skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Overlapping orbits would be interesting. They would have to be equal size planets and directly opposite (my mind isnt alert enough to consider 3D right now) the star so as not to collide nor alter the other planet's orbit right?
If your going to go down this road having an open link in which anyone can use sounds like it could cause trouble. Another good option would be to have a list locked down at the start of the group and then require group members to ok people being added. Another idea would be people joining can only see new content.

I know this doesn't completely solve the problem but to me unless it was really locked down somehow it doesn't differ enough from what facebook are offering.
yea, Debian is goodness. I think Ubuntu inherits most of that goodness, but the packaging seems to be a little more flakey. I've had more dist-upgrade failures in Ubuntu than with Debian. FWIW as of now, I use Debian on servers, and Ubuntu on desktops. I wouldn't use any distro other than Debian for a server.
Homeless Experiment
For large applications I use Dojo, for quick small apps and web pages I use jQuery. I focus my time on these two because I feel that they represent the best in their respective classes. But yes, I use Dojo, CSS and HTML that is pretty much it. For the back end I use Java, mainly because there is a wealth of middle-ware technology available for Java. I use JAX-RS to provide all of my services as RESTFull services.

http://www.ibm.com/social/impact/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayenu
I've unfortunately revealed myself for the inappropriate person that I am... Whilst it is not fair, it the rules that those with influence make as they hold the communal metric of quality and content value.
I'd be surprised, but happily we have options for making such tests via Hubble and others, so if not now, then maybe later.

BTW if you haven't seen it, you'll probably enjoy this (small pdf): http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.43....
I've used a number of different registrars, and the one I keep coming back to again and again is DreamHost. I don't know whether you need to host with them to use them to register domains, but ... here's what I love about them: DreamHost makes it really really easy to move your domains away from DreamHost. That sounds counter-intuitive (if they're so good, why would I want to move them away?), but it isn't. When you set up an account with GoDaddy (or other registration services), if you later decide that you want to change your registrar, they have a CRAZY process that you have to go through where you have to get an e-mailed code, that you then have to enter back into a random form at GoDaddy's site, and then you have to do something else, and only THEN do you get the authorization codes to actually move your registration. At DreamHost, those auth codes are one click away. And that's the kind of thing they do: They make it easy to work with them. And if you ever decide you need to move on, they make it easy to stop working with them.

So, yeah. I don't get any kickback or referral for referencing them. But you should absolutely check out http://dreamhost.com.
"Almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching." --Terje Mathisen
I have no idea if/how that would work - it was just the first wacky thing that came to mind blush
USA: liquidationchannel.com hacked but site claims "under maintenance"
Just received a letter dated August 19th, 2010, from Liquidation Channel, liquidationchannel.com, which is actually: The Jewelry Channel, Inc. USA, doing business as “Liquidation Channel”.<p>The letter states that a breach of its website may have compromised certain details of customer accounts, including credit card information, for anyone who registered from February 1, 2009 to August 8, 2010.<p>The actual web site claims that they are undergoing "maintenance" and does not mention anything about the breach.
Clausewitz might be practical compared to Sun Tzu, but his assertion that the enemy’s center of gravity (strongest point) is the point which all energies should be directed sounds stupid. He is also too intent on single deciding battles.

Sun Tzu's use of deceit, spying and diplomacy - avoiding the battle altogether - is a more flexible approach. But it's impossible to believe that you could predict the outcomes of major scale events in such a precision that he teaches.

You should also read about John Boyd, a master hacker in his own right:

Little-known pilot shaped U.S. strategy in Iraq:
http://www.post-gazette.com/nation/20030321boydnatp5.asp

From fighter Tactics to the Art of War:
http://www.sci.fi/~fta/JohnBoyd.htm
It looks like all three of your grep commands there are I/O-bound (where are you getting a machine with much less than a gig of RAM, but 50 megabytes per second of disk streaming? Is this an old server with a RAID?), but plan9 grep uses six times as many CPU cycles as the other greps.

I wouldn't call that "competitive", even if system-call overheads does knock that crippling slowdown down to less than a factor of two.

Also, what kind of kernel are you running there that would peg your CPU with a mere 300 megabytes per second of disk I/O? Is DMA disabled on your disk or something? Surely not, because there aren't any IDE PIO modes that are anywhere close to 50 megabytes per second.
I didn't comment on the article but on the statement above about applied statistics being dominated by ml and about Bayesian statistics being the future.
The only confusing bit is whether he was actually ever in the real world at all, or it was all a dream. This is almost the main concept of the film, and not answered when we see the spinning top still spinning at the end.

Great film, glad to see a great sci-fi film doing well at the box office as well. Moon was a great story last year, that did not do so well. Worth checking out.
I worry about road traffic accidents and heart disease. You might like this book -

"The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things"

http://www.amazon.com/Culture-Fear-Americans-Afraid-Things/d...
i don't anyone's asserting its just for one year.
That's a fallback mechanism, used by glibc on any "unix" system that doesn't have a more specific implementation deeper in the sysdeps/ hierarchy (there's a Linux one that defers to the syscall somewhere in there).
It's present in the 3BSD distribution I have from 1979, from tuhs.org. I don't think any copies of 2BSD survive. I think '76 is about the time Sixth Edition came out, so I don't think it's likely that vi started that early.
Pattaya, I guess the rental market is diverse. I didn't care for Phuket much myself - a bit of a tourist trap I thought.
I use several registrars that have been mentioned, but I still haven't found one that I consider both really good and cheap.

Do you mind sharing which registrar you've found really good without necessarily being cheap?
They do. The catch is there is (up to) a 12 month lag.

http://publicaccess.nih.gov/
agreed. dollars spent per unit of educational progress. I doubt a valid "unit" exists, which is one reason the public sector consistently fails at this. otherwise, you'd think turning over your brain over to government would work like a charm.
Better yet, be a not /quite/ so early adopter. Move over once the hive mind has sorted all the problems, but when they're still fresh in their minds.

I certainly buy that you'll have to update sooner or later, but I'd rather do it on my terms.
Well I pay $10 or more to go see a quality movie. I make the choice to go out, choose the movie I want to see and pay the cost. Cable TV does not offer me this and as like Blockbuster being killed by Netflix(crazy late fees consumers hated), such will be the downfall to their locked in shackles business model consumers loathe.

Quality programs can still be made and just like movies consumers will pay to watch them. Also look at the DVD market it was huge; ppl payed 15 bucks per DVD.

Sounds like you have a personal investment and or making your money off the cable pig that needs to be slayed. If your here reading HN then think out of the box to increase ur profit and solve the problem of the cable pig!
Ask HN: How Would You Design A Doggie IQ Test?
I take care of two really cute street dogs (see: http://imgur.com/6sNPA.jpg ) and one thing that continuously surprises me is just how intelligent they are. One of them in particular is quite fascinating in this regard.

She has taught herself how to open doors with her paw, and she plays complex mind games with me. For example, once she invaded the space of the other and provoked him, while he was growling she just stood there observing my reaction to the situation. After I stepped in and defended her only then did she trust me enough to stay around me. Another time she started playing the doggie equivalent of hide and seek with me. She would watch me approach from underneath cars and then run off to conceal herself, while keeping track of my movements.

This is something really incredible.

I don't think that anyone has ever expected a dog to develop and test a complex theory of mind. Her behavior is just too complex to explain otherwise, and herein lies a very interesting problem. How do we know that she actually has one? How can we tell if she is as smart as I assume? To decompose the problem a bit, how do you judge what constitutes intelligence in the narrow framework of a dog's existence?

This is perhaps one of the most interesting problems I have come across in a long time. Even though it's doubtful that I'll discover something Earth shattering, but I want to at least make an attempt at solving it and perhaps we will learn something really fascinating about the mind along the way.

So, how would you go about it? What experiments would you perform? How would you set about in creating a doggie IQ test?

The best part is that I am in the position to execute the experiments as long as it doesn't hurt them (see: http://imgur.com/7O1xA.jpg )

Thanks in advance.
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Damn, we have been looking for something like this for so long. I even posted an Ask HN question about precisely this a little while ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1393159). In the end, we keep stats nightly and export them to excel. Yeah, re-creating the graphs every time is what kills it. So we export a limited version to Roambi.

The issue is that Roambi (strangely) can simulate and such in flash, but only output to iphone/ipad. Granted, it's a gorgeus interface.

Now, I may be a bit old fashioned, but handing our database out is something that makes me very nervous and opens us up for liabilities if something were to happen.

So tempting, though ...

One possible idea would be to somehow derive a cooked version of our DB and use that. Not sure how to do it nicely.

Another option is to somehow license this as a gem or something?

This is exactly what we need for many needs and perhaps all needs if you actually managed to abstract all the needs in a general way.
I think server frameworks like GWT and Echo take the wrong tack, they favor the developer to the detriment of the designer. I think the JavaScript toolkits have it right by separating the concern of the UI away from the back end and placing it squarely in the hands of the designer and UX developer. It is a different discipline and given the historic nature of web development, server toolkits either favored the developer (Java) or the designer (PHP) and made sacrifices to the opposing discipline. Removing the UI from the server all together provides the best of both worlds for all parties involved. Even if you are a lone gunman freelance.
I highly recommend you read "Making Ideas Happen" by Scott Belsky (the99percent). I was already using Evernote for much of my idea-keeping but this inspired me to organize it better. The initial idea is but one piece of the puzzle. As you brainstorm (no matter where) you need to record the ideas and then take action. Too many ideas die not because they were bad but because a plan of action failed to take root.

My routine:
1) write down the idea and all related points in Evernote and that goes in backburner tagged appropriately.
2) Mindmap the idea out.
3) Start wireframing

- note this is just fleshing the idea out. All the while be searching for competitors and testing out what they have done. Take note of likes, dislikes, and not implemented differences with you.

4) Check google trends and keyword generator to see how many people have been searching for your solution. Do not be discouraged if you don't find a lot here... sometimes things really are novel (like, what keywords would one search for if looking up a twitter like service?).
5) Start talking to everyone about your idea. Hit up tech meet-ups and anyone who would be your potential client regarding the idea. People will be really nice and say nothing but good things. Do not let this idea ego-stroking go to your head (think about it... when have you ever asked another entrepreneur the hard question "why?" when you're really thinking the idea is without merit?). Ask everyone you share the idea with "How would you improve upon this?" or "Is there anything out there that you've seen like this?" or "Is there anything about this that you think is off?". When asked people will volunteer their honest opinion (or complete misunderstanding of the concept). Again, don't take any of this wrong... you may just be lead in a whole new direction or be given some great ideas to add to it that you never considered.
6) Take it all in and break it down to its absolute core. Then take that core and break it down again. Take all the esoteric meaning you've given it out and break it right down to the true MVP. Then get coding.
This is really good. Simple perhaps, but I'm guessing it's just early.

When I'm done with my MSc project you guys should take a look. It loads in near real-time (within seconds of a change) SharePoint data into a SQL database in a form that allows for the differently structured data to be reported on. It's only a few weeks away from being written up but I'm going to be putting the code out there for anyone to use once it's done.

Anyhow an issue that you're going to have is data storage.

Ignoring the fact that enterprises will be very reticent to letting you have data, SMEs in Europe are going to be very reticent to let that data leave the legal boundary of Europe. There are lots of good laws in Europe that protects data so long as it's kept in Europe.

You should look at putting in place something that allows you to offer Europe only hosting of the data to counter that, a silo for a major legal domain.

That's the big problem I see, but in your favour not all companies will think of it (though enough will).

Another question I would have is: Storage is cheap but ongoing cloud storage is still expensive (relative to buying a couple of hard drives and a cheap machine vs you holding the data for a couple of years). Have you not thought of just offering the charting as a product companies can install locally? This also solves the legal boundary problem of data protection.

Also you should think of adding KPI charts that can be embedded into Word and PowerPoint docs. Little smart widget things that go and get the chart data from you as it changes.
Chrome uses some absolutely amazing 4-500MBs per tab. Had this box had less than 12GBs, I would rather be using the Firefox 4 betas.
Why a week not a month or a year? Or half a day for that matter?
Of course, everyone is free to stay on whatever version they are using till the time it is too big to fail, er… I mean to big to be refactored.
I cannot escape "IE6" popping up in my head as I read this discussion.
Glad we can help you out! We take what we do seriously and we're like consultants under tight NDA. We'll connect to your data securely and never share it with anyone.

Large banks, tel cos and credit card companies hire consultants all the time. Plue we'll be so useful!
No, he doesn't assume that. He assumes an average rate of inflation with the mean average being above zero, because it's always been that way. http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/historical-in...

When you're talking about decades of retirement, the compound annual growth rate of inflation is all that really matters.

There isn't clear consensus on inflation/deflation in the near term. While last year saw deflation, a lot of economists think that printing money like we are will cause unusual deflation.
Congrats, Levine and Dave!
We will definitely add the ability to embed charts. It is all done in javascript which means it can be viewed pretty much everywhere.

We are looking into a Firewall version much like Github has for big businesses, but we really want to build the product with the small and medium business in mind.

Definitely stay tuned as we iterate. There is a lot more to come!
you can get a domain name from yahoo for $1.99 for a year. After 60 days you can transfer you domain to the host of your choice which saves a lot of money if you have to register multiple domain names.
When I clicked on the link, I almost clicked off before seeing what language this was even targeted at.

The first point is "Develop in a single, object-oriented language." That's just buzz.

Line 2: "Stop worrying about HTML, JavaScript, AJAX, and Comet." More buzz. Everybody says I can stop worrying about these things, but I still don't believe you. Is it web based?

Line 3: "Deploy seamlessly across all browsers and operating systems." Great, so it is web based and does exactly what every other web page does. Still not sold.

Line 4: "Create lightweight, on-demand websites and WebApps" More buzz, I don't care yet.

Line 5: "Boost your productivity. Develop faster, with fewer resources." Everybody says this, still not sold, ready to leave the site.

Line 6: "Enjoy many other exciting features." Great. I'm all the way through the bullet list and I still don't have any real idea what this project does.

Finally, as I scan the small print, I see that it is PHP based and is optimized for web apps.

This seems like a good idea, but the site is not great for discovering that.

One of my favorite new project sites is for vows (http://vowsjs.org/). It has one sentence declaring the goal, two sentences with output showing typical usage, and a brief paragraph explaining the purpose. All of it looks good too, and the rest of the documentation is very complete. I'd take a page out of their book if I were you.
Thanks AmitinLA, your suggestions are quite helpful.
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> If you plan to support your app for a long time, you will realistically have to upgrade to 3.x eventually.

The keyword here is "eventually".

Wait for the next point release before upgrading.

Just like Windows.
Are you, or any of the other recent yc sites I've seen lately, finding Olark to be useful? Do you find that users are indeed using it to seek assistance?
Not sure which is better form that quote. Someone who protects the company from shit, or someone who funnels the shit away from everybody else in the company?
Ask HN: What would be negative implications of HIV becoming a curable disease?
Would be interesting to explore how society will change and be affected since HIV is mostly tied to homosexuals.
High Fructose Corn Syrup: Tasty Toxin or Slandered Sweetener?
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Curing a disease is always a good idea. And I think your statement "HIV is mostly tied to homosexuals" is factually incorrect, especially on a worldwide basis.
Uhhhhhh, I'm guessing that you were eating cheap. There's no reason that you'd have to "survive" LA cuisine unless you actually didn't spend money on it and just went to McDonalds. There are amazing restaurants in LA. Lots.
While I didn't downvote him, I agree with the downvoters. His substantive claims about how the research/peer review system works -- upon which is entire argument is based -- are factually incorrect.
so whats the best suggestion here?
I see the opposite side of that here in London. All the main supermarkets - Tescos, Asda, Morrisons, etc. - have very little in the way of product choice. Living in east London, I have to go well out of my way to find a different branch of Sainsburys or Waitrose to get certain products.

For example, "McCains Simply Gorgeous Chunky Chips", a variety of oven chips in beef dripping, is vanishingly rare; there's a Sainsburys in Bethnal Green which sells them, but that's going well into the city.

Similarly, for The Berry Company juices - things like açaí, blueberry, goji berry - I have to go to Waitrose in Canary Wharf. Other Waitrose outlets are hit and miss, with patchy coverage of the line; and there's virtually no chance of finding the products elsewhere.

I was amused to find once I went to a Tescos Extra that they largely just had twice the space on the shelf for the same number of SKUs.
He was absent from all of his podcasts for a while to take his daughter Abby off to college. I noticed he hadn't tweeted for a bit. I just figured he was relaxing after all that stress.
If you suck at singing, you'll wreck your throat and need surgery to fix it. That's a large part of what vocal coaching is for. In that sense, there's definitely a "wrong way" to do it.
Wonder what she'd say about Falconer.
Oh, there are a few segments where traffic is money, and it's not hard to work out a deal to convert it. Travel is one of them. Visitors are usually ready to become customers somewhere so it's not hard to get referral fees.

I loved the story at the first SS from TripAdvisor co-founder Langley Steinert about how they got their first referral deal. They simply got permission from Expedia to start sending them free traffic, no strings attached. After they did that for a couple weeks, they just turned off the spigot... and soon got a call from Expedia asking them where the traffic went and how to bring it back. Expedia later bought TripAdvisor. If only it were always so easy...
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The consensus is that we all find it really useful. We don't see a lot of volume via chat but almost all of the conversations started in olark are meaningful.

Our customers get a personal touch and we get live feedback. I would definitely recommend it.
I'm always confused by requests like this. This is probably the third time I've seen it here, and who knows how many other times elsewhere. Most of the time they aren't even really concerned about the data, they just have some intangible need for their account to be deleted.
What would you like to know ? We could perhaps write a follow on blog post with additional details.
There's plenty of good cheap places to eat in LA too, especially if you broaden your horizons a bit. The range of cuisines here is quite extensive.
Thanks for the kind comments Harry!

We just launched our new Google Closure based webclient today, lots of spiffy new stuff coming. Stay tuned!

Feel free to contact me at aschobel (@) snaptic.com
The people I follow on Twitter basically fall into two categories: people I know in person and people I don't. I like knowing what's going on in the lives of people I know & care about. And, the people I don't know share interesting articles and links to stuff they've done, which I'm interested in.

It's especially important to me as we all get older, move to other states, and have kids which eat into our free time. We can't hang out, but we can "hang out" with each other through Twitter.