skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Guðlaugur was dressed in jeans, shirt and sweater, with nothing on his feet. He did not know that wet clothes draw heat from the body 20 times faster than dry ones. [1]

I'm curious what should I do if I fall into cold water: should I really take my clothes off or not? The first option sounds a bit counter intuitive to me.

By the way, how can people swim in jeans or other clothes? I find it very hard, it's like dragging some weights.

[1] http://www.vikingrune.com/2009/03/true-viking-grit/
Process Essay Sample to find Online or in a Database of your University
Process Essay describes the procedure for a series of actions leading to a final outcome. In this article students can get an understanding of the essentials for writing a process essay. It further shows how the essay should be structured.
> "Reasonably confident" is a remarkably weak threshold for putting half of one's future wealth on the line.

Half of your wealth is very very small compared to losing custody of your kids. If she leaves, the legal system will almost always make sure she gets the kids. Unless you have kids, it's difficult to understand how horrible this is for dads.
How Companies Picked Their Unique Names
Lots of interesting pieces to the puzzle here, including several photos, radar confirmation, hovering for minutes at a time, tons of eyewitnesses, and a hint at a military tie-in.

Should be fun watching the story get resolved. (or not)

Some more info -- http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-07/09/c_133...
For what it's worth, the "caching" is critical for cross compiles because you can't test for functionality using binaries that don't run on your system. But that's not really caching -- that's preconfiguration. I don't see much point in actually caching things on a native system.
Did that show up right away? It should have a 20 second delay on it. Again, not any different from iwillteachyoutoberich.com, which (deservingly) shows up on HN from time to time.
I'm noticing this while reading Under the Dome. There are many sentences where I just stop at the last couple words because the sentence doesn't make sense at that point. Quite a few times I thought they were typos. When I analyze the sentence though I find that I needed to pause in another spot or use a different meaning of a word. Haven't run into this often in other books.
I wouldn't say _never_. But pretty close.
I want this.
How did my karma go from 70+ to 27. When I only got -4 downmods. Are there some unwritten karma rules at work here?
I was discussing a new kind of support system with my friend the other day. We have been trying to understand current limitations of the support systems and if they can be fixed with technology (not always).

I'm looking forward to see some comments from people that are more into this topic!
I'm not sure why you're getting downmodded...this is exactly why they pulled google voice and exactly why they won't approve a grooveshark app.
Both my girlfriend and I have been pursuing strategic defaults on our primary residences in the state of California. Her property is underwater by 300K. Mine is about 250K. Neither of us are wealthy, but the financial upside of pursuing this route is very compelling.

In California, if the loan on the home is a purchase money loan, which is the one used to purchase the home, and not refinanced, then in a foreclosure situation, the banks are not in a position to pursue you for a personal deficiency. In other words, they cannot sue you for the loss on the home. We had our lawyers check this out and it's due to laws dating back to the Depression era.

At the time that a house is sold, there are three parties agreeing to the price: the buyer, the appraiser, and the mortgage lender. So if a home goes down in value, all parties share the risk. It's no different than a VC investing in a small business. If the business fails, the VC cannot sue the managers of the business to get their money back. The same holds true with foreclosures in California. In the depression, this same situation happened, property values fell, people lost their jobs and were sued by the banks to pay them back. Bad stuff.

We are both pursuing short sales of our homes, but are perfectly OK with a foreclosure. In both situations, our credit ratings will take a huge hit, but they recover in 7 years for a foreclosure, and in 2 years if it's a short sale. So we asked ourselves, is our credit score worth 300K? And with some simple financial modeling, we figured that it was about 10 years for the property values to break even. And the trade off was simple.

The short sale does turn into cancelled debt, though, and the IRS will get a 1099-C. Cancelled debt counts as income, which makes it taxable. Except the US govt passed the 2007 mortgage debt relief act, which makes cancelled debt from a mortgage tied to your primary residence an exception. You do not have to pay income tax on it. This is valid through the 2012 calendar year.

At the state tax level, if the home has cancelled debt, it's still seen as a loss sales against the orginal value of the home. And losses are not taxable.

So this is a great situation financially - no liability to the mortgage company, no federal or state tax. Really bad credit for a couple years :(. But as a question of opportunity cost, this seemed to make the most sense.

In order to pursue this, both of us had to stop making all payments on the mortgages. We both got harrassing debt collection calls for awhile, but once you get into the foreclosure process, they eventually die down. We each will get 6-12 months of living in our homes for free, so in some ways that is a loss recovery.

Hope this helps some of you...
HN: Minneapolis Meetup
I'm looking to see if any other HN readers and aspiring entrepreneurs in the Minneapolis area are interested in a meetup? If so let reply here or my email address is in my profile.
The linked article is dishonest. It does quote the investigation report correctly, but then expands on what it allegedly means in a way that is entirely inconsistent with what the explanatory text in the report (which they don't quote) says.

So, after the text they quote ending "... the figure supplied for the WMO Report was misleading", the investigation report says:

We do not find that it is misleading to curtail reconstructions at some point per se, or to splice data, but we believe that both of these procedures should have been made plain -- ideally in the figure but certainly clearly described in either the caption or the text.

So the complaint is not that there's anything wrong with the results, but that they should have said more about the procedure by which they were obtained. The Heritage Foundation, on the other hand, says:

What they were trying to hide was the discrepancy between actual temperature readings and the temperatures suggested by tree ring data. They have relied on tree ring data to show that the earth was cooler in the past. If the tree ring data is not reliable (as the discrepancy in recent years would suggest), then maybe the earth was actually hotter in the past than these researchers would have us believe -- and perhaps the hot temperatures of recent years do not represent unprecedented global warming but just natural variation in climate.

So the Heritage Foundation's complaint is that the tree-ring reconstructions might be just plain wrong, and that the CRU's material obscures that and therefore suggests more confidence in AGW than is justified by the data. Note first of all that none of that is supported by the material from the investigation report. Secondly, it happens that the investigation report does comment on the issue of whether recent divergence between tree-ring data and temperature shows what the Heritage Foundation suggest it shows. Here's what the report says:

21. We do not find that the way that data derived from tree rings is described and presented in IPCC AR4 and shown in its Figure 6.10 is misleading. In particular, on the question of the composition of temperature reconstructions, we found no evidence of exclusion of other published temperature reconstructions that would show a very different picture. The general discussion of sources of uncertainty in the text is extensive, including reference to divergence. In this respect it represented a significant advance on the IPCC Third Assessment Report (TAR.)

22. On the allegation that the phenomenon of "divergence" may not have been properly taken into account when expressing the uncertainty associated with reconstructions, we are satisfied that it is not hidden and that the subject is openly and extensively discussed in the literature, including CRU papers.

In other words: when you look at the bit of the investigation report that's concerned with the exact issue the Heritage Foundation is complaining about here, it turns out that they think that complaint is invalid. But of course that doesn't fit the Heritage Foundation's agenda, so instead they quote a different portion of the report and pretend it says what they want it to say.
Indie (Game) Fund is open for applications
Ask HN: What are you working on today?
Or what did you work on this week? Screenshots of your development environment (or the equivalent for your type of work) would be cool.
Microsoft reveals source to Russian Secret Service
Could this be because of Russia's push for Linux and dismissal of black box software?
This. I launched Windy Citizen alone. My partner's friend read about it on Hacker news and put us in touch.
Find someone that you can trust. I've worked with family in the past. They tend to be more on the up and up. Friends can be good if you are both committed to the same goal. As for finding a stranger I would attempt to cultivate a relationship first before committing to becoming partners.
Looks like a wiki, smells like a wiki, but it a web based IDE that runs on GAE
You laugh, but Chatroulette could be an awesome way to do dates, you are randomly pared with a person (properly of the gender and sexual orientation you desire somewhere near you) you don't know the name of that person so you can talk as you want, but if you are both interested you can get a link to them so that you can talk again, and if things pan out, get to know who the other person is.
Prepare for the Papyrus-storm.
I'll defer to the inquiry as to how executive his chairmanship was, but you're right, I was writing off his argument due to something other than the argument itself, to my discredit.
I think this is a very interesting move on Microsoft's part. It comes from Russia's dismissal of blackbox vendor software citing security and privacy fears. As well as Russia's push for it's own open Linux distro, ALT Linux. It seems that Microsoft wants to regain some traction within the Russian government.
Errr no, that article is just plain wrong (ignoring that Reagan famously called himself a FDR Democrat).

From memory, but if you wish I can fact check it and add figures past 1980:

When Reagan entered office, the top marginal rates on "earned" income (e.g. wages and salary) was 50% and on "unearned" income (returns on investments) was 75%. He proposed a set of "supply side" tax cuts, was forced to phase them in over 3 years (remember he never had a Republican House majority and had a Senate one for only a short period as I recall) and that helped drag out the stagflation pain---e.g. people postponed taxable events until the cuts were fully in effect---but after that it was "Morning In America" (the theme of his 1984 election campaign).

That started in 1981. In 1982 he was forced into a major FICA (Social Security and Medicare) tax increase (note that's regressive) and from that point until this year or next FICA taxes have been in surplus to needs and were spent on the general fisc (SS and Medicare have a "lockbox" of unmarketable bonds for the money the Federal Government owes them).

In 1986 it was argued that the tax system was out of wack and various changes were made and as I recall some individual rates were increased, but there was at least attempted balancing in things like deductions or exemptions (can't recall the details).

Starting in 1981 as I recall there was also and indexing of thresholds and so on to inflation (prior to that the Congress would regularly pass "tax cuts" but people's tax bills would keep going up because they got pushed by inflation into higher tax rate brackets).

If you want to try to make the point you're making you're going to have to use a better source of data.

And this is largely irrelevant as a answer to the question "What makes sense today?" Reagan cut tax rates in 1981-3 when we had been suffering from a decade or more of stagflation. (Some) tax rates were increased in 1986 long after the economy recovered. Clinton raised tax rates in 1993 after the recovery of the G. H. W. Bush recession and they weren't disastrous.

Today we are at best in a technical recovery with sustained and increasing true unemployment being a lagging indicator (if measured traditionally the unemployement rate would be around 22% according to http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-chart...). At medium worst we're headed for a double-dip recession.

Forget about "fairness" or anything to do with "that crusty old socialist Ronald Reagan". Is raising tax rates a good prescription for today's economic problems?
Oysters oysters oysters split split split.
We have just set up tenderapp for our new Beta site www.pinkelstar.com (easy social network integration for iPhone and Android). I like it a lot so far. However, since we've just gone live I can't yet say anything about daily use. But the setup as pretty easy and convenient and the price was pretty decent too.
Really? How does that work?

Do you read the entire sentence, before trying to parse the grammar?

For example, when reading "The man returned to his house was happy", you don't provisionally interpret "The man returned to his house" as meaningful?
The earlier story said it was only live in the desktop client for now. Mobile and web users have to wait.
It's like summer school. You can cut all year and go to summer school for 3 months and get the credit for the class. It's a band aid. You will be 10x times smarter if you finish 4 years of high school as opposed to dropping out in 10th grade and taking a test. That being said it's better than nothing. Everyone deserves a chance to go to college.
Sawyer on Why Bilski Really Means That Software Companies Should Leave the US
> unreasonable conditions, ie., "Sign this contract or I won't marry you".

I'm confused. Isn't this kind of the point of a pre-nup?

If this "threat" weren't hanging over every pre-nup, why would one ever be signed in the first place?
R.I.P orkut: India changes to facebook
Startup unvelis software developers network to promote technology
I am a woman who pays my ex-husband a small amount of alimony, and a significant amount of child support even though we have 50-50 physical custody.

The courts do not favor the woman, they favor the spouse in the weaker position financially, especially if that spouse was the primary caregiver. In most cases, this is the woman.
You're absolutely correct; I just couldn't resist anyway.
Mercedes and BMW manufacture and sell cars in the price range you are talking about.
Hey, give 'em a break. He's probably too young to have ever seen a real arcade game.
Get a decent backdrop, Zuck! I can't stop staring at that heating vent.
Java is "verbose" and I'm real happy to see other languages target the JVM. It will make it very easy to convince "corporate america" to adopt them in the future. In no way is Java a PITA. It's got it's quirks but it remains one of the best platforms for building anything. The community support is great and it has years of development libraries and experience for you to leverage.
Students Studying Less: Shocking Report
I am 5'4.

You think you have a problem?
>> Harmony modules are made available to legacy JS as module instance objects in the global object.

Does this mean a module is visible like this?

window.jQuery
window.Prototype

That's kinda what already exists... For that matter, any variation of that (e.g. window.modules.jQuery) can be done with the patterns you mentioned at the beginning of the document.

>> The global object is not in the scope chain of Harmony code

Ah, I see. That's certainly a new feature, but what's a use case for that? I find it hard to justify giving up a few fairly common variable names just for knowing that window.i or whatever is not polluted. It kinda feels like just shifting the name collisions around.
It showed up while I was reading. I wasn't counting seconds.
"Zed Shaw-like drama" :-)
Run Android Apps on Your Windows PC
The REPL and debugger for GNU Guile, an implementation of Scheme. I'm trying to integrate the two, so when you get an error, you're just dropped into a new recursive REPL that happens to have a debugger too, so you can inspect the stack from there.
When did blogs become professional news organisations and therefore have to adhere to standards of journalistic integrity?

They're just websites, anyone can put one up and say anything they like as long as they don't break the law.
The Java API for RESTful Web Services
English is a Germanic language. (Yes, there's other stuff mixed in, but the root is Germanic.) There is a natural tendency for the main verb to go in second position. However, second position does not necessarily mean second (full stop) because of phrase groupings. Your own sentences give good examples. I've put parens to group things and second position is in italics:

> (A judicious use of commas) helps ...

> (the most general pattern) seems...

(I think that the initial adverbial 'Yet' doesn't count for purposes of verb position, but I may be wrong about that. It's been a bit for me...)

The thing is that the sentence you quote as a bad example (and it is bad, and should be edited) feels natural, because it follows that rule:

> (The car driven past the barn) crashed.

There aren't multiple clauses at the front. There is a single (overpacked) noun phrase.

I'm not excusing bad writing, but the patterns that underlie your own language can trip you up in surprising ways.
xargs cannot replace {} with a lot of arguments, so if mv did not have --target-directory, then xargs would have to do:

find ... | xargs -0 -i {} mv {} ~/Pictures

which would run one mv per file.

GNU Parallel http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/ allows for replacing {} with multiple arguments. So this would do the right thing:

find ... | parallel -X -0 mv {} ~/Pictures

GNU Parallel is useful for many other applications. Watch the intro video to learn more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpaiGYxkSuQ
The article is empirical evidence of the contrary. Poul-Henning Kamp is a true guru: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul-Henning_Kamp

He's the reason that everyone's [hero|enemy] Zed F. Shaw picked sheddingbikes.org.
I think Jason killed his company himself. He went and moved into a new office and hired a bunch of people. If you don't have the money for that, then don't do it. I believe that if he stayed lean he'd be able to survive.

I am an owner of a VistaDB license and I truly love it, but I am not about to pay $699 for a version that has no activation. I bought the product and if he is going to go out of business and shut down the activation servers, the product I bought will be useless. Garbage! If he is going under, we should be able to get that last release without activation for free. Ridiculous. Jason definitely isn't handling this appropriately. I never liked his paranoid licensing to begin with.
I think it goes back to our protestant religious roots. The church does not like gambling(for obvious reasons).
Chrome threw a google malware warning for this site
Hi this is Justin from Performable. We want to provide the best service possible for startups. Please let us know how we can help in any way.
Worldwide Nearly Half-a-Billion Broadband Subscribers
Question: if this ability is so easy to evolve, why don't we all have it? Any animal that moves around a lot could probably benefit from being able to directly sense the Earth's magnetic field.
See the last three paragraphs of this reply in another thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1500697, most specifically the final question:

Is raising tax rates a good prescription for today's economic problems?

Or to better focus it on HN related business issues: will socking small businesses (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1499419) and decreasing the return on non-tax advantaged investments by the "rich", e.g. angel investors who by definition are "rich", help people like us start up tasty new companies?
Choosing PHP over Python, Perl, and ASP.

Countless hours on #php.

Meeting and talking with a girl I met on #php for hours on end on the phone.

"Dating" online.

Meeting 2 months after we started "dating".

Me moving to another country 3 months after that.

Marrying 6 years later.

Happily married and expecting our second child later this
month. =)
Hey fellow hackers,

This is a platform for building voice apps in a drag and drop editor. You can probably see that inspiration was drawn from Yahoo Pipes, and a few other graphical programming languages. The entire interface is all JQuery UI and canvas, and behind the scenes is a voice platform compiling apps and taking/placing calls.

We just launched this very recently, so any feedback you could give us would be awesome... hope you like it!
I'm interested. I'll keep my eye on the thread.
Anecdotal evidence: I swap between the two, it just takes a creative sleep pattern, I had a strange schedule last year due to the layout of my courses, so some days I'd stay up till 4 sleep till 2, and other's I'd sleep at 11 and wake at 7:30. I guess my IQ last year was sinusoidal.
So, Google Earth in browser?
>marriage remains a major financial and emotional risk

Things that genuinely make your life better typically are.
You are going to get it, but not the way you think.

Google is working on native client, which is x86 code that executes inside the browser in a safe way (no idea how they pulled this of, but they did), much like Java script does today - chicken scheme, being a scheme, has macros and can compile to native code.

Vola - scheme, and macros, for client side programs.
http://blog.alternativaplatform.com/ru/files/2008/04/bunker....
Automatic Program Repair With Evolutionary Computation
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1492519
You met your love based on a niche common interest/activity--programming in PHP--as opposed to a broad common activity--online dating. Not trying to trivialize anything you said... your story is completely awesome, actually. I just want to point out that even though what you did technically qualifies as "online dating," it's very different from the kind of online dating criticized in this interview!
I don't think this is necessarily the case.

It depends on how well the "Do not cheat" and "Do your chores" imperatives are internalized. There is also the fact that (at least for me) it is much harder to do something than to not do something.
I have encouraged many of my friends to learn German just so they can understand the comedic brilliance of "The Awful German Language".

For those who have studied German but haven't read Twain yet: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Awful_German_Language
Building a simple DB using json files as storage system.

The goal is to provide a schemaless (and serverless) database for simple websites.
I wonder if the slanted light/dark bands has anything to do with why birds seem to tilt their heads as they look around.
Cheers, where everybody knows your name
Hand-rolled SSE optimised version of a domain transform and coefficient re-order for a video encoder. 3x speedup over the C++ version, yay!

(My development environment just looks like Visual Studio, and that's because it is.)