparently it can (and does) run on methane captured from landfills. That plus efficiency provides the "green" angle.
I am completely unsurprised, and I'm not being sarcastic.

They probably think that they're using an "agile" methodology.
Unless you're on mobile!
Actually what I've been thinking of doing is have the users do that, by flagging comments for incivility. I haven't decided yet exactly what to do, but I'm ready to try something, because it is a sitewide problem. As we get more users, I'm seeing more comments that are nasty or fluff (or both).
On the theory that a little absurdity helps keep everything in perspective:

The problem is you think that you know that people know that you know that somebody thinks you don't know what you're talking about, but you don't know that people know that you know that somebody thinks you don't know what you're talking about, and in fact it is quite possible that people think that you know that they know that you know what you're talking about, so if you just thought that people think that you know that they know that you know what you're talking about, then it wouldn't matter if they think that you know that they know that you know what you're talking about at all, which has the side effect of mooting whether they know that you know that somebody thinks you don't know what you're talking about.

Oof, my parser just blew the stack. Short version: you're well-liked here and have objectively extant accomplishments elsewhere (presumably a source of more happiness than the aggregate opinion of the HN community). The existence of people who disagree with you does not diminish either your general well-likedness or your other accomplishments. Don't worry about them -- the rest of us certainly don't.
This is interesting but I'd prefer to see mathematical proofs explained verbosely line by line in this fashion.

Transition between two lines of mathematical deduction can be denser and more cryptic than any verse of any rap gibberish (not to mention more useful).
Fuel cells can be more efficient than just burning stuff (aka. combustion) so that's where the lower CO2 comes from - it's not a magic energy machine.

Look at dandelany's posts for the technical details.
Is there any reason to limit this technology to the rap genre? This site looks technologically superior to http://www.songmeanings.net/ ; maybe they could make a sister site for other genres.

Side comment: I think the mocking/ironically pompous tone of the annotations detracts more than it adds.

e.g.: http://rapgenius.com/1163

If you're going to market the site to rap fans, many will interpret the tone as condescending and be turned off. As with any other genre, a lot of fans personally identify with the rapper or the subculture. Even to people who find it funny, the joke gets old quickly. Just explain what the lyrics mean in plain English.
"However, I think this is a really bad business move, second only to using a fake name. It creates distrust and devalues the community aspect of the product."

Were you passing judgment on Andrew Warner, as that is not his birth name, but a professional name that he has adopted?
The Intel press release announcing the Atom came out March 2, 2008. The December 2009 announcement was for a follow-on generation. But given that this is the only post, the blog seems substantially deader than Apple.
I wonder how these compare to the similar shaped solar powered cars for distance/Joule in terms of efficiency?
Maybe you'll never like hip-hop; to each his own. I don't like most contemporary hip-hop either, but think Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Nas, Jurassic 5 and Del the Funky Homosapien all made some great albums in the late 80's - late 90's.
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What is an employee retention or M&A carveout plan?
Here's another strange effect: on my monitor if I look at the top picture while standing, it's a grey box. If I move my head down and look up at it, the grey is gone and it's a saturated image. I know my monitor's not great at different viewing angles, but this surprised me.
Open Thread: Can MySpace Really Make a Comeback?
I would say it depends on what you're asking help for.

If you turn to your network of friends asking them how to do your job then that that's a different story.

To IM your friends is one thing and to open Twitter and Facebook is another. Some companies do allow their staffs to access those sites but others don't.

In this situation, as an employee, you just have to be responsible.
Sure, but if you respond there are two categories of people:

a) People who generally like you and your essays, who will continue to agree with you, and

b) People who don't like you or your essays, who will take it as further evidence that you don't know what you're talking about.

and by replying you're just making the people from category b) post more.

But here I do know, and everyone knows I know

Not really. There's no "this post was read by pg" flag next to it. If you don't reply, at worst people will think you just couldn't be bothered to respond, which isn't a bad thing.
For "no strings attached" it seems like a really good deal. Not sure exactly what no strings attached means though...
Vitiligo
What goes into a consultant/contractor rate?
I'm surprised any website running at scale is letting an ORM generate SQL queries.
South Indian Actress Wallpapers, Photos, Pics
Most South Indian actresses come from the Tamil language filmmaking industry of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. There are so many actresses come in south film industy and Many of the country's most beautiful women are in these movies.
Affordable Medical Transcription Service
An increase in the demand for medical transcription has led to a corresponding increase in the number of service providers offering affordable medical transcription services.
It's not about swear words. It's about lack of any meaningful content. Just bragging, trying to shock by disgusting and being an asshole to everyone, especially woman and police.

Instead of thousands rap songs you could have only two:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqXi8WmQ_WM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC03hmS1Brk
Some of the biggest blogs run on it though (cnn, gigaom, techcrunch)
I quickly got distracted by the F-16 flight manual in the "More from this user" sidebar. Downloading...
Similarly, instead of thousands of books, many postulate you could have just 3-4, but they are just talking about the plot. You may find a lot of similarities in the words of rap songs, but if you took the time to listen to a lot of rap music, then you would know there are a whole range of beats, harmonies, instrumental work, sampling, and other techniques that make rap as interesting as any other music.

This is silly though. I have heard thousands of rap songs, and you clearly have not. I can quote rap lyrics, and you cannot. I can drum out the beat to a rap song, and understand its uniqueness, but you cannot.

So, why should I argue with you? Go educate yourself, and then we can talk. I wouldn't talk to a non-programmer about the merits of protypical inheritance, and I see no reason to talk to you further about rap music.

This comment is even a waste of time, but you and Scorp's mindless drivel gets under my skin.
Posted earlier:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1141402
Well, presuming that games have a lifespan, of say N hours, then there really is (from the producers side) very little difference between a game being resold X times or being pirated X times. In both cases, their servers experience X*N hours of usage, and they only get paid the original Y dollars.

The car analogy doesn't hold up, because there is an expectation that the warranty would be used for the entire lifetime of the warranty, whereas games that are sold aren't done so with the expectation that after 40 hours of usage or so, they'd be resold continuously to other parties who would also play them for 40 hours, and so on. Perhaps a better analogy is that the warranty on a car has an explicit limit on the number of miles that may be driven, which prevents the warranty from being used by multiple parties driving the car continuously.

As counterintuitive as it may seem (and, i expect controversial on HN) I actually think providing a service code with the original game (that can be purchased for $10 by future purchasers of the game) actually aligns the use of the service and payment to the server operators quite well, without getting into the ugly world of "You may use the online service for Z hours before your account times out." (going back to the Car Warranty analogy)
Am I the only nerd to think that Na'vi are sexier than ordinary people?
'Panda' Exploit Offers Rare Inside Look at China's Cybercrime Networks
Some companies are dinosaurs, and I would never work somewhere with Draconian internet policies.

It's perfectly reasonable to Tweet or post a Facebook message, or send a private message via either of those sites to ask someone for help, assuming you're not giving away confidential information.
The FDA doesn't have any jurisdiction in Britain.
The best part is that any improvement in LLVM will automagically speed up GHC as well.

It took me years to realize what a killer project LLVM actually is. I bet this won't be the last success story for LLVM, either.
There is a missing 'd' somewhere....
Sorry guys, I configured this VPS in a rush last week and it went down with the traffic spike. Should be fixed now.
http://www.songmeanings.net/ is a popular community site for song meanings, not just rap. I've used it on lots of songs - they tend to have a meaning for most anything.
Not that I'm going to feel sorry for the retailers who are complaining because they may possibly not get that sweet sweet resale of a used game but I feel like this just leads us down a slope where in the future more and more games will have parts cut out of it unless you buy it new and paid your $10. What's going to happen when there are _no_ more new copies? Are they going to release the extra content for free at that point?

And what's to say that for Mass Effect 3 EA won't limit the number of endings you can achieve unless you buy it new?

Oh shit, I think I just gave them an idea.
"it doesn't involve carbon-releasing combustion"

The key here is to read this sentence with the emphasis on combustion. The reaction still releases carbon in the form of CO2, but it does not do so through combustion, a much less efficient process.
Wow, now there are things in there I wish I didn't know.

I'm curious who this was really aimed at.
The video game industry is aware of this problem. Any pre-process mipmaping is being done is done with gamma-corrected downsampling.
Yes, double-checking like the way 'recaptha' sign up forms work! Two images re-confirmed by millions across the web.

Great idea.

I wonder if there are other ways to confirm data in other instances... (Where recaptha-like processing is n/a).
One of _the_ most effective meeting strategies that I've seen recently, is our Technical Project Director who leads our 30 minute scrum each morning, starts off with a structured five part agenda in the form of an Email (Strategic Issue of the week, planned critical Must hits of the week, P1 unplanned emergencies, Daily Sprint, and, if we have time, tasks to be accomplished that week (mostly the jira-tasks with due dates landing that week)) - and, as we _scream_ through the agenda (people rarely have more than 20 seconds to respond, provide updates) he rapidly types all updates and responses into the email.

When we get to 10:00 (Our scrum runs from 9:30 - 10:00 AM) he announces "It's 10:00, and this meeting is done." and hits the Send Button on the email.

I realize that this can be all done on a Wiki, or other mechanisms, but it's surprising how _reassuring_ it is to know that I have on my laptop/iPhone a detailed list of all the strategic/Commitments/P1s/Sprints/Tasks that the org is worried about today/this week. Also, it's a very efficient mechanisms for the person taking notes. Their job is complete before we leave the room at 10:01 AM.

And, additional bonus - when I have my Staff meeting on Mondays, at 11:00 AM, half of that meeting is simply going over the relevant parts of the email that was sent out at 10:00 AM.
And then there's http://raptranslations.com, which is way more hilarious.
I miss my TiVo. I was an early adopter, buying one in 1999, and buying several more (with lifetime subscriptions) as wedding presents and christmas gifts.

Their idea won, but now I'm saddled with an awful, clunky satellite DVR that doesn't do anything useful with the unused space, and that has an interface that continues to baffle me slightly, despite having used it for a few years now.
I'm pretty open minded when it comes to music. I can take something from almost every other genre of music, but I'm bored to death by rap. I could overlook the violence and crassness if I could see (or hear) some redeeming virtues, yet they have always eluded me. Is there a particular song or album you would recommend to experience the genre at its best? What makes it interesting to you?
If you got "no emissions from the power generation itself" from the video then you're not skeptic enough.
Very cool. I'd be interested in hearing more effective meeting strategies from others. There are tonnes I read about in books but as someone who learns best from examples, I really appreciate anecdotes like yours!
If they pulled off an innovative discovery engine, yes they could. The market is still wide open for that, the technology is still very primitive.

But they won't. They'll make a engine-by-committee that tries to satisfy too many parties, and it'll suck. It's what big clumsy companies do.
Quality inference code for MTurk
And the same Obama that picked Biden (well known as one of the main DMCA promoters and great friend of the RIAA AND MPAA) for VP.

So this is not a surprise to me, I was just trying to sarcastically point out how the claims of some Obama supporters have been shown to be quite incorrect to say the least.

And I don't agree with the grandparent that the issue is lack of understanding of technology, I'm sure Obama understands technology, just as he probably understand that the War on Drugs doesn't work, but he prefers to not rock the boat and keep pushing the policies that have become political sacred cows, because doing so would imply that the political class as a whole has been completely wrong for decades.
Remove the requirement of a bachelor's degree for acceptance into medical school. Integrate anything they see as necessary into the medical program itself. That's 4 years of their life they can have back.

I had a friend that went to a prestigious European medical school for a 6-year program right out of high school. Is he any less qualified as a doctor than someone that spent twice as long to get to the same point?

Or compromise and make the students prove themselves for 2 years before being accepted into the med program. 8 years, they're done and "well rounded".
Have you tried the nudge solution? Create a disincentive for not finishing by some deadline.

Note: If anyone has tried this and think its a horrible idea, please say so. I haven't personally tried it.
hence __restrict
A look behind the screens at hoodiepeople
It is not done in secret from big content, the RIAA, the MPAA and any lobbyist that wants has full access to the discussions, it is the public that is kept in the dark.
Randall C. Kennedy will no longer be writing for InfoWorld
I understand now, originally read that as meaning the whole website. If Flash stuff can reasonably be done in non-Flash, I'd always vote for that being preferable.
No Relation: The Mixed Blessings of Non-Relational Databases (Varley, 2009)
- It's writing style is bad, somehow consistently bad

- Structure is no good (I think this is expected though) but I was looking for an overall consistency like in Founders at work.

- Most of the advices written in many words but can be summed to 2 sentences. And rest of the text doesn't elaborate the reasons like they supposed to mostly they are there to fill up space.

Overall I don't have one bad thing but it's like reading a bad novel, you don't feel like that the author or the book has a soul.

Again Founders at Work is a perfect example of having multiple people to contribute but keeping the book in a good writing format.
Wow, touchy.

Don't Tell Me What I Can't Do! ;-) (sorry 6-th season just started and I'm somewhat influenced)

I listen to rap music. I've heard hundreds of songs so I'm at least order of magnitude less experienced rap listener than you. I often like the music and interesting music tricks. I think rap music is averagely innovative and pleasant to hear. I can even quote some fragments of lyrics (surely not as many as you) but that's not because I like them. It's just because when you throw shit at wall some of it will stick.

As for educating myself no one can know everything so I prefer direct my physically limited learning capacity at different subjects.

If you have free capacity I'd like to interest you in a thing that I consider clever lyrics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmfo-eL9VKc
Babel 2.0 (Linguistic SF)
I don't agree on the code examples, I think it can be a good book without code examples however this is not a good one :)

As a replacement I'd recommend Code Complete and Pragmatic Programmer
Apple is not your automated test suite. Add a test for "game is possible to lose", and make sure it passes before you release.
pg has an essay about this very idea: http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
What did you think of The Carter (documentary)?
"Platefeed aims to take advantage of the renewed popularity in home cooking that shoes like MasterChef etc. have generated by creating what is essentially a social network for home cooks."

Shoes? Am I missing something here?
Sounds like a job for a photoshop plugin
Public losing faith in science
Good point - it is. Though they have a somewhat strange approach of implementing everything - up to & including basic data structures - from scratch.
Half of these are things that I could see doing quite easily -- for example, although I happen to know that "select count(*) from users where lower(users.user_name) = 'patio11'" will result in a full table scan on MySQL, that category of mistake is easy to make and has bitten me a time or three. And it is easy to miss if your testing methodology doesn't include "Now run it against a data set about as big as the production DB." So that would be a pattern to look out for both when coding and, critically, when designing processes to make sure this sort of thing doesn't happen to you.

Then there's "code that throws an exception anywhere you execute it every time you execute it was pushed to production." This points to a rather different type of process error.
The tip about indenting your CSS based on the hierarchy of the DOM it styles is key. I've done this for a few years now and it makes coming back to a stylesheet to make some changes a lot easier.

Another tip I've found useful: sort your properties alphabetically within a selector.
This very popular song by Wyclef Jean is musically awesome, has great lyrics, and while it talks about "thug life" and prostitution, I don't think it's particularly offensive to women, nor does it glorify violence. I even like the use of auto-tune here.

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/wyclefjean/sweetestgirldollar...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aj1sznTdLM
There is no problem with selling themes. What may be a problem is distributing a theme under another license.

I think it's unlikely they'll do anything about this as legal action would be detrimental to their community; meaning that this won't be decided unless someone who receives a non-GPL'd theme contests it. This doesn't preclude Automattic/Matt from stating their view and raising a bit of a fuss as you put it in the interim.

To be clear - I'm neither a fan of the GPL, a lawyer or a WordPress user so I don't know whether Automattic is in the right and I'm indifferent as to whether or not they are.
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Flash Player content, Mouse Events, and Touch input
Wait so the developer screwed up, and then he screwed up... again? Why is this Apple's fault and how did this make it into my rss feed?
Well, it's good to know you didn't pass judgment without listening. Now you just need to hear the music :)

Those lyrics are indeed clever, but I was bored right away honestly, even after fast-forwarding through the intro.

Go watch this and tell me it's not an awesome song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aj1sznTdLM