skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was that kind of case I was thinking of when I put in step 2, make sure the license of P allows the user to combined P with other works.

Blizzard has a EULA that prohibits the WoW user from using software such as MDY's, so step 2 of my advice would tell MDY to give up.
How does this differ to services like http://pinboard.in?
SJS is not well understood. Ibuprofen, the flu, herpes, cocaine, red #30. In HALF of the cases, the cause is totally unknown. Also, it sucks.
There is a specific exception to this in the gpl. Actually I'm pretty sure he's even being too lax in his explanation of what gpl requires. If you distribute the theme (or any gpl connected code) you must make the source available, and anyone who gets the theme can also distribute it all they want.
As a former organometallic chemist, I immediately tried to get find a subfeed for chemistry. Best I could do was:
http://paperfeed.org/taxonomy/term/636
journal listings. Any thoughts on making RSS by tag available?

Other big chemistry ones that aggregate multiple (chemistry) journals are:
http://chemfeeds.com/
http://cb.openmolecules.net/
> Certain features like making and receiving calls, texting and so forth are used more often than taking pictures or searching maps.

I find that surprising. Maybe I'm just an edge case. I rarely make or receive calls on my 'phone' (maybe 2-3 times a month). Texts are much more common; at least 5 times a week.

Maps, however, are probably daily. My phone is basically a calendar, mapping, suggestion device.
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Didn't Tesla claim to have developed wireless power a long time ago. Those more familiar with Tesla/Physics ... is this the same technology?
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He meant /r/coding
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1) it doesn't seem to be working, or at least your 'indexer' is so far behind that I can't tell if its working. At least change it so that when I search for '' I see the things that I added and are queued to be indexed.

2) That whole search for '' thing is pretty lame.. put a link to see 'all'

3) Good on you to make a chrome plugin, but I find it unintuitive. Clicking on it to bookmark, great, but how do I get to your domain which I always mistype? I think I'd rather have a very simple menu pop up (big icons?) when I click the plugin, one with '+' one with a magnifying glass for search. Something like that. The two most common things I'm going to use this for is adding and searching, you only make one of those easy with the extension.

Hope you can figure out the scaling issues, bummer to have it melt when you get press.
Thanks for the reply .
what do you mean by :

"...CMS to do all of my static page templating and export them out as static pages .."

which CMS can do that?

does using XMLhttp or other Ajax methods submitting json
have preformants problem ? i mean isn't better to use simple requests?
Clickable link for those who want to learn more about the API: http://code.google.com/apis/predict/
That's the biggest problem for classical monarchy - you want succession that's crystal clear to avoid fighting, but you also want at least a competent monarch. Those two goals are often at odds with each other - very clear succession rules with primogeniture (first born son takes over) often means you get a weaker monarch - someone like Puyi, the last Qing Dynasty Emperor, or Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the last Tokugawa Shogun. Sometimes you wind up with a monarch who is mentally ill, that happened notably a few times in Roman history.

That's the biggest flaw with monarchy - succession is hard to get right. Historically speaking, competent and well-run monarchies outperform republics in almost all metrics except maybe military, but republics are insulated from having a long terrible reign of government by having a bad monarch. In a republic, usually you can get rid of a poor ruler within 10 years.

The most effective monarchy succession plan is probably having the current ruler groom his successor and retire or alternate - that happened during the height of Rome with emperors choosing and grooming their successor before retiring, and it happened in Heian Japan with two branches of the Emperor's family alternating duties as emperor and jointly choosing the order of alternating a number of years in advance. Unfortunately, this system seems to be unstable - eventually someone can't resist the temptation to put their own child in power, even if they're not fit to govern. Then you get the despotic monarch again, and all the problems that entails.

It's a hard problem to solve.
This is a good way to approach classes you are involved in to, in high school, college, or otherwise. Seek to learn, seek to teach.
But if you're intelligent, you can see the obviousness of getting caught up in moral dilemmas, and you can counter that by adopting a moral system - e.g. utilitarianism, deontological ethics, etc. - and evaluating the action thereunder.

But I don't think there's much of a moral dilemma in using drugs that don't usually have permanent or damaging effects. And even when they're damaging or permanent, you need to differentiate between self-harm and harm to others, how well informed the person is, the degree of dependency introduced, the soundness of mind and understanding of consequences, etc.

And then you need to look at second-order effects of these moral choices. For example, even though heroin is generally agreed to be a bad thing, particularly with addictive dependency and the need to feed the habit, that doesn't necessarily mean it should e.g. be made illegal to take, as that criminalizes the victims who don't have the same degree of independent control over their actions.

Much of drug policy in many democratic countries is driven by short-term political dynamics spurred by parental hysteria, often based on just a handful of well-publicized misadventures. Some kid dies doing something stupid, or is unlucky; people say something must be done; so we send in men with guns and throw people in prison by the thousands, but likely not actually saving many people's lives - very probably a net negative in terms of lives ruined.

Very important consequence to keep in mind: when you make something illegal, it means you want to send in men with guns to break into people's homes, split up families and ruin lives. It's a very heavy-handed and blunt tool, and it's ill suited to dealing with consensual crimes.
Human lightness response though is a complex non-linear response that depends on the viewing conditions and the particular observer.

This is why I'm not convinced that the right solution is simply filtering in linear intensity. Consider a black and white checker board where the individual squares are big enough that you can easily see them. If you scale this image down such that the squares disappear, the resulting gray should be the one that minimizes the perceptual error.

But since sRGB is roughly perceptually uniform and the squares are mostly low frequency information, that gray would be 0x80 and not the 0xba you would get from the supposedly correct algorithm.
mistake #1 when trying to understand or explain the Fourier Transform is to discuss the breakdown of f(t) into sine/cosine components. it's much easier to understand in terms of the original e^(i * w * t) waveforms, and the effects of integrating [-inf,inf]integ[f(t) * e^(-i * W * t)] for any given W. there's a nice visualization of this that involves considering the "helical" e^(i * w * t) waveforms and the twist that e^(-i * W * t) applies to these. bla bla bla.
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You do, technically. It's classed as POM (Prescription Only Medicine). However, there's a loophole in the drugs laws that mean buying POMs from overseas is not illegal. These laws were drawn up in the 60s before the advent of online pharmacies. I'd be surprised if the law isn't changed in the next decade.
Haskell actually has something like a package manager: I only install the GHC and then use cabal to install any applications. (cabal install pandoc, for instance.)
The link in the title does not seem to work, I believe this is what it is meant to be: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/fd0n/35%20Founders%27%20Pie%2...
Yep, it was:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1360405
No pomegranate? Artichoke is awesome though.
Not to challenge you, but what do you mean when you say " Historically speaking, competent and well-run monarchies outperform republics in almost all metrics except maybe military"? The United States seems to have done pretty well as a republic in terms of average quality of life and gross domestic product. While it hasn't controlled as much land as the largest Roman Empire, I'd think that it has done more per capita than any form of nation in history.
As a general rule, "gut feel" doesn't predict the outcome of legal battles all that well.
> "The real world is not like this; the game is not zero-sum. When you write an article, it doesn't directly make someone else's articles more or less valuable"

Are you sure about this? It's always zero-sum game!
When somebody (Apple and Google) creates a new smartphone devices, it make someone else's (RIMM and Nokia) smartphones less valuable.

Even it financial industry, when they say, that derivatives are zero-sum game, while equities aren't. It's not completely true, because equities are hedged by derivatives and vice versa. All assets are interdependent.
Many years ago I wrote one GA tutorial for newbies. Here is the link: http://paraschopra.com/tutorials/ga/index.php

[Pardon my grammar in the tutorial, it was written was I was 15]
Ask Obvious But Good Questions

It actually irritates me that you can almost count on karma for saying something like "prove it" to a post that may present fairly good evidence already or that is clearly personal opinion not really subject to proof.

But I'm not wholly concerned with Karma. 6 points for something controversial probably implies more impact than 20 point for something simplistic, since the controversial point probably is going to generate a good deal of mod-downs too.
>I paced and agonised and finally concluded that taking narcolepsy drugs when you don’t have narcolepsy is just stupid.

While I don't disagree with the overall choice here, I must point out: WHAT? And how many drugs have found alternative, sometimes better uses than the ones they were originally advertised for? This includes drugs re-branded, minor non-functional changes to avoid copyright / patent laws of another company, and damn near every plant-originated drug in existence.

Drugs have side effects, and sometimes different ones when used to treat non-existant symptoms (like this situation), but that has nothing to do with marketing.
Even if it's not true of Maxwell, it's certainly true of Newton.
It's unfair to extrapolate your experience with Lisp to the rest of the programming languages. CL has the most anti-social community in existence -- half the people on #lisp will tell you that libraries and standards are evil, and that each app should always roll its own everything.

If you like other people and using libraries, don't use Common Lisp.
Implementing Geographic Redundancy
I had written a genetic programming module for Python, in case anyone is interested: http://paraschopra.com/sourcecode/GP/index.php
Fark.com was well established in 2005. Reddit added voting.
I'm surprised that in this day and age there are still 'better' people, it's not like we don't know that this is a fiction.

In the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, England and a whole pile of other countries the royal families are pretty well entrenched. There is a whole media circus around them and there are still special laws on the books giving the royal people rights that ordinary people do not have.

The most heard argument against abolishing these institutions is that 'you need a head of state' and 'a president costs money too'. I'm not really sure what either has to do with creating and maintaining a special class of people, and I can't imagine a presidency to be as costly and as messy as what we have today.

Besides that, 'our' royal family isn't even Dutch, but hardly anybody seems to care, as long as the fairy tale is allowed to continue it's all good.
Prove it.

(No, really. You're not presenting good evidence here.)
> The United States seems to have done pretty well as a republic in terms of average quality of life and gross domestic product. While it hasn't controlled as much land as the largest Roman Empire, I'd think that it has done more per capita than any form of nation in history.

I think you are overlooking Switzerland.
> Inability to focus is worth treating, but why not look at potential causes instead of potentially risky substances that cover up the problem?

Because we grew up in a culture where doctors fix problems with a pill. Too depressed ? - Take Prozac. Can't have sex ? Take Viagra. Can't fall asleep ? Talk to you doctor about Lunesta.

Now it's "can't think", so sure there is a quick fix -- Provigil. Some HN-ers already ordered it, according to their comments on this post. Perhaps, they'll get further ahead of the pack using it. Perhaps their startups will launch faster. Or perhaps they'll suffer from long-term effects of the drug that nobody has studied yet. Who knows...?

I certainly don't want to gamble with my brain. I'd rather accept my mediocrity, struggle with lack of attention, anxiety and other issues, than suffer possible long-term side-effects later.
I like the idea and I was searching as simple as that since a long time. Here are some suggestions to improve it:

First, it didn't work for me.. I bookmark hacker news with the chrome extension and I still see the wheel turning.. and even if I search for all site I bookmarked, I don't see hacker news.

Second, is it really necessary to create an account and check with email, etc. maybe histio.us/d0m could create automatically an account where I can search and put a password if I want it secure.

Third, it could be useful if we can search with the chrome extension, instead of only being able to add bookmark.

Fourth, pretty cool and keep it up :)

Did you thought of a way to make money with that?
The United States has a lot of cultural influence on other countries, but when you give examples such as "average quality of life" and "gross domestic product" I doubt that the US has done more per capita than any form of nation in history.

Could you give any examples to back your claims (per capita)?

Edit:
Here's an example:

USA Norway
GDP $46,381 $79,085 (best)
GINI 45.0 25.8 (best)
HDI 0.956 0.971 (best)
Unemployment 9.5% 3,2% (best)

Another example is the public dept. While the United States has a huge dept, Norway's net asset position is positive. The government could repay all government debt without raising new loans.

According to OECD, the United States ranks third worst in inequality and poverty of the 30 member states:

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/oct2008/oecd-o22.shtml

Considering that Norway, as many other countries has a more inclusive welfare system, the poor have a better quality of life as well, with free (total) health care and free education.
the US at its largest extent was about 50% larger than the roman empire at its largest extent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_empires#All_emp...)
> But I don't think there's much of a moral dilemma in using drugs that don't usually have permanent or damaging effects.

I think in this particular case there are no long-term (20 years+) studies. It is still unclear how exactly Modafinil works. And no long term studies have been done.

This is according to : "Pharmacotherapy for excessive daytime sleepiness" by Banerjee D, Vitiello MV, Grunstein RR. Published in Sleep Med Rev. 2004 Oct;8(5):339-54). (See last sentence in the abstract).

PUBMED: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15336235
For starters, there is no FreeBSDBuntu, and Ubuntu has done wonders flying the flag for Linux.
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You have missed the point of my comment, and you're also wrong.

The next generation of smartphones will enhance the technology that the current generation of smartphones introduced. Sure, you might get some extra profit by releasing your cool new feature a month sooner, but your competitors also get an extra month to play with your new feature and make it even better for their next generation of phones. And so the cycle continues; making the iterations shorter with mind-enhancing drugs doesn't make much difference in the end.

In the financial industry, we have much better tools for trading derivatives than humans on Provigil. They're called "computers".
You can overclock your CPU, but it will last far less, than non-overclocked one (a one third?)
If you want your brain to last only 3o years instead of 90 - then take the drugs ;)
Anti-AGW is absolutely anti-science and that can be proved by their target group. Their base target is people who don't know enough, a few more educated people but on margins and finally the people with direct interest in keeping the consumption as is.
They don't "point to red flags" in a sensible way, they make immense noise targeted to the ignorant masses, and it works -- in keeping the world not changing. Which can't end good, no matter what people who want to close their eyes hope.
What is the prescription for, if I may ask? You told your doctor you were having trouble concentrating?
Wouldn't 700 nm antennas would be easy to make? We've been fabricating features smaller than that on silicon wafers since 1994 (according to Wikipedia).
That's alway the question when listening to authors/bloggers: do they just write well? Or do they actually know what they're talking about? One of the reasons I love Stack Overflow was that it was a validation of many years spent listening to Jeff and Joel: turned out they do know how to create wonderful (and very successful) programs.

YCombinator does seem more successful than you mention though: they've turned out a lot of companies that, while not always huge, are making money. A few of them are even game-changers in their industries, like Scrib, Posterous, Justin.tv, Dropbox.
Racism is still very much alive today, yes, thank goodness we live in the 'now', but there is lots of work to be done in this respect, and skin colour is unfortunately not the only factor that people will use to discriminate.
I honestly didn't understand what you are trying to say, can you expand and illustrate?
Please, please, please ditch the "disruptively scroll a huge chunk of page upon reaching the bottom" feature. Even if it does come bundled with the "show more content in a passive manner" feature, it's not worth it.

I'll gladly click to load more stories if it means I don't have to bear with the jarring effect of the page moving down a chunk while I scan stuff.

It works fine if you use a scrollwheel, but if you drag the scrollbar it is a horrible experience that I would not wish upon my greatest enemies.

Especially for content that is repetitive in design, I find dragging the scrollbar to be a more effective way to scan. I assume I'm not alone?
A BS+MS in four years, congratulations,you're already ahead of the game. A second masters wouldn't hurt,especially if you have an interest in a multidisciplinary field where you can use both degrees (robotics, biotech, space). Is there a reason why you don't want to start your career in EE at this time? Depending on your program, a EE MS on its own might be strong enough to get a job doing somethig you really enjoy. So what is it that you enjoy doing?

The previous NASA administrator, Mike Griffin, managed to collect 7 masters degrees along his career, so if you just like to learn stuff and earn recognition for it, it's possible to do so while working as well.
We need to reward producers more and punish consumers so that Americans will produce more and consume less and rebuild our nation to its previous glory.

We need a balance. Rewarding producers and punishing consumers is just as naive as rewarding consumers and punishing producers.

Someone has to buy your product in order for you to make money. Why would you want a market crash when the other nation with a consumer economy goes through the same thing the US is now and demand shrivels up? In order to have an export driven economy, other countries have to run a trade deficit.
I thougt about that but no, I also thought about sleepwalking but as far as I know myself definitively no.
Thats true to a certain extend, but as a consumer (god I hate that term) I wouldn't be here without the makers - without the critics I would have to spend a bit more time finding the right products.
Ask HN: Rails in Enterprise - a working model (but ...)
We are a team of independent contractors working for The Man. The team has managed to introduce Rails in the enterprise. We are still supporting a plethora of Java frameworks, but, all current development is on Rails. We've been successful (and happy) on Rails for the past 2 years. Internal clients _love_ our work.

Our client (The Man) is outsourcing our work. Most likely, a bigger body-shop will be taking over.

Enterprise Rails as we've managed to establish it might wither.

We care about our craft, we believe we're offering a unique service, we hit the bottom line and we're continuously delivering value.

We don't want to see this disappear.

We thought of forming an independent entity - but client is setting bar too high for new vendors.

Appreciate your suggestions.

(Might update post as required)
A well-designed quiz that exposes some subtleties of Javascript. The discussion in the comments as people try to work out what's going on in each of the questions is really interesting and valuable, I found.
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I don't see why the questions should be obvious, there simply are no stupid questions and if someone asks a question they deserve an answer, not an automatic upmod.

Comments like 'citation needed', 'prove it' are fortunately rare enough on HN that it's not a big problem.
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Interestingly this prototype was wrapped in a case to make it look like the previous version of the iPhone, and the major problem with iPhone 4 is that when you touch the phone directly, as most end-users would touch it, you lose signal. The phony casing probably mitigated this problem, so maybe that's what happened there.
I haven't used it, but PC-BSD looks like the "Ubuntu" BSD.

http://www.pcbsd.org/
That is a really, really interesting question and there is actually some history behind that - the original developers of Clisp had used GNU readline to implement their REPL. Readline was (and still is) GPL, while Clisp was proprietary.

Anyhow RMS wrote to them and complained, so they asked an interesting question: what would happen if they simply had their software download and link Readline when it was installed on the customers computer?

RMS talked with a lawyer, and came to the conclusion that it would properly not be against the law. They made some sort of agreement and Clisp is GPL today.
The technology in the linked article would appear, at least superficially, to be similar to RFID. Although one difference might be that RFID works at a fixed frequency (to match the harmonic frequency of the receiving radio circuit) whereas this apparently works with "ambient" radio, implying a broad spectrum of frequencies, which is quite clever.

Either way, the broadcast signal is losing power at a rate proportional 1/d^2. So these devices necessarily have to work at very low power. What Tesla did - or is supposed to have done - was to figure out how to transmit power without the 1/d^2 loss. I.e, much like a collimated laser beam, he could transmit power over large distances and power high current devices.
It is PHP, you don't have much choice in making the source available :)

But if you meant that any visitor to your site had the right to get the source code, then the answer is no - that is not how how the GPL works, and you would need the AGPL for that.