skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps a less disturbing comparison would be to the way the US National Archives treats the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. I don't think the historical significance of GR is that big (and personally, I think special relativity was a more significant break from previous thinking), but a manuscript of Newton's Principia would be treasured like this.
I vote for Leonhard Euler.

Paul Erdős would probably be fun to write about.
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The great thing is they brand it "Content from Wikipedia" so you know to avoid it.

Some books (eg, Googled by Ken Auletta) require interviews with over 50 people - something away and beyond ripping off web content.
From http://dvice.com/archives/2010/03/super-listening.php

> At its heart are two platinum strips, each 200-nanometers thick (about 600 atoms across) by 10 micrometers wide. They're stretched parallel across a gap and heated to 200 degrees Celsius when operating.

> Air particles flowing past the strips cool them unevenly. The pattern of cooling and heating is analyzed by signal-processing software, created by Microflown, in a compact PC, such as the CompuLab fit-PC2.

They've got a couple cool images of the device on that page, too.
IgniteDallas videos
I've heard of Time Warner infected subscribers asked to allow a service rep to install some basic firewall/AV software. I guess they had too many grandmas with zombie PCs connected direct to the modem & got proactive.
Books > Children's Books > Characters & Series > Barney:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pepsi-Carbonated-Pharmacy-Oldfield-T...
I use wolframalpha, and sometimes maxima.
However, if your tour is longer than 2 minutes, you're doing something wrong.

The designers of the original Macintosh had this goal in mind: a person should understand how to use a Mac after watching over another user's shoulder for 3 minutes.

For the iPhone, the tour consists only of their 30 second TV spots.
I believe an OK Go member said that YouTube will only pay royalties for the song if it is watched on their site, and not embedded. The label would rather get the guaranteed $ from each viewing of the video than the potential $ from getting more exposure.
This (kind of) restates the inverse of two of the four agreements:

Don't Take Anything Personally.

Always Do Your Best.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_%C3%81ngel_Ruiz
Ask HN: Who's going to SXSW?  What's good?
Just getting into Austin for my first SXSW. I'll be on Sunday's "Future of online news" panel. I figure there'll be lots of HN people here. Who's coming and what's good ?
My professor recommended maxima as an alternative to mathematica.
Simple reason? They're making "enough" off the Mac version and quite frequently the people who make the well-designed clever little mac apps (see: omni, &c) have absolutely no inclination to develop for Windows.
I am not placing a value in that statement, I am just saying in something short of an essay how we got here.

I recognize that what you posted was not necessarily your idea on the subject, hence "its proponents," rather than "you."
Carlson's post that the link quotes is here http://www.synthesis.cc/2010/03/garage-biology-in-silicon-va...
The only issue I contend with personally on porn is the number of women who create it in order to support a drug habit, thus removing a portion of the voluntariness from it. I know that factor does not apply to all women creating porn, not by a long shot, but by knowing the stories of women in the exotic dancing industry, where many porn actresses are recruited from, it's hard to ignore the reality once you become aware of it.

Also, like any fantasy based pasttime porn has it's own addiction dangers that would not necessarily be considered 'healthy'. Although this of course would not apply to people who are not prone to fantasy addiction in the first place, there is a reason that internet porn is a multi-billion dollar industry.

>Note: Just to clarify, I don't have any issues with the act of making, staring in, or viewing porn itself. I do watch porn. And I know that addiction occurs across all industries and walks of life. It does happen to have a higher occurrences in certain industries though, such as, for example, adult entertainment or telemarketing. I personally do not view porn as either bad or immoral.
Platform agnostic on sourceforge (where the data come from) means written in an interpreted language or compiled for a virtual machine like the JVM that runs on multiple platforms.
For an Apple-centric site, their mobile interface is quite annoying. It obscures ~1/3 of the content until you begin scrolling and then the nav bars disappear until you stop scrolling only to reappear. To make matters worse, clicking the button to use the full site dumps you on the main page, not on the article you were reading.
What are you avoiding working on?
This is pretty cool. I wish they had reused jQuery where possible, or layered on top of jQuery.
Exactly. To the tree and the rest of the universe...it was just a tree.
I don't really see any need for that distinction. The curriculum would presumably be about the same for both degrees.
Marriage confers legal and economical benefits to the parties involved such as citizenship and tax benefits. Assuming society wants to keep providing these benefits, but still control them, allowing polygamy would make that job harder. And then you could imagine that a cost-benefit analysis of that would show that it's not worth it, i.e. it's cheaper to ignore the people wanting it than having to deal with the possible fraud.
It would be cool if you would expand more on your preference for RSA and AES-CTR-HMAC instead of ECC and AES-GCM. Since ECC and AES-GCM are in NSA Suite B, I expect that eventually they will replace RSA and AES-*-HMAC, so why shouldn't applications start using ECC and AES-GCM now?
One more thing to add to the list :)

Don’t take advice from others, make mistakes on your own.
> > "And FWIW, flying out for a couple of days every 3 months is hardly a big deal. If the US had universal healthcare I think it'd be more appealing."

Immigration will get very suspicious of you if you're spending almost all of your time in the States. The business visitor visas are supposed to be for you to conduct meetings and sales pitches, etc - not for you to actually do your day-to-day work.

Ultimately they'll just refuse entry to you.

I used to have a valid US work visa, and then I moved to Canada and let the US visa expire. Few weeks ago when I was transiting through the US I was sent to secondary screening because they assumed I was going to just stay in the States when I landed there.

US immigration has a really really hard time believing that you _wouldn't_ want to live the US, and assume that you'll do anything to stay there.
I noticed something about Propellerheads Reason, the old music studio program. Its interface emulates a rack of devices where you can draw cables between the ports to create a sort of modular setup. Everything is made to look like authentic hardware gear. Just like in the real world, there could only be one cable in a socket at a time, although there didn't need to be any such limitation in a software environment. Later, they kind of fixed this - by adding a separate "splitter" module which duplicates its input signal into two outputs (iirc).
Huh?

Most people seem to find breakups rather painful.
Marriage in some form is probably well over 10,000 years old. Homosexual marriage is also probably just as old relatively speaking. The institution of marriage pre-dates reliable recorded history, and is part of Code of Hammurabi 1790 BC etc, so tracing its origins is basically impossible. Also, if you include animals that mate for life (some of which are homosexual bonds) it is probably millions of years old.

The real issue IMO is how religious institutions portray history. When one of your sacred "Just So" stories portrays the creation of the institution of marriage it's easy to think of anything else as a perversion sacred law, even if such things are far older than your faith. EX: I once had someone defend their faith by saying “How else do you explain Adam’s missing rib?” That’s a world view so intermixed with their faith there is no way they can understand a secular viewpoint.
A good company looks like a good Open Source project
A "battlefield" is an extremely noisy environment. I've worked on bots of such nature for a living and while the concept they describe makes sense at a modelling level, their process has very little field application (Dedicated IIR-ESP when you're getting shot at?). As far as pinpointing the location of gunfire goes, you are trained in Target Detection (TD) and have mounted systems like Boomerang on HMMVs. Trust me, when you've been out there long enough, you don't need a gadget to tell you what kind of gun the shot was fired from or the sort of aircraft approaching.

Cool concept nonetheless, I hope they publish more details.
There's little doubt there's still a very seedy side to the business despite it being commercialised and regulated to a high extent. Although it's worth mentioning that a lot of the stars aren't your regular girl or boy next door types, they often have a troubled past and their own emotional luggage before they get into pornography. In many cases, the problems you outline are an extension of that.
While searching for a new hosting provider a few months ago, I had a few (on-site) conversations with Leaseweb in The Netherlands too. I can confirm they seem to be nice people (although we decided to go with another company).
Couldn't that be an issue with virtually any job? Do you take issue with factory jobs, due to the number of alcoholics working there just to support their beer-purchasing habits?

It is an issue for sure, but not one specific to pornography.
The entire system of academia is horribly twisted mess of politics and inefficiency that creates competition at wrong the level (individual in their 20/30s rather than teams of people at whatever age).

Who got human genome mapped in three months - a team from private industry (it took academia 15 years and boatloads of cash)

Who got a car to autonomously drive through the desert - s team people motivated by a competition (academia hadn't managed to get it done before then)

The current academic system of well connected 'star' PI's who are 'geniuses' directing around masses of lesser 'grads/postdocs' is a scale of snobbery not seen anywhere but show business and politics. It should be feel disgusting to anyone who sincerely values science and human progress.
It might be. I've been on the pre-order list for that book since last October and it was supposed to be shipped in November 2009. I wouldn't necessarily count on it being released this month. Hopefully it'll be worth the wait..
Comments are denormalized and stored two ways: One in a plain ColumnFamily (for random access) and one in a SuperCF (for sequential access).

The plain CF ("Comments") uses the comment ID (which is a timestamp+salt) as the row key. The fields of the comment are columns in the row (username, text, date_created etc).

The SuperCF ("StoryComments") uses the story ID as the row key. Each row contains one SuperColumn per comment. The SC name is the comment_id, and the columns are the fields of the comment.

So, say you want to get the first 50 comments for a given story, you'd do a get_slice on StoryComments, passing the story ID in as the row key, "" as the start column, and a count of 50. You get back 50 SuperColumns, each of which contains one comment.

Cassandra is extremely good for sequential reads, not just random lookups. Just about any list of things can be efficiently stored and retrieved with its batch insertion and slicing operations.
The problem with this article, and those that assert the opposite, is that it's barely science.

There's no good control, and there are so many possible confounding factors that it's impossible to know what's really happening.

Even worse, if you read the comments, it seems that people can't even agree on whether or not sexual violence has increased or decreased in the US over the past 40 years or so!

Has anyone actually done any real science in this area? It seems like all we see are a bunch of ideologically motivated people selectively interpreting the data for their preferred viewpoint.
"Despite the widespread and increasing availability of sexually explicit materials, according to national FBI Department of Justice statistics, the incidence of rape declined markedly from 1975 to 1995. This was particularly seen in the age categories 20–24 and 25–34, the people most likely to use the Internet."

The article is filled with statements like this without telling us if researchers controlled for any of the infinite possible confounding factors. This may be just a bad article, and the research may actually support the hypothesis of a causal link (perhaps even through a controlled experiment, rather than a statistical survey). But as it is, there's really no strong evidence at all in this article. Unless someone writes a more competent article, one would need to go read the actual studies.

EDIT: Wait, they are giving the internet credit for reducing rape between 1975 and 1995? The first graphical web browser, Mosaic, wasn't developed until 1992. OK, this article is total baloney.
From the guidelines:

"Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter."
Kurt Godel, most definitely
Yes but the big difference between a professional qualification and an academic one is that the former can be taken away from you if you screw up badly enough.
Java access syntax from Jarc - less dots, more filling
I think your contention better supports an argument for the decriminalization of drugs than it does regarding the social ills of porn. As far as "voluntariness" goes I have known a number of high billing IT contractors over the years that work to support an expensive cocaine habit.
Amazon is not the publisher, Betascript Publishing is. Looking at their site, it seems that what they do is gather articles and bind them together (with or without permission, I don't know). Here is the text from their About page:

Annually, millions of works are written worldwide in the research industry.
Enterprises and scientists would be especially interested in these ideas; nevertheless, up to today, most of this work is shelved as a result of high costs.
Betascript Publishing specializes in the publication of such works and uses commitment and the latest technology in order to make the invaluable work of such researchers available worldwide, quickly and efficiently.
According to Google, they have a traffic value of over 220,000 visitors per month which is roughly 50,000 visitors per week. Since they have sold 500 copies in two weeks, or 250 in one week, they are converting only 0.5% of their traffic. While that is a very small number of sales to visits, we can see just how important internet traffic is.

That said, $15 for a quality e-book seems a fair value. Check out the sample pages here: http://www.underconsideration.com/flaunt/
"The only issue I contend with personally on porn is the number of women who create it in order to support a drug habit, thus removing a portion of the voluntariness from it."

You could say this about any actor. I heard David Bowie didn't even know he'd starred in Labyrinth until he saw the video on sale at Blockbuster a couple years later.
This article made me think of this :

" You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. "
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I was never much into math until after I left university and now I am constantly kicking myself for not finding the small little subfields of math that I now find useful and interesting. You can get a long way in stats with a pretty basic understanding of how it all works; a lot of what you might do here is the sort of stuff that you can pull out of intro stats books -- you are not going to be writing the stat anaysis code, you just need to know when and how to apply it. You would probably also be well-served by learning a bit about visualization and how to present quantitative information to a lay audience.

Do not aim for a side-project that will be universally useful to all NGOs or even to one NGO, aim for a side-project that someone in a position of authority will think is cool or which can serve some small facet of the organization. Think mashup or something small like a heatmap that shows where most of the volunteers/donors live, etc. Don't solve their big problem as your side-project, solve some small problem that can be used to show them that you are capable of solving the big problem (if they hired you to do that task, for example.)
Check out http://whatthefont.com/
Actually Penrose isn't so much interested in qualia as he is in things mathematicians can do, but which Turing machines cannot (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind - "Penrose is not interested in explaining phenomenal consciousness, qualia, generally regarded as the most mysterious feature of consciousness, but instead focuses mainly on the cognitive powers of mathematicians").
Meh... I think this is part of the story but not the real reason.

If I remember correctly, most handset makers resisted Windows CE out of fear of becoming "just another bunch of box makers" for Microsoft. I think that's why you saw such an embrace of Symbian (or pretty much anything that wasn't Windows).

It may be hard to believe now but there was a time when everyone was terrified of Microsoft.
That's what I got out of it too (well, substituting "natural centrality measures" for "means"), except it bothers me that for n dimensions, it looks like he uses L₂ for the vector norm.

I'd much prefer argmin 𝐱( sum 𝐬∈Sⁿ sum j≤n |𝐬ⱼ-𝐱ⱼ|^i )
According to the press release, it can pick out & identify sounds from inside cars at a crowded checkpoint, or allow a soldier to act as an air traffic controller in zero visibility. I'm not sure if it'll live up to the hype, but it seems useful.
I don't know that I would call this a fatal wound. In hindsight it may prove to have been a costly mistake but last I looked Microsoft was still around.
Unsure how valid those figures are. One of their more well-trafficed sub-blogs, Brand New, doesn't even mention the book.
Tumblr-rb: command-line tool for Tumblr
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After reading the paper, I find it just as bad as the article. (The article is a surprisingly good summary of the paper)
Russians are not that dumb to use such services.
10+% is my horseback guess for how many people really care, not the % of gay people. If it were larger the argument would be over already, I think.

Marriage goes far beyond a contract or power of attorney; for example, spouses have Fifth amendment protection. As you said it depends on where people finally agree to move the line to. I personally suspect that a "strong formulation" of gay marriage would be the most stable.

Denying one group rights because you fear what some other group might want is dishonest even if the premise is true. Giving former slaves rights made society more likely to give women those same rights, and all the same crap arguments were used then, too.

All of that is academic anyway. Rights are not given, they are demanded. Once polygamists constitute a significant constituency they can fend for themselves. Otherwise, leave 'em out of the equation.
I started something similar a while ago, but more like a window manager. It would track the user's movement and recalculate all the window positions based on the perceived head position - making the monitor more like a real window. This would enable you to peek behind window edges by moving your head to the side or up/down.

The main barriers I faced was the processing power required to monitor the user's position accurately - needing a camera with relatively good resolution (to get accurate depth perception) and good frame rate (to reduce latency).
Also, what to do when another person enters the scene? (Keep tracking the primary / previous target)

Also, using it as a 3d desktop / window manager is probably not worth that much drag on your system - but I could see it being quite useful for cad systems / 3d modelling / prototype development.

Also, developing this way could lead to some interesting developments in the UI field - there's already some development here for the disabled, so is not entirely new - but hasn't really made it to the mainstream desktop...
So this is what happens when you decide to hold the line, rather than scrapping something that's not working for the next iteration. 11 years and counting on this one...
The app can use any bar code as the identifier. You can scan a stickybit-generated bar code, a QR code, or a random UPC code from the back of a product in a store.
allow a soldier to act as an air traffic controller in zero visibility

I read that on their website. Having had Marine Forward Air Controllers embedded in my unit, the claim sounds very dubious. Again, there isn't much technical or otherwise literature on this out there; I can only judge by my past experience with the gadgets I used in the military and as a bot engineer today.
> How is it that Apple is set to revolutionize all of computing within a few weeks with its iPad?

Can we cut down on the hype a bit, please?

Whether the ipad is fad, fashion or revolutionary remains to be seen.

Apples track record of late is very impressive but this is extrapolation without any basis in fact.
You mean chain saw, most lawn mowers are four-stroke.
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Not fatal but it opened the door for everyone else. If everyone was happy with the new Windows Mobile proposed in this article and it had widespread adoption, would Apple have developed the iPhone? They might have, but it wouldn't have been such a slam dunk.
http://reason.com/archives/2009/12/07/why-prefer-french-heal...
I'd contend that the reason HTML5 actually paid attention to video and vector graphics was that Flash made them popular.

good point. But maybe Adobe should do more to embrace more on open standards than pushing a closed (swf) format.
The method I use is to look at the old functionality, figure out the structure, and rebuild it. Don't build a second system, build the first system better.

In my scripts and projects, I generally start out with a simple, procedural batch of code, hacking on bits as I go. Eventually, I get to the point where code flow is nearly impossible to understand - too convoluted, too many global variables, function calls nested too deep, etc.

Once I'm at that point, I usually know what the program is going to do and how it should do it, so I rewrite it in a more object-oriented manner. I don't add functionality, I just move it around to make more sense. I implement only the features that were in the code already, usually using as much of the old code as I can, but restructuring it in a way that makes more logical sense. When possible, I take out code I wasn't using.

After that, I can build on the code further, extending it as needs warrant, until the code flow gets more complicated. Then I go back and refactor again.

I find that if done properly, each iteration happens sooner (it's easier for larger and more complicated code bases to become inscrutable), but that each refactor becomes simpler (as you work towards an optimized design).