skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just wanted to add:

We at trendiction.com also provide a raw and filtered feed of different data (currently blog posts, blog comments, news posts, news comments, and message board posts).

But we restrict ourself to mainly german content right now. (there is already a lot to cover there)

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Yeah, that's where I went from "this could be useful" to "that's stupid". It's like doing an internet speed test to determine how long it will take to download a file, ignoring how fast the file has actually been downloading.
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If they can make sure H.264 become the standard, then that's a big problem for firefox, which is good for Microsoft, so it wouldn't be totally illogical for them to skip VP8.
I've just visited acid3.acidtests.org. That was funny on several levels :)
It's an adage that's been verbed into a gerund because the verb it would have been based on didn't exist.
Hell I wouldn't do it either, but the Danish government already has all of that info on file.
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A recursive universe then?

So, if a universe is big enough for black holes, it might have black holes in it, but if it isn't, it's just a regular-old stars and planets universe. And then, any black hole it might have has a reduced universe inside it.
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It's true (though the parent could have been a bit nicer about it). A consult with a lawyer would have likely resulted in a stern letter from said lawyer being sent back to the company. These people go after the easy marks. Show some teeth and they'll likely back down. It's not worth their time to pursue the people who fight back.
I've had good results with the 5x5 programme. It's a good manly thing to do, not as boring as hours on a bike, and is quick to perform (I can get in an out of the gym in 45 minutes).
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Really? I'm not sure if I agree or not.

It's certainly not related to hacking, but on the other hand, there's always that broad "satisfies our intellectual curiosity" banner that you have to hold things to. Although it was short and to the point, it caused me to reevaluate something I had taken for granted, so personally I think it fit the bill.

Plus, I have a suspicion that the overlap between people who work out and people who go to hacker news is larger than you might think. I know that jogging, for instance, helps me focus, and I've heard other coders say the same. But I think I'm getting a bit tangential.
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Am I missing something, or did Red Dwarf not already predict this in 1991??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Hole_%28Red_Dwarf%29
Just exercise 3 times a week and eat more or less than your calorie needs according to what you're trying to do.

Right, eat less if trying to lose weight and eat more if trying to bulk up. But what if you are trying to lose fat and gain muscle?
Ask HN: Who is innovating business models for media content?
Hi HN,

I'm a student journalist writing an article on innovative business models for media content. There's been quite a lot of destruction of old business models in the last 10-15 years, and ads aren't making up for content being online for free. I'm examining some of the sites that experimenting with new ideas/models. Please let me know if I'm missing any top innovators in this space!

I'm focusing on paywalls/subscriptions, voluntary/mandatory micropayments, and advocacy/pro-active journalism services.

The sites/organizations I'm covering so far:

WSJ & Dow Jones Local Media Group newspapers (metered paywall)

NY Times (metered paywall proposed)

Financial Times (day/week Paypal micropayments)

Kachingle [distribute monthly fee to sites you support]

Flattr [distribute monthly fee to content you like]

Fraxion Payments [wordpress micropayments plugin] (interviewed co-founder)

JournalismOnline.com (Press Plus) -- interviewed spokesperson. [Press Plus has 1,400 letters of intent from newspapers in U.S., offering publishers 16 charging options]

Spot.Us -- proactive crowd-funded journalism, non-profit.

ProPublica -- proactive advocacy journalism non-profit, just won Pulitzer.

Wikileaks -- (I interviewed Julian Assange, editor) donation-supported non-profit that specializes in leaked information disclosure, controversial, behind recent Iraq video

Peer News -- for-profit, business model unannounced, but moving away from article format to more wiki/community powered.

Thanks so much, my hope is to provide a quality overview of the change happening in this industry. Will post article link when published.
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To summarize in English: Stewart started an unnamed firm, and tried to exit mid-bubble four years later; his partners didn't want to buy his equity, so he sued them. By the time he got his shares bought three years later the firm had imploded.

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What seems to be ignored is the difference in the muscle itself from more weight fewer reps contra less weight more reps; bigger muscles faster, contra notable endurance gain.

You will always gain size by increasing weight to push the muscle and force it to rebuild as the fibers break down when their potential's limit is approached, but the only way to build enduring muscle fiber is by more reps; by tiring the muscle out entirely to the point it can't do more repetitions. A muscle can be big, bulky, and deliver explosive power, and it can be lean, "tendony", hardy and durable. It is no different to normal stamina build from typical "cardio training" like jogging - every 100 meter extra you add to your trip slowly becomes easier for your entire body - heart, lungs, muscles.

Endurace is also a strength on its own.
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That's a pretty difficult path to follow. Chances are you'll end up not eating enough, and start burning muscle in addition to fat. If you lose more than about 1 kg / ~2.2 lbs a week, you're at risk of doing just that. On the other extreme, you can easily wind up eating too much, and gaining more than fat than actual muscle.

To really know what's going on, you'd of course have to measure actual body fat lost, rather than just weight lost. Muscles weigh more than fat, some build muscle more easily than others, etc.

Generally I'd say there's a reason most body builders bulk up for months, then spend time dropping excess weight, rather than aiming for a steady increase in muscle mass with zero fat gain.

For the most, my experience is that aiming for slow weight / fat loss through any muscle exercise is also bound to provide some muscle build up. That seems adequate for most people.
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Jogging I can see, but body-building and "working out" to me seems sort of the diametrical opposite, something I associate more with jocks. Being healthy and in reasonable shape is one thing, but obsessing over reps, weights, and muscle tone?
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Weight lifting has been my primary form of workout for the last 9-10 years. I've found that its the only way of training I can do and still keep half a brain focused on a code / architectural issue.

As with biking / jogging / rowing, I find that a proper weight workout also helps me stay focused after finishing up.
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No, not of this magnitude.

I still haven't found all the places that needed to get a new password after the reddit guys screwed up.
TI's DaVinci family includes programmable DSP and ARM based solutions and you can buy various 3rd party software implementations of codecs such as H.264 to run on them.

http://focus.ti.com/dsp/docs/dspfindtoolswresults.tsp?sectio...
I think that largely depends on the gym. Some are really just show-off spots, I agree, but my experience is that the less mainstream, often kinda run-down joints have a much friendlier, less cocky and pretty intelligent under-tone to them.
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I guess I have no opinion on that, never having stepped foot in a gym. =]

Mostly, the idea seems oddly artificial to me. I use my muscles when I want to do something with them, like go for a walk, or go hiking, or swimming, but not just for the sake of using them. Sort of how I approach coding, too...
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I started with http://concept1010.com/ early 2009.

This is 6 machines (back, legs, arms, breast, stomach, and neck) once a week.

Each repetition should take 20 seconds (so you do it slowly, which makes it harder) and you should be able to do about 7 repetitions before your muscles give up.

If you continue past two and a half minute the weight is increased.

I was skeptical at first, but today I am a believer ;) I have gone from 90 KG to 72 KG and would describe myself as muscular (but certainly not bulky) and feel overall in great shape (not just raw strength and duration, but also ability to do prolonged work in front of the computer in questionable positions w/o feeling back or neck pains).

Of course my weight loss can also be attributed to other factors (eating less and burning more calories), strength training alone is not necessarily giving a weight loss, but it does help increase the metabolism and ensures that eating less does not cause burning muscle tissue, plus give a nicer shape when the fat is gone.
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Right, I had this theory as a teenager, reading popular physics. I'm sure lots of other people noticed the big bang / black hole symmetry. A pretty model should not be enough to make it significant... otoh, relativity theory was once just a pretty model too. Is their model pretty enough?

Also, any matter falling into a black hole should appear in the other universe. It would be an interesting to have new mass/energy appearing in our universe.
Oops... "battery time". More momory reduces battery time.
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This is sort of a meta-comment, but one thing I'd love to see is a good survey of how the current crop of innovation differs from previous ones, both in themselves and in relation to context. For example, micropayments were the big new thing in 1990s journalism, and micropayments are the big new thing today. What's changed, about the micropayments, the journalism, or the context? Presumably a lot, but I rarely see a good historical analysis.

As for a specific suggestion, Indymedia and Wikinews are two other non-profit, crowd-sourced journalism attempts. Indymedia aims at a far-left/activist viewpoint, while Wikinews aims at a more neutral one.
what about copyright?
Just think of it in terms of hacking your body :)
I am confused as to why more people aren't asking this. If On2 were licensing any patents (for example, from one or more of the MPEGLA partners) in order to make VP8 possible, it's not important that Google has open sourced it unless they also somehow provide a free license to all the patents involved.

I don't know enough about the industry to be able to predict whether On2 could have a technology in VP8 that they, and only they, have patents on. In that case, the ball is in Google's court. Otherwise, whoever owns the patents that On2 was licensing (or infringing?) still as a right to get royalties, right? Experts?
Totally agree there is nothing wrong about it been Turtles all the way down, but it would mean that "a little old lady at the back of the room" in 1927 came up with a ground breaking theory :)
I will email the original author of each articles to obtain the permission to print.
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This seems to be very similar to autojump what was featured on HN about two weeks ago.

Autojump seems to be much slicker IMHO.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1224400
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The idea that black hole formation might also be universe formation is quite old; I don't know what the new contribution of Poplowski's work is. (For the avoidance of doubt, I simply mean "I don't know" and not, e.g., "I suspect there is none".)

Lee Smolin made an ingenious observation: if that's so, and if it happens that in the "daughter" universe the constants of nature are slightly (and variably) different from those in the "parent", then we have exactly the setup required for Darwinian evolution, and we should expect universes to be selected for black hole fecundity. (And if that's correlated with, e.g., the viability of stars, then perhaps it explains "fine tuning", in so far as that actually exists.) Smolin wrote a book about this, called "The life of the cosmos", but I haven't read it so can't recommend or disrecommend it.
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It switched on me about a minute ago.

Search results:
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Home page:
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Real time editing looks brilliant! I wonder how they pulled it off...
How does this relate to Google's funding of ogg/theora for mobile codecs?
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/04/interesting-ti...

Given that theora is based on On2's VP3, could there be enough similarity in the codecs that the theora DSP code is useful for quickly getting VP8 going?
While true, I think there's more to the mix than that. For the last 9-10 years I've stuck with a high-weight-few-reps approach, and I've found that while my strength has increased a lot, I by no means look bulky. I'd think most people would just place me in the "possibly working out" category if they saw me in a t-shirt.

Biking, on the other hand, which I for the most had a brief encounter with to shed 45 excess lbs 10 years ago, I found built huge leg muscles. My biking had much more in common with the low-weight-many-reps-strategy.
Do you still need to touch the screen? Either it could be voice operated, or you could get audible hints as you move your finger around. If the latter then larger screen area would help.
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2.8em is way too big for any subscription form, in my opinion.

Subscribed out of curiosity, not because of a need since I love reading HN daily.
PDF makes sense, maybe as a weekly to catchup after a vacation

will I ever buy it as print version, I doubt
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Same here, Chrome on Windows Vista.
We've been thinking about ways to monetise our own twitter application (managetwitter.com - over 30,000 users high growth) so we came up with this.

We think it's an interesting strategy - pay to be put in front of people who might want to follow you. It strengthens twitter's network graph & adds value all round.

Feedback welcome!
So you want to me more productive at work and only use the internet for work (according to the 'why' on that site) and you're going to achieve that goal by taking the time to read all the news articles on Hacker News, write out summaries or reprint the articles and then mail them? Uh.
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It's much much harder to gain muscle and lose fat simultaneously, than it is to simply focus on one then the other. They are fundamentally at odds with each other: to lose fat, you need less calories; to gain muscle, you need more calories.

The advice I've heard is to build strength and size first, by eating lots and training hard until you have the muscles you're after. Then you can turn your attention to losing fat and maintaining muscle, by eating less (though you'll still need more calories than before, as larger muscles burn a lot more energy even at rest), lowering the intensity of your training, and focusing more on cardiovascular exercise like jogging and cycling.
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The comments on HN are what make HN what it is. Are you going to ask each commenter for their permission as well? Or are you not publishing comments?
Be careful about implying any connection to YC when you are not affiliated with YC. That's a secret rule that can get your post killed. I'm not saying you do here, just that you are coming close by using the phrase "Hacker News". I myself see no problem with what you are doing; you just may want to ask PG if you haven't already.
> It is worth noting that the estimated mass of the universe is the same as the mass of a black hole whose event horizon has the radius of the visible universe.

Also note that if there are universes inside black-holes in our own universe, they have much less mass to play with.

The best this theory (that, unless it can be tested, may not deserve to be called one) has going for it is that the math is right. And since I haven't seen it, I can't say that either.

National Geographic is not the best source for news in Physics or Cosmology.
some comments on the site design

(1) make it smaller its ridiculously big, i understand that this style is hip nowadays, buts its also ugly and patronizing

(2) add more white an grey, kinda like the original hacker news site, orange is just one line on the top
Firstly, let me clarify. Aside from solving my own dilemma, this is also a business venture, where I look to make money from advertising revenues and such.

Second, once the revenue comes in, I will start delegating jobs to other people, until the point where I don't do most of the work.

And you are right. I will probably have to do all the hard work for the first few issues. But hopefully, ONLY for the first few issues.
I have already exchanged a few email with PG.
Who owns the comments on HN? the commenter or HN?
I'm a little skeptical of this part:

Since all Promoted Tweets are organic Tweets, there is not a single “ad”
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That seems to assume that businesses who pay to promote tweets won't write tweets specifically for the purposes of subsequently promoting them. Does an ad really become "organic" just because they first had to post it somewhere?
If you can take the productivity hit to do this, I would be interested. My preferred format is kindle/iPad ebook of some kind, although PDF is fine too. I would pay up to $20/mo, but $5 would be more fair. (I figure I'd save 5-10 hours a month, with only some loss of quality). It's like methadone for a heroin addict.

I'd also appreciate a hackernews-to-rss which actually embedded the body of the article AND the comments, which you could maybe do as a related service. If it were properly paginated to work well on various mobile devices, especially synced to work with no online connectivity during reading, it would be great. iPhone, Android, iPad, Kindle would be great targets.

I think ignoring copyright is the way to go.
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What about environment?
What about comments? Without them a lot is lost. Also, I know some authors won't give you permission, and thus that means you won't be reproducing the 'best of' hacker news. No thanks.
What about? More wasted paper ≈ more planted trees. Wood (and thus paper) is renewable resource or did I miss something? I guess you can worry about transport costs but than perhaps it'd be better to optimise where it matters — like bottled water.
That's probably the biggest problem. But I'd give it a shot and see how it turns out.
A hackernews dating site would be amazing, except for the demographic problem of too many heterosexual males.

My favorite sites so far for meeting people for dating have been flickr, chow, and dpreview. I suspect travel sites would also work pretty well.
I try not to think of that especially there's still a question mark whether we can roll out the #1 issue.

But if it really gone big (a lot of people ordered the printed version), we certainly can devote a percentage of revenue towards planting trees.
If it's jailbroken then can they plug a camera into the space in the bevel and get it working too?
The commenter.
If I got a free issue or even just a t-shirt for my comments I probably would agree with it.
Why not just order "GEB: An Eternal Golden Braid" and read it ? The book is much more interstnig than any such course derived from it.

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Correct. So you carefully craft it so that it doesn't "...link to Documented APIs... " i.e. it only interfaces with your application.

It's all tenuous I agree.
Attractive females in the 18-25 bracket are pursued by men in the 18-death age bracket, far more than 18-25 year old men are pursued by women in the 18-death age bracket.

This leads to scarcity, and men use "rich", "high-status", "famous", etc. to differentiate themselves.

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Totally reactionary, prejudiced statement.

But my first reaction on headline before reading the article was "Ugh. I'm sorry". (I will read it in a second, I felt this obdurate urge to rant BEFORE I read it).

I coded in Java for work (After being hired to do Java) for years, then went over to Python, and worked with some C# for about a year. Now I'm back working with Java, and Scala (for which I have lots of love - it has a lot of what I love about Python but in many cases better).

There are little things in C# that just really give it an edge over Java. Among other things relating to Generics (Which are awful to begin with in that the JVM currently erases type information at compile time [Scala has a few clever hacks to get around it]) - as I understand it, C#/CLR automatically generates multiple specialized paths for all possible primitive types with generic collections.

And being a fan of closures, anonymous functions, etc. Java is just painful. C# has these, and more.

Now Off to read the article :)
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