skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for inquiring and relaying the response you got.

Here is an example of the scale I'm interested in: http://synapses.clm.utexas.edu/atlas/1_6_2.stm

Things that look like the newtechnology.html's figs 4 & 5 can look very bad at higher mags. I know this from painful experience. I don't see any high mag pictures at newtechnology.html or in Lemler et al. 2004, which that page cites. These mags are quite accessible once one has gone to the trouble of preparing sections for transmission electron microscopy.

Sheleg et al. 2008 was interesting and surprising to me. It is published in a journal not included in the ISI Science Citation Index, so I can't tell at a glance how their paper might have been received by other workers. I might try replicating their results myself at some point down the road, it would be a pretty simple experiment for me to do (at least, the EM part, not the histology work).

I understand the hope that even anatomically degraded tissue could retain sufficient information for cryonics to be useful. I just don't plan to bet my own money on this hope, at least not at this time.
+ For the skeptics guide. It's very interesting and fun.
What are your interests? Are you looking for podcasts specifically related to the topics discussed on Hacker News?

All the Hacker News related ones I currently listen to and know about have been listed, so there is no need to repeat those.

So, I'll list the ones based on my other interests that I enjoy:

1. The Dan Patrick Show

iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dan-patrick-show-podc...

I do not enjoy sports much, I can't sit through a game of any professional or college sporting event, even going to the actual game bores me to tears. However, this show is fun, daily, keeps me up to date. It's a good listen at night while working on my next big thing or preparing for the next day. I am able to competently converse with the many sports fans at the office, at the gym, coffee shop, etc. Note: I lied, I care about 2 sports team: Minnesota Twins and Vikings.

2. Weekend Confirmed

iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/weekend-confirmed-the-vid...

I enjoy video games, mostly older stuff, but I like to think I keep up to date on the current market. This is typically 2 hour very professionally well done weekly podcast. Show host is Garnett Lee of former EGM / 1Up fame. He does an awesome job. Two thumbs way up. I look forward to this every week.

3. A Life Well Wasted

iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/a-life-well-wasted/id3036...

It's retired now, but everyone who enjoys video games even a little needs to listen to these (except for the last episode; don't bother). Truly epic and well researched and produced.

Honerable mentions or already mentioned previously: Retronauts, Twit, NPR Planet Money, This week in Startups, MDN (Mac Developer Network), Engadget, Joystiq
FYI: QingTing = DragonFly

Looks like their "qPad" runs Android - pretty cool, and the "qPro" has a VGA compared to the mini-HDMI. The hardware looks pretty nice though. Their marketing could use a little more Apple influence.
The purpose of analytics is to give you insight as to how your web site (or app) performs with visitors (or users). This insight is really only valuable if you DO something with that collected insight. ie: Optimize your site/process on an ongoing basis.

An important aspect that you left out from your question is: What is your goal for your website?
- Convert visitors to subcribers of your product?

- get visitors to spend more time on your site, thus allowing you to deliver more ads/impressions?

- get more returning visitors

- Sell more of your products in an ecommerce/shopping cart scenario

In each of these scenarios - there may be better software that Google Analytics, but you will want to establish what your primary goal is for using analytics software.

Webtrends, Omniture, and others allow you to monitor social media, video views and other multimedia aspects of a site - and also allow you to integrate them with other platforms (such as email. For example Omniture + an email provider can allow you to send an email to visitors who put 2 or more items into a shopping cart, but then leave without checking out...)

If you just want to see pageviews, and use that as a measuring stick for now - Google Analytics should be fine. You can also use its "goals" features to track when someone fills in a form, or acts in a certain way on your site to determine new measurable metrics to help guide you as you design/redesign your site to benefit your business.

Let us know what sort of scenarios you are dealing with - and what you want your visitors to do more of....the community can then give you a better answer.

Some analytics comparisons i found here: http://webanalytics.globalthoughtz.com/index.php/web-analyti...

One final plug: Marketing Automation (ie: Eloqua, Marketo, Pardot...) software blurs the line between web analytics software and email marketing vendors - it is very useful for creating automated welcome programs, maintaining subscriber status, and capturing form submissions - as well as "closing the loop" on marketing ROI. These are especially useful if your product is anything that has a considered purchase cycle (ie: not an impulse buy)
That article sounds like politics in general is bad for business with which I agree.

That original article didn't mention politics at all, either. It seems like you're the one reading that into it. The huffingtonpost.com link does mention economic policies, and uncertainty, but that's to be expected, as, I agree with you, people do begin to look for someone in charge to blame. The reality, however, is that we were losing 750,000 jobs a month before Obama was even sworn in. The problem is that we didn't hit bottom with a complete financial system collapse and a full blown depression. Then Obama could not be blamed, because the only way to go would be up. As it stands, however, we averted that level of crisis and pain, yet many people don't realize the severity of the hit to our economy, and how long it will take to fix it -- no matter who is in charge.
An interesting blog to follow, by a white collar criminal, is White Collar Fraud: http://whitecollarfraud.blogspot.com/
there is more money flowing in Quebec than anywhere else in Canada

I'm curious what you mean by this (and if you have any evidence) -- VC deal flow, overall economic activity, or what? The impression I've got from others about Montreal's economic activity hasn't been nearly as positive.

I also wonder if you'd be at a disadvantage trying to do business in Montreal without speaking French -- the friends of mine who have prospered in Montreal are all very good French speakers.
Good discussion of the options.

I'm a big fan of the simplicity and usability of the hot-backup.py script that the subversion team provide
And Blackberry gained a lot of nice PR, so it's not all bad.
exactly, the technology is built into the initial layer though. you aren't clicking a calculator link are you? you just input it into the same field. so google's initial layer is as effective as it is because the underlying technology is powering that layer. versus an app that has a seperate link to calculator, dictionary, weather etc.
I’m planning to gather test results automatically in the future, so jsPerf will be able to generate a neat overview of test results across browsers.

See the final question in the FAQ: http://jsperf.com/faq :)
The Wikipedia article on crowdsourcing suggests both "community-based design" and "open call". You might consider perusing the rest of it for other ideas.

Excerpt:

Crowdsourcing is the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, to a large group of people or community (a crowd), through an open call.

For example, the public may be invited to develop a new technology, carry out a design task (also known as community-based design[1] and distributed participatory design), refine or carry out the steps of an algorithm (see human-based computation), or help capture, systematize or analyze large amounts of data (see also citizen science).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing
i agree that there are a set of users that are much more hardcore than the masses. it's a delicate balance. if you only cater to the advanced users your growth curves will parallel.
> I'm saying that when it comes to asset performance, "Countries with a stable political system and market economy" is a better sample than "all countries",

That's like saying "I'll buy only stocks that go up".

You didn't know, in 1900, that the 20th century would be America's.
There are plenty of articles that can be summed up in four words. That doesn't mean they aren't worth reading to get the bigger picture, details, examples, etc.
The site is awfully slow at the moment. Is it written in Ruby ? That would make the benchmark even more convincing ;)
the trick is in augmenting a simple interface with powerful technology a.k.a added functionality.
This approach will not scale. In fact vie seen it personally with multiple of my hostingnclients fall over after even 5000 databases. There has to be a file per table with innodb usually and this approach will work until younhave a few thousand customersmand then you will feel the pain of refactoring this intoms true multi tenant db system
Sorry to be a pedant, but it's the United Kingdom which is a member of the EU. Also, London is probably one of the parts of England you're most likely to find people who either don't speak English well or don't speak it at all.
"Why take the chance?" is just fearmongering, not a rational argument. Every time you get in a car, you could cause numerous deaths. Why take the chance? Giving the government the chance to redact is a much greater precaution than any of us take when operating deadly machinery. The question is why the government, which was in a position to know their sensitive nature, didn't blank out all the names.
http://webpulp.tv/ is very nice, and should be interesting ton HNers because it interviews with startups and webapps on what technologies they use, why, and how they run their systems.
I'm glad to hear that you see this as a useful tool. I've found a handful of interesting links I hadn't seen mentioned in most popular sites — HN, Reddit,…

And as for simplicity, I'll quote St Exupery:

>A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

I certainly don't believe that this design is perfect, but it fades away to let the content shine.
The 100 to 1 sentencing disparity is in the amount of drug which triggers the five year mandatory minimum sentence: 5 grams in the case of crack, 500 grams in the case of powder.

See http://www.drugpolicy.org/drugwar/mandatorymin/crackpowder.c...
for more.
someone posted a link to these guys when this was brought up before, they consolidate packages:
http://www.shipito.com/consolidation
I can't wait for sites that jump in your face with unnecessary animation and sound AND render incorrectly depending on browser when doing so.
https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/

The pricing can't be beat for static content and I haven't noticed any problems with uptime.
Thanks for the feedback. We will put together some content on who we are, who our guest speakers are, and the people currently on our board of advisers in short order. We are more heavily connected to investors and sweat equity investors than entrepreneurs at this point, so we are pushing out to the community for help in that area specifically.
Fly Eyes Used For Solar Cells
A Simple Guide to Five Normal Forms in Relational Database Theory
Similarly, London is a mass of connected towns with suburbs in between, and perhaps two "cities" of Westminster and the City itself.
Toronto is more expensive to live in than Vancouver? I think you have it backwards. Real estate, rent, food prices are all significantly higher in Van-city.
What is the cost of living like there? I've always gotten the impression it's very expensive to live there, especially for housing and rent.

I've also never been there, but want to visit someday.
Check out The Resumator for an elegant way of managing hiring from posting to organizing to filtering and beyond. The founder Don Charlton is a great guy who provides great service and just "gets it"

http://TheResumator.com
I wonder if the build quality is up to par. Nvidia ION? Wasn't that for really small set top boxes and netbooks? Maybe they made an ultra low cost version then?
Obviously depends on your interests.

I do a video & podcast every week that covers startup lessons, venture capital advice and deals funded for the week. It's called This Week in Venture Capital. http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-venture-capital/ (there are links to there to the free iTunes download.

Also, This Week in Startups is great because it profiles startup CEOs and talks about the week's news. Hosted by Jason Calacanis and is here: http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-startups/

Other recommendations: www.mixergy.com - Andrew Warner is great and profiles successful founders.

And I live TED talks.
Function Hooking for OS X and Linux
Underground Antarctica Experiment Discovers Puzzling Space Ray Pattern
RubyConf 2010 in New Orleans registration now open. Will likely sell out.
Funny, just finished installing rails 3 and the latest ruby. What a headache that was, really. In spite of following a tutorial I ran in to a whole series of showstoppers and only just now finally got it to work.

I've never played with ruby/rails before so I figured I'd better go and see what all the noise is all about but I had definitely not counted on so many installation issues.

I should probably clean this machine and do it all over again to be able to write up the exact steps to get it to work (from not having ruby before) but I'm too scared of having to go through another day of fiddling.
Startup evolution – from idea to IPO in 10 really hard steps
"because of the really rotten returns in the 1930s, investors could expect a “catch-up” decade and they got it."

I'm not sure it works like that...
Driving From Italy To China ... With No Driver
You know I got the other sense from this article. He doesn't want to show remorse because he wants to appear strong; a resilient rock against the ravages of other mere mortals. Yet, he knows that he did something wrong. He saw the pain and suffering of others up close and personal at a huge stretch of time for 2 years, and this is his way of dealing with guilt.

Somewhere in his mind he sincerely believes that by speaking on the behalf of these people he is making a form of penance.

I feel sad for him.
The other POD alternatives (Lulu and CreateSpace) have a wider focus while MagCloud sharply target on the magazine niche.

Not sure about your second question. MagCloud allows publisher to markup price from the base $0.20/page cost.
These days that's actually more of an issue in areas directly bordering the Palestinian Authority (such as Jerusalem).

Tel Aviv didn't really have much terrorist bombing recently - I wouldn't be surprised if more people (even per-capita) died in NYC, London or Madrid in the past 10 years than in Tel Aviv, and you'd never consider terrorism to be a reason not to move to either of these cities.
If I'm reading right, he's not surprised regez literals are faster than regex strings. He's surprised that regex search-and-replace is faster than a literal string search-and-replace.
> To be honest, I trust a democratically run government orders of magnitude more than I trust business owners.

There is a direct line between government interference in business and our current recession/depression. One can argue about the color of the drapes, but the trillions of malinvestment came straight from the Fed, Fannie, and Freddie. To blame the bankers for taking advantage of bad policy is like throwing a wad of cash into a crowd and expecting them not to pocket the money.
To give you an idea:
100 euros per week rent to share a room in a crowded flat
50 euros per week food
30-40 euros a week for transportation

That is for a basic existence
I am very curious about this, too. Realistically, I might have to go to India if I want to keep coding.

The Indians/Bengalis I know locally are really nice people (if a bit square :-). On the other hand, I've heard in third hand that people moving to work in India said it was no fun at all.

What gives?
If Conrad Black is a 'standard lefty' in the US, you poor bastards must have the most nihilistic hegemonic fascist right-wing government to ever exist. Frankly, if Black is a lefty, it must have taken all of the gods recorded in human history working to their max to suppress the rightist powers in the American system from going supra-Nazi-fascist-zombie-monster and destroying all non-Aryans.

Seriously, Black is a super-right wing nut job. Please, check your own facts before making outright ludicrous claims as calling him a lefty. Seriously, I hope Canada doesn't take him back because we've already got enough right-wing fraudsters running our country, we don't need another one to come back and help bolster their ranks.
I guess I would prefer simple rules instead of a value judgement. I would probably go with no patents on math, business processes, or software. Allow design patents on icons, UI elements, etc. this whole "patent a concept, not the specific implementation" is BS.
I first read this 15 years ago in high school, when a teacher of mine saw the web first take hold and felt it important enough to photocopy this piece and spend several days in class discussing it.

However, we had really only discussed the concept of hypertext and how it fit with Bush's designs -- so much of the other concepts in the piece seem dependent upon technology which was still "far off" when I first read it in 1995. Digital photography was still a curiosity too expensive to be universally practical; I still spent lots of money getting film developed to have pictures that now sit unindexed in shoeboxes. E-ink wouldn't exist for several more years. Networked tablets were what Geordi LaForge carried around on Star Trek, not what you could buy for a few hundred bucks and use to read one of thousands of books while sitting at a bus stop. I would never expect that speech recognition would get "good enough" that I could have voice messages automatically transcribed and emailed to me.

It still blows my mind when Google Voice takes a voicemail and the transcript appears on an app on my smartphone. I still have that kid in a candy store feeling when reading a book on my iPad, or browsing all sorts of movies on Netflix's streaming service. This stuff is all amazing and I hope I never take it for granted.
Wow ... someone saw the Homestar Runner main page and declared "this! this UI is the future!" But any useful platform will inevitably be used to do ridiculously terrible things, and Apple was wrong to ban twenty years' progress in programming language design in a doomed attempt to impose good taste. Designers like this will always be out there and you can't stop them without utterly crippling your platform. As everyone else noted, HTML5 will no doubt be used to get these results even more inefficiently.

(BTW, this atrocity works just fine without js. I wasn't expecting that.)
What's the connection between the "This Week In" (thisweekin.com) network and the assorted shows on the TWiT (twit.tv) network?
The HP Way: Jim Collins' Foreword
This could be a new summary format.

In Search of Lost Time: "lost youth -> melancholy adulthood"

Odyssey: "angry gods -> misplaced hero"

The Bible: "believe it -> live forever"
Have you seen similar problems with Postgres? That's what the author is using.
I have used NFS for two years now without any complaints. If you're doing something small-scale, it's an excellent service at great pay-as-you pay scheme.
Do you mind sharing about how you got hacked?
For certain values of nice.

While I find the PowerShell to be more powerful when I'm scripting stuff, I still prefer the unix shell mostly because it passes around and operates over text.

Operating over text means you can compose a pipe progressively using what you see, without having to think about how it is structured internally. Operating over text makes the normal usage of the unix shell faster and more efficient than the PowerShell. That and the terser syntax.

With the PowerShell I find myself always having to check the type of objects are being passed around and which attributes I should care about, while on unix I just "grep" and "awk" and I'm done.

The PowerShell is more of a scripting language than a shell, while the unix shell is more of a shell than a scripting language. Although both of them are both those things.
Not everyday, but certainly in the course of a week I'll think about it. It's a good reminder to focus on what's important and it keeps me from whining about the insignificant daily trials that really amount to life's nuisances.

Interesting link, I created an account and will mess with it some more. I already pay for a flickr account. The site would have to be better for this task for me to really use it to the fullest. I already do some recreational photography with a Rebel EOS T2i, so this would be a side benefit of something I already do anyhow.
What is the point of having a "good" economy that does not produce income for those risking their capital?

The basic fallacy is that the measures we use for the economy are rigged so that the facilities the gov't has at it's disposal for fixing the economy (printing money) appear to work.

What keeps the economy afloat is not the investment of capital (supply side) but the consumer purchases (demand side). Would you advocate investment of capital in areas where a market will not exist?

Also, in regards to siphoning wealth and "reinvesting" it, you may want to look at the PHIGS countries which have done just that.

Can anyone tell me that in a country like America where most people drive to work that a CPI that does not include the price of gas is accurate? Most things in the CPI are subject to massive gov't subsidies that effectively control the majority of movement in the CPI.

If the point of the economy is to maximize economic results as a whole then I can't think of a better measure of the economy than individual incomes adjusted for a real rate of inflation. It's far better than stock market / CPI proxies.
I'm not sure the relevance to the OG post, but I'll grant you that Rails 3 is less than stable, thusly it's tagged RC2, ie: not a release proper.
> That article sounds like politics in general is bad for business with which I agree. I think government works best when it's basically staying out of the way and keeping the rule of law intact.

"No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session." By Judge Gideon J. Tucker
I worked with Ted Nelson in Nottingham in 2003 (and again in Jan 2006 in Oxford) and it was a blast. He has so many ideas and brilliant endless anecdotes. I hope he works on his autobiography.
Growth in wind power makes life difficult for grid managers
London is a rather expensive place to be bootstrapping a startup. What would make it more appealing than Birmingham (nearby, pretty big), Edinburgh (medium-size city, with one of the best UK universities) or any other of the big cities with universities?

If you care for frequent flights to US/Asia, but don't mind the language barrier, Amsterdam or Berlin would be good choices as well. (Living cost in Berlin is relatively cheap yet it's attractive enough to live in for people - Amsterdam is expensive but small enough to commute if you want to live someplace cheaper).
Try Tel Aviv - Israel!
He was 18 years old and his first idea made no money. Now he is making money and has some insights he wants to share. I don't necessarily place much stock in the conclusions he draws but the story has some value. Details of how and why something failed and what the people learned from it can help others, depending upon what that specific individual is in need of better understanding.
Generally, for better or worse, the current sitting President is generally praised / blamed for all matters economic.