skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been playing the Beta for several weeks, I think the longest I've waited for a game has been about 20 seconds, and apart from the initial few placement matches (to enable it to rank you at the beginning), they've all been reasonably close, entertaining games.

I can only assume that at retail with even higher numbers of players it will be even quicker to find a game.
He started by berating the audience for pretending to understand the universe and mysteriously declaring, “I know what it is that you don’t know yet and it will change your life”.

Wow. Spoken like a true theoretical scientist. Of course they're right; time will show they're all right. Except those others who only thought they were right: they're morons.
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It really sounds like Harry Harlow was a sociopath (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy). I know a handful of academic science-types (some of which do experiments with animals) and I can't imagine any of them condoning so cruel a study. Ugh.
That is unbelievable. The scientist in question exhibited a profound lack of empathy; he probably would have been an interesting subject for experimentation himself.
Just for the reference: you actually don't need to use any "high profile" features of h.264 to have x264 outperform Theora. In fact, you don't even have to max out the baseline profile features.
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if you're looking for cheap, why not go for http://www.startssl.com/ ?
it's completely free and works on all recent browser, and most older ones too.
Paypal has a pretty high per-item fee of 0.30 / transaction and a reasonably low (and fixed!!) percentage fee of 2.2%-2.9%.

Therefore, if you have an abnormally large average transactions size OR get paid mostly by other businesses, with their business cards OR have an abnormally large share of amex transactions, paypal will be more appealing from a cost perspective than it otherwise would be.

At TransFS.com we include them in the auction results because the answer of how paypal compares in price is actually different depending on your situation.
Are you a pet lover?

It's hard to invest in something like that for a long time if you're not passionate about it. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't do something with it if you're not, but maybe you could find someone who is excited about it and have them help you with ideas and content?

One idea is that you could feature a member and their pet on the home page each week. Kind of like how there is an "ADOPTIVE PET OF THE WEEK" — which isn't actually a pet of the week, it's just a random pet with each page load.

This would take some more work, but you could do some really cool things with geolocation, like post adoptable pets and upcoming community events that are actually in the area.
Yes, normally they are three times more expensive
Agreed. I've found it way easier to negotiate a raise for a new position than to try to get one from my current job.
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Personally I'd take a look at where it does well on certain Google search terms and then try to build and scrape data from other websites that you could use (legally of-course) like pull in twitter feeds or Wikipedia articles from DBpedia. Tidy up the design and get rid of the dead wood on the site. And then flip the site in a few months when traffic starts to pick up.

It's pretty much what Demand Media does. But if you are really passionate about pets and don't mind not turning it around for profit then I'd just keep it updated and try to build a community out of the niche that it has.
> Will water that's not so hot it will burn you be hot enough to kill bacteria?

no.

That's why sterilization uses steam and / or boiling.
I went alpine camping for a week once (Tasmania), and crossing a stream, the water was so cold it was physically extremely painful. But others in the group didn't mind as much, so I decided to adjust to it.

At the end of the week, I was swimming in the water for half an hour, and it didn't bother me at all. A tremendous sense of elevation.

While it does remind me of why are you hitting yourself in the head with a hammer? Because it feels so good when I stop, to defeat discomfort is somehow profoundly affirming of freedom and self-determination.
Why not just do an ACH transaction? ACH is problematic because it is not very secure, but for subscription software can be a good solution since there is no cost of goods.
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I think the line you're drawing is blurry, and I think you're overgeneralizing. There are as many reasons to play as there are people, and as many types of play as there are games.
Suppose you could make a galaxy out of stars that have no mass. They're just big, bright balloons arranged in the pattern of a galaxy. If you looked at the balloon galaxy from far away, you'd expect that the part of the galaxy that's far from you would be red-shifted more than the part that's closer to you, due to Hubble Expansion. Also, as time goes on, you'd expect the balloons to drift away from each other, since the expansion causes everything to become farther away from everything else.

But because real galaxies are made of massive stars, they pull on each other and maintain the shape of the galaxy against the effect of the metric expansion. In addition to the doppler shift you see in the balloon galaxy, you get an added effect from the "peculiar velocity" of the stars perpetually falling toward each other within the expanding space time--but, of course, never actually getting any closer, since the effects cancel out. The parts that are closer to you have peculiar velocity away from you (because they're falling to the center of the galaxy, which is further away) and the parts that are farthest from you have peculiar velocity toward you (since the center of the galaxy is closer to you).

So, the red-shift from the distant parts is reduced by the blue-shift caused by their peculiar velocity in the direction of the observer, and the lesser red-shift of the closer parts is exacerbated by the peculiar velocity away from the direction of the observer. If we were to naively suppose that this "Finger of God" effect weren't happening, and that red-shift and distance behave as they normally do in accordance with Hubble's Law, we would be forced to conclude that all galaxies are somewhat "pancake-shaped" with every pancake facing toward Earth. This doesn't seem quite right, and fortunately the effect of peculiar velocity shows us that it doesn't have to be, and conveniently verifies the truth of Hubble Expansion.
People forgot Tesla because he A) wasn't American and B) wasn't into electrocuting puppies, kittens and elephants. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Currents#Edison.27s_publ...
I find it amusing how many "modern" people would find his choice breathtaking, unimaginable etc. I wonder if the same people are aware of the fact that it really wasn't that many years ago that hot water was a "50/50" in apartment buildings in developed countries.
The modern sense of a romantic character may be expressed in Byronic ideals of a gifted, perhaps misunderstood loner, creatively following the dictates of his inspiration rather than the mores of contemporary society - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism
A mini mahalo ? Yes, we really need more of those...
Probably, but this is cool not because it's super smooth and hyper-realistic, but just because it's now possible to do something like this in pure HTML/CSS. I couldn't fathom that five years ago.
1. Create a clear next action on your front page. I'd bet you have a significant bounce rate right now -- people arriving from a search engine or linking site, and leaving within 5 seconds because they're not clear what the site has to offer.

--1a. I'd get more of the articles and forum posts above the fold. These are potentially some of your best spots for getting click-throughs.

--1b. Consolidate that massive top menu. Make more options part of the sub-menus, or let some areas (polls, photos) just stand as content sections on the main page.

--1c. Remove or move that topmost nav bar to the footer. None of those links are priorities; it's just taking up space.

2. It doesn't look like you're currently using Google Analytics? You should really add it, and get a sense of where your traffic is coming from. Particularly where your search traffic is coming from.

--2a. Check which keywords you're getting traffic from that have a high(er) bounce rate. This can be a good guide for new articles. You could also write some code (or see if your CMS has a module/plugin to do this, Wordpress does) to display a message based on the search terms used to enter the site, and recommend some next pages.

3. Style your AdSense ads to get a better click-through rate. ViperChill recently posted a great case-study: http://www.viperchill.com/adsense-account-income/

4. Nuke your current forums. They're dead, and will take years to gain momentum in their current forum. Use software that does a better job of showing activity, and start small with one (two or three at max) broad section.

Don't take your tiny audience and make them look for conversations in 50 different rooms. Start with one room for everyone to go into, and it will be easier for newcomers to see conversations happening and join them. You can create more specialized sub-forums later.
I have long held that the worst way to die (IMO) would be to fall down a tube of gradually decreasing width, head first of course. It's appalling that someone actually did this to animals.

Why didn't he just setup experiments where he forced monkeys through a fine mesh screen to prove that their psychological disposition is less than satisfactory when their physical state is reduced to a puddle of goo. Lots of great science to unearth there.

Of course, like mice, perhaps he just hated monkeys for the sake of it: http://www.theonion.com/articles/worlds-scientists-admit-the...
I definitely read this yesterday and HN seems like the most likely place I would've seen it. Maybe yours got dupe deaded and this one somehow didn't.
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The point isn't to make the user follow the ad -- the point is to force the user to parse the ad as a step towards something the user wants. The theory is that this gets a message into the user's brain in a way that traditional advertisements do not.

While it looks like a captcha and appears in similar contexts, calling it a captcha is misleading: It fulfills its primary function even if it lets all the bots through.
Cool, future is already here, but unevenly distributed. We have already got one of four over there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalia_Grybauskait%C4%97
Right. Washing dishes in nice soapy 90 degree water doesn't kill any germs. It just feels good on your hands.

But people gave me a lot of crap about using cold water anyway. So part of my process, just to be safe, was to ensure the clean dishes dried very well, next to a window, in the sunlight.
Gaming can also be a learning experience.
'I often went three or four days between showers or until someone told me I smelled.'

Washing oneself is not about fitting in, it is about hygiene.
Sure, his idea is definitely interesting considering the time, but the article is not. Like I say, he didn't just predict mobile phones, he predicted mobile communication which has been possible much longer than the phone version.
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Napkin summary: It searches the web for information on future events.
Not magical but still interesting.
Since I am very old, mobile phones at the time were back-breakingly huge

There were mobile phones when you were young. You are not old.
True. However, when I get to that point, more frequently my way out is right-clicking a tab and selecting "Close All But This". :)
I did not say that Theora looks better or exactly as good as H264. I know how good H264 is. But for many uses the differences are marginally and do not justify using a non-free codec in my opinion.

If you would make your own fair comparison (article/site), it would be much appreciated.
A lot of this is merely price discrimination. Some people won't find out about cheaper certificates and will pay lots more money for something from GeoTrust. GeoTrust actually owns RapidSSL (http://www.rapidssl.com/ssl-certificate-about/index.htm). NameCheap is reselling those RapidSSL branded certificates for less than RapidSSL.com is selling them. RapidSSL.com is, in turn, selling certificates for less than GeoTrust. And they're all signed by the Equifax root certificate!

Single root certificates are a better option and the RapidSSL certificate that NameCheap is selling for $10 is single root and run and signed by the same people as GeoTrust. Do go with a single root as it makes life easier.
Dear Mozilla,
You'd be better off asking what incentivizes the Patent Office to do careful review. The answer, when they get paid by the patent seekers, is that every incentive aligns with giving out patents freely.

Is it any wonder that they have settled for being generous in handing out patents, and are content to let the courts do the bulk of the real review? (Ignoring the costs to society of having so many invalid patents available as threats.)
cool, but i wish the author had used flash.
I'm sure it is possible find to some development job with a patchy resume. But it sounds like you are hiring for a junior position, is that really appropriate for someone with N years experience?
Which sounds noble until I'm forced to share a confined space with the person.
>When one system dominates a particular domain and locks users in, problems seem to naturally ensue. Unfortunately for privacy advocates, an open Linux-like system will have much more trouble coexisting with Facebook.

There are countless open source packages in this domain and countless people that run them or use them. Just how I like it, decentralized.

For example:
Reddit,
Status.net,
Buddypress/Wordpress,
Pligg,
Elgg
I think your perspective is biased towards considering post-WWII society as the norm. My perception is that the end of WWII marked a sudden change in most of the things you have called out (housing cost relative to income, job security, health care). It would be nice for all of us if the societal changes that occurred after WWII were permanent, but isn't it more realistic to think that WWII was a catastrophic event that pushed most systems out of equilibrium, and that we are now returning to a more "normal" state? I may not be expressing this correctly in economic terms, but my opinion is that the value of human labour has been declining since the industrial revolution, even though the quality of life (in most regards) has been improving. The information age only seems to be accelerating this process.
Water has to be sth like 70 C degree hot to kill most bacteria, and it would be too hot for you at that point.

Hygiene works because bacteria are flushed out, not because water kills them (ok, antibacterial soap may kill some bacteria, but not much).
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Yes,you shouldn't pay $30 per year for SSL cert from GoDaddy because you can get it for $12.99 if you just search on Google for Godaddy SSL

http://www.google.com/search?q=godaddy+ssl
It feels just a little more novel when you consider just how late into last century sci-fi stories were getting written with little or no notion of universal mobile communication.

(Some excuses may be made on the grounds of story flow and building a comprehensible universe, but that's weak sci-fi).
To me, this has more potential to be trouble to Apple than 3.3.1. Saying "you can only put ads on our devices if you buy them from us" is practically the definition of tying.
I am doing the same as I am giving up my corporate cubicle for one year to do some programming for fun.
You have to watch it again. I saw still images the first time then replayed it. Worked flawlessly... except there was sound?
The only way I can see that working requires two things:

1. We create (physical) reality to some extent at least. By thinking time exists, we are able to create something which can track the progression of something which only exists in our thoughts.

2. Jungian collective unconscious: we all seem to have the same idea of time. The sun rises, then sets, it doesn't re-wind part way through the day, or simply appear in the middle of the sky.

2b. Unless, of course, this is all a / your dream.

Not to say that this is impossible (just try to disprove it), just convoluted and counter to most of what we (seem to) know.
I realize that. What I said: "It's not a major issue, since it looks like you don't need to use it."

My issue with MACID is that when Happstack starts including features like authentication, I don't want them to be tied to MACID.
I could imagine doing this if i wouldnt live in Boston, with cheapo room mates that keep it barely above freezing in the winter. I must say i rather enjoy taking cool showers, im not sure that i could do straight up cold showers except when its very warm out.
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>This is a lot like how I became a vegetarian.

Me too, except that after about 3-4 months I restarted eating meat and I've been dreaming of going back to vegetarianism ever since.

So you can't actually willfully induce these 'sudden' decisions.
That's what half of Thoreau's Walden is about.
The original article:
http://www.techi.com/2010/04/captcha-advertising-coming-soon...
How do you cluster links/stories?

Do you use any open source software in the back-end? I wouldn't mind a list of what you used to make this.
Not true. There are many software only mods for consoles available.
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We do: http://www.icj-cij.org/
"Just so you know, we didn’t know this was stolen when we bought it."

http://gizmodo.com/5520479/a-letter-apple-wants-its-secret-i...
Sorry, I may be missing your point, but how do you blame the Boomers (of which I'm at the tail end) for this situation? Shouldn't you be blaming the "Greatest Generation" (parents of the Boomers) for setting up a system that depended on maintaining a high ratio of workers to retirees?
I read it to be 3.25 mi total each day and 25-30 minutes each direction making the 3.25 mi tile ~ 1 hour. That seems a reasonable pace to me.
Apple Quietly Fixes iPad's Broken App Store Revealing 1,422 Games
Just for further reference: you don't need to use any "high profile" features of H.264 for x264 to outperform most other H.264 implementations (Adobe's, Apple's etc.) when they are using all the high profile features available to them.

I find it weird to use a GPL encoder that's had a lot of optimisation work done on it, to undermine an open format where the encoder hasn't had a lot of work done on it. If the format is the key rather than the implementation, then why are so many of them mediocre?
This person's definition of "techie" is radically different from ours. For instance, nowhere on her list is, umm, learning any technical skill. Read down a few blog entries and it turns out she's an MBA. This is probably not someone you'd want to start a company with... "Here's 0.01% of the company, coding's easy, right? I'm more of an ideas person"
decent affiliate marketing possibilities, I'd a thought. Get some quality content. Offer deals on... I dunno, whatever pet owners might buy.

Old-skool affiliate model FTW
if I were the type of person to consider a full-time job, I would not be the type of person who had all those things you want

Very insightful comment! I never thought of it that way.

Like Daniel, I have spent a lot of time both on my own and in enterprises. I've met lots of smart people in enterprise IT departments. They have tended to be very deep in one or two areas and very shallow (or absent) in most others.

I have always found it easy to accomplish a lot very quickly in an enterprise environment, not because I was smarter than anyone else, but because I had been around the block on my own so much more. But until today, I never realized why. Thank you, Daniel.
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So then, and this is where the crazy starts to happen: when people talk about the size of the universe, I start to get really confused. While there's an observable limit from our reference point, isn't that functionally a consequence of the null cone? That is: doesn't the homogeneity irrespective of location mean that if I were on the edge of the spacetime 'bubble' from Earth's point of view, there would be a completely different spacetime bubble with different 'stuff' in it? That is, different galaxies alltogether?

Maybe the question is too absurd, since we can't teleport in the way I described, but it's...I don't know...interesting.

Thanks!
There was no control in the experiment. This "study" would carry a little more weight if they had also put the sudoku-ers in a room with an "unattractive female" (or just another person for that matter!) and compared the results.

Ugh.
This looks pretty amazing ... in Firefox. I tried Chrome, but no luck. Is that because Chrome doesn't support HTML5 as completely as Firefox?
You're arguing a different point. If modifying is allowed, then they cant restrict the parts by voiding the warranty. If modifying isn't allowed, then it isn't allowed regardless of any brand of parts.
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Namecheap offers free PositiveSSL certificates, as well as a free whois masking option. You must register or transfer a domain there to get it, but it's not tied to the domain you buy, so you could buy a new domain and use the free cert on an older one.
The main reason why you use warm water instead of cold is because together with the detergent (if you use any) the warmth will help to dissolve the greases that keep food stuck to your plates and utensils. That way you flush the bacteria out. Maybe the soap will kill them but then likely they'll be down the drain anyway.

The only stuff that warm water doesn't work well for are as far as I know dairy products and egg-white, because they solidify when warmed up.

Also, there is not much point in thinking you're killing bacteria and then using a dirty dishrag to dry off the dishes :)

Bacteria are pretty hardy, some of them even survive at temperatures above 300 degrees celsius, but you're not likely to run in to them in the home (unless you live in a sulphuric hot spring).

edit: I hope that's 90 degrees Fahrenheit you are referring to.
I don't think it's a cron, I've been promoted instantly the first time I was playing after winning a lot and getting ranked #1 in the division.
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Does anyone else take cool showers during the summer anyway? Not ice-cold, but cool. I've always thought it was odd that people would take hot showers when it's hot already.

I understand the psychological benefits of doing something difficult that you don't need to do. I do it often with physical activity. But denying yourself hot water does not deal a blow to the status-quo. I think the benefits of doing something hard are negated if you shower yourself with congratulations over it. (Note: this is not the same as being satisfied that you did it.)
> I often went three or four days between showers or until someone told me I smelled.

He should have omitted that sentence. It make him sound more like a whacked-out weirdo/dirty-smelly hippie, and undermines credibility of the experiment.
Mores change with time and place. Negligent malodourousness is to be avoided at all times and places.

Besides, he wasn't "creatively following the dictates of his inspiration". He was wimping out of the consequences of his 'inspiration'; man-up and shower. Unhygienic!

edit: bad speller
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I'm hoping that the article simply neglected to mention the control. It's hard to believe that the researchers would be so colossally inept as to forget to have a control group.