skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Filmspiration – All The Oscar 2010 Nominated Animated Shorts + Bonus
In this Filmspiration installment we’re curating all the animated shorts nominated for the latest edition of the Oscar Movie Awards, starting with Logorama – this year’s winner! Let us know what you think about this edition of the Oscars, and what’s your favorite short movie.
This is from the "World Socialist Web Site", which is "Published by the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI)". In that light, the following statement is interesting for what it doesn't say, as far as I can tell from skimming the article:

"We’ve made the point before: the Russian novelists of the 19th century, by their combined efforts, contributed to the discrediting of official society and its eventual downfall."

Yeah, and that lead to a government that murdered probably in excess of 100 million people (my own adjustment of existing figures, based on what's been discovered when sites of international socialist (AKA communist) mass murder are examined and many unknown ones stumbled upon, plus what we know of the the systematic falsification of the official demographics starting with the 1937 census (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Census_%281937%29 )). And of course that pattern has been repeated time after time.

To advocate the downfall of an existing society without considering the known costs is ... well, I'd say beyond irresponsible, but perhaps not....
Jackass? Don't be obnoxious. I thought exactly the same thing. How can someone be clued-in enough to be here at Hacker News - for over a year, no less - and not know VMWare!? It's like not having heard of Cisco or HP. How can you not have heard of them ..!?
I got a lot of work off Guru when I was first ramping up the consulting work. I have only one piece of advice:

Differentiate on Quality, Never on Price

I would write proposals by hand, in literate English, after reading and considering the project description. That alone would differentiate me from 90% of applicants. I'd then include a ballpark estimate along with my hourly rate.

The response I got back was pretty much always a variation of "Wow, you really understand our needs a lot better than anybody else who's responded. Unfortunately, your bid is 3 times that of the next highest bidder. Any chance you could come down a bit on price?"

My response to that would be some variation of "No.", and their response to that would generally be "OK, let's give it a shot."

Here's what's happening in that situation. I wanted the project owner to end up with two piles of bids on his desk. Pile A would have 150 English-as-a-second-language generic bids that didn't address the project at all and quoted $7-$14/hr rates. Pile B would have exactly one bid from a guy who obviously knew what he was doing and would definitely deliver, yet was quoting a much higher price.

At that point, the project owner has two choices: Sift through all the garbage in Pile A in hopes of randomly finding somebody good. Or spend a realistic amount of money with the guy from Pile B.

I got plenty of work this way, and as an added bonus it did a good job of filtering out the unrealistic "I need an eBay clone for $400" types.
Try http://www.google.com/ncr
How about this? You set the BPM, the sheet music starts with the first measure in the middle in a little highlighted pane, after enough beats the measure advances and the second measure is in the highlighted area. And you can have a metrnome ticking too. Maybe a visual cue of how many beats are left in the measure for a "silent practice" mode.

It'd be tricky if you have a changing tempo though.
Find your birthday (or any other number) in pi ...
My birthday occurs at position 157,396,201, using the ISO date format.
You can go overboard with this. It depends on the age of the baby, too. A brand new baby obviously needs attention quickly after he starts crying, both to establish a trust and bond with his caretakers and because they usually don't cry for things like attention, they just don't get that concept for a few months at least, generally.

But someone close to our family has an almost two-year-old and has never tried to teach him appropriate communication methods or appropriate distance and separation, for that matter. It is painful to be around him. If the mom is more than ten feet away from him and they are in the same room he freaks out. He cries over such silly and needless things and he cries a lot because at home crying always results in instant attention and fulfillment. He cannot take discipline because he has never been disciplined.

In my opinion the teaching and disciplining needs to begin well before 1 year in normal cases. A 1 or 1.5 year old is more than capable of understanding the responses he receives to the behaviors he enacts.
Baldness 'could be good for your health' say scientists
Indian courier service hires only deaf workers
Something is odd with this web page. At least using chrome on Win7 x64.

I have VS2008 and SQLProfiler, even the Windows Task manager open in the background and they all have parts flickering every ~4 seconds when this page is opened in chrome.

For example in Visual studio the Solution Explorer is refreshing every four seconds.

anybody have any ideas? it's kind of unnerving. Or maybe it's just me.
Practice is essential in becoming proficient in design. A technique that I particularly recommend for beginners is recreating designs that you like, from scratch. Start with something easy and work up!

The majority of my design "training" was done in a professional environment, using Illustrator and Photoshop. Such software has hierarchical layers/groups as well as support for keyboard input, which address your questions about performing tasks such as drawing circles and modifying designs.

Photoshop (raster-oriented graphics) is quite mature and impressive; there is unfortunately no OSS that can even approach its creative power, IMHO. Illustrator (vector-oriented graphics, which seems to be your interest) is nowhere near as solid as Photoshop... The best OSS alternative (for screen design, that I know of) is Xara Xtreme, which outdoes Illustrator in a number of ways. Unfortunately, core features such as layers/groups and keyboard input are not done well in Xara, and it is a long way away from being able to do print. Inkscape trails pretty far behind.

If you would like to take a scripting approach, how about trying JavaScript in a modern browser? In case it is better suited for your needs, you may also want to check out Asymptote and/or METAPOST.

A bit more advice: Technically-minded people can usually learn software applications by just playing around with it, but I highly recommend reading good books on the subject to really learn the software. The many design tutorials online can also be quite useful.

http://www.xara.com
http://www.xaraxtreme.org/
http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/
The Single, Most Important Secret to Success
Psychopaths Keep Their Eyes on the Prize
FCC to Release Ambitious, But Pragmatic, National Broadband Plan
Ask HN: Mandatory use of 3rd Party IDs (Facebook Connect, etc)?
I noticed that 750words.com doesn't have an independent account login/creation system; you can only use it with an existing FB, Google or Yahoo account.

This is the first time that I've seen an app force you to use a 3rd party account. While it would certainly reduce account-related code, it could also have unintended effects. For example, on a social site, this lack of anonymity might result in nicer user comments.

What do you think about forced use of 3rd party IDs? What kind of sites would benefit from it? Is the trade-off worth it?
/me looks out the window at the "massage shop" across the road
Do you think that Skype might be losing out by providing this under a non-commercial use license? It'll now surely get reimplemented by a free software group (ffmpeg comes to mind...) and that'll probably become the defacto implementation by reason of freeness of license. This means that Skype may lose on some commercial support opportunities since the implementation most use will come from another vendor. Any thoughts on this?
I get the impression they are in a transitional period and they will make the code and the patents freely available. At the moment they seem to be sending mixed messages and indeed even non-commercial use isn't currently allowed beyond testing without an IP licence agreement according to the download page.

On the other hand perhaps they intend for this codec to be entirely replaced by the output of the IETF codec work they are participating in (which may be roughly the same codec, or a descendant/hybrid of it and other codecs) in which case they don't actually want anyone to use this codec as it will then be a competitor to their first choice.
I would have felt calmer if that assuring voice wasn't the third comment from a month old account. :-)

Anyone really know?
the only "innovation" that porn has is to slap its considerable content on any "new" technology that comes out. they will unleash their content on any new media. it's like throwing shit on the wall to see what sticks. i don't see the porn industry actually inventing anything new.
Tips for Greenlighting a Framework
One reason I'm skeptical about this is the the United States has a ton of debt (this is a definite fact), and someone had to lend us the money. China has over $1T of U.S. Treasury Bonds. It might be plausible that they have cash flow problems, since they can't exactly liquidate $1T of U.S. Bonds, but then why do they keep buying them? In any case, I don't buy this one bit, especially since I haven't heard a single reputable economist ever say anything like it.
Munkres is okay – pretty readable, gets the job done, has enough interesting problems. I like Hatcher’s book though, so his recommendations (your first link) are probably solid.
Reddit Interviews Noam Chomsky
We see so well because of snakes?
I think Phillip Greenspun has probably earned enough reputation in the hacker community that we can assume he isn't trolling, especially considering the update he posted. The fact that a bunch of legitimate positive reviews vanished shortly after they were posted certainly looks suspicious from the point of view of a business.

Yelp's sales calls are known to include offers to restore hidden positive reviews and hide negative ones in exchange for a fee. That sounds an awful lot like extortion to me. Furthermore, as a user, I know I can't trust the information that appears on Yelp.
Don't rush through extreme web laws (UK)
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Sorry, I meant to link to this page: http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/speakout/extremeinternetl
Ah yes, good point, 3D would be a logical next step.

I completely overlooked that :)
I just tried it with a few configurations. And I can conclude that it's not just you.

With Chrome and VS2008 with a project open I at least get the Solution Explorer refreshes you described. I don't have time to investigate further right now but my first reaction was that it was a bit scary that a webpage would be able to influence a separate application like that... But a more likely scenario is that VS has hooked up a debugger to the thread and it triggers this behavior.

I don't have any experience with .NET on the web, so I can't say for sure. But I am for sure going to bookmark this and have a look at it later.

Thanks! :)
I think that it's brilliant. Short term it gets publicity and drives people to the group who are curious.

Long term PG signs a deal with Bing to be the exclusive search engine for Hacker News that pays for the servers and bandwidth.

Down mod me if you will but it's simply brilliant.
How is you investment working out for you?
Is this US actually bankrupt?
ABE, Pioneering Robotic Undersea Explorer, Is Dead at 16
Build Your Own Video Community With Lighttpd And FlowPlayer (Ubuntu 9.10)
OpenSocial 1.0 specification published - The H Open Source: News and Features
Scientists go 'gaga' to find creatures beneath 600 feet of ice
Please don't hold it against us Texans generally: One of the conservative Republicans on the board (the former chairman) was up for reelection but was defeated by a moderate in the primary election two weeks ago, so he'll be off the board in due course (yay).
SWFObject and Best Practice Implementation
except it's not just VS, Outlook had certain elements flicker too.

If you go to the chrome options page, and look at the under the hood tab, that whole scroll region flickers too.

Chrome's task manager shows that silverlight is loaded somewhere on that page. maybe that is it.
I'm shocked that people are shocked that the party in power will bend the rules to serve their own ends. I'm sure if you look back to the heady days of the Bush administration, you would find opinion pieces written in the New York Times railing against how "we have entered a political wonderland" when the tax cuts, etc. were passed.
SXSW: Privacy isn't dead, despite what Eric Schmidt or Mark Zuckerberg might say
Read and process data from your brain in ActionScript 3.0-Open source
I thought it was a simple algorithm:

voice + crackles * importance of call
The post appears to be highlighting that despite this announcement lisp is used to tweak the gameplay in recent games. It could be that the engine related functions like disk streaming are now C++.

Naughtydog has now been part of Sony for some time.
I think that I would be extremely hesitant to sign up; there would have to be a major value proposition for me to give that info up to them.
The Argument Against Cereal Grains
TellHN : Go Test It is closing down on 22nd March
This is a mail I received from Amir Chaudhry (amir@go-test.it) :

Hello,

As a registered user of Go Test It, I'm writing to inform you that Go Test It is shutting down. The service will cease sometime after 5pm on Monday the 22nd of March and we encourage you to back-up your test scripts as soon as possible. We sincerely apologise for any disruption this may cause you.

A lot has happened over the last few weeks and this decision has been a difficult one. We have every intention to work alongside our users to minimise the impact and have included a brief list of other automated testing services you might find useful. If you need help with backing up your scripts, please email us on support@go-test.it

We really appreciate your support and patience at this time. If you have questions, please direct them to the email address above.

Best wishes,
Amir

- Alternative Services -
Some alternative services you may wish to consider are CloudTesting, SauceLabs and Gomez Reality View XF. Please understand that these are simply suggestions and this list is not intended to be a recommendation nor comprehensive. As with Go Test It, these services are based on Selenium so you should find the scripting familiar.
The Constitution states (Article I, Section 5) that “Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings”, and even though the self-executing rule strikes me as a way to hack parliamentary procedure, every member who votes for that bill will know what its effect will be.

Also, the Republicans had no aversion to using self-executing rules back when they were in power. (http://mediamatters.org/research/201003150041)
Thanks for your answer! Any tutorials you could recommend? Last time I really did use JavaScript in the end... It seems Canvas pictures can not readily be saved as images, though. I was wondering if a Javascript to SVG bridge would make sense (create SVG files from canvas drawing methods).

Keyboard input in Photoshop: it's pretty hidden, though? And it seems tedious (select input fields with mouse etc), not sure, haven't really tried it. But doing everything in a text editor might actually be more convenient?
Indeed I was. However, that is probably the best math/sports quote of all time.
I've heard of them and I have a vague idea of what their product does (as indicated by my asking of how it compares to VirtualBox). In any case how would one answer that kind of question? "Because I'm 15 years old", "Because I'm not as cool as you". Anyway. Sorry about the jackass comment. Just thought you were one but I'm being too sensitive ;)
Netflix company culture. Clearest plan to grow without losing talent
What can policymakers learn from happiness research?
Crikey is pretty much the best news in Australia, which is why it manages to make an online subscription model actually work.
If you look at the divisions being made, its pretty clearly based on how people would look for books. For calculus, lots of people buy books based on classes they take. Hence the division.

No one of any mathematical repute or who took anything beyond calculus would be confused by this so I'm okay with the menu as is.
We had our twins sleeping through the night 7pm-7am at 3 months. We followed the techniques in this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Healthy-Sleep-Habits-Happy-Child/dp/03...

It was a fantastic book and written by a doctor who specializes in sleep habits. It's the gift I give to all my friends who are expecting.
Mathematical Fiction database
This isn't true in a strict sense, is it? The digits of pi aren't random, and for numbers of arbitrary size, it seems that you could just keep asking for a longer numbers until you can't find a match any more.

Ah, we know that none of the numbers of the form pi + x can found in pi.

But I still wonder whether there exist numbers of finite length that can't be found within the digits of pi. Any hardcore mathematicians in the house?
Mine's at 177,322,565
Disclaimer: I'm not familiar with Crikey and can't tell for sure if this applies to them.

Not really. Crikey caters to a very limited niche in the Australian market and is subscription only. It has a really strong presence amongst policy makers/politicians etc and is probably the best political newspaper in Australia.

Crikey is not read by the man in the street. To give you an idea, their subscription base is in the thousands (not the tens of thousands) out of a country of about 20 million (so ~ 8 million potential households or so). Those who do subscribe do so because it often has leaks/stories that the main papers don't carry.

It's also not a daily newspaper in the traditional sense, unlike the main newspapers. It's an email sent out around midday. You wouldn't subscribe to it to replace the dead tree that turns up outside your house each day. [1]

When news-people use the word "spin" it's invariably in the same errand: To blame someone/something else for the fact that they don't do their jobs well.

You're making a mistake here in assuming that the business of major newspapers is in producing news. It isn't. It's in producing entertainment. If it contains the veneer of news, all the better. On a mainstream newspaper, the news-people are doing their jobs well [2]; they're filling an advertising catalog with enough interesting looking fluff that people will pay for it and read through it.

[1] Although if you're reading Crikey and reading the mainstream newspaper your main motivation for the latter is potentially only to see what other people are reading.

[2] Yes I'm aware the Internet is killing major newspapers, but that's because there's almost limitless other entertainment out there, for free.
Here's some advice from a top earner fom RentACoder: http://www.reddit.com/r/iama/comments/a2485
Yeah I just got it too. He didn't mention any reason and their website doesn't say anything either.
Startup: Tweet Randomizer - pick your follower of the day
Related: http://www.angio.net/pi/whynotpi.html
I have earned a decent income for my company using odesk.com Basically, you just need to make sure your profile is up to date, and prove that even though are more expensive, than $10 an hour coders, you are worth it.
New CU-Boulder Hand Bacteria Study Holds Promise for Forensics Identification
I'm not a mathematician, but I read a lot of time ago that since pi is infinite but not periodic, you shold be able to find in it any sequence you want, given infinite time to search in it.

This is what I remember, but I could be wrong.
This is surprising, I remember meeting the founder and the Red Gate guys out at Business of Software 2009. They seemed very passionate and committed (I kept hoping they would use a marketing idea I suggested).

One thought might be that they are going to add it to one of the other Red Gate tools and sell it more in the way that Red Gate is used to selling tools. (not SaaS)

Interesting HN Posts:

Original Review My App for Got Test It: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=883049

My First Exit (post on selling to Red Gate):
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=968118
Thanks for mentioning the converter boxes. I forgot about that; added to the article. Unfortunately they require power too.
So why don't you 'edit' the link ?

Or delete this posting and post again.
Thanks. Made mention of the battery or other power source needed in the home.
And Yelp will just claim they were by interns or renegade sales people and carry on.
Android developments with Duby
I got this too.

They were bought up last year by Red Gate [1] so Im guessing lack of market traction or lack of revenue is causing the close. Just speculating though.

1. http://go-test.it/blog/2009/11/30/red-gate-acquires-go-test-...
Come to Cleveland! It's cheap, and no beaches or sun will guarantee that you'll be indoors coding all day :)
Imagine for a moment that you do not need food, then see how many of the services you currently use you can do without as a consequence. Bankers? Really? What to use money for when nobody is anymore threatened by hunger. Even today you have plenty of people doing volunteer work, any problem in a society where there's no competition for resources would make that the norm. I am very disappointed that the answers to this thread are given without much thought.
A friend of mine (Nicolette Mak) has done something similar in the Netherlands, a courier service for handicapped people called 'Valid Express' ( http://www.validexpress.nl/ ). It's a huge success, she now has about 50 vehicles on the road with people that have 'challenging bodies' as she calls it, each vehicle is adapted to it's driver.
RMS's birthday is today.

"The string 03161953 occurs at position 30,263,003 counting from the first digit after the decimal point."
Graph theory was easily the most practical thing I learned from programming contests. Most of the applications are "obvious", but only if you play with enough graphs.
Position 21,786,098

Who can get closest to zero?
Microsoft has released 2 quick fixes for its latest IE security hole
Introduction to Pyjamas (GWT for python)
Solitude and Leadership
William Deresiewicz on what our leaders lack. Notes from a lecture at West Point.
>Porn users become addicted and can't stop using it. They go back for more and more. They desire harder and harder material. They seek to mimic what they see in their preferred pornographic material.

Regarding addiction, I'll answer with a quote, replace X with the vice of your choice:

"Is X addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating."

Harder and harder material? Please no more "gateway" theories. As for acting out what we see on the screen, what's wrong with getting a little inspiration, I am not going to suddenly start hitting my partner just because I saw a pornstar do it.
The Nexus One Is A Flop: 74 Days In, Just 135,000 Sold
Facebook Kicks Off Implementation Of QR Codes
Your argument might have more weight if you could point to a process abuse akin to "deeming" a bill as being passed without actually voting on it, especially if that bill is signed into law as required by the Senate parliamentarian but the Senate never manages to pass the reconciliation bill (the only one the House would actually vote on).

In the history of the Republic I can't remember anything even close to this.