skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you hold your breath, your lungs are still filled with air, which contains oxygen. So there's still some oxygen being transferred into your blood, it just gets less and less.

But actually, I suspect that the far more important factor is CO2, which leaves the blood in the lungs when there is air present.
How about a platform independent version (i.e. web)? There are a lot of people that either don't use Windows, or don't use an email client ON Windows.
By strict Kevin Bacon rules there's some double counting there. Someone being in a band with someone should just be one link, the same as being in a film with them. Instead he breaks it down into two jumps, 1 for the first person to be linked to the band, then for the band to be linked to the second person.

Just a nitpick, not meant to detract from the geeky awesomness of the project.
I know they're not singling me out, but I personally think rewarding ignorant behavior (to the cost of educated behavior!) is a bad strategy. Ideally, they would have a button that says "not your language? Click here to set the language and find out why sites keep showing you the wrong one".

EDIT: Actually, thinking about this more I don't think your point holds. Nearly everyone who buys a PC in a given country will buy one set up for their locale. Do you think that e.g. Germany is selling a bunch of computers configured with english as the prefered language? I seriously doubt that.
Or rather they do it even though you are annoyed by it because in general they minimize the number of annoyed people.
http://biggestmenu.com/
Found the links for the "Web App Autopsy" and also a related talk, & link to the 2nd talk's slides (original links to the slides from RWW are broken):

http://particletree.com/features/web-app-autopsy/

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/sxsw_the_figures_behind...

http://www.slideshare.net/dcancel/barenaked-app-the-figures-...
Yep, we do. I always welcome more blog posts :D For me, I don't have time to do the design/marketing/'vision thing'/cust service AND code, so I'm leaving the code to my partners. I suspect he already has a plan but it hasn't been implemented yet.

Maybe I can hit him over the head with free code ;)
> Are there legit reasons I'm missing for hosting ad servers on the same domain, and so puncturing the browser security model?

Avoiding generic (not targeted to your site specifically) AdBlock URL filtering.
Facebook and MySpace giving user private data to ad firms
freenet?
Happens all the time with science reporting too. They'll have a story about a new scientific paper, and you're lucky if they give you enough details to look it up yourself, let alone an actual link to the paper online somewhere. I'm usually happy if they at least include the full title so I can google it, and they often don't even do that.
Too much writing and pictures in landing page.

Also what is your future value proposition? Is it only the ability to link emails to linked in?
VCs stuck in the social networking rut
Why do you take vitamin supplements?

I don't take them and would only do so if I had some reason to think I was deficient in them and then only the the particular vitamins in which I was deficient.
Wow thanks. That explains a lot.

What's PEG? The electrical method you mentioned?

So if the DNA pieces overlapped did that overlapping base pairs somehow get removed when the pieces were joined? Otherwise I'd think the next final DNA sequence would look a lot different from what they were intending to copy.
I understand what you're saying, but I'm not sure it will play out exactly that way. So many movies/songs were being copied that some people were speculating that no one would be willing to pay for movies/songs at some point.

Then iTunes came along and showed that actually people just wanted (a) to not pay such a rediculous amount and (b) to be able to conveniently get the product. $15 for a CD that has just one song I want? Nah, I'll just download it. $1 for exactly the song I want and I don't have to mess around with torrents and shady software and sites? Done deal.
I agree. And I think with the openness of the internet and free technologies (especially ones that Google is now promoting), people will be able to break free easier than they were when Microsoft was ruling. Information flows freer now, a lot of things are becoming open source so people can make their own changes or versions of software, and there's a lot more competition than there was back in the day (especially in areas like the browser market).
"A little revolution, now and then, is a healthy
thing. It is as natural as lightning...."

Thomas Jefferson

I hope the Lib Dems get their ways on these issues, particularly on the Digital Economy Bill
Rookie Mistake: Succumbing to Anxiety
I think if you have been out in a UK city center on a Friday or Saturday night you might appreciate the problems the cameras are trying to solve. Not that I agree that the cameras are a good idea - but they are more a symptom of the darker elements of British culture that have pretty much always been there.
You're looking for the Ideal Gas Law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_gas_law), which is derived from Boyle's Law (relation between gas pressure and volume), and Charles's Law (expansion of gas when heated).

The related concept here is that liquids remain liquid when the vapor pressure of the substance is less than the atmospheric pressure.

So, by the above laws, you can make water boil by (a) heating the water to increase the vapor pressure, or (b) reducing the atmospheric pressure to less than the existing vapor pressure of the water, or (c) some combination of (a) and (b).
It's a bit selective. But it's free. Up to 6 months I believe.
You don't get that close to baseband. Radio stack runs on separate core (as is the case for every smartphone) and you communicate via shared memory.

You get complete control of the applications core, but not close enough to PPL or SPL, so it will be difficult to flash custom radio without having the right keys.
It seems that the WSJ article is talking about http referrer headers. If you happened to click a link from your profile page, then the referrer header points to that page.
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This is how science should be done. Allowing lay people to understand true significance of work by having an open exchange. Wish it were true for most of the discoveries/inventions.
>Just look at Gruber. I mean, I love the guy-- read his site every day, as I think it is some of the best Apple analysis out there-- but as Google I/O has gone on, his normally cogent commentary has degenerated into what basically amounts to one-line (or one-paragraph) sniping over Google's attempts to challenge Apple. As if Apple somehow has the right to complete 100% dominance of the consumer smartphone market.

The thing about all that to me is the way he's been almost intentionally been obtuse about some things in order to snark about them. He's been conflating the difference between private system APIs and undocumented application APIs on Android lately, even after acknowledging a response from Tim Bray about the whole thing a couple of weeks ago.

Andy Rubin made a comment a while back about how Google doesn't use private APIs in Android, and Gruber's just been chomping at the bit to somehow use this as an example of Google's hypocrisy. So when Google says something like "You really shouldn't be doing things like accessing the SMS app's internal undocumented methods because there's no guarantee they'll be there on all distributions of Android" [because the SMS app is just another application and not a core system component], Gruber jumps up and down pointing at it as an example of how Google lied about not using private APIs.

Maybe it's just me, but telling developers that they should stick to public system level APIs rather than try to muck around with the internals of applications that aren't a part of the core system hardly sounds like some tacit admission that Google is really using private APIs on the sly to me. Google's entire point about private APIs is that you can do anything you see a Google app do using the public system APIs because that's what the Google apps are using in the first place, rather than relying on hidden systems calls that aren't made available to normal developers.

It's frustrating, because when Gruber is right, his analysis is usually a great read (plus I love Markdown). But lately he's been fanboying so hard on this and a couple of other things that it's gotten painful for me to follow him.
Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and Its Algebra of Programs

John Backus

IBM Research Laboratory, San Jose

Communications of the ACM, Volume 21, Number 8, August 1978

http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs242/readings/backus.pdf
Can anyone recall the name of the philosopher who proposed a one-way viewing dome in the ceiling of a prison? So that whether or not there was an observer in the dome, the prisoners never knew for sure if they were being watched? Thats the way I feel about CCTV in this country - you never know if someone is watching (but in reality they probably arent, since there are hundreds more cameras than there are officers to observe them).

Good to see they are coming to their senses and scrapping the ID cards and ContactPoint.

The broadband sounds like a pipe dream - but I would literally pay double, maybe even triple, what I am paying now to get what they actually promise. I have 'up to 8Mbps', but in reality the maximum I get is about 1.
Flash is not only video.

Canvas+JS is not accelerated on mobile devices.
Nerdy Cute Girls. In T-Shirts
Yeah, everybody is going to want to buy an unheard of OS, with 20 apps for it.

People know about apps these days, and it is a huge boon.
I think that's Jeremy Bentham and the Panopticon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
Wake at about 5/6.
Work on sites/startup until about 8.
Shower, dress, teeth.
Set off walking to job at about 8:30
Arrive for 8 hours of dull boring work at about 9.
ITunes-how to make the most of it
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You'll probably also find it's easier to get work if you bill at triple that. Generally people don't hire super-cheap consultants.
You're thinking of the Panopticon[1] concept by the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham[2]. The concept was later used in a more general sense as a metaphor of the Western society by the French sociologist Michel Foucault[3].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Bentham
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault
If anyone's interested, here's one of the DF posts about this: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/05/06/curious

Tim Bray's reply: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/05/06/Private-AP...
One thing that jumped out at me was your PHP section. "used PHP numerous amounts of times" just sounds awkward. It's probably just poor grammar, but to me it communicates more (although maybe incorrectly). To me it says that your PHP experience is probably limited to small bits of code here and there. And saying that 4 years of experience makes you an "expert" reinforces this idea.

The summary here is that you shouldn't interpret what you have done. Just communicate the facts. If I happen to think that one can spend a lifetime mastering a programming language, then you've already put up a barrier between us. If you had spared me the interpretation and had just told me that you've been programming PHP (or insert favorite language) for 4 years and that you love it, you'd be off to a much better start.
Wait, who had machine guns, you or the police?
instead of extra vitamins, I just eat less carbs. Same effect ;)
Seriously, Xobni is awesome and already popular. Plus, they sent me two T-shirts. So I love them.
Daily multivitamin from Costco. Got a 500-pill tub for like $10.

I eat well, but making sure I get enough of what's necessary doesn't hurt.
I like that word, Panopticon. The first thing I did, alas, was think of app/conference names based on it. Cropticon, Shopticon, SpanTech, OptiConf, PansyCon...the possibilities are endless.
Well I genuinely think that it must be a difficult decision to leave years of personal work behind, the decision making on your own project and the potential of an higher bid. But that's just my personal perspective, a more rational point of view is of course obvious.

In my opinion the aquisition didn't benefit the Flickr project very much (for the users), I have the feeling that it is stagnating right now.
Your computer room will overheat next weekend
Oracle nabs star UK statup Secerno
Interesting answers, but redditors are fucking morons.
"overhead"?

Do you mean "overheat"? It's not too late to fix it ...
Open Source: Free or Commercial? You Decide...
Give them medicine so they conform. Wouldn't it be beneficial to society to find a way to productively harness the way the brains of those with this condition are differently wired and let them solve problems, rather than killing their natural instinct with drugs?
cocomment seems to aggregate with respect to the person making the comments. Does anything aggregate comments with respect to the thing being commented on?

Given an interesting bit of content, it gets posted on a variety of sites that support commenting on links (Digg/Reddit/HN/...) and frequently the comments are actually more interesting than the original content so getting a unified version of those would be nice and something I'd probably use.
We recently asked the same question of a number of startups as we wanted to write an article on it, but struggled to get enough to share. I can tell you one big name SAAS product (one you would all know) admitted they converted 2% of traffic into paid accounts. For the record they had a 30 day free trial as their freemium offer.

If you want our data, check out our post we wrote recently here:

http://www.eventarc.com/posts/2010/05/18/conversion-statisti...
A startup launch program which takes "tuition" money + equity
Disagree vehemently, it is possible to do well in life despite having no/bad academic results. Those skills are called street smarts.
Patent Troll Larry Horn of MPEG-LA Assembling VP8 Patent Pool
32bit Windows only.
At this point, it seems FB could benefit from a thorough third party security audit of their web technology.
Venture Capitalists Fight a Tax Increase
Try rebilling $20 / month at 10 sales per day, it really adds up.

subscriptions > one time sales
It scares me. It reminds me very strongly of the way things worked back in the 50s and 60s. I thought we were past forced institutionalization for disorders that didn't cause serious danger.
How a Start-up Evolves
Drugs don't kill the analytical mind, they just make socializing easier. "Drugs" are not ipso facto bad.
is this.... reddit???
I just subscribed to unlimited 3G capped at 256kbps for ~6EUR/month on Tele2 Estonia.

256kbps is awfully slow if you are usually on 12mbps home adsl though :)
Kirkland's fish oil/omega-3 (this one is good enough for me, no issues)

Now/Carlsson's vit D3 (2000IU)

LEF's magnesium, taurine and super-k (vit. k1 + k2)

GNC's creatine monohydrate

I take these on and off or cyclically (some are bad combinations). I'm thinking of getting a multivitamin, but most of them have their own shortcomings.
Well generally with video surveillance, no one is watching constantly as that costs man hours. It gets recorded and if something is reported they can go back and review the tapes.
You have a good point. But the next thing you need to think of is:
- is Xobni really serving the market in an optimal way?
- Is there something we can do better?

To be honest I don't see answers for those two questions on their landing page. My first feeling was that it was like more complicated version of the "connect" button in Xobni.
The title is a little misleading. Your laptop can be searched for porn when crossing just about any border (certainly that's true between Canada and the US). The point is that you're now being asked to explicitly declare whether you have something called "pornography", a word that probably has twelve definitions for every ten people.
Does "Viable" mean you have sales data to share? ;)
Who Creates the Wealth in Society?
The number for $520 an hour that was listed is actually very doable. My friend is a consultant at the moment and his price per hour is $500. Granted he doesn't get to take all of that home at the end of the day, the company he works for takes 25% of that, which still $375 an hour. Since he doesn't have to find his own clients (the company does that, hence the reason they take 25%) he has 40 hours of work a week. Since he is a consultant he can take anytime off he wants, but it is unpaid, lets assume that he works for 11 months out of the year, 40 hours a week.

$375 * 40 hours * 4 weeks * 11 months = $660,000 per "year"

That is still a substantial amount of money, yes it is not close to the illusive 900,000 the original thread was asking for, but it still shows a good example of what is currently doable if you have the skills.
i take an efa pill (omega 3, flax, omega 6, omega 9, etc.) maybe placebo but i feel it enhances the quality of my dreams.
How to make Glowing Colorful background in Photoshop.
"Obviously libdem" ... Go read the conservative 2010 manifesto:

http://media.conservatives.s3.amazonaws.com/manifesto/cpmani...

Most of it is in there... Nothing to do with the Libdems.
Dear naysayers: It's straightforward enough to take supplements at breakfast and then build on that with later meals. And it's actually quite a lot of fun to experiment with something fundamental to well-being.

I currently take a multivitamin, Omega 3, 600mg calcium + 400 IU Vit D, plus 6000IU of D separately, and variable amounts of whey protein. The multi is an all-arounder, the Omega 3 is for perceived brain power benefits. I go for a lot of Vit D because it's just been amazing for mood, confidence, general well-being, and I started with the calcium to complement it. The whey protein is used to keep me on the straight-and-narrow with the rest of my diet, by controlling hunger in a form which offers few obvious downsides.

As far as brands go, I typically get supplements either from Trader Joe's or from CVS. I don't really pay much attention to which ones I'm using as I haven't seen a quality difference yet. I've been going through some Omega 3 from Trader Joe's for ages, no problems with it. For the whey I'm currently using "Designer Whey." I don't know if I'll stick with it; every protein brand seems way different.
akadien may have been confused by A Beautiful Mind
perhaps what is needed is not another central commenting site, but rather a site that aggregates the comments of hackernews, slashdot, reddit etc. as well as phpbb forums on the webpage of the original post

So I place a commenting widget on my blog and interlieved in the comments on the original post are the discussions from other websites that point to the same url.
If you say experiment, do you protocol and measure your results?
To Rails 3 or Not to Rails 3, That Is The Question
First Look: H.264 and VP8 Compared
There is a lot of scientific research that shows that a balanced diet is all that is required to provide all the vitamins the body requires and that supplements at best are a waste of money and at worst in large doses can cause harm.

The only exception would be for people that have specific conditions that a doctor suggests supplements for.

Edit: I though i would add one example i read recently about Omega 3 that really stands out: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627601.400-omega3-fi...
What do you all say about Vitamin C? Specific brands? What about issues like absorbtion?
Actually, I should probably clarify: _our senior design team_ couldn't get the inertial navigation system working very well. I'm pretty sure they took what we worked on and fixed it as they finished somewhere in the middle of the pack. It was easily the coolest project I've ever worked on.
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MVP, Lean, Boostrapped. You certainly win at buzzwords.
Ask HN: Does the No-Humor Policy Have Unintended Consequences?
I had a friend send me a link to some jokes yesterday. I laughed for about an hour.

Then I realized that I hadn't laughed or smiled at web content in quite some time.

So today's topic: humorous nerdy phrases on T-shirts -- of interest to hackers or not?

I think humor and light-heartedness is very interesting and also good for you. I just posted "Nerdy Cute Girls. In T-Shirts" and it was deleted within minutes. There was no nudity, no profanity. It was just funny nerd jokes on shirts with cute girls under them.

Now I could give a shit whether HN wants to delete this post or not, and I really don't want to promote myself in those keyword areas, but the post wasn't controversial or off-topic. Lame and trivial, perhaps. But fuck dudes, there are a zillion lame and trivial posts every day. Just don't upvote them. Instead I got the immediate "what is this? Reddit?" (Which I thought was hilarious in itself actually. I could just picture some overly-serious internet curmudgeon banging away the required response)

So what do you guys say? Can we share jokes and light-heartedness every now and then as long as we identify in the title what it is? Or would the presence of jokes derail the community forever and lead us down a path of wanton banality?

I know the standard response. I'm just thinking that I've become much less happy over the last two years, and hanging out in a joke-free zone with a bunch of Mr. Spock wannabes might be part of that.

So while I understand the theory in "no jokes" I wonder what the long-timers think of the effect on them after a while. For those of you wanting to psychoanalyze me, probably a more useful response would be to post some links for receiving tech humor on a daily basis. This not only makes you look like less of a jerk, it helps other people with similar questions.

What do you guys think?
A few quotes from the Conservative manifesto:

"Labour’s approach to our personal privacy is the worst of all worlds – intrusive, ineffective and enormously expensive."

"We will scrap ID cards, the National Identity Register and the Contactpoint database."

"We will scale back Labour’s database state and protect the privacy of the public’s information."

"We will introduce a balanced approach to the retention of people’s DNA and reform the criminal records system so it protects children without destroying trust."

"The indefinite retention of innocent people’s DNA is unacceptable, yet DNA data provides a useful tool for solving crimes. We will legislate to make sure that our DNA database is used primarily to store information about those who are guilty of committing crimes rather than those who are innocent."

"We will review and reform libel laws to protect freedom of speech, reduce costs and discourage libel tourism."

"Wherever possible, we believe that personal data should be controlled by individual citizens themselves. We will strengthen the powers of the Information Commissioner to penalise any public body found guilty of mismanaging data."
Hey! Get off my lawn!

The thing I like about HN is that humor is appreciated but you have to work much harder to make it original and topical.

Posting a link to someone elses humor doesn't fit the spirit of HN ( to me ). But humorous insights in comments can be golden when well executed. And executed if not golden. I personally enjoy the challenge and the differentiation from other sites.