skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty interesting but just a note that these codes might not be same across versions and hence not to be tried on your current phone(Imagine resetting everything while trying to launch some test :)).
My thoughts exactly. People copy and improve each other's ideas all the time. Reddit was a better Digg. Digg is taking ideas from Twitter. Who cares? It's good for the users, it's good for the company, it's good for the investors, it's good for technology in general.

With so much good involved, I don't see why there's any reason to get so bent out of shape.
Isn't it hilarious that Microsoft found a scheme where, even if they couldn't dominate the WWW, they are still relevant because of the ubiquity of their "embraced and extended" web browser. No, Microsoft, you don't need to actually innovate, just have the most popular operating system and shove a broken browser down everyone's throat.

Microsoft: screwing you with network effects since before the WWW
If by essays you mean right-wing conspiracy theories, then yes, that's what Kuro5hin was.
Maybe this is a single composite take from the same satellite, not an agglomeration of many photos from different locations and times? I'm not sure.
Actually an interesting point. What would happen if they cast a stadium sized block of concrete and dropped it on the hole.
I was going to respond with some remark like, "this thread has become very reddit-like". Then I read the username :)
I offer promo codes to whoever asks first, for my iPhone app. I ask they promote it but don't have requirements. I will sometimes send them to bloggers, but mostly just by linking an offer on my home page.
The whole "things you didn't know" series is aimed pretty low, more like "things you didn't know because you never used it at all". Was the same for the collections series.
If anyone is interested, the book "Salt", a history on the use of salt, is extremely interesting and informative. It's amazing how many of our modern foods were created just to include salt for preservation (cheese, corn beef, soy sauce, etc.)
I revise my plan to "wait for some time-travelers from the future to fix the oil rig". That way we won't have to invent the time machine, which could use up a lot of tax dollars that would be better-spent blowing up desert-dwellers and bailing out failed investment banks.
Yeah... your comment about supertankers growing on trees is way understated in regards to BP being able to round up a few empty ones in less time than it will take to drill the relief wells.
HTC HD2 and the very similar Evo 4G have a standard screen, not AMOLED. If you happen to be allergic to one or the other then Android's fragmentation lets you choose.

Also, don't fall into their rhetorical trap. The irregular grid may well be better, and the difference may well be visible at current iPhone resolution and be positive in AMOLEDs direction. This may, or may not, become less true as the next iPhone doubles height and width, but I'm not going to assume anything based on Appleinsider's take on the matter.

I don't think anyone's linked yet to the very in-depth Ars Technica article that looked into this screen technology:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2010/03/secrets-of-the-n...

spoiler: the 800x480 RGBG screen could be considered equivalent to a 653x392 RGB one, and regarding the iPhone:

The Nexus One screen remains better than the iPhone screen for text reproduction because the overall resolution is much higher, even taking into account the factors I describe. So if the iPhone is your measuring stick, the N1 screen really rocks. Overall, the N1 display is beautiful and vivid with dark blacks and incredible photo reproduction.

So this screen (and other standard screens with 800x480 pixels such as the Droid he mentions in the article) had
leapfrogged the iPhone. A new iPhone will be out soon, that it appears will leapfrog these screens. Welcome to technology.
Fascinating to see that they started with the most interesting virus rather than the most commercially valuable virus. Stopping the common cold is probably worth 100 times more money, but stopping Ebola is more scientifically interesting. Kudos.
One-day word wonder
thejo, good to see you here : ). Yes, i was in Tygar's class with you. good times. -nat
Agreed. Facebook promotes a fake friendship that isn't substantiated by any real human interaction; it's cerebral at best.
For iPhone apps, it's more than appropriate--it's practically necessary. For other apps, it seems like the right thing to do if you want them to be able to review the entirety of your app.
How are these images created? We can't have space probes that have covered a significant distance from earth yet (or can we??), so I suppose essentially they must all be "as seen from earth"?
Ask HN: Help Needed with Creating a Subscribers Only Area
Hi there,

I am managing a local information sharing site (php-based) without any technical help for some time. I can do small, in fact very very small php stuff but when it comes to real Php work, I am all at sea. I wanted to create a subscribers-only area, which would have special free downloads for subscribers. To subscribe, users just have to submit their email, which will be verified, a link sent to the email id, on clicking of which the user is taken to the subscribers area.

And, how do I send daily/weekly feed updates via email to subscribers. I have some idea about how it could be done but I would appreciate your help in finding some easy-to-handle code or help.

Thanks a ton.
Robot aims to be conversation starter
Thanks for that.

"How perilous our infancy. How humble our beginnings."
Www.income4free.org
The second; you want to answer not "what does this do" but "how will this impact my life".
It may have more to do with the fact that monkeys cannot contract rhinovirus. Therefore, no test subjects with moderately similar physiology.

That and Ebola is cool.
Following it for a couple of days now, but I think he ran out of jokes. One of the good ones:

"The good news: Mermaids are real. The bad news: They are now extinct. #bpcares"
It would probably only work while HIV was active, but not when it hides inside a T cell. (HIV is very unusual in that regard.) It's called "HIV latent reservoir" and it's the reason nothing has worked. This is unlikely to change that.
I will not take the Michael Arrington route and attack Reddit's co-founder for speaking what appears to be true. As it is, Techcrunch is never known for insights.

During the past 4 years, I have followed Digg and critized its functioning often on my Mediavidea blog.

In summary, two things that can make Digg good again:

1. Bring back the Top 100 users, but with better controls, tracking, something like Techmeme Leaderboard.

2. Give some top users power and incentives to be proper Topic Editors.
Anyone else tried to find the supermassive black hole ? :)
The cold might mutate too fast for this to work well.
How to make money doing what you love (talk by indie game developer)
The very language of sites such as Facebook, with its “Would you like to add me as a friend?” lexicon, undermines what real friendship is. I’m not surprised kids are lonely if a whole generation thinks friends can be made by clicking on an icon, and that it’s normal to have hundreds of pals. We all know that many of our “friends” are nothing of the sort; the bulk of them are acquaintances or people we hung out with years ago or former colleagues or contacts.

Agreed - and hence why I can see my LinkedIn account staying around (and used) for a good while, whereas my FB account should be (finally) deleted any...day...now.
All known strains of Ebola virus have very high mortality rates, ranging from 25% to 90%, and there is no cure.

This is not entirely true, the Ebola Reston strain is seemingly harmless to human beings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reston_ebolavirus
OK, not HN, but still great.

FREE BP SUNDAY! Tomorrow only! Come get 1 free thing! Simply come in, select an item, say "thanks bp" to the cashier and leave!
A polite expression of opinion here has been downvoted, and a comment elsewhere that just informs that this question appeared in someone's exam has been upvoted _twice_!
Nvidia makes its case for 3D glasses for the PC
That one was super funny! I read all of his tweets tonight.

The original tweet is a humdinger, but I disagree it's getting worse. Yesterday:

BPGlobalPR What a gorgeous day! The ocean is filled with the most beautiful rainbows! #yourewelcome #bpcares
1 day ago
Exactly. The whole story only proves no one really cared about the Julius Freed article in the first place.
More power to them. But notice they have defense funding. As the article hints, right now, if someone with Ebola got on a plane to Cairo or Johannesburg, billions of people would die. That’s not worth much in the $10 × 1,000,000,000 people way of the common cold, but it will get you enormous government grants and a huge amount of prestige.
Yep, as seen from here. The denser parts are looking towards the center of the galaxy.
Interesting. Certainly not a behavior I'd have expected, but I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poe%27s_Law
So I looked at this link (via the above) from the WSJ:

http://bit.ly/cqsUZV

Anybody know why digging a hole say 500 feet deep, 50 feet side by side with the gushing well and putting some c4 in there wouldn't work?

At any rate, I read this:

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=158297

Particularly, the non-nuclear option. I think they should run models and truly consider it. Perhaps they need to run models and then f-ing blow that up (if the models say that the resulting rubble will sufficiently re-cover the well).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KkhbbX4AcU

They could assemble a massive amount of dirt around the well. Create a large circular mound, and then just collapse it from underneath. That's what I would do. And I didn't even stay a Holiday Inn last night. Jk. I'm sure everyone has an opinion. I couldn't find a place to really say anything here:

http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/doc/2931/546759/

So I posted this. Anyway...
It's bad, if it's joke, it's worse.
fwiw, arrington first heard about digg only 5 days before reddit's launch.

http://techcrunch.com/2005/06/18/profile-digg/
Someone needs to suggest this to him.
Our Fix-It Faith and the Oil Spill
Google investigada por Spy-Fi hacia los usuarios
Congresistas de EE.UU. han enviado una carta a Eric Schmidt, CEO de Google, por lo que ellos llaman “Spy-Fi” de recopilación de datos. Todo tiene que ver por los datos que Google Street View ha recabado a través de diferentes puntos Wi-Fi alrededor del mundo
Got a kick out of the "speed limit" sign at 4:25
I can't imagine that cutting up potatoes will get rid of the nutrients in the skin.
The possibility remains it's both real and a joke.

But we won't really know unless they add check-in functionality.
I don't know about "promoting" it. I've stayed at 30-50 facebook friends for as long as I've had the account; I delete people as often as I add new ones, and the affordances are about equal—there's nothing on facebook that says "add this person and then make friends," only "add this person if they are your friend."

The real problem is the psychological tendency to hoard information—the same reason one ends up with an overflowing Rolodex instead of a useful one. People need to learn to treat their friends list like any other inbox: incubate, act upon, or delete.
Pardon my ignorance, but if an individual's HIV is 'active' (I'd be curious to know more about the definition of active in this case) does that mean that's the case across every cell of their body, or might some cells be active and others inactive?
His Dietel reviews are hilarious.
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Straw man, red herring, spotlight...

Libertarian != Anarcho-capitalist

Stop trolling.
Ask HN: Why isn't there an HN/SO for the oil spill?
Clearly this is the wrong way to go about it:

http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/doc/2931/546759/

The submission form is broken, as one might expect. And the manual review process is ridiculous. Can someone with experience in deploying fast HN/StackOverflow/Reddit-like voting forums do this?

Then I can submit my idea:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1390225

And more importantly better ideas can be upvoted, criticized, and eventually presented to those who might be able to use them.

'Start with the idea, let the domain experts evaluate its feasibility.'

http://www.business-strategy-innovation.com/wordpress/2010/05/should-bp-crowdsource-potential-solutions-for-the-gulf-oil-spill/

Anyway, just an idea...
If free becomes legal, search tools and aggregators will become easier and more efficient as methods and tools to view them. The numbers may then be différent.
As usual it is what you make it. I only make and accept friend requests with people that I know and have met in real life, and where I am actually interested in knowing what they're doing in life.

I like getting status updates so I get a feeling for what my friends are doing, but serious communication always goes over other channels, phone, IM, email, etc.

I don't really see how Facebook promotes either my use or the friend-hoarder use, to me it's a neutral tool.
It's only been a few decades since users (outside of DARPA) were first required to understand anything about computer security. Cultures take time to change, though when they do, it can seem like a sudden burst. I think Western culture might be just about to start caring about computer privacy, due to the thorough percolation of media reports about it; computer security might have its day as well, soon enough. We all learned to brush our teeth, do our taxes and drive (through various mechanisms)—we'll eventually learn to sign/authenticate and encrypt/decrypt information as well, if it's that important.
What actually is Opera Software making profit of? Of not being funny?
But seriously.
Sample Last Will and Testament
What kind of stuff are you looking to do?
Niger Delta experiences equivalent of Deepwater Horizon every year
Active means the virus is either attempting to infect a cell, or copying itself. When it's inactive it just sits in the cell doing nothing.

Some are active, some are not.

I believe it starts with lots of active viruses, then many go dormant, while others continue infecting. Then pretty much all of them go dormant, while slowly activating in small numbers over a long time (20 years even).

It's sort of a war of attrition, the virus kills immunity (T) cells slowly, over time. It's possible to prevent it from killing cells (which will then recover to normal levels), but the virus keeps hiding in other cells.
I think the main idea behind this post was not to fight piracy like they do but focus on their customers.
What, and risk being shut out of the US market indefinitely, for the same political reasons? Which pol is going to defend them now?

They've just lost all the money they spent on those full-page "BP does lots for the environment" adverts.

Between the bad PR, increased risk of regulation and chance of being shut out of the market, this is absolutely more expensive than running a few extra tests.
Guy Who Copied Digg Slams Digg For Copying Twitter
Resubmit as had that crazy "read more" copy/paste text in it :(
When you embrace the web you get all sticky
What do you mean when you say Facebook apps are "fake social"?
The problem with Ebola is not really the cure. It's the factors around the disease that make it very difficult to cure.

First of all, Ebola is very similar to malaria. In all the areas that Ebola occurs, malaria also occurs, and it would be impossible for normal people to tell the difference. Malaria is a very common disease and the infected usually just take anti-malarial tablets and wait it out, which I assume they also do for Ebola.

By the time the symptoms diverge away from Malaria - i.e, the blood starts coming out, it's very difficult to cure. The people taking care of the infected person would have already been sick, and the original person would already be pretty close to death, that is unlikely that this treatment will help him.

I'm not sure when the treatment starts getting effective, but the described article starts treatment 30 minutes after the introduction of the virus. This will not happen in the real world. In the real world, treatment is likely going to start when the disease is pretty advanced all round.

Ebola is also a disease that is going to stay in underdeveloped isolated areas. It puts the person in bed so quickly that the person would hardly have a chance to infect anyone in countries with proper hospital systems.

The diagnoses equipment for Ebola are also not so accurate, and the response for it is expensive, so false scares are going to have more of a damage than the actual disease.
I don't care about iPhone. But when do I get dense IPS displays for desktops? Feels like we have been stuck to 100 PPI forever.

24" 300 PPI IPS droool
Don't forget "The Powers of Ten" by the Eames:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7xwu2i0mMU

Zooms out and then back in.
Death rates due to war absolutely should be thought about per capita, because put another way, it's the chance that you yourself, or those you care about, or those you know will meet a violent end, assuming even distribution.

I would rather live in a society where one thousand out of a one million total population die from war compared to a society where one hundred out a thousand do.
Direct link to the Lemmings game (written 7 years ago!):
http://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/
Gulf Oil Spill: Media Access 'Slowly Being Strangled Off'
I assumed that only the Gulf of Mexico was loaded in the current buffer, not the world. The operation also had the side-effects of preventing any turmoils.
Impressing handcraft / engineering work, although with weight of ~1.5 kg it's not particularly lightweight (twice iPad's weight). What about battery life? I'm surprised if more than 2 hours.

Personally I don't understand what's the big deal to have exactly 1280x720 pixels in handheld device.

Yes, in theory you will get wider field of view compared to e.g. iPad's 1024x768 resolution, assuming you adjust your watching distance accordingly (to keep visible pixel size same), but it's not that big difference, given that tablet watching (close-distance) is always big compromise compared to big screen watching, due to fact that eye is relaxed when focused to infinity.
The Difference between Ghost and Spirit
Obviously, he's got a point. The shuttle was meaningless without a space station to dock too, and obviously many weird concessions were made for the sake of military applications.

But by his metric, manned flights as a whole are meaningless. That everything we do must be useful and come with a predictable ROI is questionable. Do we need the pyramids, the cathedrals? What about the LHC?
The interesting point that this article brings up is that people are willing to pay a few cents for each share of stock they are selling, but they aren't willing to pay a few cents to send someone to Mars. If they were, then engineering would pay as well as finance.

(A more practical example -- people aren't willing to pay a few dollars to get to their destination faster. We paid engineers to make really cool airplanes like the Concorde, but nobody was willing to pay the premium over conventional 1950s-era technology, so that's what we fly around in today. Money is the answer to everything. The finance industry figured out what people are willing to pay for and how much they're willing to pay, and that's what they charge. Hence, we have ask/bid spreads, $50 overdraft fees, 22% interest rates, and so on. It's apparently how people want to spend their money, and it makes finance a profitable industry. The multi-trillion dollar bailouts are helpful, too.)
What are the complaints against pg?
"Going out of business" is a product of regulation that
artificially separates the assets and liabilities of a
corporation from its owners.

That regulation is the essential ingredient required to allow capitalism to function. It reduces the amount of risk that the natural persons involved in a company run. The company is the legal person carrying the full burden of risk, but it is also in the position to take on that risk, because it has the assets to do so. No individual person would ever have enough assets to take on the risk that a company like BP does. However, companies can also leverage more risk that they can chew and go out of business. However, the natural persons involved would have gone bankrupt long before that.

In short: the problem with straight up libertarianism is that it would destroy capitalism.
You'll need to implement some kind of session management. Google for "php session management".

As for sending emails, you'll need an SMTP relay such as smptd or postfix (if on *nix). There's bound to be php modules that can help you too.
Wikipedia makes a city-disaster seem unlikely. It is not much airborne, and isolation-nursing prevents spread.
Mute the horrible audio till 2:30.
Unlikely.

I just checked the wikipedia article, and the Ebola virus is not naturally transmitted as an aerosol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola#Transmission). It is transmitted through bodily fluids, including supertiny droblets but that won't effect more than the ten people closest to the infected person on that plane, and before they have a chance to infect anybody else the worlds medical system will have indentified and dealt with the case.

In addition, the virus kills within 2-21 days, so it is unlikely to have time to spread to that many people from each source.

Therefore, this won't be the new black death, but that won't stop the media from comming all over the story.
Flag with extreme prejudice.
I'm almost 100% certain I'll be able to experience free fall sometime during my life.

I'll be pretty disappointed if that doesn't happen though.
Note that it wasn't actually "the subject's own company' that was fooled. It was the PR department of the company that had acquired the subject's own company. Why they wouldn't just ask them about noteworthy inventions instead of using wikipedia, or at least verify with them, is beyond me.
Ask HN: Is there rss for HN new articles?
Would be nice if there is rss feed for HN new articles http://news.ycombinator.com/newest.
Scientists Rescue Voyager 2 Probe on Edge of Solar System
Postgresql's new recursive queries at Disqus: 500% speedup
Although sealing the top of this concrete cylinder may be impossible due to pressure, would it not make it easier to attach a pipe and start collecting the oil?

Yes, it would have to be a big pipe, but is that possible? Or, could you not attach a cone to the top of the cylinder to condense the flow into a smaller (pipe size flow)?