skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And they still are. Awesome guys to work with and real humble too. Haven't met a pair of people more focused on their goals than Russ and Jack yet.
I used to be anti-illegal drugs until someone I knew went through cancer: http://overcode.yak.net/3

Marijuana gets a glowing review starting in the middle of the entries.
Britain Opens Its Airspace as Travel Crisis Begins to Ebb
I think that a great free open source leader has already been born but he committed suicide, so instead, now we have Stallman.
When I ever see such a witty statement, I chuckle, and then I downvote. I think our brains are somehow hardwired to click upvote buttons when something makes us laugh even though it contributes nothing else. I don't know if the upvotes of wit have done good things for fark, digg or reddit, but now I spend more time here than there so I downvote. I think that's how memes begin, and I'd hate to see memes on HN. This article is about the death of a meme, and I am glad to see it go.
The linked article [1] is worth reading.

1. http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/04/ff_hackers/all/1
Yep, the book "Presentation Zen" says pretty much all there is to know about this approach. And while it is not a silver bullet, it's great! I also find not using a power point at all easier too. You can connect more easily with the audience, make it more personnal, and do crazy body language movements because they will look at you instead of your slides. Sure, a good presentation can improve the message, but it's harder (chance of de-sync your speech and slides).

As for not using notes, it can be hard but possible. If you practice enough to master your speech, then yes you can go without notes. Anyway, it's no big deal when you speak about something you are passionnate about! You just need to speak at a correct speed (as for me, I need to slow down! a lot!).
That's the average from a National Science Foundation report, counting only active semesters (wall-clock time is more like 9 years on average): http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf06319/ [Figs 4-14 and 4-15]. It does include the years of classes, not just the research years, but classes are usually only two full-time years or so (less if you got a master's first).

It's quite possible to do it in less, if things go right, though in the areas of CS I'm familiar with doing it in under 5 is a stretch (maybe if you're doing a pure theory thesis). But often things don't go right. Lots of people end up writing their PhD on their 2nd or 3rd project, not their first, either because it turned out not to interest them or turned out to be fatally flawed. Or they end up having to switch advisors for reasons ranging from personality clashes to the advisor leaving their university.

Things can also go faster or slower depending on how funding goes. The ideal is to be funded on a grant or fellowship to do your own research full-time. Less ideal is being funded on a grant to do something other than your research, often code-monkey implementation for some big DARPA project or something, which means you basically have a separate part-time job; or if you're supported by TAing, that's a different kind of part-time job.
They're gonna take over the web with a toolbar and checkins? Nope.

Compare to Google's web browser, phone platform (Android and Google Voice), operating systems, web platform (App Engine), app marketplaces and fiber.

I like Facebook and depend on it. They will happily be a top destination on the web for a long time to come if they keep doing what they are doing: run a pleasant, useful and fun website for keeping in touch with people.

But Facebook is a web app, Google is a technology empire. There's no comparison right now. Twitter and Yelp should be scared, but not Google.
Oh, there's a woman out there for him somewhere.

There's always at least one. One will fall for the Stallman charms, unkempt and all.

Thanks RMS, for all that you've done, and keep the fight going.
You think he's not finding a woman because he's not famous in a way that's attractive to women?

Hilarious.

How about this: he has a very arrogant personality, the ego the size of a blimp and it's just impossible to have a conversation with him unless you agree with every single word he says.
I'm pretty sure the number is closer to 80 million. Yes, you can climb back into your chair now.
There seems to be no shortage of people rationalizing this behavior and relieved to have an explanation, implying it could be condoned.

Just like the all too common abuse of power by police, the end never justifies the means and can never be condoned. Those with power have a much higher responsibility, not less with justifications like "that's just how war is".
if they refused to budge, in that instance, yes.
1. Currently I forward everything to a Gmail account and reply from the proper address using the "send mail as" feature. I use multiple labels and a long list of filters, some with many conditional clauses to sort email into the proper labels.

2. I'm not entirely sure what you are asking.

3. When on my laptop I use Pidgin to sign into all my IM services including Google Talk and Facebook. I use aliases and groups because most of my contacts are on multiple networks.

4. A desktop computer hooked up to a TV and speakers acts as my media and server machine. I use MPD to play music remotely.

5. I use Dropbox for backup of most documents and an external hard drive for everything else.

6. I mostly prefer local services but I do occasionally connect to Dropbox to grab documents when away from one of my machines. I also forward SSH connections to my desktop through my router in case I need to transfer something else.
Google buys chip start-up from ex-Apple designers
W3Schools Website Down?
FreeBSD's probably not the best example you could have picked; it can already build on a non-GCC compiler, Clang (for x86 and x64, at least): http://wiki.freebsd.org/BuildingFreeBSDWithClang.

And the last time I looked, it was more of "Clang not being complete" then anything else to hold up DragonFly BSD from compiling. Not sure about the state of OpenBSD or NetBSD with Clang, though.
Upcoming Nokia Mobiles in India in 2010
Red Hat, Canonical and MindTouch combined have not had as much impact on computing as Apple or Microsoft alone. I was going to qualify that, but no, I think it's pretty unequivocal.

Also, your selection of companies seems a bit deceptive. These companies' profit strategies are very narrowly focused on the one market where it's possible to make money with free software — and even that isn't really making money from the software. You have to be in a market where people will pay through the nose for support contracts, because the software itself isn't making much money.

The one real exception I can think of is Mozilla, which makes decent money off of Firefox. Otherwise, unfortunately, it does generally seem to be necessary to bind the users enough to make them pay you for the software. (That's not a sarcastic "unfortunately" — I do think it would be great if I could reasonably sell free software as profitably as non-free software, but I don't see any evidence that it's feasible.)
Facebook deletes Wikileaks' page, along with 30,000 fans
>The author definitely gets points for the title

They'd get more points from me if "tastelessness" was spelled properly.
For those who've never read it, highly recommend the book Hackers by Levy. Awesome book for, well, hackers. Very well-written. Only time in my life where I've read something and thought, "That's exactly what I want to be doing!". At least, when I was younger. He really captures the thought process and motivations of a natural/self-taught programmer.
I'm glad I have voper-mode +vimpulse so that I don't have to decide between them. :)
"This "pain" that Stallman says he has endured makes his decision to champion tirelessly freedom and free software for all these decades all the more remarkable."

Alright, I realize this might be a bad statement to make on this subject... but seriously? He's a free software advocate. It's not like he's Ghandi going on a hunger strike or Martin Luther King Jr going to jail over his beliefs.
Scientists mine YouTube to study effects of Salvia divinorum
That quote makes a lot more sense when taken in context. It's from the 1983 epilogue to Hackers.

In 1983, there was no "free software" as we have today. No FSF, no EFF, no Creative Commons.

Additionally, Stallman's interview is at the end of a book about the guys who started "hacker culture". These guys did some amazing stuff: they physically modified one of their computers to add new machine instructions, wrote editors, compilers and games from scratch, etc, etc. Then they made their code available for free.

When I read that quote in the book, I interpreted it as Stallman expressing sadness over the loss of hacker culture.
Or run to terminal, do "gem server", visit http://localhost:8808/ and check out the built-in RDocs for all the Rails-related gems (and all the other ones installed).
I am not surprised that you are surprised that tianya.cn ( hosted in Beijing) is still online. We talk shit about Chinese government like that when I was in college, and that's more than a decade ago. One of the most famous forum at the time is called "Shui Mu Qing Hua." This is just one of many mythes that western media contributed to, and that's why I ask people to get some first-hand source. Just to clarify, I don't mean there are free speech in China in the same level with that in western countries. I mean the fact that you are surprised is because western media is doing a bad job reporting China and people seem to have complete faith in those news.

Now when it comes to talking shit in front of foreigners to save face and part of Chinese culture, I hope you don't mean that Chinese culture is inferior. When my Americans friends talk shit about their government in front of me, they understand that I speak fluent English and I know exactly what they mean. I don't talk shit about Chinese government in front of westerners I am not close with, because I know they don't speak Chinese, know nothing about Chinese culture (or feeling Chinese culture is inferior) and will take my comments out of context. Let me give you an example: giving cash as gift to people you know, friends, colleagues, bosses, is a new year tradition in China, and the money amount can be very large. We have similar gift-exchange for many occasions. This is a tradition that everyone in China follow, and it does make it difficult to fight corruption. In western countries when nobody should accept gift of more than $25 from people with working relationships, there is no way people can understand this, and most likely, they will (or self-righteously) say this tradition is backward. Power to you if you can change a culture, but it is ridiculous to see westerns response when hearing you might receive a cash gift worth a week of your income and there is nothing wrong with it. Culture difference between China and the West, is much bigger than the difference between western countries.
I use sshfs and backintime in my scheduled backups.
Putting common sense into pricing structures
http://alexblom.com/blog/2010/04/putting-sense-into-pricing/
IMO the best part of their site isn't the Farecast -- it's the interface for choosing seats. You can see at a glance what seats are available and how the prices compare to face value.
http://apidock.com/ is generally pretty good. Ruby docs are there too.
Want to select all your friends easily to invite them to join a fb group?
I didn't know that THC could induce synesthesia. I thought effects such as that were reserved for the "stronger" chemicals, like LSD.
What's the average number of apps a person buys per month? I wonder if it would be more profitable to batch them to a certain minimum monthly limit (i.e. $3.00), and only charge otherwise if they haven't billed in, say, three months.
google should most definitely be scared. they make something like 90% of their profit from advertising - advertising based on your search query or the context of the page you're reading. facebook's ad platform has the potential to destory them, given they know your so much more about you, your friends, interests etc.

is it hard for facebook to launch a search engine, with rankings tweaked via the social graph? not really.

is it hard for google to catch up with fb's graph? yes very, but they're trying.
In an alternate world where Windows wasn't dominate, we probably wouldn't have been locked into x86, and you are right, we wouldn't have 3000 MHz machines, but we probably would have BETTER machines since x86 sucks so hard.
PCLinuxOS 2010 Review
Something that emacs and vi users can agree about then - we're both glad that RMS wrote emacs!
Very true, reader5000. And this would not have happened without compulsory education.

We're spending huge amounts and losing big time. As usual, the nanny state is a fail.

Instinctively, we knew this was true when we got that first job. We felt a sense of real work getting done and hopefully a lot less bored out our skull than in the classroom.

The real world is always more of a challenge than the documented world. You can read music all you want, but won't know a damn thing about making it til you strum a guitar. And you can sit in a classroom 5 days a week for 4 years and not know German as well as would fully immersed in it for 2 months.
It's like asking me to swim with one arm tied behind my back to see if I am a good swimmer

I look at it more as an exercise akin to athletes running with weights. When compared with competition conditions, it is totally unrealistic, but it definitely strengthens you.
Oh man, you're awesome dude. One of my next posts is about this... I agree, but have a different angle. Look for that post (it's like 3rd or 4th in this series...)
He had the Earth computer.

Or perhaps it was the other way around.
And you're awesome too. The speed part is a whole separate post and I address it as part of a large point. That post is the last in the series... I already wrote 6-7 of these but just have to pace myself
In my experience, this isn't true.

In fact, my 'attitude' of approaching work like a craftsman has served me very well in job interviews (even landing me opportunities at pie-in-the-sky type of jobs).
I'll get it started here:

=============arc (2008)=============
version used Arc 3.1
version
repl mzscheme -f as.scm
arc.sh
M-x run-arc
shebang
cell types
case sensitive yes
argument whitespace
separator
falsehoods nil ()
true, is true t, yes
symbol?
nil, is () null?, nil
is () symbol?
type-of type
type predicates (is (type x) 'int)
(is (type x) 'sym)
etc.
set property none
get property none
remove none
property
comment (+ 1 1) ; adding
============ten primitives==========
atom (or list?) atom
quote quote
eq is
car car
cdr cdr
cons cons
cond (if (> x 0) 1
(is x 0) 0
-1)
lambda (fn (x) (* x x))
[* _ _]
label =
apply ((fn (x) (* x x) 2)
([* _ _] 2)
=============arithmetic=============
==============strings===============
==========execution control=========
=========functions and scope========
==============lists=================
list literal '(1 2 3)
pair literal '(1 2)
(car '()) nil
(cdr '()) nil
(eval '()) nil
list functions list alist len append rev
nth ('(0 1 2 3) 3)
last butlast (last l)
(firstn (- (length l) 1) l)
sort (sort < '(3 2 1 0))
assoc (assoc 3 '((1 2) (3 4)))
getf none
map (map [* _ _] '(1 2 3))
filter (keep [* _ _] '(1 2 3))
reduce (reduce + '(1 2 3))
push and pop (= x '(1 2 3))
(push 4 x)
(pop x)
============sequences===============
predicate alist
===========other containers=========
=========i/o and environment========
format string (pr "Spain" 7 ": " 13.7)
to stdout
external (system "ls /etc")
command
open file (= in (infile "/etc/passwd"))
read line (readline in)
close file (close in)
=======libraries and namespaces=====
loading a file (load "a.arc")
============compilation=============
==============macros================
backquote and (def op +)
comma (eval `(,op 1 1))

defmacro (mac rpn (arg1 arg2 op)
(list op arg1 arg2))

defmacro w/ (mac rpn (arg1 arg2 op)
backquote `(,op arg1 arg2))

recursive (macex '(rpn 1 2 +))
macroexpand
single (macex1 '(rpn 1 2 +))
macroexpand
splice quote (mac add (args)
`(+ ,@args))
hygenic? no
local values using gensym
==============classes===============
=============concurrency============
create thread (thread)
==========java interoperation=======
version used jarc
on jvm
I've found http://www.railstutorial.org/ to be a great introduction to RoR.
I think the insinuation is that the takedown requests, though numerous, are usually for little stuff like high school bullying and DMCA enforcement rather than for political reasons or other much sketchier things.
Dear everyone, please move to the next freebie online platform and kill facebook so that their plans to use you fail. Please repeat once every 5 years.

This is good enough to keep our privacy for now.
While I agree that Twitter / Yelp should be scared (very...very scared,) you forget that Google makes little to no money on all of those things you mention. They are a search company. Facebook stands to be a giant threat to their search business.
Nice, simple approach to making a Marketing Plan
On the one hand it's a good move to pound into people's brains that all base belong to Microsoft - design be damned.

On the other hand does it really help to associate your brand with the bottom of the barrel laptop / desktop?

And then hide the Microsoft brand on Xbox360 / Zune?

MSFT is more like a country in a state of perpetual civil war than they are a computer company.
huh? you'll need to get behind corporate firewall first. And this is non-trivial part. Once you inside, it may be easier to just get this particular bit of source code from incorrectly secured employee's computer.
I'm not really in favor of legalizing marijuana, but I would like to see it moved from a schedule I drug to a schedule II drug. This would allow medical use and research.

For comparison cocaine is a schedule II drug because dentists use it.
The bigger widget plays within the widget area (the 650px+ widgets).

Game need certain real estate unfortunately.
They surely had the right to release the video; however, the manner in which they did it will lead many to question the credibility Wikileaks once enjoyed.

Until watching The Pacific mini-series (currently on HBO), I did not fully appreciate the saying "war is hell". Having never experienced war, I can't fully vouch for the show's authenticity, but if it's even close, you've gotta feel for any human being put in these circumstances.
org-mode, http://orgmode.org/

Nothing, and I am serious, nothing even touches this either for functionality nor simplicity.

Dennis Groves
they are batched up to some extent. i find i get 2-3 apps appear on each invoice (sometimes more). it only seems to cover a couple of days generally though.
Facebook check-ins mean one thing to me:

The next version of Facebook for iPhone will pop up a "Facebook would like to use your current location" every time I open it, to which I will select "Don't Allow" each time, at last encouraging me to stop using the app and thus stop using Facebook.
Wow, here's a dude that sells lemonade in a business suit, for seven years, making decent money. And the only comments are criticizing the title of the post? That's almost as hilarious as a dude in a suit selling lemonade in front of his grandparents house.
If you want the api docs you can search them here in the meantime: http://apidock.com/rails/search

rubyonrails.com doesn't seem to have the api docs anywhere.
The best way to teach yourself how to program is to pick a program you'd like to write, and write it. It will be rough going, but it's important to learn not only the incantations, but also when each one is appropriate. There are plenty of sources for the former, but I haven't ever found a good tutorial (in any field) for the latter.

In your case, you will probably want to pick some small thing that you want to be different about the program you have, and then figure out how to make that happen.
I agree - this isn't MSFT's fault!

Many of the big boys were well capitalized enough (dell / Compaq / etc) to have built an integrated hardware/software platform like Apple did to keep things beautiful.

But most of them were too busy counting their money churning out uninspired hardware that had the single purpose of running Windows software.
After edit: The submitted article did say "fan" page. I am on the Wikileaks group page, and that is alive and well, with 4,133 members and quite recent posts.
Bam. It's already here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fAQKa8rU_4
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky

Wikipedia says he's one of the most highly cited people in the world.

I 'know' him better through his ideas of grammars (Chomsky Normal Forms) and their applications to bioinformatics.

The article itself is interesting, a bit wordy. Chomsky is a well known academic in the sense that his work on linguistics is seen in many places from Psychology to Computer science.

The fact that he's also anti-government is new. I liked one line from the article (towards the end of page 1):
What I talk about are the liberal intellectuals, ... They tell us how far we can go. They say, ‘Look how courageous I am.’ But do not go one millimeter beyond that. At least for the educated sectors, they are the most dangerous in supporting power.

If nothing else the article is a bit thought provoking and I think most people could use a bit more thinking in their daily lives.
Your fastest Internet in the world is found in Berkeley, CA
The Rise of Non-tech Focus Web Startups
That may just be the coolest thing I've ever seen! :)
My guess is that the suit made him stick out more, visually, drawing more attention. Getting a potential consumer's attention seems like one of the biggest challenges in a world of things competing for everyone's attention. The suit may have given him the edge.
Put it in version control. svn blame and the rev's log message should tell you want you want to know.
The difference is the last mile. Google's ads target someone looking for something (which is much more likely to result in a sale) whereas facebook's ads target someone looking to check out his friend's pics from last night's party or the profile of a girl he met recently.

Vastly different contexts.

Maybe, in the future, facebook will be able to change this, but it's doubtful. At least not on the facebook.com property. There's a very good reason why social network CPMs are consistently the lowest in the entire industry.
IPhone + narcissistic commentary + failed hypothesis == chinese new year ?
That is the furthest thing from "odd"
I will be greatly annoyed if Facebook becomes the default login on other websites.
It's getting a bit boring to say it, but Google is not a search company. They provide search to sell ads (doesn't matter how they started out), so while I agree with the threat conclusion, I doubt Facebook will create the next general purpose search engine.
3. Very few people even know that "PUT" and "DELETE" exist.
Why not take something seriously if it is meaningful to you? I don't take (for example) the high school prom at all seriously, rather when I was in high school I look learning foreign languages seriously. Isn't freedom all about letting people decide for themselves what to value?
I'd argue that the act of making such guesses, ideally based on some education and insight, are at the heart of science. A professional anthropologist may or may not have any more education in the relevant areas, but I can imagine lots of cases where they might not have as much insight or creativity or natural genius as some particular non-anthropologist.
Mark Chu-Carroll, the self-important math blogger, keeps on writing on stuff he clearly has no clue about. Nothing has changed. Bankers are "evil". Bankers are "greedy". Yada yada yada. A lot of name-calling, but no content. Nothing to be learned here. Go to the campus library and read a book on structured finance instead. You'll learn more.
This is the generic parking page of Enom.com.
Buydomains.dk is apparently a reseller, and therefore this page shows up.