skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the meant "50% of the mass of some trees is from water" that then he should have said so. Some trees are more than 50% water by mass is a true statement, but it means something else.

The author saying something related to the truth, but I think he has a poor understanding of what is going on. Reading that I felt like a teacher who wants to give some created for a student using the correct words while realizing they don't quite get it.

As to precision it's more accurate to say 3 +/- 0.5 times 101 +/- 0.5 = 256.25 to 355.25 or 305.75 +/- 49.5 than to just say 300. For an extreme example (1 +/- .1) ^ 1,000 can be any ware from ~2.47e41 to ~1.748e-46.

PS: "Dead stars" is a reasonable if incomplete answer to the same question, but context matters so it's not acceptable on a botany or chemistry exam. In the same way that Air + Soil + Water would be missing the point on an astronomy exam.
Newspapers have a journalistic duty to be impartial

Actually, they don't: journalism's duty is to be truthful, not impartial: if somebody lies, it's the journalist's duty to show that they're lying, not to do the he-said, she-said tango.
I thought there weren't going to be anymore HOPE conferences.
> Seven satellites were destroyed as radiation knocked out their solar arrays or electronics.

Jerks.
Russian spies wrote passwords on paper
I wasn't entirely sure what the new iAd was all about.

This video demonstration makes me think that this is a product that is really only effective for a few years.

I suspect that most of the native apps will move to being web-apps enabled with touch and native capabilities, so why would an advertiser tie themselves to a single platform.

The only 'interesting' bit of iAd is that it launches an app instead of opening the ad in a browser. I guess now we know why jobs finally decided it was a good idea to allow multi-task. iAds wouldn't work without it.
Well it is not the amount of money the complaints are about. It is the fact that it is sold.
The complaints are about the fact, that the app offers service which you can get for free by just using your browser, with just one (max. two) taps less than it. So it is just a HN related mini browser. And imho this not really a justification for an app.

Even the argument "it saves me minutes of time" isnt an argument in my eyes as these are truly trivial 2 minutes which you should be glad to spend on something you like as the moment just before HN appears is the moment where you can mentally prepare and calm yourself to enjoy the time you read HN. See it as anticipation and spend the $3 on a coffee which you enjoy while reading.
My current install of Firefox (3.6.4) supports inline SVG -- there's a demo on Mozilla.org at < https://developer.mozilla.org/presentations/xtech2005/svg-ca... >. The URL suggests this demo was published in 2005.

What's special about inline SVG in Firefox 4? Is it hardware-accelerated?

e: and this inline SVG demo < https://developer.mozilla.org/samples/svg/swarm-of-motes.xht... > says it works in Firefox 1.5!
Brazil Vs Netherlands live worldcup quarter final match,highlites and score 
Competition :Fifa World Cup South Africa 2010 (Quarter Final )

Date and Time :02-07-2010 from 14:00 until 16:00 (GMT Time )
Posterous Lets You Import Data from Dying Network Posterous
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Hum, I hadn't thought of Disney in terms of their record label, but more their movies, games, and associated franchises.

As you're saying, this acquisition might just mean:

foreach ($disney_artists as $artist) {
make("TTR $artist->name");
}

That'd be a bit sad.
There another clojure web framework called Conjure which is similar to Rails. Might be more to your liking - http://github.com/macourtney/Conjure .
I'm an iPhone developer, and I'm smack-dab in the center of your target market - just like drewcrawford.I actually had the same business idea that you're working on about 5 months ago, and decided not to pursue it. I love HN, so I'll share the design of my system/the thinking behind it.

The problem to me is that you're asking developers to partake in (at least on the face value) ROI negative advertising. There's actually nothing wrong with ROI negative ads, iff they deliver network effects that make the ads ROI positive over time or the lifetime value of a user is more than the price of the app. We (developers) d*mn well know that natural network effects are not strong enough to make ROI positive when Apple is taking 30% of the pie each time. And for most iPhone Apps, the lifetime value of a user is that $.99 cents that the user pays when they buy the app. So there are very few iPhone apps who your current system can benefit. Because there's very few apps you can help, you're unlikely to get any traffic at all unless you're already famous/ willing to spend a ton on ads.

The solution is to embrace social networks and understand that sometimes, people need to pay for the stuff they're getting.Less cryptically:
1)Integrate with facebook connect and twitter.

2)Require users to send a status message to both, effectively endorsing the app you're giving away to their friends. This solves your network issue as best you can (and it's how they'll be paying you).

3)Instead of holding regular sales of apps, go the groupon route, where the sale is almost a game, and the paid app that people can get for free changes regularly. This way you can get people to tweet/update about your app, and if you don't get the developer say 1000 downloads, you can say that the sale failed, and give out no refunds for the app purchases. This would entice users to seriously get their friends to download the app through your link (or however you track CPM). Be sure to keep track of your users (and their referrals) email addresses, so you can update them every 4 or so days with your new app that you're giving away.

4)Stop trying to sell your site as "earning money", and instead sell it as "get paid apps free". The difference in the psychology of the users that you'll attract will be HUGE.Plus nobody wants to earn 20cents per hour, but people would spend the same time to save $1.

5)I would start this business with the top 10 apps in the appstore, and without their permission. For this to work, you'll need about $3000, but it'll almost guarantee your success. People already know these apps, so you're lending their legitimacy to yourself by giving them away. I would also send a post to techcrunch (& etc) in advance about how you're "giving the appstore away for free" - they love apple and would love to write about you, especially if you send them something with a sensationalist headline like I just wrote. You could give away doodleJump, then angry birds, then .... And go down the list.
If you want more of my research/ more tips for success in this business, email me: stephen at brownianm.com
Yeah, me too. I really enjoyed listening to the recordings from "The Last Hope". http://www.thelasthope.org/talks.html

I think the hotel got "saved" by the economic downturn so they scheduled another one. (I think they talked about it on the radio show. http://www.2600.com/offthehook/)
Oh, and by the time you're talking to devs who want to sign up, you will have a significant list of people who download anything you put in front of them- and that contact/email list is going to be your power-play.
Rage demo video from E3 (id software)
What is your market? What have you built. Any advisor is going to want to know what the market is. People want to be part of a success story so most of all they have to like your idea. It is important because many times development questions don't just center around pure technology questions but are a mix of business rules and tech. Finding someone who has the right profile starts with matching interests.
Appreciate the feedback, I am one of the developers on the project. There are some standards in PEP8 that we choose not to utilize such as the assignment operator alignment. We drew up paperwork initially how we were going to handle most of the style of the code and we tried our best to stick to it, hence the term "moderately." It's great to see people however, who know their standards :).
> As you can see from the pics, it’s the real deal – it’s definitely not vapourware.

Is it just me, or are those pictures clearly renderings?
I could have written this question myself. I, like you, read a large quantity of books on programming, mathematics, entrepreneurship, as well as interesting non-fiction titles.

First and foremost, I think that for technical books, a Kindle DX rather than a regular Kindle is a must. I used to own a severely underused Sony eReader. The main issue with it was the screen size. At 6" it was useless for technical books.

I don't expect the Kindle DX to be perfect for technical books either. In fact, I heard that anything that doesn't come straight from the Kindle Store tends to look less than ideal (PDFs in particular). But since people like you and I pay for books, the inconvenience may be limited to research papers and a few free PDFs (Amazon offers a conversion service as well, but I don't know how well it works).

The truth of the matter is that, I love to be surrounded by books and have a large collection of titles. Having more books than I could possibly read in a lifetime gives me a constant incentive to read more and more to satisfy my passion for learning. If I want to learn about X, I can immediately grab a book off my shelf and immerse myself in it.

Being able to buy books in 60 seconds accomplishes the same thing without having to buy as many books or take up as much room.

A Kindle DX will decrease the expansion of my physical book collection, but the convenience is definitely there. Books are cheaper, immediate to buy, easier to search, and in many cases the Kindle will be lighter than the corresponding physical books.

It's clearly the future of reading, whether we like it or not, so I decided that it will be my gift to myself for my birthday in August. If I'm not happy, I can always resell it with little loss.

An even cheaper alternative would be the iPad and a Safari Online subscription. But even indoors, I assume that the backlit iPad is not nearly as nice on your eyes for extensive reading (plus, as is essentially an internet enabled computer, it could be more distracting as well). I'd be happy to hear different opinions in this regard.
The complete lack of response I got from fellow hackers today was surprising, if not disheartening. Does timing play a much larger role on HN than I realized?
The analogy at the end (section IV) made the whole article easier to "get".

...an answer cannot be more precise than its data. Or its question.
Insightful interview of Jeff Bezos
Pretty old. Relevant in the light of his recent acquisition of woot and zappos
If you are writing simple services for passing JSON back and forth then something like this is great because it gives you the right amount of control.

If you are writing full blown end user web applications then you are better off sticking with Rails until something more mature comes along, IMHO.
That being said, javascript performance currently has little impact on user-perceived speed

Especially now with workers. I'm still hoping for OpenCL-for-JS, though. That would revolutionize the web & gaming.
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Detecting and removing unused indexes in MySQL
I'm far from Apple fan: my MacBook Pro is disappointing, telling devs which languages they can use is insane, the fanboys queuing overnight for a chance to overpay for the latest, designed-to-expire-in-two-years gadget are ridiculous - but these Jobs emails actually make me like the guy. (The recent "Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?" one was pretty sweet too)
Do you have any sort of data to back up the claim that people are taking internships and going hungry because they don't have senior-level experience? I would think that it being a "systemic evil" would certainly warrant at least a few newsworthy articles or stories. Besides, nobody is arguing that something like that would be a morally acceptable situation or that people engage in that type of activity.

As for GSoC, again...voluntary. The kids have fun and they earn monetary rewards for their work.
Agreed. There are a lot of minor defects you can hide when you get older, but bad teeth is not one of them. And getting them fixed costs a lot of money!!
The criticism of Tapulous' focus on one app is ignoring the economics of the app store (http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2010/06/full-an...). There are tons and tons of amazing, high-quality apps, and yet how many of them ever break into massive profitability?

If you have an app store hit, it would be foolish to try to diversify given the near impossibility of any single app attaining real success.
This is the exact reason I hate blacklisting and sense technologies they use in schools and companies. Why not use a proper Firewall else that messing up with DNS entries!
I'll take the house.
They have RC Car Bombs! Somebody at id software likes Tremors...
$5000 in sales is a lot easier to reach when your app is $25.
It is quite incredible with it's speed. I just might become a believer :) Firefox is plagued by performance problems on linux (at least for me). To be honest compared to chrome FF is pretty sluggish feeling. But Opera "feels" faster than chrome :) Its impressive.
That is another blow to Apple and it just got even more serious. the iPhone 4 has brought bad chi to Appleworld.
I don't think you can compare an argument with a significant other to this.

I have no doubt that Jobs was being perfectly transparent when he said that and meant exactly what he wrote. However, you're right that it's not exactly the best way to diffuse the situation, so he did say:

"You may be working from bad data. Not your fault. Stay tuned. We are working on it."

reasonable, yes?

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I think you're misunderstanding the design parameters. Most of the cost of a mission to Mars is getting there. The actual rover is cheap by comparison, so it pays to pack as much into each mission as the weight limit will allow.

The big risk is mission failure, so the design goal is 100% certainty. The result is that the odds of it lasting for several/many times the design life is pretty good. Imagine if your car were designed to be as certain as technology would allow that it would run, trouble free, for 100.000 km. The odds that it wold last many times longer are pretty good.
because students try and access blocked content using https, and it is not just for Google. Most blocked websites can be accessed thorough https if supported.
I don't think that's quite accurate. They could be improved, certainly, but tort reform would still leave our healthcare system woefully overpriced and underperforming. The amount of money it costs is trivial compared to lifestyle choices like being overweight.
Ask HN: Review my start up please: List Central
http://listcentral.me

A social network for list lovers that aims to become a new publishing platform -- somewhere between blogging, and micro-blogging -- to be known as list-blogging. List Central combines the inherent usefullness of lists, with social rankings, link & image sharing & content ownership to give the user a unique, list focused experience.

I would appreciate your feedback, and any advice you might have for List Central.
"This, then, is your exercise: spend five minutes thinking about why your choice of monogamy is preferable to all of the other inhabitants of relationship-style-space, for you."

With most "decisions" about my lifestyle, I keep the societal default until unhappiness with it prompts me to change, rather than considering all options from a neutral state. I wonder what the pros and cons of the default-first and neutral-first strategies are? Default first automatically directs your attention to "pain points" in your life, but may make you blind to larger, more existential choices. Default-first also takes into account the "wisdom" of the masses, at least some of which is probably right. Neutral-first keeps you from being locked into any one lifestyle by fear or other attachments.

Examples of things that I've consciously changed from the default settings: I'm vegetarian (animal-rights motivation), I cut my own hair (I like the simplicity and the control).

For reference on the neutral-first strategy (with a pleasingly mathematical twist):
http://www.astatespacetraveler.com/a-mathematically-proven-w...
Quora schmora. Just a forum where the digerati like to hang out, for now.
How about e.g. in Bay Area? What's a typical range for skilled programmer and what a horrible coder can earn while hiding inside some clueless big co?
Surely, no way they can win this. They know, where the flaws lie and to what length they have to go to fix it. So, they are using the hush-hush policy.
MIT continues to amaze me in multiple ways. Another one got added to the list.
So... the flaw in their security model is that they wrote down their password. If people can memorize hundreds of digits of Pi (I personally got past ~80 out of boredom (before I found programming), though I've since forgotten most), they could memorize 27 characters to protect everyone else in the system.

Were I russia, and if these are their spies, I don't think I'd be too sad to lose that pair.
great answer.
at least for me the nice point was about the old house and "sticking around the company"...
it's tough though to convince managers & business people most of time to make major code changes.
Only if you are able to sell 200 units a day at that price (which is unlikely for most apps).
Where does a tree get its mass? Richard Feynman explains.
My point exactly. It seems foolish that all matters of life and systems in general evolve and yet our economic structure must remain the way it is.
We've long known that Android isn't /fully/ open by the fact that Google doesn't release the code until they're satisfied with it. We could have hacking on Froyo months ago.

The tradeoff though is that of every mobile operating system, Android is the most "open".
I love it. Posterous' attack stance has left a really bad taste in my mouth. Sorry guys, the service is not "all that." I mean, I start little random blogs for things all the time and I still use Tumblr more often than not. Posterous might have a couple nice features, but it's hardly in another class. What is has in features it gives up in the austerity of its theming, an obtuse web interface, and just general lack of "soul". I know it's not quantifiable, but I feel like Tumblr has a soul (it is, after all, self-social, so it comes with a community, some humanity), and Posterous feels like it's trying to make charts go up and to the right. Don't forget the vglink fiasco. Looking at that compete traffic growth, and you know the VC's must be turning up the heat on Posterous now.
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Lets make fun of them with pointless dribble in hopes that this isn’t a leading indicator that we were picked last for the dodgeball team.

Retire, relax, enjoy your family. It is just a blogging platform. Not worth it.
Plagiarism Inc.
Thanks for core wrecking my miss take :p
...akin to telling the pilot where you want to go, rather than how to fly.

The problem with this analogy is that the incentives of the pilot are strongly aligned with yours. If he delivers you to Paris rather than SF, you'll never fly with him again. You probably also have legal remedies against the airline, which if you exercised them would cause the pilot to lose his job.

In contrast, the incentives of lawmakers and bureaucrats are not aligned with those of ordinary citizens. For instance, in the face of budget shortfalls, government should cut the least vital services first, perhaps reducing the salaries of employees. Instead, they tend to cut the most important services first in an effort to increase support for tax hikes. The MTA in NYC is doing this, for example:

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/12/13/2009-12-13_mt...

Abstracting and simplifying the underlying legislation assumes the politicians aren't lying to you. That's always a bad assumption, the devil is usually hidden in the details.
I'm right handed and I've always held phones in my left hand. If other people hold the phone in the hand opposite their strong hand, that would raise the percentage affected by this issue, assuming your impression is correct.
4chan Is At It Again! Attempts to Send Justin Bieber to North Korea
When I was in the Air Force, our equipment was archaic by the standards of contemporary consumer electronics, lots of electro-mechanical stuff. But with its shielding, it was nearly bulletproof. No worries about EMP, or "Wargames" silliness.
Wordpress.com Launches Free Blog-by-Phone Feature
Redis 2.0.0 RC2 out
Joel Stein on Immigration, New Jersey's Indian Influx
I think it's quite an astute point. Easy access to porn desensitizes us sexually, and we no longer have to depend on our imaginations. It's not necessarily about FUD or a generational issue, it's something worth thinking about.

I think these are important questions to consider:

How does easy access to pornography affect the development of children?
What are the effects of pornography and masturbation in my life?
How does porn affect my marriage?
How does masturbation affect my marriage?
Did anyone else think this was going to be about the Higgs boson?
That article says that there is downvoting, but that there is a "karma threshold." The article states that it is 100, but I have over 100 points and no downvote arrows, so it must be higher.
The changelog hasn't been updated since May 21 [1], so here's the 2.0.0 tag timeline [2].

[1]: http://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/v2.0.0-rc2/Changelog
[2]: http://github.com/antirez/redis/commits/2.0.0/
I wish there was a rule that every chart used as any kind of argument must have both its axes described. If not, it's worthless. This one is. (Not to mention that you should also mention the source.)
I've read so much about how posterous is awesome, incredible and wonderful for building something so simple and turning it into a product but all I see is a almost feature-free blogging platform that got an incredibly disproportionate amount of press because of who founded it and who its early users were.

That the rest of the net outside the silicon valley echo chamber has noticed the emperor has no clothes does not surprise me.
This is hilarious. It's fun to watch marketing sparks.
Does anyone know if IBM contributes code to either Firefox/Gecko or Webkit?
If everyone followed that advice, how many posts would be left on HN? :)
The Super Smash Bros. Secret That Took 7 Years To Unlock
Sounds like bunk to me.
I want this in MeeGo.
Got lazy with the screenshot from compete, sorry about that.
I'm sorry to say but calling Posterous "Preposterous" isn't really a dig... the word was the inspiration for the current name and the reason they pronounce it like they do, with a short o instead of a long o. I remember some such tag line from the guys like "blogging made preposterously easy - Posterous."

That said, yeah, they've obviously hit a nerve with their competitor bashing. And the sad thing is they didn't really need the bashing at all... just continue on the nice guy route with "if you're not happy, we're making it easy to move over to Posterous."