skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another big reason resistance to alcohol (and boiling water) doesn't develop is that neither is persistent in the environment, and thus the selective pressure vanishes fairly quickly. The mutations required to resist either likely have downsides in normal environments, and thus will normally be selected against.
...? I click it and it brings me to some minimized search/home page. What is this?
Your examples aren't valid HTML, so that approach is fine for quirks mode. But what about valid pages that declare a DOCTYPE? Shouldn't those be parsed from left to right, so the first matching ID that is encountered wins (with any other matching IDs considered errors and disregarded)?

OT, this was one of the problems XHTML was supposed to solve, since it was originally assumed by many that pages that weren't well-formed XML would not be rendered at all, forcing the developers to fix the code. This didn't happen, and developers are still at the mercy of how individual browsers implementat quirks mode.
Ask HN: Review my GAE app that allows you to regex-mute tweets.
http://ambient-wall.appspot.com/

It's also on github here:
http://github.com/bdailey/ambient-wall

The reasons for it's creation are there on the page (oAuth iplementation, all web-based, allows regex-muting, etc). I've added much of the basic functionality. The next thing I want to add is the ability to manage lists.

Also, it was an excuse to learn Python. So if the code isn't as pretty as you like, that's why.

Edit: I'm also aware it doesn't work in IE. Hasn't been a real priority yet as it's mostly for the nerd-herd.
dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1178723
That's in the short term of course. Twitpic is essentially a feature on top of Twitter and without Twitter, Twitpic wouldn't exist. In the end, if Twitter implemented picture hosting themselves, Twitpic would surely slowly die.
There is one inherent complication involved with a graduated rate. If there is a single rate for everyone without loopholes, then companies can pay income taxes as a percentage of their total payroll, instead of calculating individually for each person. In fact, there would be no reason for a non-self employed person to need to calculate anything at all. If X is the tax rate, then the employer just withholds a X percent from every single paycheck given to any employee. This sort of system would make it much harder for the government to encourage various behaviors without resorting to a direct subsidy, but it would redirect a lot of people from the tax preparation industry into productive work.

If the rate is graduated, then there is no way to know the total amount of income tax owed by a company's employees without doing separate calculations for each.

BTW, the US, UK, and every other supposedly "progressive" tax system I know of actually taxes the rich less, due to complex tax systems that only those who can afford accountants can properly exploit. On a percentage basis, the very wealthy have a much lower tax burden than the middle class under the current system.
yeah that's a good start... but there still in no substitute for actually manipulating the UI with your fingers instead of a mouse and spending some time with the real device.
Lordy, all the greybeards must be going crazy right now. People are writing everyday how great these new wheel things are -- I'm glad I'm younger than 30 or else I'd probably be going mad at all this talk of graph databases, document databases, object databases, etc etc as if they are some great new innovation.
An Open Letter to Steve Jobs
I too am very confused. I even made sure to enable Javascript for the page.
I adore my Kindle and use it every day, but I have never once tried to browse the web on it. Instapaper's Kindle integration handles any longer web pages I might want to read on the Kindle.
This is my first time seeing MixergyNOTES, and I must say I really enjoy this concise cliffsnotes version of the interview. I was able to take in all the key points within 5 minutes' time.
When they go public and we can see the balance sheets and not just press releases.
Sure
CTR: 0.16%
ULocate Launches Ad Network for Location-Aware Mobile Devices
Exactly. I have an obsession with "optimized" markup, that means avoiding unnecessary elements, ids and classes. Let's not forget that all this stuff sits in markup and gets downloaded on each request. Even if that does not add up to much, I still want to have my code "clean". There is one particular site that inspires me: http://camendesign.com/ — take a look, not a single id or class.
My point was that this article was large on anecdote and low on data. Our profession has a ridiculous susceptibility to both buzz and bias towards things we've come across the most recently. That being the case it's even more important to provide hard, measurable, ideally reproduceable results.

If we want to consider ourselves scientists or engineers the worst way to convince anyone of anything is "trust me, it works" or "it worked for me so it will work for you."
Isn't ePub (which Kindle doesn't yet support) based on XHTML? Doesn't Apple use Webkit for the iTunes Store? Aren't there lots of Apps in the App Store that are basically rich content being run on a Webkit browser component?

Browser engineers don't necessarily have to be working on a standard roam-the-wild-internet web browser.
So, my 2 cents: First, sign up with as many ad networks as you can. Then, note the CPMs that you are getting with each ad network. Finally, chain the ad tags together using minimums and redirects. For example, say you've tried 5 ad networks: A, B, C, D, and AdSense. Put ad tags from A on your site, and redirect to B if A goes below a certain minimum. Then redirect to C if B goes below another lower minimum. Keep redirecting until you get to AdSense, the internet's remnant provider.

Every once in a while, check in and make sure that your redirects and minimums are making sense. If you do this, then you'll be capturing a pretty high CPM. To my knowledge, almost all networks support this structure, except for AdSense, which doesn't redirect and therefor goes at the end of the chain.
The CueCat rides again, except now with spam potential. o_O
When wanting to use your own engine instead of V8 ... it's not always NIH.

They have developers on board familiar with the TraceMonkey codebase. They have developers from Adobe helping out with the Tamarin codebase. That's inside knowledge they would lose and it's debatable if on the long term V8 will deliver ... yes, right now it's the fastest, but is it the fastest approach?

Outsourcing a vital component of a project to another open-source project that's younger and hasn't proven its long-term viability should certainly be taken with a lot of care.

Personally I'm pretty happy with Firefox. The only thing bothering me is the single-process model, versus the one process per tab of Chrome, but I'm pretty sure they'll fix that pretty soon.
Light-level Geolocators from the British Antarctic Survey
The Message of Design
Yes you do. The more browsers, and the more evenly distributed their market share, the less any individual one gets to muck around with standards as it's in their own self-interest to converge.
I would like to see this tried with a server in Britain...
Yale has an officially-mandated "shopping period" described at:

http://www.yale.edu/yalecol/publications/transfer/general/se...

I can't tell if you're expected to drop in on classes in the middle of them or not. I read it as you can sample a large number of non-overlapping classes during the first two weeks of term, and then make an informed decision about which ones to stick with.

Any Yalies around who can add anything?
seems good if people in your occupation value geographical diversity in experiences (e.g., if you want to get a job as a travel photographer or international spy) ... not so useful if you're applying for software positions, though
I'm a first generation Kindle owner too and it actually has advantages over subsequent generations that I would hesitate to give up. Namely,

* a removable battery

* external SD card slot
As a proof of concept, this is interesting. For fields in which having experience in different cultures is important, the visual of the world map is really useful.

I could imagine someone applying for a teaching position using this résumé approach and impressing their potential employer.

For the next iteration, non-truncated location descriptions would be needed.
can you save pdf's from the browser and then read them? if not I don't see much of the point. most of the content heavy sites I visit have everything in pdf.
It works perfectly for all of my personal email addresses that I have taken care to keep off of the web in spiderable form, but I get lots of false positives for my business email addresses that are out there as as a mailto:.
Be a comedian
I think you missed the point of the article. Chris himself invented a man alternative, called cheat, and he seems to have had a revelation that maybe the man standard is a good one.

Ruby itself has ri and rdoc as man alternatives.

I think the point was that man is a widely accepted "unix way" of doing documentation. Just as Unicorn uses unix sockets to great effect, maybe we should focus on writing good manpages instead of reinventing documentation systems over and over again.

That doesn't mean cheat, ri, rdoc aren't better in various ways, just that publishing documentation via the man standard is a nice way to maintain standardized docs.
No, it's more that radio broadcasts are the only things that they think they can practically control via their "authorizing". If they thought they could effectively make money shaking down backyard barbecues, they would be "simply protecting themselves" from "unauthorized" backyard barbecues as well...

It's a "simple" protection racket...
Dear sir, you seem unaware of the commenting guidelines for Hacker News that in short state that our community cares about tone and civilized discussions with supporting arguments as opposed to the reddit-style blatant unsupported statements and profanity: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This is most likely why this is the third comment from you in this thread being down voted.
History Stealing: It’s All Shades of Grey
This is not "News"
Nicer than usual signup form, like the way you can add a note along with your email address
I didn't know what International Color Consortium (ICC) was, but Wikipedia has a lot[1] (browse till you have enough).

Apparently Firefox (as of Gecko/20100115 - FF 3.6) supports only the version 2 of their specification[2]. Adobe Reader supports the latest (4, don't know 4.2).[2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICC_profile

[2] http://www.color.org/version4html.xalter
don't like Apple's policy much lately regarding the App Store, but Apple's tight control prevents/reduces the possibility of things like these from happening.
Get 1-Click File Sharing And Backup Features With TonidoPlug Free Giveaway
Virginia Tech
Save Time and Money by Systematizing your Photoshop Workflow
Agreed. It's also nice to see Xerox PARC (indirectly) pushed to the spotlight. I think a lot of CS students in my generation (and younger) are unfamiliar with all the cool stuff PARC did back in the day.

The book "Dealers of Lightning" is fantastic for anyone interested in the stories behind Xerox PARC and all the other tech achievements that happened there.
The kindle browser isn't all that bad, but its concepts (such as using the little wheel to navigate and the page back/forward buttons to scroll vertically) are a bit crude still.
When I plug my camera in to charge, it asks if I want it to go into disk mode. I can say no.
Atlanta HackerNews Meetup #2: Thursday Mar 11th 7pm at Rira Pub
Mixergynotes is not associated with Mixergy.
The only thing bothering me is the single-process model, versus the one process per tab of Chrome, but I'm pretty sure they'll fix that pretty soon.

I really hope so. My average number of tabs open seems to be growing logarithmically over time (lately I've been weighing in at about 40, which is not even that many if you use Tree Style Tabs and put your tabs on the left), so I have a whole lot of tabs to reload every time I crash. And that happens quite a bit more often than it should, since I have so many tabs open.

If and when Chrome gets a left-side tree tab extension that works on OS X (haven't checked lately, I should keep an eye out), I'll be switching over almost immediately, for this reason alone.
Can I Destroy The Job I Love?
Safe and Affordable Jetpack: Just $90,000
Looked at the paper linked in TFA [1]. Said something about "HadCRUT" temperature data, so I Googled it. Third link down was [2], which has data downloads. Also checked wikipedia, which linked to [3], which has that and many more datasets.

[1] http://hadobs.metoffice.com/crutem3/HadCRUT3_accepted.pdf

[2] http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/

[3] http://hadobs.metoffice.com/
The USB spec doesn't include a class for battery charger.
No announced Linux support though?

An Android port would make that far easier but it's not a given.

Linux is well and ahead as the top requested feature too:

http://unity.uservoice.com/forums/15792-unity
Good thing hardware doesn't rely on running complicated firmware... :)
This video is extremely painful to listen to. All I can hear is "like", "like", like"....
The World's First Commercial Brain-Computer Interface + history of BCI
As an HN community member, I find this a bit upsetting - this link got upmodded to 20 (as of now), and all it is is a link for a course offering. So either (a) fogus is part of a voting ring, or (b) the HN community has degenerated to the point where we upvote stuff based on title alone.

What gives?
Is svnsync good enough?
I would love to create a mashup of something like this with http://PleaseRobMe.com
The market against race and sex discrimination
Yes Master, I am your humble servant
Why records do all sound the same
But then the browser would have to validate the page, and then render or re-render the document, wouldn't it?
Just in time for St. Patricks. Awesome :)
I don't think it's funny and I don't think either the hospital or the consultants/contractors/employees who built this system are worth their weight in salt.

It was a horribly expensive move and had very little benefit to the system or the patients or the hospital. It was a huge waste of money and it is decisions like this that are sending health care costs through the roof.

How incompetent must you be to go through all that and find out after months of work and thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of dollars spent that what you were doing benefited only one person for less than 1 minute a day?

It's a really sad state of affairs that this scenario exists. Pathetic really. If I was the hospital, I'd fire the contractors and the stupid person running the system who can't remember a password. These kinds of people end up costing you more and more and more in the long run.
The best argument against software patents is this:

Patents exist to encourage and reward innovation and invention, by granting 20-year monopolies on new ideas.

Software does not need additional motivation for innovation because there is and was tremendous innovation and invention, and would be without patents.

20-year patents on software concepts reduce the rate of innovation in software.
Scientists See Fresh Evidence of More Water on the Moon
I wouldn't so much call it a resume/C.V. than an intuitive addition to one on a portfolio. Good idea nonetheless.
Speed test between django_mongokit and postgresql_psycopg2
Toyota Fires Back: Electronics Don't Rewire Themselves
Is it just me, or did was the annoying sales guy completely right about the technology being possible, able to satisfy the client, and successful in closing a profitable deal for the company?

What weird dailywtf parallel universe is this?
We don't get to see any of the CSS animations, which probably take a lot more time than static CSS.
Seattle's innovation economy is simply striking out
Green.view: Trading down
I hope that this book doesn't turn out to be a "repackaging" of the same old 37Signals content I can get anywhere else. Thanks to Amazon, I got my copy at 9am this morning, but I haven't had a chance to pick through it yet. We'll see.
Tips to Score High Marks
Nowhere, too poor for that jazz.

Edit: My skill set reflects that, though. ;)
But don't they capture all of the information in your DNA? I'm just wondering what other information could be extracted from the sample.
The design of the trojan is odd. According to the Symantec analysis, it did a bunch of xor's on request/replies as a sort of obfuscation. Given the available commands all had GUID "magic numbers", only someone who had analyzed the source code could exploit the backdoor. If one did that, he surely would have observed the xor-ing and could easily add it into his trojan client. If the author wanted to be sure that his botnet was not hijacked, he should have made the trojan check signatures of instructions to verify origin.

Perhaps the xors were there to obfuscate the data on the wire so the nefariousness of the open port would not be so obvious to net admins? However, given that most companies would not forward 7777 traffic through their firewalls, this trojan was probably targeted toward home users without firewalls. Or, maybe it was designed as an exploit to be used after another means was used to get inside a corporate firewall?

Also, given that probably only a few computers out of a million had this trojan installed with 7777 available on the public 'net, how much effort would be required to portscan machines just to identify botnet members? And, was this even a true botnet? The built-in commands seemed to be designed around data harvesting (for identity theft?).

This whole design is very strange to me.
1024-bit RSA encryption cracked by tweaking power
From the Chile push pin regarding interests:

taking the piss out of my wife and newspapers

Any UK people care to translate that?
Demand Media’s content assembly line
I'm going to start trying things fairly soon. I'm just too busy with YC right now.
Not to diminish Ms. Warrior's accomplishments, but having a triple-whammy (minority female in engineering) can't hurt either.
One for all and all for one!

I don't know, maybe I would have opted for a enterprise level account with Roboform?
Ask HN: Productivity-boosting gadgets?
I work in a medium-sized corporate office with lots of different groups in an open floor plan on a single floor. A few of us have brought up what gadgets we could buy/make/use that could boost our productivity in little ways - like the typical NOC overhead display. There's usually lots of opposition within my group to things like this, and here's the short list of reasons:

* We should be monitoring things on our desktops anyway
* It's bad for us (politically?) if others see a service is down or alerting
* It would be expensive or inefficient to duplicate the monitor(s) needed to allow everyone to see the displays without turning around or craning their necks

I'm more inclined to just do my job efficiently than think about politics or expenses. Even if this display is too "controversial" or nobody wants to fight for it enough, i'm curious what other ways we could increase productivity by employing some other gadget, device, add-on or other thing to help improve efficiency (or just make my life a little easier).
Analysis of this sort is indeed very complex and I did increase the scope of the thread beyond what you were addressing.

As for the "Roosevelt Recession", it's worth pointing out that sooner or later you have to tighten the screws (later might be when external to your country effects come into play, e.g. right now I think the biggest question is when will the Federal government run out of people willing to finance its 1.5 trillion dollar a year deficit (yeah, its supposed to go down to 1 trillion soon, but who believes that absent some major political shifts?)).

That late '30s experience suggests that counter-cyclical spending might only delay the day of reckoning, with perhaps the Japanese showing what happens when you mostly try to indefinitely delay it ... and they can finance their deficit spending for at least a little while longer (well, until too many retirees try to draw down their assets).
> Linux is well and ahead as the top requested feature

Likely requested by the fabled "vocal minority".
Zotonic outperforms WordPress by rethinking the CMS with Erlang
I have a Kindle DX, and in my corner of Europe, the web access is limited to Wikipedia (just the English language one, if memory of my test serves). Google maps would be nice sometimes ... but it is Amazon's nickel paying for the 3G cellular phone calls, not mine ...

Anyway, I think Amazon has decided to push for a Kindle platform - they have a call outstanding for external developers of "active content", and a beta SDK you can sign up for (not yet public, haven't seen it).

The issue will turn on who pays for the 3G data line. If it's Amazon, of course they'll use the line to pull in paying customers. The limited freebies (such as Wikipedia) are just a loss-leader.

A model where the Kindle can be used with a regular (owner-paid) data line would be needed for things such as corporate VPNs. I don't know if Amazon are prepared to go there just to make a little bit more money on hardware.
this is @ the same time (7:30pm) as the python-atlanta monthly meetup

http://www.meetup.com/python-atlanta/calendar/12579189/
1) They can indeed create money : wiki "Quantitative Easing" (edit: and reduce it, too! that's the federal reserve's fundamental job)

2) Stagflation is much worse than recessions and bounceback with low interest rates. See: the 1970s. There have been a lot of recessions and a lot of livelihoods ruined over the last 100 years or so to reach our current understanding -- it's likely not perfect, but it is based on experience.

3) That's not what I'm advocating in the slightest, I advocated for targetted government spending to help create/retain jobs, specifically on things that have high externalities for the country. We don't need any more candlesticks or buggy whips, but every state is laying off teachers like crazy and we could certainly use some new bridges and high speed rail.

Regarding your last statement -- a lack of sufficient stimulus up front is the most universally agreed upon reason for the protracted nature of BOTH of those downturns. Like, all of the literature says the exact opposite of what you're saying. Maybe they're all wrong, I dunno. I do know that in both cases, decision makers were motivated by feelings of avoiding borrowing as a fundamental value, which is the right approach all of the time except for specifically during a panic or the beginning of a recession.
Context Searching with clojure-opennlp
Backward? Never. This is the company that changed its name to Consignia and ditched the Crown for a random second-rate swooshy circle thingy.
Government debt is an entirely different product than private debt. Different interest rate and all of that.

Regarding the sovereign debt defaults, did we have one of those after the great depression? Sovereign debt defaults are associated with financial panics. Don't bind up intermediate (correct or incorrect) steps with the root cause.
Does Unity for iPhone support Vorbis and Theora?
"taking the piss" = "making fun of"
Alright I've clicked on all those links, read the text, and downloaded the files.

I've got files for variations, I've got files for averages, I've got files I don't know what they are.

Now back to my question: anybody know where the unaltered data, by day and location, is? Direct link would be awesome.

This isn't too much to ask, right? I mean, if we've been keeping temperature records, surely there has to be the raw data somewhere in an easy-to-consume format? (I'm not trying to be cynical or sarcastic. For all I know there might be good reasons for such data not existing or I might have a case of the doofus here)