skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's save that discussion for when you've spent a good part of your life in a wheelchair without a means of expressing yourself directly, other than through some electronic gizmo.

You're making a joke at the expense of a guy that has had just about every card in the deck stacked against him and that made in spite of that more of his life and did more for us all than you will probably ever do.

If you don't see why it is in bad taste then I'm really sorry for you, if you think that that was 'out of sympathy' then I must have a big problem understanding English, and I hope I'll never be on the receiving end of your sympathy.
Thanks - I was wrong, it's the 6 inch screen (also 800x600, normally). I have one of those (Hanlin, branded BeBook). Fine for fiction, as I said, not too big, but I might not mind a 5 inch if buying now.

P.S. vs. the Kindle: Amazon tosses in a 3G modem, but remember it's their line, on their dime. It's a loss-leader, to get customers into the store. Outside the US, only English Wikipedia is free, as far as I can tell. (Not that you can pay to access anything else, besides the store - it's not your line ...)
Similarly, on Macbooks the Disc Eject button is really close to the Delete key. If you just tap the eject button, like you'd tap Delete, nothing happens. You really have to hold it down for 0.5s or so for the Eject to register.
Sounds similar to a friends refusal to reject the existence of ghosts. They don't really have any interest in ghosts and no doubt don't believe in their existence but refuse to express their disbelief for fear of being proven wrong.
easter is named after a month in the germanic calendar named after the goddess Ēostre
I find a similar trend with some websites where there's little dead-space for a mouse-click to switch the focus off of a control, hyperlink, or widget towards the document window itself.

This is also particularly irksome on sites which implement full-background ads. The only "non-hot-zones" end up being small parcels of the titlebar or footer.

I recall this concept of "dead/neutral" space mentioned in one Don Norman's books (http://jnd.org).
I make a distinction between religious belief and religion. The former I respect, ultimately, as a personal choice (that is not to say I wouldn't try to present an alternative if it was appropriate!). The latter I have little respect for :)
.... or help support/start a new company around them and raise an angel round with them (i.e. gdgt.com). :-)
The real problem is that pure content is being treated as an application.

There needs to be a separate whole section of the iTunes Store for this shit: Music, Movies, TV, Apps, Interactive. It'd come with its own Webkit-based development environment, like Apple is doing for their new iTunesLP format (and did for Dashboard). The people making these pointless apps don't really give a shit about integrating with the phone, and they aren't doing anything they couldn't do in Mobile Safari -- they're in the App Store to get paid.
Spot on. According to this site: http://www.adherents.com/largecom/com_atheist.html it's the third most atheist country in the world.
The existence of a God is fact, or not fact. It's either true for everyone, or false for everyone. Saying something is "individual" is healthy only to the point that it does not stop you from actually researching it, and many times the best learning is done in collaboration and reviewing the work of others.

But there is no way to "research" the existence or non-existence of God. It's entirely a matter of faith, which I either have, or do not - that's why it is an individual matter.
The site is a little slow. Here are a few things you can do to speed it up. Get rid of Viewstate where it isn't necessary. Move your javascript to a separate file, where you can, so it won't be included in every page that is returned. Also you are loading jQuery and Microsoft Ajax libraries, but you seem to be only using jQuery.
I was under the impression that a most of the religious classes/castes (other than the Rabbis) in Judaism were wiped out by the Romans (or someone) and that some of those were the ones that were supposed to perform certain ceremonies. I may be wrong though, I can't find anything about this in a quick Wikipedia search.
I was under the impression that a most of the religious classes/castes (other than the Rabbis) in Judaism were wiped out by the Romans (or someone) and that some of those were the ones that were supposed to perform certain ceremonies. I may be wrong though, I can't find anything about this in a quick Wikipedia search.

[EDIT] I may have been confused with the Sanhedrin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanhedrin
Isn't that what Squirrel (the major restaurant POS) does automatically or with a keystroke? Most of the casual eateries I go to have staff ask when ordering if separate checks are required . . .
If any budding developer out there needed a reason to try and build the next THING in social networking, here's your chance.
> Now, the trendy thing for "intellectuals" is atheism, and so many jump in without a thought (this continues to hold for both sides, as exemplified in the article).

I don't think it is the 'trendy' thing at all, it is just that when you think this stuff over and you weigh the evidence someone that is intellectually oriented will probably come down on the atheist side of the line.

Trends have nothing to do with it, at least atheists are no longer burned at the stake. But in plenty of countries it's probably safer to have the wrong religion than no religion at all.
Nothing. It was just recently announced that the full-body scanner machines will shortly be mandatory for all U.K. international arrivals.
I think we're actually agreeing. My point was the existence/non-existence of God as a fact is currently unprovable. And, so, either viewpoint is essentially the same - just in reverse.
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> the logic of a monothestic religion of this type is that there is one true God and every other purported deity is a mere figment of man's imagination... and hence not real.

Seems to me you agree with the article. You say 529 gods of history don't exist, 1 does. We say the exact same thing you do, just about all gods. Look how easy it is to make your quote sound atheistic: "Every purported deity is a mere figment of man's imagination"
I had 1.4M lined up for another company; I decided to ditch that and come back 'in the building' to work with Jason on ThisWeekIn. So: yeah, this is a good thing, and actually good for Mahalo, counter-intuitive as that may sound on the surface. Makes room for other great people in Mahalo to move up, who may otherwise have moved on.
I feel like the real accomplishment here is that they are converting documents to websites on the fly - complete with font-faces and image positioning. How do you do that? If that's possible, will we need front-end layout developers in a few years (we'll probably still need animation/transition development, right?)?
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My father was an atheist and I was raised that way. But I became an agnostic. On what evidence? I cannot explain how wonderful is that I am alive and aware of my own existence right now.
Apparently the game will be available traditionally for the same price as in North America, or for a smaller amount up front and a recurring subscription fee.

Can any economists here speculate as to the relative profitability for Blizzard with this sort of forked pricing?
This is my biggest gripe with my iphone (and other fully touchscreen phones/devices). I have to hold it by its four thinnest edges on the sides.

Re-aligning the phone in my hand usually requires use of the other hand since it is hard to "crawl" my fingers around the edges. At least with my previous Treo or blackberry I could rest my thumb or finger across the keyboard to "grip" the phone when picking it up or moving it.

It's funny how the front touch-screen, when on, renders the entire back almost untouchable as well.
"Would you like an extended warranty with that, sir?"
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The newly restored version, which I saw recently thanks to a torrent, is a much, much better movie (both finer as an art work and more entertaining) than the truncated, barely coherent, version that I remember from being in film school in the 1980s. The restored version displays a richness and fullness of story line that the truncated version, which circulated for decades, only hints at. (Personally, I consider the Moroder version to be a true esthetic atrocity, not worth watching.)
I'm seeing this topic come up more and more frequently, but here's my two cents:

The average user doesn't care about Creative Commons licensing, or GPL. The average user cares about the following interaction:

LogIn->Read Status Updates->Talk to Friends->Make Status Update->Upload pictures

Where average user being 80% of the FB userbase who log on everyday and remain completely oblivious to what's happening with Facebook, The EFF, the FTC and most recently, Zynga. They don't know these things, so they don't care.

I say that to say this: if someone plans to build the next social network, build it with the users in mind. Don't try to build a platform with some Utopian framework in mind, build what works, and keep it simple. If you do this, you'll win.
Half the features on this graph didn't exist in 2005, for example: photos. There was basically no privacy initially, everyone at your school could see everything, which wasn't much.
What cool project can I build with a 240 element CPLD board? OISC CPU perhaps?
Aren't all these atheist/theist debates better housed on reddit with all the other dreck and stale debates the host? Hacker News is for news, not for silly things that just make people waste oxygen arguing about them.
The specs for this one say it supports ePub and PDF. USB file transfer, or plug in an SD card. That's pretty attractive to me (especially at this price point). No native text, rich text, or graphic support, it seems, but I guess I could mash what I need into ePUB or PDF.

I also wonder whether it will be hackable.

I'd like to try an e-reader, but I'm not particularly interested in playing the price of a netbook. Plus, I've always preferred the Borders stores over B&N (if I'm restricted to a big box book store); the staff are helpful and, at least at a couple of the stores in my area, long term -- I kind of hope the latter means that management treats them ok.
If you change the View Mode to Slideshow, this allows you to change slides via the left and right arrow keys.
U.S. loses $2 trillion because of education system
Same goes for Apple and the uprising against their banning of non-native development tools. Facebook is not the web, and iPhones are not computers.
A list of all current research underway using psychadelics:
http://www.maps.org/research/

The Psylocibin ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psylocibin )category is worth expanding, it has had the biggest resurgence in research.
Yeah I understand what you're saying from a practical approach. I'm looking at it more from a sci-fi (emphasis on FI) angle I guess. I don't really consider what you're talking about as "time travel" any more than how I traveled a minute or so into the future sitting here typing this.

When I said "I've never really understood why we shouldn't be able to travel backwards in time." I was referring to the statement from the article: "Ultimately, scientists may find that only travel into the future is possible, as the laws of nature may make travel to the past impossible so the relationship between cause and effect is maintained." particularly the part about cause and effect.
Is that really the case? There has to be some kind of a transaction going on, since the card can get declined with insufficient funds. Do they check whether a transaction can proceed when you pay, and only then actually process the transaction at night?
The killer point:

So my guess it that what we’re hearing is the end result of Zynga’s a/b testing which has shown that the payments platform is cannibalizing significantly more than it’s adding.

If this is true, I'd be curious to see if Zynga releases the numbers. If they do, then things might be on like donkey kong.
Perhaps is can read it as anchoring too... once the suit price is in mind, the price of the belt seems small.
No doubt about the fact that ( more employees == more inefficiency ) for the corporation. But the benefit to the 20 members of the community that have gone from zero income to working is enormous.
"They can’t all be right and there exists no method of picking the right one except trusting you own feelings."

I agree wholeheartedly with the first half of that statement: "They can’t all be right". The religions of the world have conflicting beliefs that cannot be reconciled. If there is one true God, then the other religions that worship other gods have to be false. You can't have it both ways.

However, at least with respect to Christianity, the second half "and there exists no method of picking the right one except trusting you own feelings.". is most definitely not true. Christians who believe the Bible to be true and accurate would tell you the opposite -- do not trust your feelings, because feelings don't determine what is true and what is false. In the Bible-believing Christian realm the argument would be "Read the Bible, decide for yourself whether you believe it or not."
The article makes it sound as if the firmware update is killing off the HPC clusters though. And if it is talking about how the new PS3s don't have OtherOS, I'm not sure why it would be to Sony's advantage to keep adding that in so they could lose hundreds of PS3s to non-game buying researchers.

I think the concern is that the firmware update cut off HPC capabilities from consumers who sought to use it as both a game device and an HPC device.
But it seems an awful way to dismiss the discussion on a date. Comparing the belief in Christ with the belief in Zeus!? I know it may be logical for an atheist, but for a Christian it may actually be insulting.
On the iPhone/iPad I found you can navigate the slides by one quick slide left or right.
.. Or how teleportation is the same as walking. :)
Domingo -> from the Latin 'Dies Dominicus' -> The Lord's day

Lunes -> Luna -> Moon

Tuesday -> Martes -> Marte (Mars)

Miercoles -> Mercurio (Mercury)

Jueves -> Jove -> Jupiter

Viernes -> Venus

Sabado -> Sabbath

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor%C3%ADa:D%C3%ADas_de_la_...
But that's a problem. We don't pretend to respect people for having silly beliefs, except when it is religious - why this exception? I find it helps to think of religious belief/conviction as a socially acceptable form of mental disease, comparable to examples in drug use.
Putting aside what I know about this specific topic, a hypothetical Cell 2 would remain the same for five years and thus might be interesting when it came out but would also be obsolete for most of its lifetime. There's just no way for console chips that are updated every five years to compete with CPUs and GPUs that are updated every year.
Actually, they do. It is unfortunate, but flash is the best way to access the clipboard from the browser. There are some slick implementations that make the use of flash less evident, but if you use something like flashblock, you will surely know. See: http://github.com/mojombo/clippy
Yes, technically you are correct. But we think in terms of absolutes all the time in order to live in this world (e.g. The statue could wave it's arm, but it is such a remote possibility that we can discount it for practical purposes.
I think the argument is fairly sound and is great at concisely explaining why religion is a product of humanity's imagination and current culture. (With all due respect, don't take this as an affront on your beliefs.)

I like the argument for a number of reasons:

- It beg's the question "Why do I reject those other 529 gods?" Generally there is no good answer for this other than being indoctrinated at a young age. You realize that you believe what you believe because of the circumstances in which you were born. This leads to the conclusion that the religion you follow has more to do with where you live than what is "correct". (Noting that there are plenty of exceptions to this).

- It drives home the point that humanity has been creating gods for thousands of years. Most of those gods have likely been created before your god had even first been mentioned. Any rational person would ask why did humanity move past those gods? You can never disprove the existence of a god, so what happened? Ideally, you realize that religion is much like any trend, just with longer than average turn around.

- If you follow the trend of gods, you realize that humanity has been generally moving away from polytheism towards monotheism. This makes you wonder why and conclude that it is tightly correlated to (and arguably directly caused by) humanity's understanding of the universe. As we understand more about everything, we don't need gods to fill in these gaps of knowledge. For instance, we understand why the Sun rises or lightning strikes. As humanity has progressed, one by one we killed the need for Roman and Greek gods. This leads you to wonder what role a monotheistic god fills and realize that the god is generally used to bring understanding to things we don't understand and reason to things we can't control. This is hardly a rational reason for a figment that "solves" all unsolved problems.

In short, I like the "(n-1) vs n gods" argument because when you think through everything implied by it, a rational being has no choice but to conclude that in all likelihood the religion they follow is not correct. Unfortunately, emotion plays a huge role in religion, making rational thought difficult. On a personal note, I was a theist for 20 years, backed by 12 years of formal study in my religion. Making the mental shift to realizing everything I'd believed was wrong was difficult to say the least, but years later my life is all the better for it.
Junking up your CSS rules with hacks for Netscape Navigator and Safari 1.0? No thanks.
It probably depends on the revenue model. If you charge the same amount for your game on Linux as Windows, then the fact that Linux users donate more cash is meaningless to you.

On top of this, I would bet that they have so many Linux contributors precisely because no-one releases AAA games to Linux, so their sample size is disproportionately represented by Linux users.
Open source health gadgets
At least in Europe the CEOs of electronic voting machine manufacturers aren't top campaign contributors for those on the ballot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold#Controversy
Ugh, JavaScript! We'll be stuck with JavaScript forever! Time for a new browser to be developed. But I doubt that will happen. Sad to see no major new operating systems, pc architectures, browsers being developed.
Now it's all:
- linux, osx, windows
- intel
- ff, webkit, opera
Yep, people standing on the shoulders of giants but we need some new giants.
this article is very interesting
Canadian Climate Data
With daily climate data from hundreds of Canadian weather monitoring stations between 1800 and 2009 that includes only:

* Temperature (min, max, mean)
* Precipitation (rain, snow)
* Snow depth
* Station latitude, longitude, and elevation

What would you like to know? Some examples:

* Top 5 coldest, wettest, driest, hottest, or snowiest places in Canada.
* What was the climate like on your birthday?
* How do natural disasters affect the climate?
* How does the weather along certain latitudes (or longitudes) compare against other ranges?
* Graph weather differences for multiple cities.

What else do you think would be interesting to the general public, climatologists, and private industry?
Did your Mahalo investors get a share of thisweekin?

I read a little bit about how Odeo handled it with twitter handled it, just wondering how you did.
It's never wrong to want proof, but read the article first:

This month the team will begin building a pilot plant to demonstrate the technology at the Dokhaven waste water treatment plant in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, working with from Radboud University Nijmegen and water purification firm Paques, based in the Dutch town of Balk.
It's one line that adds that functionality. One line that shouldn't really have any additional overhead. Hardly seems like a giant glob of obfuscating junk to me.
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What a Brand Is
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1274692

This is what you should expect. Platforms will maximize their profits if they "tax" people the way countries do. Unlike a country, a platform can often tax more efficiently, and closer to the peak of the Laffer Curve.
Well, no, they don't 'owe' anyone anything but it seems like an uncharacteristic move for Google, which seemed to be the author's point.
This is exactly the kind of visualization that we should have to manage the privacy settings.
I suspect you're preaching to the converted :-) I rationalise it by accepting this phenomenan exists - I will fight when it is detrimental of course, but otherwise just let it slide.
Thanks. The McKinsey report is actually great stuff but I'm not sure if it's publicly available (we had it given to us when I was in a class in the spring...)
and by great stuff, I mean the information is pretty solid. But scary figures, like the $2 trillion number...
Wow, that looks like a modern day KIM-1:

http://www.commodore.ca/products/kim1/kim1a_lg.jpg
I don't know, what I see is that you can make over twice as much on a Windows platform. Even if the users won't pay as much, there are still so many that it more than makes up for it. Distribution costs are low if you distribute online so the total revenue is the main factor (as opposed to per unit price). I imagine the development costs to port a title to Linux are fairly substantial as well, not to mention the additional support costs.

Besides, I doubt Linux users would be happy about paying $100+ for a game if translated to normal game prices ($50-$60 or so).
What avid PC gamer can resist the call of Starcraft 2? Or playing Left 4 Dead 2 with a mouse and keyboard, like the good Lord intended?
Reddit was down?
When I wrote this post, I was also thinking about a former colleague. He has a birth condition requiring him to use huge font size to read anything on his screen. There is no way to resize fonts, did Google think about disabled people?
Apple's app store doesn't have refunding?
you can review without logging in, just not edit an address.
what did you search for?
New hard drive write method packs in one terabyte per square inch
Hmm, that first problem should not be the case. I'm unable to reproduce it in my browser, but we will look into it.

What exactly do you mean by the nav at the bottom looking like spam? I assume you are referring to the sticky toolbar?

Also, if you would like, we are doing our best to keep track of issues people are seeing. You are welcome to add your issues to this Google form: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dF9URVpxVEZ...
The chief costs of spam are the time and attention of people who don't want it but get it anyway. Those costs are borne neither by the buyers nor by the sellers but by third parties.

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