skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks cool as hell, but I can see it quickly becoming this generation's blink.
True. We're barely our of the jungle and science knows so little yet. But that doesn't mean we should avoid teaching these subjects. There are a lot of useful and important things that were proven to work that it now seems a crime to ignore them.
No. A hiring binge will be good for startups.

Consider the rash of multiple liquidation preferences we've seen over the past 2 years. Are VCs hurting more now than in 2007? Not especially, since the money they're investing has been pledged years ago, mostly before the liquidity crisis. They're offering these awful terms because a lot of people are unemployed and desperate to get a paying job of any kind, so they have leverage. When the alternative to starting up is a $100k/year Google job, the "involuntary entrepreneurs" will vanish and terms like multiple liquidation preference and participating preferred will go back into the tarpit where they belong.
Very, any email that does not stay on the same network (i.e. yahoo to yahoo, gmail to gmail etc.) is usually transmitted in plaintext and will pass through any one of a number of routers that the NSA is using to sniff traffic.

Shameless plug- a rant by me on the topic of little to no security when communicating on the net, even when using encryption.

http://my.telegraph.co.uk/dublinclontarf/blog/2010/04/13/cry...
BBC One had a fantastic news report the other night that explained it really clearly. I was impressed.
I agree, if you read a book about nutrition and realize that it just covers a current understand of nutrition, then I think that is fine.

The danger is that people read these books and don't realize or don't care about the prior statement. People start feeding their kids based on this advice, policy makers start making policy, and then the next thing you know we find out we were all wrong. Kind of like the current food pyramid we find ourselves with now. Some day it will be updated, and then 20 years later it will be updated again.
Hasn't Intel just delayed Larrabee as a graphics solution, not officially given up on it? I.e. the current parts missed their marketing window, so they're only useful in the HPC market, but they hope to do better with later ones.
Business people are valuable if they're well-connected and have strong reputations (and if they'll employ these resources in the interests of the founders; sometimes VC bring-ons with this profile can be formidable enemies). It's not just the experience that's necessary, but also the gravitas that comes with a strong track record. 28-year-old MBAs without connections and whose work experience is limited to management consulting or I-banking are generally not desirable for a startup; they literally have nothing to offer.
In 1989, why would jailed devices be a concern for Stallman? Copyleft was still a novel and uncertain idea, used only on a few GNU projects; if the GPL's smashing popularity since '89 is a screw up, may God grant us a success!
>ms. Nature.

Dang, if only God hadn't been running MS Nature we'd have been saved all this kerfuffle!
This article rightly points out that we don't know much about VP8 first-hand. But we can infer a lot.

First, VP6 is a pretty decent codec, widely available for comparison. Not as good as H.264, but better than Theora and (IMO) MPEG-4 ASP. Even if Google was only releasing VP6, that would be pretty compelling. It's reasonable to expect that VP7 and VP8 are incremental improvements over VP6. No one knows exactly how much, but if a free VP6 would be exciting, then a free VP6+ would be even more exciting.

Second, Google didn't pay $120M based on On2's marketing website. They obviously evaluated On2's tech first-hand and decided that it was worth buying.
I don't know why you're downvoted, even if I disagree. I and my son enjoyed the film a lot. IIRC he was 4 or 5 then. Maybe your kids were older?
Harriton High, the shape of things to come?
aka "bunnie", the guy who become famous for hacking Xbox, IIRC.
Lists like these always makes me think about the effects of forced reading. The books I've enjoyed most I've chosen to read. Being forced to read some books, even great books, have ruined them for me.
This is the worst linkbait I've seen in a long time.
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If we want children to understand nutrition, exercise, sleep, social skills, or any other subject, then we should figure out how best to teach those subjects. It might be books or it might be normal classes. I strongly suspect there are many children, especially those with autodidactic tendencies, who could learn most subjects better and faster from books than from lectures. But that probably isn't all children.

I propose offering students a choice - would you like a class on nutrition, or would you like to read the/a book on nutrition, and have an expert available for questions (preferably online)? Students who choose unstructured learning but then fail to achieve can be placed into classes.

This way, industrious or gifted students won't be held back by the pace of other students, or by the speed at which the teacher speaks. And this might encourage autodidacticism, which I think is incredibly valuable and efficient.
There is, and also a wonderful "unixux" unix server simulator. Really very funny.

Here is the original html handbook:
http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/handbook.html

and UNIXUX:
http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/login.html
Why defining chemistry-term-paper-topic 
As in case of research papers written on scientific subjects, students should choose a chemistry term paper topic, which can be informative and analytical.
When visiting in Chrome, I get the message:

The translation failed because of a server error.

A coincidence? I think not...
It's a good list; but lets not ignore the pure sciences either! Text books are usually pretty boring so "A Briefer History of Time" should be on there. "Nemesis" maybe because it's a good story as well.
Time to bring back the Zeppelin.
At least in New York, it's not panning out that way, unfortunately. This economy has been bad for startups-- maybe not as awful as for everyone else, but still undesirable.

The dramatically increased difficulty of getting money (clients or investors) is much greater than the discount (maybe 15 or 20%) at which you can now hire talented people. Also, real estate (which is disastrously expensive in New York) hasn't fallen fast enough, which is unfortunate but expected (real estate takes a long time to fall, even when money runs dry).

In general, awful times lead to conglomeration, not liberation and small-scale organic growth. People who have stable jobs are clinging to them, and those who don't have them are willing to take big-company jobs at a discount, but there isn't a huge rush of interest in pre-money startups. Many of the original European nobles (although, in practice, it was often possible to buy a title after the Renaissance) are the descendants of those who could offer protection (in exchange for slave labor) after the Fall of the Roman Empire.
You're exactly right, this danger exists. And if you read the book on nutrition I suggested, you will see how careful the author is about making conclusions. He actually warns about pretty much the same thing you've just said. Same thing you will see in most of the books I recommended. After reading all those books I have a great sense of respect for all those people seeing how accurate and careful they are in what they say and how this may affect other people.
> A really interesting point at about 37 minutes in, where they say that drives could end up executing code

And the wheel of reincarnation starts to turn again.

Some/most IBM "channel controllers" (read disk controllers) were fairly programmable. At some points in time and with some configurations, it was faster to run things on them than in the mainframe. In other cases, it was faster to run "everything" on the mainframe.

Some folks made a fairly good living moving parts of applications to and from channel controllers.
I've noticed that the phrase "1990 was twenty years ago" reliably stops people in their tracks with a chilled look on their face.
Thanks, I appreciate that. Have not updated 100redesigns for a while. New project eats all of the time.
Another 3+ hours (Apr 17 16:04:11 WEST) - the layer seems to have moved a bit back north (and further east?).

There's an Air Berlin A330 flying at 12,000 ft over Germany ...
Why the GNU Affero GPL
Do you know if they eventually go for it? (H1-B sponsoring?). I'm a wannabe immigrant, and I wouldn't mind an H1-B sponsor :)
I don't get it. If you read a book on nutrition and don't take action based on that advice, what was the point of reading it? Sure you should adapt your strategy as new evidence becomes available, but otherwise you are the same as you were before.
Alain de Botton is a beautiful writer... if you liked this, you'll love "A week at the airport," a whole book full of this kind of stuff from Heathrow Airport. (Currently not available in US, but you can order from Amazon UK with your US account).
I just received an 8-book shipment from Amazon. I hadn't read any of your books before, but got turned on to them by Alastair Reynolds' writing.

So far I've read (and enjoyed!) Singularity Sky, and have just started The Atrocity Archives.

Thanks for writing!
Programming languages and satire are both forms of self-expression. So the difference between them is superficial. Lisp for example encourages a kind of punning.
McDonald’s has a monopoly on the sale of Big Macs – I don’t think that’s a problem :)

All that aside, there is a problem: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/01/apple-responsible-...
I'm pretty sure the problem is that the volcano keeps belching this stuff out. Once it stops, it should disperse relatively quickly.
I used to be a patent examiner.

I'd agree that there are a few pitfalls to it, but to get a decent patent submission is no more arduous than writing a technical essay IMO.

If you've read a lot of patents the format will be clear. There format is pretty strict and consistent across jurisdictions. The spec has to support your claims, showing how to implement your invention, the claims have to be one sentence and demarcate the legal monopoly. You can claim hugely broad (normal technique) and then narrow them down later; if you claim very broadly however the examiner may just issue generic citations for the search which won't help you get a patent with strong validity.

Search, yes. Again, it's not rocket science but patent examiners do have access to dedicated technology databases including relevant journal databases, things like IBM techical bulletins and often their own internal libraries, as well of course as better search tools for the publicly available patents. Espacenet is a pretty searchable db, Google have a patent search, IBM used to have a good one and their TDB were often useful. Use the USC, IPC, EPC classifiers to speed up your search.

Caution: IIRC in the US you're required by law to submit the findings of any search you make, if you do a really good search and find decent prior art that can come back to bite you doubly if you fail to disclose it.

Mechanical tools may be better protected using other IP like industrial design, also trademarked shape can be good to prevent direct ripoffs.

As for nudges last point - what it does give you is some measure of protection against being sued for performing the invention in your granted patent. But it's likely that tech you're building on is patented too in which case you may need to attempt some sort of cross licensing.
A friend of mine recently created a similar flickr pool: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1086657@N24/
> he's covered under a public care option

So you're arguing that the British socialized system is good, and free market systems are bad ... and the evidence you hold up for this is about a horrible event in socialized portion of the US health care system?

That sounds like a pretty defective argument in favor of socialized medicine.
I think you'll need to use the --enable-webgl command line switch to turn it on. I'm not sure that will work in anything besides the latest dev channel builds though.
So there's no such thing as a quality bicycle, because some companies make motorcycles?
why should anyone care what he thinks.

and how does one failed startup and one not yet failed startup give him enough data points to triangulate real success.

has he ever worked for a company that was actually successful, like real profits, bonuses, benefits etc.?
Cargo Cult Game Design
No, it's not a Dutch word so it's probably a typo for plain spoken.
I read somewhere that our understanding of flying in/near clouds of volcanic ash is quite limited. We know from the BA9 Jakarta incident what an almost worst-case scenario looks like, but little more. The necessity to study it was simply not there - eruptions to far has happened in areas with fairly light traffic, so shutting down affected airspace had low consequences.

If this eruption is going to last more than a few days more, keeping some of the worlds most busy hubs offline, there will be serious effort put into making flying under these conditions safe. An obvious part of the solution could be radars or lidars that can reliably see where this stuff is, and how dense, so flights can avoid it. Another could be coating for windows that can withstand the "sandblasting".
We Swim in a Sea of White Noise
F13 is the PrintScreen (PrtScn) button. I think the original poster is cryptically pointing out a hotkey combination that prints the active window into your clipboard (instead of the entire screen). However, this can be done using the simpler Alt-PrtScn. To review:

* PrtScn: prints the whole screen into your clipboard

* Alt-PrtScn: prints the active window into your clipboard

* Ctrl-Alt-PrtScn: same as Alt-PrtScn
i'm at a big company that everyone has heard of, and we use git.
"Redoubt's last eruption, in December 1989, led to a close call--what could have been one of the worst aviation disasters in history."

The hyperbole in these general-public targeted magazines is pretty funny. I think 245 people dying wouldn't really be one of the worst aviation disasters in history. I doubt it would be in the top 10.

Kind of light on the mechanics too... I'd love to see a more technical description of what happens to a jet when it starts eating ash. Anyone know of any good articles for that?
And what will happen when The Emperor dies? They will change the rules and get rid of applications already approved and maybe approve those that hadn't been? Maybe the next day they will take 3.3.1 out?

Apple is the ultimate definition of anti-standard. As long as the Emperor lives here is how all the Apple customers live their lives. If he dies - anything can happen.

This is ridiculous.
So if I write a program that web scrapes a server that contains code with the GNU Affero GPL, do I have to open source my web scraper as well?
I'm going to have to strongly disagree with at least the "useful" adjective in this statement. I would concur that if the click-through-rate and impression data were accurate or consistent with other data sources that claim to show the same thing (Google Analytics, log file analysis, Google AdWords campaigns) it would be phenomenally valuable.

However, as it stands, my digging suggests that not only are the numbers dramatically different between other sources and GWMT, they're not even consistently different (at times, the multiples of variance can range from 0.5X-3X).

A number of good posts have been written on this by the webmaster/SEO community already:

http://www.distilled.co.uk/blog/seo/new-google-webmaster-too...

http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/google-webmaster-tools-2.html
The Netezza database appliance essentially works like this -- each disk is paired with an FPGA and a CPU core. The disk-local CPU takes care of caching directory information for the disk, decides what order to process disk pages in, and manages a disk cache with full awareness of the application. After a disk read the FPGA cuts away unwanted data before the CPU has to look at it. This has been shipping for several years.

To the extent that your problem is embarrassingly parallel and can be executed near the disk, you speed up linearly with the number of disks.

(I am currently employed by Netezza)
I do a replicated filesystem. It works at a fairly high level in userspace so isn't a filesystem in the kernel driver sense, but it's certainly not a web startup.

http://www.synctus.com/

Also storage, and not really "web", although it is "cloud", Nasuni: http://www.nasuni.com/
I just switched to a kinesis from my 1984 IBM AT keyboard, and I have to say I am quite liking it. After three weeks my typing speed is almost what it used to be though I still occasionally make mistakes with the enter/space thumb buttons. I can work hard all day and while my hands are tired at the end of it, they don't hurt.
Leonardo: An early Dr Strangelove?
A shot across Google's bow?
The Coming Technological Singularity
Does England’s possibility to win the World Cup
but is the cost of developing software lower than simply coming up with an idea?

You say that no patents would favor big companies. But without intellectual property, wouldn't it be EASIER for anyone to compete with the big companies?
I disagree, Apple's offering in terms of servers (both hardware and software) is downright ridiculous, no ability to virtual the servers. and the software doesn't scale well (they are very far from Microsoft in that regard).

Disclaimer:
All the desktop hardware we use are Apple, but we switched the OS's to windows 7, its more suitable for an organization.
Looks awesome
I predict this won't be nearly as successful as the GPL has been. The incentives don't line up the same way as they did for desktop software.
If you're in the U.K., almost certainly.

In the US, I'm not so sure. Yep, the Harriton High mess is being ignored/suppressed by the media about as much as the "Cash for Kids" crime of the decade in the same state (two judges extorting/taking bribes from a private prison company, to whom they illegitimately sent hundreds, perhaps more than a thousand kids (create a blog critical of your teacher, go to jail! (real story))....

But we push back a lot more than the subjects of the U.K. do or can, we have much more responsive political system, things aren't such that New Labour's explicit class war against the rural part of the nation could work here, ASBOs would be held unconstitutional here, we still value privacy more, etc. etc.

At worst case, we have retained our firearms while the U.K. started stripping them from their subjects in the '20s (terrified by the Bolshevik revolution), they judicially nullified self-defense in the '50s ... I could go on and on, but the bottom line is that while this may be the shape of things to come elsewhere, I expect American Exceptionalism to continue.
I agree. People should read what they like.

This list is pretty much just biology/psychology - something that personally isn't my idea of fun. Good luck trying to get kids to read those books :/ What kid really wants to read a book on nutrition? Probably the kid who doesn't need to read a book on nutrition that's who.

If you're going to come up with a list of books you personally believe kids should read, at least try and make it slightly varied. And maybe even fun/enjoyable. Or change the title to "List of biology/psychology books".
> I believe teaching literature should be partly replaced by the essential subjects that contribute to the quality of life. I'm not saying fiction is useless but there are certainly things out there that are much more important.

Fiction/literature can contribute quite significantly to 'quality of life.' For instance in my n=1 study, it has shown to be one of the most significant factors. If there is one thing about my future of which I am certain, it is that I will always enjoy (and learn from) good fiction.

Basically, people are different; we have different interests. I'm wary of any effort to generalize such a common curriculum.
IBM did the same thing or worse to Platform Solutions (PSI). First they were happy with them selling emulated mainframes, but something soured. IBM sued PSI, shut them down, then eventually acquired them. Anyone that believed IBM supported PSI and bought systems from them were screwed.
Imagine a Wireless Sync World (CC: Apple)
Vim Graphical Cheat Sheet
>He added: “Editorial cartoons of all stripes should get a pass when it comes to the license agreement with the exception of those that espouse violence.”

Which means that Apple is in fact censoring content? Or does this exclusively refer to criminal violence?
The AGPL was released in 2002. So this isn't a new development.

It adds a requirement (section 2.d) that if the software contains a source download feature that feature has to be retained.
Flights were grounded en masse at the turn of millennium and the bizarre quiet of the skies over the San Francisco Peninsula gave me a sort of surreal feeling that made me think, contrary to the elegiac vision of the author of this piece, "what would it have been like to have been born, lived, and died without planes, electricity, running water, and other modern conveniences and probably fallen victim to some pestilent disease by the time I was 30, just like my great-great-great grandparents did back in the villages of Greece from which they never traveled more than 25 miles during their entire lifetimes?"

It made me kind of shudder to think that this had been the lot of most of humanity throughout all the centuries and made me grateful for what we have today.

Nicely written piece, though.
Everything I've read talks about the potential for damage to jet engines. Does that extend to turbo-prop engines ?

I know they fly slower, but in a real emergency, could smaller cargo aircraft (e.g. C-130) still fly ?
I'm not saying ban fiction. All I'm saying - you may enjoy good fiction for a lot longer time if you eat right, exercise and sleep well.
Some examples would have been nice.
but you have no choice but to accept them as the entity whose recommendations you follow with regard to drugs

What features are included in a car is regulated by competing companies and you can pick which set of choices you deal with.

The competition between companies and the choices that you have imposes a discipline that does not exist with government.

With the government, you are simply coerced to accept their judgements. Which are influenced in all sorts of ways by the drug companies.

And if something becomes glaringly obviously wrong with something the government is doing, fear not. In a decade or two, someone will get around to changing it.
Sigh. "The most important aspect of this laptop is its display. It has a 1920 x 1200 15.4” TFT LCD." The new 15" MBPs max out 1680x1050 even with the additional option.
Pretty extensive, full of goodies.
A collegeboard article? Really? Come on. Don't upvote articles written by the marketing team of a scamming corporation.
"well-prepared" does not even start to describe this guy! He has links to all the devices and everything, so now I have to buy some of this stuff.
> Another could be coating for windows that can withstand the "sandblasting".

AFAIK it's not just the windows that are the problem. The volcanic ash can melt in the heat of the engine and essentially turn to glass, taking the engines out. Sounds nasty to fly through in every way.
The first three books, for example, are essential for those who'd like to live a longer life. Personally, I find living to be quite a fun, comparing to being dead. I think people should be taught basic ideas about how to stay alive, which these books present.
_Accelerando_ available here:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...

Go. Read.
yeah, OP should add "bunnie" to the title, as most people know him by that, I'd imagine.
California. Surgery was in Davis IIRC.
Not this year. Maybe in a couple.
I'm not doubting the claims in these posts, but I'm having trouble understanding why google was interested in releasing crappy data.