skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point is that it exists. We can work on getting there once we figure out whether it exists or not; no point in working on the travel part if we aren't sure the destination exists.
> Today ... his stake is worth between $2-3 billion

That's 2-3 billion Zuckerbucks as some banking people call 'em :)
Ask HN: Can someone suggest a video animator in the Toronto/Waterloo area?
Hey guys, we're about to launch our first product aimed at universities and colleges in North America. To help decision makers at schools understand our product, we're planning on contracting a simple explanatory video such as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o on top of our existing website.

I'm not having much luck finding someone decent in the area, and was wondering if anyone had suggestions. Thanks in advance.
Interesting - Facebook has had a pretty active secondary market - I've had a couple opportunities to invest, but couldn't afford the minimum buy in. What's your information that he hasn't taken some off the table? Seems like a reasonable move once it went north of $10 Billion.
It would be amusing [and expensive] if it was enabled for comments.
My problem was that the records really were purely newline-delimited, but I needed to process them using information from their context in the stream.
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I don't think you can say you've fixed the problem when the man most directly responsible for the problem is now your infallible leader, and was likely chosen as such so as to avoid direct criminal charges.

Regardless, I can appreciate the weariness everyday Catholics feel in fielding these questions. Much of my family is Irish Catholic, and I wouldn't broach the subject with them.

As for the good works the Church does, that really is inconsequential. Hamas runs schools, and Pablo Escobar was a pillar of the community. The good works one does do not absolve one of one's sins. My biggest problem with the Church and its apologists is the rather offhanded manner in which these issues are shrugged off. "Yes, we raped thousands of children, and provided the rapists with access to further children, but we're better now." "Yes, we told millions of uneducated people in AIDS-ridden sub-Saharan Africa that condoms increase their chances of getting AIDS, but the jury's still out on that."

I would have no problem forgiving the church if they offered a genuine mea culpa, turned in every child-raping priest to the authorities, and reversed their policy on condoms in AIDS-ridden and over-populated areas of the world. Far from that, however, Mr. Ratzinger has only further exacerbated these issues. I don't believe that mere membership provides material support to these activities, but every dollar you put in the donation plate does.

As for the "child abuse" issue: My dad was raised in a Catholic neighbourhood, and attended a Catholic school. The nuns would smack him with a ruler if he answered a question wrong. That's child abuse. Putting your penis inside a child is child rape. There is a huge difference between the two, and suggesting that the latter is equivalent to the former smacks of equivocation.

I understand that you are not your church, just as I understand that Israelis are not Israel. Like that example, however, the support that you provide the church, be it direct or otherwise, is at least partially responsible for its actions. Just as Israelis are responsible for the atrocities carried out against Palestinians, just as Americans are responsible for the atrocities inflicted on Iraqis, Hell, just as we Canadians are responsible for the actions of our government, so too are you responsible for the actions of your church.
Let him go? You aren't obligated to employ anyone
An illusionist explains why Apple products really are magical
I wonder if shortn could be used to turn regular Wikipedia articles into those fitting of simple Wikipedia[1].

[1] http://simple.wikipedia.org
New Twitter Design Based on the Golden Ratio
There's no such thing as a high or low bounce rate, the only thing that matters is how many conversions you're getting. someone getting a 90% bounce rate but converting at 5% is doing better than someone with a 40% bounce rate with 2% conversions.

A low bounce rate does not necessarily mean more sales.
Absolutely. I don't think many people appreciate just how dedicated Apple is to excellent power management. The iPad is a dramatic example, but Apple has excellent power management across its product lines. Macs have had near-perfect power management for years, whereas PCs still struggle to get it right. This is one area where controlling software and hardware is a huge win.
This application is pure evil. It turns normally eloquent people into silly spermatadpoles. I love it.
My thoughts are along these lines. The CEO's thoughts -- not so much.
If you were born 200 years ago, you would say us being there was impossible.

In a couple centuries, (hopefully) it'll be a non-issue. Who knows? The important thing is that we actually found something only theory foresee.

Assuming this particular news really did it, because I'm certain I've read similar headlines in the past.
It's pretty unlikely this will remain highly talked about after Kepler releases its findings in a few months. Preliminary results show huge numbers of small earth-like planets. I believe they expect to find dozens or hundreds in the habitable zone. Kepler is really what everybody is waiting for and should completely revolutionize planet-finding.
It is.

One of the founders of Cuil decided that the final mystery-meat feature from Cuil (cpedia) needed to be its own company, plus automatic powerpoint creation with text-to-speech narration.
Wow. I'd never thought I'd see Voyager 2 being cited as the state-of-the-art.
Internal defects
The architect of record is ultimately responsible for the building configuration (someone in Rafael Vinloy's office).

Since there appears to be nothing negligent or illegal, it is unlikely that there will be any sort of disciplinary charge.

There might be some sort of claim by the owner. These are typically first handled by mediation and binding arbitration if necessary. It's just a mistake.
Implementing a new UI might have had something to do with that downtime. That and looking back the UI seems a bit over done compared to facebook

CUCommunity tutorial : http://mengto.com/project/campusnetwork.com/tutorial.swf

http://mengto.com/project/campusnetwork.com/splash.htm
http://mengto.com/project/campusnetwork.com/696.jpg
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Doesn't much like Adblock. It displays all the code, but doesn't allow editing it.
It seems that the disadvantage to being remote is serious. I would consider step 3, a heart to heart, with some fact gathering beforehand.

For example, who else sees this guy for the schmuck he is? Can you recruit some allies who are in the office every day? How far has he cozied up to the CEO?
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Now we have somewhere to go when that asteroid hits in 2098

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/09/28/th...
Let me correct your math - there are 3600 seconds in an hour, so the Voyager is actually going <10 miles/sec
Your math must be off if Google's calculator is to be trusted:

http://www.google.com/#q=21+light+years+%2F+35%2C000+miles+p...

(21 light years) / (35 000 miles per hour) = 402 369.978 years
Tim certainly knows a thing or two about marketing. After reading all the claims I'm definitely intrigued. But, I'm also skeptical, since the claims seem so outlandish. So... I think I'll wait until the book comes out and flick through it in the bookstore.
Having a babysitter is not permanently behavior correcting.
That's the book that got me started on this whole thing. $13 well spent.
How about 'Tarsonis'?
Zuck has, I'm sure, cashed out enough of his shares to be more than comfortable. If you have the ability to do that and swing for the fences, why not?
I think a lot of the problems are caused by shoes, chairs and toilets. We more fully exercised our range of motion every day before all of these things that made our lives easier and stiffer.
The techniques in 4hww pretty much tell you how to succeed mostly at the expense of others. I do agree that some ideas are worth trying though and also introduce you to some lateral thinking on the nature and practice of work.

Never forget that what Tim's books do best is promote Tim and explain what a really fantastic fellow he is.
hey! easy on :)

I use Linux, but I have clients (one large corporate one in particular) that use IE6. This means I need to test against IE6, 7, 8 and soon 9, all of which require their own separate OS to run in, and each of those OS require (in theory) a licence to be purchased from MS.

This means that soon I'll require four Windows licences for an OS I don't use, just to test against each version of IE. All because MS can't make them run side-by-side
It seems that a lot of the INSERT and SELECT issues could be addressed via a stored function/procedure in a database such as PostgreSQL, MySQL's stored functions/procedures aren't there yet. You would be able to do the validation within the stored procedure, or even in a trigger, which would likely be even more efficient. I always find it odd when the solution is to use something such as Mongo DB, and continue to write more of your database logic in your app, rather than in your database, where it can run fastest without any unnecessary round-trips.
Ah, I should have just Googled it. That being said, 402,370 years makes it sound even more far fetched.
From the paper on arXiv.org: "planets that show significant eccentricities – possibly like GL 581 d – are unlikely to become locked in a 1:1-resonance. Therefore, GL 581 d is not considered to rotate synchronously in this study." I'm actually disappointed in the reporter here... that took me all of 30 seconds to find in the original paper. --see edit

Following up on some of the references, it does seem like the long-standing belief is that being a certain distance from the parent star strongly predisposes a planet to tidal locking: "planets close enough to their parent star to possess liquid water on their surfaces (the conventional HZ, below) should be tidally locked (Dole, 1964)," (Scalo et al, 2007); "For stellar masses below 0.6 MSun, exoplanets orbiting in the HZ become tidally locked within the first billion years (e.g., Kasting et al., 1993; Grießmeier et al., 2004, 2005)." (Lammer et al, 2007).

EDIT: D'oh! The OP is talking about 581 g, not d. Serves me right to just grab the first article I see on arXiv about a planet in the Gliese 581 system.
Thanks for dragging down a good conversation. Sheesh.

Ladies and gentlemen, once you click "reply", you will see a flag button for individual comments. Use it responsibly.
It looks like the article ignores important fact that IP4 address is used to determine location and whether the sender is spammer or not.
When IP addresses are easily available, it would be harder to maintain such locations and spam databases.
It looks to me that IPv6 is a waste of time and would eventually be replaced by some other technology.
By ignoring reciprocity in your original post, changing human behavior was left as an exercise for the reader.
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I still fail to see an issue in any of this if the rollout moves from backbone-to-users, and not the other way around. Which is the only order which makes much sense anyway - if the backbones can't route your packet, what's the point in speaking that language?

ISP-level NATs don't make sense, except in connecting external-IPv6 to internal-IPv4, in which case: so? Only serve up the IPv4 connections which currently exist, creating no new ones and dynamically mapping no ports, and pass through all IPv6. And if I recall correctly, IPv4 addresses are reserved in a range of IPv6 addresses already, so translating is a non-issue if the in-between is all IPv6. Any attempt to access IPv6-only addresses from IPv4 get fake IPv4 addresses, probably as some hashed value so repeat connections yield the same result.

External-IPv4 to internal-IPv6: yeah, full of issues. Who gets port 80 once you start sharing external IP addresses? SSL ports? How about all those port-specific email servers? But not the reverse.

I could be missing something obvious, though. IANAIETF expert by any stretch of the imagination. Anyone care to correct me?

(edited for a bit more, and less block-of-text-iness)
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Like? And when? And on what hardware? That address space issue still looms - putting it off another 20 years won't help anything. IPv6 stuff is available now, the problem is in using two different formats - introducing a new format is unlikely to solve that issue.
It is also more direct to calculate Voyager's speed as a fraction of the speed of light and then divide that into the 21 light years.

Voyager goes 35,000 miles per hour (given)
... 10 miles per second
Light goes 187,000 miles per second (given)
Voyager goes 1/2000 the speed of light
Light takes 21 years to get there (given)
Voyager takes 42,000 years to get there.

Hopefully I didn't drop too many zeros or use the wrong reciprocal too many (non-canceling) times.

But Voyager was not intended to go fast by interstellar speeds. It just needed to get to all of its planets before its electronics died. Any speed beyond that was a waste and could have been traded off against more data gathering equipment.

When it comes time to send the nanobots with the directions to fabricate exploration gear and giant space arrays to transmit back the results to us, I'm sure we can make them go faster.
Feel the hell
Notch's story proves what indie game developers have been praying for all along:

Gameplay is everything.
Thats interesting, I tend to do that as well
I tried to work up some sympathy for 419 spammers after reading this article.

Nope, didn't work.
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Thanks; I took the first one, LKE3FXXXHKE6. Sorry, it doesn't do much for me, but I'm not the target user. There are plenty of apps that allow me to do two apps side-by-side. Actually, I have more control over the situation by just cutting-and-pasting from the browser to a text editor...unless you added something that allowed the user to move all the notes around, pile them on top of each other, zoom out so you can manipulate more notes at a time. That's probably outside the scope of what you were planning to do.

I admire and applaud your desire to innovate and your ability to bring an app to market! Good luck with this and future projects.
The Future Of Mobile Advertising Is In Pull, Not Push
So i guess the BW cover was bullshit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BusinessWeek_cover_14_Aug_...
My first reaction when I found out about yours was "fuck, beaten" but given the ambitious direction I took, that's no surprise. :) I've had thoughts about my ideal tracker/sequencer stewing for probably well over a year...the beta builds of FF4 just induced me into laying all of them out and seeing how I can make them work.

It's good to see that we're thinking along similar lines...I'd like to see lots of JS music apps.
I'm not aware of that reference... care to enlighten me? The wikipedia entry didn't really answer it for me.
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I may have noticed it early because I'm too tall for the tables in most coffeeshops, but your body is probably not cool with sitting static while you read for hours on end. Any exercise that emphasizes stretching will help. Yoga, aikido, etc.
Naah.. The government will just require your unique citizen identifier in the bottom 64 bits. You won't be able to sign up for an ISP or a cell phone or any other connected device without it. Why do you think they made the address space so absurdly huge?
Oh no,

1. A cdn is a network with several cloud fronts
2. A cdn is optimized for static content
3. A cdn uses geographical routing

This solution does nothing of this and probably worthens the response time. It offloads some traffic though. If that's what you want, go for this solution, else don't
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firefox sync and firefox home?
Funny...I can't see the source code. But I can edit the stylesheet.

This is pretty cool.

1) How is it done?

2) How are you hiding how it's done?

Edit: Is it done through a Chrome extension?
Dupe of: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1742305

(apparently, it allowed it to be submitted again because your link contains a "/" at the end. Otherwise, the links are identical)
And on the other end of the journalistic quality spectrum, News.com.au has this article

http://www.news.com.au/technology/perpetual-twilight-of-red-...

The link from the main page reads: Odds of life on new planet '100 per cent'
It was one of the best things that happened to Intel. After some reluctance, they proved as a company users can trust in, as they allowed to return their CPUs in exchange for a non-broken one. This trust into Intel was worth much, much more then the cost of the refund policy.
It's ridiculous to say there is no plan B. Plan B has been in place and has been slowing the use of IPv4 addresses for years: Network Address Translation

If you have a home network, in all likelihood your computers do not have unique external IP addresses, just your router. Even if for some reason IPv6 was never rolled out, this would just be implemented on a larger scale--your neighborhood may get a single unique IP.

I would obviously prefer widespread IPv6 adoption, but implying chaos otherwise is just ridiculous. It would just make things a bit more painful.
Cooking provides lots of tasks that sound boring (and are easily handled by food processors, etc.), but are still very grounding to do my hand and focus on 100%.

I really enjoy making bread. Kneading dough feels very real after hours of debugging bad Algol code.

Also: You forgot to mention garlic!
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Here's my human macro for all you high school/college students:

"Expand these bullet points into a 5 page paper"

Even though it mentions things that are along the lines of correction, this could pretty easily be moved into the realm of crowd-sourced cheating.
That's a very cool calculator. I tried to work out the math based on sphere volume: V=4/3 x PI x R^3.

Earth Mass Radius Surface Gravity
1X 6378km 1.00g
2X 8035km 1.26g
3X 9198km 1.45g
4X 10124km 1.59g
5X 10906km 1.71g

If it's 2X or 3X, it's just adding 30% to 40% body weight. For 4X or 5X, it's like adding 100lb to an 150lb body. We have plenty of people in the 250lb to 350lb range and they have no problem in mobility. Human body can handle the load. It might still be helpful to have exoskeleton help.
Who is this "the government?" In fact, I heard somewhere that the government of any arbitrary spammer is just as likely as not to be a whole different government!
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It's not a rare thing for games to cheat in your favour, what was the last shooter where you had the same health as the hundreds of grunts and monsters you slew?
Crafting is the biggest part of the learning curve right now, although Notch has some ideas about how to address it. One way might be by having the player unlock "recipes" as they gather resources and experiment.

Redstone is the other part of the game with an epic learning curve. It can be used to craft functional logic gates. Some guy on YouTube made a massive ALU using it...
Bipolarland would work too. It literally has a split planetary personality.
The STYLE element has the attribute 'contenteditable' and the CSS style 'display: block'.
Social networks: Facebook and freedom around the world
Blacklisting IP's is typically based on the behavior of the address. More importantly, networks tend to be listed if a certain percentage of addresses on it send spam, act like a bot, etc.

Location databases are based on the owner of the netblock.

There are still networks in in IPv6. Typically, with IPv6, MAC addresses take up the right 48 bits of the 128 bit IPv6 address. other 90 bits are used for subnetting/routing. The new spam and location databases will focus on these 90 bits, just like location databases usually focus on the /24.
Reminds me of when I used to mess with telemarketers. My goal was to see how long I could get them to stay on the phone, thinking that the more of their time I wasted the less profitable telemarketing would be (how much of an affect could one person really have though?). I was very successful with a variety of techniques and it turned into a fun game. I almost regret having changed my number, no longer getting these calls now.

One good one was when I had this lady first describe her work environment, finding out she was working with her fiance. I had her describe him and their relationship and somehow got her talking about her willingness to engage in a threesome. After almost 15 minutes she politely told me that she had to go, being at work and all. Maybe 10 minutes later her supposed fiance called me back asking why I was talking 'rubbish' to his girlfriend. I talked with him for a while and got him to tell me about their relationship, that they had been engaged for 5 years, got engaged when she was 15! He started describing her physically but finally hung up when I tried to get him to tell me how much she weighed (I was really curious after he told me she was 5'4"). That one was during work and by the end of the conversation I had the entire office sitting around listening.

Another time I was walking home when I received a free satellite tv installation offer (during the recorded intro to these calls, before pressing '1' to speak to someone, is the best time to prepare what you're going to say). When the guy came on the line I got him to describe in as much detail as he was willing the contents of each of the porn channels that was included in the service. It's fun to imagine what their going through on their end of the call (sometimes I would get them to yell into the phone claiming I could barely hear them).

I think it's really entertaining when they get mad at me for wasting their time! This usually happens when it's a get-out-of-debt scammer. I answer all their questions and they get excited when they hear my monthly credit card bill (never bothering to find out that I pay off the entire balance each month) but then get real upset when I try to convince them that I'm not in need of their 'services'. Half the time they don't believe me, trying to 'comfort' me by telling me that it's ok to be in financial distress, everyone is in debt and are experiencing tough times right now.

I tried to think of ways to promote this kind of behavior, figuring if one in ten of their calls were to people like me then telemarketing would be much less profitable, but I never tried to follow through with anything. Now that I don't get these calls anymore I kind of miss it. Over the years I became much more comfortable, confident and competent dealing with telemarketers in this way.
There is Ron Conway facts though

http://twitter.com/ronconwayfacts
>One thing that really works for me is meditation.

FTFY
May be fake!!!
"EDIT: I'm getting down voted for doing the math! Seriously?"

"35,000 miles per hour / 60 = 583 miles per second."

I stopped reading right there, please actually do the math if you do the math.
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