skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it's being blocked by AdBlock Plus -- I hovered for several seconds and nothing showed.
whoa. insanely cool. Given the market penetration that visa has, they'd get data that's fairly representative of the US (or world?) spending habits and i'd assume it'd be HUGELY effective. I doubt that they do it, and if that became public knowledge I have to imagine they'd come under some serious fire, but I don't think its illegal.

The notion of running a credit card company basically for free as a way to get information about the economy and made MUCH more profitable trades in the financial markets really appeals to me.

Friend of mine has been working on using google trends/blogs as such an indicator, but its a lot harder to tease tradable information out of that sort of data.
There is a related paper that I can't seem to find. The gist of which was:

Studies on the cancer-fighting prowess of many antioxidants often fail to mention that your body naturally synthesizes a lot of antioxidants (e.g. melatonin and glutathione). While ingested antioxidants are known to protect cells in vitro and theoretically do so in vivo, relative to naturally synthesized antioxidants they might account for little additional protection.

(If someone could find that paper, I'd appreciate it.)
If it wasn't ragged, it would most likely look even worse than that Pooh example in the article. It depends on the size of font, which you can't (on the web) control. And he is right, justified paragraphs without hyphenation are ugly, unless you have a lot of characters on a line. Which he has not (around the images especially), and the example is even worse. I wouldn't even think of displaying justified paragraphs for lines shorter than, say… 80 characters or with hyphenations [1]. But even printed newspapers give up justification in narrow columns and has ragged right.

[1] I think that you could make it in javascript. With too few characters on a line, display paragraphs ragged, with more, justified. Maybe someone already did it.
Finland is officially bilingual, too, and a significant number learn finnish as a second language (like this Thorvalds guy you might have heard about).
The rest start learming swedish as the second language in grade 3, IIRC.
Here you go: http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/science/
Interestingly, I'm under the impression that Finnish research schools tend to be small and remote ones, but maybe that's just my poor geography showing.
Italy in 1913 was nominally an ally of Germany and Austria, but in truth more closely allied with France. It's possible that the French and Italian authorities wanted to avoid a public spectacle that would inflame nationalists in both countries and make it more difficult to keep Italy a defacto French ally.
I'm glad you're looking into it. I tweeted about it to you but didn't hear back and wasn't sure if it was a technical problem or a business decision. (though odd since the video feed seemed fine)
Where by "animals" they mean multi-cellular organisms.
They use hydrogenosomes, or something similar, instead:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogenosome

It looks like the metabolic reaction is somewhat similar to the aerobic one used by mitochondria, but uses hydrogen ions instead of oxygen molecules. Hydrogenosomes may or may not be evolutionarily related to mitochondria.

Here's the original journal article (open access):

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/8/30/abstract
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AFNIC Report On "The Secondary Market For Domain Names" [pdf]
A few things:

* Inbuilt support for sequence head and tail - very important for recursive functions.

* Due to the heavily object-oriented nature of C#, type inference is really limited. This makes writing anything non-trivial in functional style rather tedious as your type declarations will become several lines long really quickly. For example, try writing a Y Combinator in C# and F# to see the difference.

* Parallel processing is a lot easier in F#.

* Matching in F# is a lot more powerful than switch-case in C#, which makes functional programming easier.

My point is: functional programming support in C# is good enough for simple things but serious functional programming is a lot easier in F#. On the other hand, OO is a bit cumbersome in F#. I wouldn't use F# for typical web or enterprise create-update-delete database stuff but it is really great for things where functional programming is usually strong at, especially if you need it to work together with C# code.
It looks like you're right, thanks. I want an iPhone badly, but really don't want to support AT&T. Currently i am on Verizon and would love either iPhone or Nexus One unfortunately neither are available. Since my contract is already up, I may jump ship in june. Thanks Again!
Canada and Finland are culturally far more similar than the US and Finland. Both are also bilingual, northern, woodsy and even share some genetics (Finns mostly migrated to Canada, Michigan etc. way back when that was happening).
The organelles they use for anaerobic respiration are found in other unicellular eukaryotes (single-celled organisms that aren't bacteria, like some fungal pathogens). The interesting thing here is that they're multicellular, not that their cellular biochemistry is unique.
Adblock Plus, Flashblock, Zotero, and I have Firebug installed but not enabled.
Better results in school measures what exactly?
genetic factors are responsible for 60-80% of the variance in IQ

That is untrue, and is known to be untrue by the leading researchers on human behavioral genetics.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1177649

The current view by the researchers most familiar with the data is that broad heritability figures report, for a given sample, simply that monozygotic twins tend to be more similar than dizygotic twins, and close relatives tend to be more similar (across a HUGE range of human behavioral traits) than more distant relatives. But the pre-Mendelian methodology of compiling broad heritability figures FAILS as a prediction of how subject one trait or another is to environmental influences. It is well known that some traits with very high heritability (physical stature is the classic example) are nonetheless very subject to variance in differing environments. No one should take one heritability figure or another as a statement about how much or how little a trait can vary if the environment is manipulated experimentally. Any good, current genetics textbook mentions this.
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While I agree with the general statement that it isn't that easy, just providing anecdotal evidence doesn't really help a lot.

The problem with all that is that there are a multitudes of factor in play. Contrast, type size, surrounding light, age of the reader, frequency of breaks... A college student reading his textbook on his iPad or Laptop in a well-lit university is different from an insomniac septuagenarian reading "Eat, Pray, Love" in bed, with the light set low to avoid waking hubby.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/do-e-readers-cause-...
For things like video or website age gates then text entry can be annoying for us heretics who prefer using the mouse to navigate computers rather than keyboard. Any time I have to type something in instead of being able to select with a mouse is a fairly annoying occurrence.
"Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.”

Here is one of the key elements stated "testing your assumptions". Often all the valuable time spend on business plans has limited value if the assumptions are wrong.
Or just put it on their bill.
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1.7M follower Twitterer pushes brand to personal site using status.net cloud.
This looks like a sock puppet account astroturfing for duckduckgo.
I wouldn't expect them to resort to tactics like that.
hook.io is FOSS and Saas

SNS is just Saas
Send In the Professors
That statement was referring just to Canadian Tire, a retail store that also offers credit cards. I assume the card company can only get that kind of detailed information if you make your Canadian Tire purchase with your Canadian Tire MasterCard.

I once purchased a CO detector at Canadian Tire... maybe I'll bring that up when I apply for my next credit card?
A good discussion of the different ways to report results of medical interventions (including changes in diet) can be found here:

http://www.skepticstoolbox.org/hall/
So what percentage of the variance do they account for?
Libertarian electoral fantasies
Facebook stated at previous F8s that it wasn't interested in expanding beyond its current feature sets and that it had invested in APIs so that developers would build the features they couldn't/wouldn't for whatever reason. Twitter needs to make some statement on this or these rumors will have a chilling effect.
HP Memristor to beat flash?
Yes Linus is from the Swedish-speaking minority - about 5% of the population right? However, I don't think you are disagreeing that Canadian schools have much more ethnic and linguistic diversity than Finnish schools.
Looking for the "hard endpoint" of reduced all-cause mortality is always an important issue when studying a lifestyle intervention or medical intervention.
What this basically means is that you have to do more: read more source, learn more conceptions and tools, support more code, fix more bugs.

I think the biggest advantage to Cappucino is that, if you already know the Cocoa framework, there is less to learn.
Probably because your average guy or gal (the people Ubuntu would want to reach out to the most) have ever even heard of it.
..and bloody cool!
Thanks for the Monome reference. Never heard of it till today. Now a friend of mine wants one bad.
Considering the heritage of the iTunes code base (http://www.taptaptap.com/blog/media/feature-creep-polarizati...) it's amazing it even works at all.
Writting fast compressors for Ram Drives
Those in a hurry please check this reply first:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/55717...
Why time stands still at 9:42 on iPhone/iPad ads
The sim is sometimes faster and sometimes slower. iPad apps using OpenGL are much slower on my MacBook Pro than they are in the simulator.
Pattern matching and discriminated unions make code for structuring and destructuring complicated data really clean and pleasant to work with. Compiler implementation is the obvious application, but in a "businessy" setting, I sure wish that some of the EDI code I work with periodically was in F# instead of C#.
I haven't read that book, but the best book on brain development in kids that I've seen is What's Going On In There? You may like it. (My kids are 2 and 5.)
I'm not sure how putting things on different VMs improves security - If the VMs can communicate with each other seamlessly enough for the system to be usable, then there's a hole big enough for the virus to just kind of step through and damage the other machines without even running on them.

On the other hand, if usability drops because the VMs are actually isolated - and this seems to be the approach that was taken - users will simply consolidate more applications on one machine, and infect everything at once this way.
Absolutely, methods matter.
But there appears to be a very real limit at which changing the method doesn't notably change the results.

I don't have a quick cite list. But it's been consistent across literally every single study I've seen that controls for parental involvement/cultural value of education. It's more predictive than parents' education level, neighborhood, curriculum, socioeconomic status, etc.

The only off-hand references I have to get you started are what the Michigan Department of Education has been beating my sister-in-law over the head with since she's enrolled my niece in public school.

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:n3iDh53x4ywJ:w...

http://pdonline.ascd.org/pd_online/whatworks/marzano2003_ch1...
Does self promotion cause heart disease?
I have to admit that is quite fast, and the GUI is pretty. Nice job.
Is your Rails app under-provisioned?
How theme-able is it?
Yeah it sounds cool - I don't know that this is real just a rumor. A lot of things that sound cool turn out to have serious problems.

I saw something on here a while about a "marketplace for data" - I can't remember what it was called - but it make me wonder how one would determine the price for a data feed or open source intelligence - it seems that a fair price for a data stream should be how much of a profit you can make by trading against people who don't have access to the data.

But it seems to me that if monitoring revenues of retailers was a really big advantage you could do almost as well by conducting a small well designed survey like the FED does. VISA's volume of data is probably deep into large N range of the sigma/sqrt(N) sampling error.
Assume "Chris" is an "it". Now "Chris's stuff" becomes "it's stuff". "Its" breaks the rule of the possessive suffix being -'s, except for plurals.

What would that be, anyway? "Chris's' stuffs"? [edit] n/m, I see this was addressed below.
Pfizer and US Govt Set up Fake Subsidiary to take Lawsuit
There are technologies awesome enough for people to want to evangelize for them.

DuckDuckGo is one of them--it doesn't need sock puppets.
Manage Your Time From The Inside Out: Observe Your Capacities
You refute that it is difficult to learn in the first sentence then go on to explain why it's difficult to learn. Finish may help with second language acquisition.

My other point was the focus on linguistics. This could cause the Finish people to see things in a more lateral way as they have more linguistic tools to describe problems expressly because of the focus on languages. This leads to greater communication and understanding.
I'm a little confused. The blog post states:

> "Models store, load and transform the data from the server."

But the ukijs.org states:

> "Uki doesn't want to be a Jack-of-all-trades. It only does layout but it does it well. You won't find any ajax or data storage layer code here."

Which one is it?! (I'd much prefer the former)
I agree.

However, I do think that when there are long lists of comparable features between very comparable systems (intravendor rather than intervendor, I guess) I do wish they would do something to typographically offset the things that are different.

Compare variations of Thinkpads and they are often VERY similar. What are just the important differences? Etc.
Idea: I should write a Knuth-Plass patch for WebKit!

takes a gander at RenderBlockLineLayout.cpp

Never mind then. The number of special cases in there is frightening.
Oh, that's true. Any math can get pretty applied, even in the supposedly pure fields.
A good book for personal finance
Can anyone suggest a succinct yet amazing self-help book for maintaining good personal finance.
In Canada, Rogers had a monopoly on the iPhone from July 2008 until November 2009, when TELUS and Bell were allowed into the market. So a 16 month run. Very different from the US.
Update: approximately five HNers read this post and decided to try it out.
When it comes to cultural homogeneity Canada and Finland are not at all more similar than Canada and the U.S. - which was the issue here. Perhaps the Canadian and Finnish educational systems have more in common than with the U.S. which may have been your point.

Does being officially bilingual, northern, and woodsy have an impact on PISA rankings?

Finns do not make up a large or even a moderate proportion of Canada's population.
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OK. I am not that discriminating. (Actually, Archae and Bacteria are much more interesting too me.)
True. But if you're already developing for the web, chances are you know JavaScript better than you know Cocoa.
What is Psychology Term Paper Topic
Writing term papers might not be everybody’s cup of tea; but you can certainly make a difference if you want to. Very often, a student wants to prove that his or her way of thinking could bring about an excellent essay or a term paper in Psychology.
Yea at first I thought friend feed was his company...
For those who've read The China Study, note that this is about increasing consumption of vegetables, not decreasing consumption of anything else (including animal protein).
Neuroscience of free will
Perhaps you could define "seamlessly enough for the system to be usable"?

The architecture envisions consolidating applications by domain, e.g. one for your social networking, one for banking (and that would be very locked down, e.g. http(s) only), etc.

It accepts that there will be comprise (or so I gather) and is explicitly designed to mitigate it. For me, that improves security significantly (I already do a form of this by running three browser instances on two machines).

It's a very pragmatic approach, and I can see from the lead's background why she'd take it.
The Wealthy Barber.
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There are not really enough posts on the account to establish that. Although two posts in the same thread with approximately the same content is a little fishy...
Education in the U.S. is currently deficient, and we should look at why and how and try to find out what works. Unfortunately, it's tricky to run experiments in education, because of political considerations and largely because the result has real effects on people's lives, but it's what needs to be done to improve.

Or perhaps we need to do things which it is intuitively obvious should work, but which there is currently not the political will to implement -- eg firing bad teachers and doing more to stop student truancy.
Based on the amount of people downloading updates, Canonical recently guessed that there are about 12 million Ubuntu users worldwide.
Who Gains the Most From a College Education?
http://anotherubuntu.blogspot.com/2010/04/ubuntu-claims-12-m...

Ubuntu is claiming 12 million users. That's not incredibly big, but it's probably enough to make Google take notice.
FWIW, the legal community has been dealing with citability for a few centuries.

In criminal cases, people's lives are on the line. In class-action civil lawsuits, billions of dollars are at stake.

This wheel most-definitely does not need re-inventing.

Flagging this article for it's total lack of content.
However, eating fruits and vegetables is still necessary for proper bodily function and general health. There is no better reason to eat fruits and vegetables than this. Cancer fighting is a sideshow, although an important one.

There is also the potential benefit that if you eat more fruits and vegetables then you're less hungry for junk food.
And for the next step up in Pop Sci articles, AmSci is a good choice, imho.
UKI replica of Google Wave
Google Earth helps discover rare hominid ancestor in South Africa
Looking for a job or working as remote contractors? I'm a U.S. citizen living abroad but since I do remote contract work I can work and live anywhere on a tourist visa. I have to do visa runs but that's just another excuse to travel somewhere different.
I've actually taken to installing Windows on a separate hard drive, and disconnecting my primary drive before I even begin the installation, because I've had Windows screw so many things up.
After listening to the interview with the SmugMug guy yesterday, and now this... it's really quite amazing just how deeply Apple thinks about these big product launches.

The desk has to to be at the perfect angle. The lighting just right. The time on the device has to by synced.

I'm not really a big Apple fan (I personally have had a lot of trouble with their products), but I am taking away one important lesson:

When it comes to promoting your product, every single detail is important.
Ask HN: Corporate innovation, but...
Imagine a company with maybe about 200 programmers, some of them doing web development (UI stuff), some C++ image stuff, some SQL stuff, etc.

As they've started to adopt a technology there develop splinter groups of how to go about coding things. Say one uses a class hierarchy to get things done, another group uses a more functional approach, and a third uses some highly optimized (by that I mean less reusable, but fast) version.

Obviously, there are a number of ways to code something in the wild. And I truly enjoy discussing the merits of any approach, but during the discussions on these approaches it occurs to me that people want to apply this reasoning: "who cares if it could be better, we just need to be the same".

Thoughts? (I know it's kind of generalized, but I feel that this is actually common).
As actual moves on retail chains are probably quite small on a quarter-by-quarter basis, to be able to make any kind of money on this kind of information you have to be levered up to your ears. Which also means that if you are wrong, you are going to lose a lot of money. Getting that error probability way way down is a priority.
It's not like they've heard of Bing either. And, isn't that the point?
This may be fine for me, but it fails the grandmother test (or any other test of a normal casual computer user).

I suspect that any dual-boot configuration would fail such a test, though I do admit to being out of touch with any computer user who might be considered normal.
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But education isn't handled at the Federal level in the US (and to the extent that it is, it damn well shouldn't be).
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Now they just need to replace Firefox with Chrome as the default browser.
I read somewhere that most content ceases to be profitable at about 10, 15 years past release. I'm sorry, I'm not able to find it now, but if that's true, it would mean that publishers would indeed have an incentive. The benefits from printing new editions of old books wouldn't be much in comparison, being more competition. I do, indeed, think it's true.

I somewhat feel sorry for the authors, but I think they'll manage. Being a writer is already a respected and highly-sought status, even though the pay is poor. Either way, I wouldn't claim copyright durations of ten years. But we can't stay like this eternally.
Ask HN: Learnings from Dale Carnegie, "How To Win Friends And Influence People"
If you've read Dale Carnegie, can you share what eye-opening things you learned, and what principles you now practice having read it? I read it a few years back and now find I can't remember anything specifically from it.