skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Solar Dynamics Observatory: Footage of solar activity
Apple CMY display design could be boon for print production
I had a very similar experience to the original poster, the main difference being that we were using their top end nitro package. We left after we realized that for the same money we could actually get managed hosting.

We moved to Neospire, and I've never looked back. I've never had to wait longer then 5 minutes on a support call, and their support has been fantastic. They actually called me when my server load was high and assisted me in tuning the server.

To be fair to MT, they are very clear about their service -- "we'll rent you a box, but don't ask for admin support."
McAfee shoots itself in the enterprise foot
http://logicalscience.com/skeptics/Lindzen.htm
Probably something kicks in when it's idle. (Or it's a green powersaving feature.)
Using prototypes for promotion
From a February press release: "[O]n Feb. 11th, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) lifted off from Cape Canaveral on a five-year mission to study the sun. Researchers have called the advanced spacecraft the "crown jewel" of NASA's heliophysics fleet. SDO will beam back IMAX-quality images of solar explosions and peer beneath the stellar surface to see the sun's magnetic dynamo in action."

The Solar Dynamics Observatory mission About page:
http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/mission/about.php
Exactly. My initial impression was: "whaaa.... is it 1995 again?". But hey, perhaps somebody does need it.
People leave cities because a mixture of zoning regulations and high real estate prices lead to a scenario where the city becomes a place of work and only work. Car culture leads to a loss of locality and continuity (you can go from A to B and not give a damn about, or interact with, any of the points between them). The city starts losing people, and a death spiral begins as it turns into a "5 o'clock town". The balance of amenity vs. inconvenience/expense drives people to the suburbs. Throw in a bit of white racism (although that's not a major factor anymore) and "white flight" is what you get, along with "inner city" ruin.

One major cause of this is that real estate prices are "sticky downward"; they skyrocket easily (Bay Area, early 90s) in an economic boom, but don't decline fast enough along when the market softens; people become unduly attached to real estate (as opposed to other investments) and hold out forever. This process kills a city, and you'd expect that to depress real estate prices and bring back equilibrium, but the price movement that occurs is too little, too late. If you want to buy a house in the ghettos of Chicago's South Side you will still have to pay at least half a million for many of them.
Perhaps, but did you notice that one of the puzzles actually involves scraping through ITA's own database to find round-trip flights to Chicago? That seemed like a good touch, asking the interviewee to replicate a small part of ITA's own functionality so they could understand the magnitude of the problem.

Actually it sounds like a pretty easy problem from this far out, but maybe if I actually worked on it I'd discover it was trickier than I thought.
Add +1 to your sample size. I cut out all grains at the beginning of this year and effortlessly lost about 30 lbs.
I think pg is generally against segregation, obviously segregation needs to happen if you are looking to scale the community to as many users as possible.

but I dont think the goal for ycombinator is to scale to lots of users, more to keep a relatively small self selecting group of people interesting in the same topic (technology startups).

at least I hope so.
For the defenders of censorship, this recent ruling should give you a perspective on how strongly free speech is protected in the US: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iMolK4XY7...
Probably one of the wisest business decisions I have seen Microsoft make in quite some time.

If you daydream a bit and think of the possible future implications with this partnership of sorts with Facebook (who I might add has been now aggressively taking measures to become the portal to the web) this could really be huge for Microsoft in terms of market share, mindshare, etc. if 1. online/cloud docs stay a relevant competitive space 2. somehow becomes a profitable model (direct or indirect) 3. become the exclusive provider of such service for Facebook.

Very interesting.
If you are mathematically inclined, this might help. It's how I, as a non-musician, came to understand tuning a little.

Equal temperament uses frequencies that are scaled by powers of the twelfth root of 2. Moving up one semitone is the same as multiplying the frequency by 2^(1/12). If you look at this table

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_temperament#Comparison_to...

you can see how the resulting values approximate certain ratios. Ratios matter because two tones that are related by a simple ratio will tend to have greater harmonic relationship and be more 'consonant'.

Other tunings emphasize different ratios and give up the equal spacing of notes -- equal spacing when plotted by frequency on a logarithmic scale.
Thanks. That link brings a lot of perspective.
Anyone who thinks "skeptic" is a perjorative is not a scientist.
Why's this worth noting? There's no reason you shouldn't be able to extend a type with methods to support a new interface, no matter what that type's author intended. It's not in any sense "dangerous" to existing APIs, as changing final variables could potentially be. It seems like completely natural behavior.
You assert that white flight has to do with issues of class, mobility and race. However, that's only true to the extent of the real reason why you would "Flee" one place for another. It boils down to basic animal instincts to protect and provide for yourself and your family.

My parent's were one of the "Fleers" of Detroit, moving into the far suburbs in 1970, as a direct result of the race riots of the late '60s.

I think the author presents a great question. If the place where you are living makes it difficult to provide for your family, I think many will consider a move. I doubt SA will be the primary destination mainly because of the safety issues.

I guess we will see what happens with California. If any flight happens in the near future it will be from there to an equally safe but a more financially secure state. Like with many fashion trends, I think the US is following behind CA into an unsustainable financial future, we're just a little behind.
Maybe it's just my white male privilege here but that article (and it's predecessor) seemed to be little more than bitter rants.
What motivates these global alarmists? And how do they get money by being so shrill? Is your average citizen just dying to be worried over the next catastrophe and willing to throw money at whomever can scare them the most?
That No SQL Thing: Modeling Documents in a Document Database
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> I think that hugely ambitious companies that achieve insane exits (pref IPO) could make a dent.

Why? The existence of finance people who have made tons of money and their lionization resulted in the lionization of finance folks who haven't made tons of money. In fact, there's probably a bit of the opposite, namely "you're in finance and haven't made it, so there must be something wrong with you".

NYC lionizes AFTER you've made it. Even if it cares how (and it doesn't seem to), it doesn't lionize folks who haven't made it, regardless of how they're trying to make it.
Ooh, that's not true, I've crashed OSX a fair number of times. Why, just 2 days ago the keyboard on my MB randomly stopped working. I couldn't type a thing (until rebooting). Both my MB and MBP will occasionally have the mouse not show up when waking the machine up (have to reboot), and sometimes freeze when I zoom out to all windows. On my mac pro desktop, I've had the disk utility freeze the entire OS just by running it (without even doing anything), happened at least 3 or 4 times last week.

Oh and my (older) MBP freezes 25% of the time just by plugging something into the dvi port. It's nice when you're just starting a presentation and have to say: "sorry everyone, just let me reboot". That MBP also has issues "waking up", it likes to stay asleep (lazy).

And let's not even get into the shitty batteries and how the MBP will randomly blank out (turn off) with like 20-30% battery life left. No warning, nothing, just powers off.
Cuil Founder Lands Another Google Invention
paraphrasing: "Do what you love. So if you love Ferraris, work with Ferraris, don't work at a high paying job or start a successful business that could enable you to buy one." - So, it's better to be a certified Ferrari mechanic than be a successful business owner with a flexible schedule and disposable income to buy said toys?
The section on "Actions + Ideas = Something Great" is good but nothing new.
New York is great in many ways, but it's also a city that tells you, once a month, that you're not a part of it and probably never will be. You can buy your way in, sure, but you're just a "guest worker", and you won't actually belong until you make a hundred million or so.

The people who "belong" here are the ones whose parents bought real estate in the '70s when it was cheap, those who can actually afford a desirable, family-capable, apartment, and the token not-so-rich (upper-middle-class and extremely well-connected) who have rent control (an arrangement that is often better than ownership, because rent-controlled rents are often lower than the maintenance fees for owners).

This is what NYC tells you: you don't belong here unless (or x1 x2 ... xn). The easiest of those xi to change is your income.

Aside from that, it's not that materialist of a city.
The author lives in the future - or works for Apress? - since the HTML5 book he recommends (for reading right now) has a publication date of August 15th, 2010. Does Apress do beta-releases now?
Mission accomplished!
Important part:

" Lindzen recieved $2500 a day from oil and coal interests for his services.1,2, 3 His article "Global Warming: the Origin and Nature of Alleged Scientific Consensus," was underwritten by OPEC.1 Lindzen has lectured at numerous Cooler Heads Coalition meetings. The Cooler Heads Coalition is funded by CEI which is in turn funded by Exxon Mobil. He has also given talks for the George C. Marshall Institute which is also funded by Exxon Mobil. His connections to the oil, coal, and even tobacco industry are apparently rather extensive. Here is one listof many that is worth exploring. Richard Lindzen claims he is currently not recieving any handouts from oil companies."
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> This is the first I've heard of him

What other atmospheric scientists have you heard of and why?
There's a kernel of truth in your argument. At least some of the effect is changing perception. But some is changing realities as well.

My investment advisor tells me that with the GWB tax cuts expiring, scheduled increases in capital gains taxes, and the government's refusal to address the AMT problem, that my tax situation is changing drastically enough that I need to change my investment strategy.

I'm paying into Social Security to give my grandparents more money than they ever paid in, and covering the shortfall created by my parents' generation running up huge deficits and borrowing the money from SS.

On the other side, you're asking me to help out the younger generation pay their tax bills.

And stuck in the middle, I find that any responsible behavior on my part is answered by looting the savings from my frugality to give to reward the profligate. I'm paying down my mortgage as fast as I can, while underwriting the costs for those who bought McMansions and can't afford them. Those of us who bought economical cars are paying part of the costs for fuel hogs to trade in for better mileage.

I'm quite certain that after all the savings I've done for old age, the long term care insurance I've paid 5-digits into, etc., the government is going to see that I have too many privileges (that I've worked for, and lived frugally to amass) and take away more of what I've had to give to the wasteful.

Every day I see another version of the ant-and-grasshopper story. I don't think you can blame me for frustration.

And you really ought to worry about the moral hazard it's causing. I fear that it leads to a feedback cycle, where the problem gets worse and worse.
If the pill genuinely expands 100-fold in your stomach then I can see it being worse than throwing up. Either it might suck all the fluid out of your stomach, in which case you won't be able to throw up, or it might fill your stomach so rapidly that you can't bring them all up in time.

Of course I'm sure that the consequences of overdose are something the researchers have thought about carefully and probably tested on animals by now.
Any idea what engine Google Lively used? I know the delivery was Flash-based, but I'm not sure what 3D tech was involved.
I guess I'm just not happy because everything isn't as amazing as it could be.

This is probably why I like programming and tinkering so much, because it gives me a chance to make the world around me a little bit more amazing than it was.
I know a little kid who was the son of a family friend and who grew up to become a smart young man and high school valedictorian. Jonathan said in his valedictory address something insightful: "Work does not necessarily make you happy but it may give you the means to be happy."

Don't put all your eggs in one basket, one dream job, one relationship. Treat your job as a good friend, don't become too emotionally involved with it. Don't just get a paycheck from your job - if you do, you are underpaid. Do things outside of work. If you work with computers all day and you don't do other stuff that does not involve computers, consider new hobbies that pertain to interests. For example, if you like sexy iPhone app UIs like on http://wellplacedpixels.com, consider going to an art gallery with friends to see what kind of art is out there and why you like certain pieces of art.
Don't see any reason to switch from google.
"You need a SharePoint server and license in order to collaborate, and either: You need to pay license fees for an on-premise version of Office 2010 or You need to pay an as-yet-unspecified subscription fee."
http://industry.bnet.com/technology/10002712/the-hidden-cost...
Chile and Uruguay are supposedly well-governed. I'm not sure about taxation in either.

Despite that, I agree with you: there's a lot to recommend Latin America (I've lived in Mexico for almost six years), but generally you don't include model governance or well-run taxation among those reasons. I haven't been here long enough to comment on regime or economic stability.
Looks like one of those general interest stories you can find in any newspaper, put out by PR to prop up the company. No technical details, secret sauce, seems similar to just filling up with gelatin, except in expensive pills. Not really 'hard biotech', not worth the attention, in short.

P.S. Yesterday, for instance, I voted up that 'paid comments' site link, not because I think it's a good idea, but because it might generate some interesting comments. I don't think it's the case with this, or economics/etc discussions which quickly degenerate into pointless squabbling. Been around that block with Usenet, and the experience hasn't improved - nowadays there's not even killfiles, and the reading is slower. Not looking good.
Maybe so, but it's not trivial to do in java. It's noteworthy because it gives clojure a lot more power when dealing with native libraries.
Artificial roughage. Nice.
I think that's the challenge ITA wants you to solve - recursing 300 levels deep into a list of 1000 movies will literally take forever. As you can see with the 2nd linked article, brute-force just doesn't work.

You're not recursing 300 levels deep; you abandon a subpath as soon as it doesn't match.

As for the anagrams, that sounds about right (if you install an anagram generator like wordplay, you can see that it generates a similar amount of matches).

You may want to devise a compact representation for a partly calculated results list, and just show n per page, with "prev" and "next" links that encode the original phrase and the first or last phrase on the current page.

When the user clicks "next", you run the algorithm as usual, but at each step of the trie search, you only search letters that are greater or equal to the current letter in the last known phrase.

You may also train a classifier like CRM114 to recognize "funny" and "boring" phrases, and omit the boring ones (except in your "prev" and "next" links!)
I think that there may need to be some extensions to HTML to support 3D rendering interfaces, but most of the changes should be handled in CSS. HTML is all about content. If someone wants to render their site navigation as a 3D ball at the top of the screen it does not change the actual text or links in the least. It is only a presentation change.
First item: "How can Lindzen, a member of the National Academies be wrong about the consensus?"

Which is followed by an appeal to authority. Most of the following is appeals to authority, attacks on his funding (necessarily from eeevil sources since "the consensus" has halted funding to "deniers"), complaints about his not have current peer reviewed papers (see previous item), etc.

Sorry, but if we're talking real science, all he needs is an inconvenient fact to demolish the consensus (which is not quite what is being argued here; his point is that there isn't really a consensus, which it demonstrably true).

There are some attempts to deal with what he says on a basis of facts and the like (although some of them are appeals to the authority of the web site, e.g. general claims without references that would allow you to judge for yourself), but the site's dishonest style doesn't exactly encourage you to bother to see if it's telling the truth in those instances.
If you're going to argue that he's been bought, you get to explain why AGW supporters aren't bought as well. After all, the connection between their conclusions and their funding is even stronger.

Of course, the truth is that money isn't the most corrupting influence by a large margin - true belief is. You can often spot true believers by their insistence that money is the only reason why their position isn't universally accepted.
I'd heard of him because he'd misinterpreted satellite data that apparently conflicted with the general consensus. I'd assumed that was an honest mistake but it appears that every time one of his theories gets shot down, he just moves on to the next one. The fact that they all seem to have an implicit message of "don't worry about it, everything's fine" is looking less coincidental as time passes.
Is Facebook the new Internet and how soon before Microsoft tries to buy it?
While it's true that there's no consensus on the source of the warming, it is true that the planet is warming.

That's something that tends to get lost in the shuffle, and it's really scary what percentage of the American public believes that the fundamental point is false. It also seems to me that Lindzen is exaggerating the degree of dispute over the future climate trends. I do agree that there's not a lot of evidence we can prevent the climate from warming considerably over the next 50 years or so, but there is a general consensus that the climate will warm considerably over the next 50 years.

It also seems there's a general consensus this is a problem, even if it's purely natural. Lindzen is doing his fellow researchers a disservice by confusing the politics and science of the issue.
Neither of them - I would trust the scientists and engineers at NATS and the Met Office as they don't have the same level of commercial and political pressure on them.
Thanks! I didn't even know that existed!
Here's hoping Apple is also working on a quality full color e-ink display.
Like you said, these problems filter out the people who would be great for getting stuff done and helping you build your software quickly (i.e. more practical people who find these problems a bother). But perhaps you don't always want that kind of person.

Personally, I find these problems interesting but the one I liked the most was the instant search because it had an element of user interaction rather than mere algorithmic problem solving, so I guess I might be the one filtered out :)
Well, Facebook just released a feature it thought will make life better for it's users, and it probably will. Nowhere did Facebook mention that one can't create something similar with their own social network.

Facebook is trying to do something really innovative here. That's solid entrepreneurship, which is why it's receiving such violent opposition, as usual. They are trying to jump to the next curve, and that's great. If other networks jump in, this could change the very basics of how we experience web, with or without Facebook. I think Facebook is just first company to start this, just like some company started 'e-mail'; that company didn't own the world's communication.

What I really want to see here is, how much are people willing to use their 'real' identities outside of facebook window. Because most of legit users on Facebook use their real names (I think), and there must be a reason that whenever somebody uses an id to comment on websites, it looks like 'pinkgur92twilight_meow'.
If someone is arguing that there is no consensus of opinion (second sentence on the page: "He is rather well known for claiming that "There's no consensus on global warming.""), then long lists of prominent institutions who have subscribed to that opinion isn't an appeal to authority, it's relevant info.
It's not in any sense "dangerous" to existing APIs

If your job is to deliver and maintain such an API, then by allowing subclassing you have a larger contract you have to maintain when you want to make changes to the underlying class: rather than just the public interface, you also need to worry about the protected interface. If your API is new, you may want to shepherd your users (by marking a class as final) to favor composition over inheritance to maximize your ability to evolve the implementation in ways that don't break.
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Why is this important? He's not going to get any funding by the government, which has decided "the science is settled".

By this standard, the funding of the members of "the consensus" is just as important and just as damning, if not more, since there's billions annually being funded on the other side.
Detroit (like many big cities) already taxes commuters. If you work in the city, you pay 1.5% income tax to the city. In the extreme case of Detroit, a huge percentage of the city tax revenues come from people who have no ability to be represented in the city. (The whole taxation without representation thing)

As Detroit learned, thinking that people will continue to engage the city without living there is only true to a point. In this area, business has moved to Troy and Southfield and Novi. Most people I know go into the actual city of Detroit a couple of times a year, mostly to go to a ball game or casino. People don't go there to shop or socialize.
No mention of WebGL?
http://www.khronos.org/webgl/
If this goes the way Microsoft and Facebook want it to, it's going to reopen antitrust investigations. At this point Microsoft is almost going out of their way to break cross-platform compatibility.
Use random partitioning? If you have more than 10 letters, randomly split into roughly equal parts. Then do that 1000 times to the input string.
We use psd2html at work...they do excellent work.
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