skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not seeing the "widely enough" in this case. Finding life on the one moon in the solar system that could support it, specifically finding life that is organic, would very much suggest single origin. The original Hanson paper sounded almost like it was actively avoiding that possibility. Thus my impulse to state it more strongly than is strictly necessary. Finding life close to us may increase P(panspermic hypothesis), but it increases P(common origin) more, and this ratio diminishes as we find life further and further away.
I'm sorry, clearly I should've done even more work for you so you wouldn't have to do anything. Now I have, or at least, I spent two minutes looking thorugh the existing thread to find the link already there. So here, just for you, a direct link to a PDF that you can view online and without any extra work:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/578454/3932344-40-Sleep-Hacks-The-Ge...
Launching CakePlate, a boilerplate CakePHP distribution for fast web apps
interesting. While in terms of speed of communication the world may be shrinking, in terms of experience, it is growing. Had I been born 100 years ago, I would probably only know people/businesses in my city and possibly another or two where I would travel/settle. Now I get news from each coast and talk directly to friends in other continents. My experience has expanded, my world has "grown".
Broke for me too, but this solved it: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/earth/thread?tid=14469...

On Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install lsb-core
We're right before the point of launching http://suplify.me .
The AVC Network
First they came for the file-sharing domains…
or http://www.backtype.com
> Unfortunately, interlacing only works with ancient CRT TVs - modern LCD screens

You'll find expensive high end digital projectors such as the ones from Doremi also do interlacing. It's one of the banes of my life as we project lots of user generated content for our film festivals. Lots and lots of people never look at their films with interlacing, even fewer understand it.

I have shown someone their own film with the fields reversed and consequent shimmering and they couldn't identify the problem, some have even not noticed!

Also, NTSC isn't 30fps it is 29.97

I see lots of temporal artifacts on UK TV from NTSC -> PAL conversion. I use the opening credits of Will & Grace as my canonical example, interestingly that have changed (for the better) as the show got more series.

Final Cut's conversion introduces temporal artifacts.

I have been working on an FFT fps transcoder for a while but nothing to show as of yet.

I've spent quite a bit of time in India and if you watch Star TV satellite broadcasts on a CRT you will see lots of footage with reversed fields.

Get LCD panels out of the edit suites!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STAR_TV_%28Asia%29
The mass communication theory here is known as "Agenda Setting Theory" - Google Scholar results for Agenda Setting: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=agenda+setting+theory...
Can a company become so large (and powerful), that it becomes (realistically) impossible to compete?
Wow - this sort of problem is straight out of "20 years of high tech marketing disasters". Highly recommended book.
Always been amazed at how really small things (atoms) look a lot like really big things (solar systems) (ya, ya, same forces...)
Get it wrong and they could quite easily cause a run and bring down a bank. That'd be unlikely to cause deaths but could very easily cause personal and corporate bankruptcies.
yeah, I think a lot of the frustration with the emacs editing experience comes down to its standard keybindings. While on a level they do make sense, there's far too much cruft and history in them. Having to type multiple keystrokes to do things like save files, switch buffers, split windows etc is pretty poor in this day and age. I used to use vimpulse until I discovered ergo-emacs. It provides a really good set of alt keybindings for the most common emacs commands. Makes using emacs so much nicer
Presenting BigTuna - continuous integration software
This is a very good explanation of what a monopoly is and why they need to abide to different rules. I think Google, like Microsoft before it, is getting pretty close to this situation, and we as a society need to look at them in this new light. In particular, we need to impose restrictions on what Google can legitimately do with all its power.
A search engine is a question answerer and a traffic pump.
MySQL vs. PostgreSQL, Part 1: Table Organization
The Scientific Method Isn't Only For Scientists
Web Design Questions: Defining Your Online Identity
First web design generic question: who or what are you? Sure, it sounds dumb. But if you follow along with this line of inquiry, you’ll find out that there’s more to it than somewhat of a metaphysical question coming out of midlife crisis!

This first question defines so much more of your online strategy. Depending on who you are actually, it will naturally branch out with questions that are appropriate and relevant to you as you go along building an online persona.

Web Design Questions: Defining Your Online Identity goes into this line of inquiry and how this dumb question alone can later on be used to develop your brand, your message and ultimately, the site design (visual and graphics for ‘prettying’ things up).

Keywords: website planning, web design questions, website design questions
Shorter answer: Eat fewer calories.

I have been having sleep problems for a decade, but any time I run a calorie deficit I sleep like a baby.
Well, if you take it out of context, sure.

On the other hand, questioning Google's ranking algorithm for its own services, whether they receive a boost or not, that's entirely legitimate.

And considering that Google is a nearly a monopoly in search, they should be more transparent in regards to the ranking they are doing: it's not like the index isn't overblown with crap already, making concerns over spammers pretty moot.
He's already been given the "sexual scandal" treatment the elites gave to Eliot Spitzer.
MongoDC Recap (With slides from Jeremy McAnally's MongoDB Presentation)
I guess it boils down to what you prefer using. Emacs is my shell, filebrowser, ftp client etc. Having a standard UI for all your text editing is pretty amazing. After all, everything inside a CLI is just text.

I run up an emacs server on startup and use emacs client to connect to it. It gives me the instant on of VI, plus the power of all the plugins and tweaks I've made to my emacs config.

These days, most coders using vim or gvim have a pretty large config setup which takes as long as emacs to startup anyway.
Traffic is a consequence of a question being answered, the EU here is investigating whether there should be another step for getting that answer which is mind-boggling.
In-depth look at ECMA TC-39 Committee
> “Level 3′s position is simply duplicitous,” said Joe Waz, Comcast’s Senior Vice President for External Affairs, in a statement. “When another network provider tried to pass traffic onto Level 3 this way, Level 3 said this is not the way settlement-free peering works in the Internet world. When traffic is way out of balance, Level 3 said, it will insist on a commercially negotiated solution. Now, Level 3 proposes to send traffic to Comcast at a 5:1 ratio over what Comcast sends to Level 3, so Comcast is proposing the same type of commercial solution endorsed by Level 3.”

I believe Comcast is pointing at when Level 3 blocked Cogent for pushing too much traffic onto Level 3:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/105790/Level_3_Cogent...

An interesting article on why de-peering matters:

http://scrawford.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2005/10/22/1316...
Great idea. iCab Mobile is an amazing web browser, and I've learnt a lot from Alexander's blog (http://icab.de/blog)

I'll be sure to tweak the Reading queue feature to speed up the process. Stay tuned.
Any thoughts. Could there have been some flaws in their study?
While I try to start all of my new projects in 1.9, there are still good reasons to stick with 1.8. There are still a bunch of incompatibilities with gems, certain distributions coughUbuntucough still distribute 1.8 under the 'ruby' package, and large amounts of legacy code that's not 1.9 ready, for example.

That said, even though 1.8 is slow as a dog, often, it's _fast enough_. Your last paragraph hits it on the head.
FTC tightens debt collections post-mortem
All the accounts I have read seem to think it worked but go in the way of their lives to much. I doubt there are many out there which would be able to test this for a long period of time without anything at all getting in the way. From the sounds of it missing a single nap was extremely taxing.
>I understand most of the northern Latin America may harbor strong negative feelings towards the US

That is what Chavez wants you to think. I agree there is some part of the population in Venezuela that does not like the US but I think is mainly because they are being told not to like them.

I believe that most of Venezuelans have always looked up to the US and are pro-yankee. Given the choice (specially Chavez supporters) will prefer the american way of life or the american dream over this new Socialism of the 21st century.
At least for the lactose intolerance, it completely depends on the population. It's fairly well known (and studied) that Asian populations have much much higher rates of lactose intolerance (thus the love of soy milk). The wiki article on lactose intolerance puts 75% of the global adult population at some degree of lactose intolerance.

Of course, if the majority of the people you know are white (European), then of course 70% looks fudged.

It's likely the same for many of the other stats, though I can't say.
The sleep bits are (probably - don't know very much about the topic) ok, but once it gets to diet, it goes right into la-la-land. It is riddled with misinformation and the belief that a "raw food diet" fixes all. A raw food diet might make you lose weight, and it might get you food poisoning, but that's about it. For more information, I recommend C0nc0rdance's youtube videos on raw food.

For other clearly wrong, or wrongly interpreted information: While 70% of the population is lactose intolerant, that doesn't mean you are. We do know that about 99% of the Chinese population is lactose intolerant (which proooobably skews the numbers a bit), yet, for example, only about 1% of Dutch people are lactose intolerant. Northern Europeans and other people from historically very dairy-rich cultures have a very high degree of lactose tolerance, and persistent lactase production (the enzyme that digests lactose and makes you lactose tolerant). Very interesting genetics topic :) Statistics will not say anything useful about whether you are likely to be lactose intolerant, but ethnicity will. Get tested if you are in doubt. It's a simple test. Just make sure you go to a qualified medical practitioner.

As for gluten insensitivity, this is called coeliac disease and is very serious. Thankfully, the highest estimate for prevalence is about 1%, not 15%. The anti-gluten brigade has been on it for years, but non-coeliac people can and should eat gluten. It's a good protein of high quality and makes your bread dough stick together. That's why it's hell trying to bake gluten-free bread or pizza dough.

Casein, a milk protein, is also not a bad protein. While there are many scare stories about casein (it being blamed for autism, cancer, et cetera), they don't hold up very well. Casein is a nice, slow-digesting protein with a very good quality, as any body builder who does the diet/protein thing will be able to tell you. Drink your milk if you can tolerate it, and eat more cheese :)

As for multiple sclerosis, we actually don't know what causes it other than that there likely is a genetic component, but that other factors also interfere. For the actual, REAL long term effects of coeliac disease, see here: http://celiacdisease.about.com/od/symptomsofceliacdisease/a/...

As for cortisol, your body regulates this itself. If you're stressed, stress down. But if your body doesn't regulate itself, you have a huge problem and need to see a doctor right away.

While "eat food, not too much, mostly plants" is very good advice, there's also another piece of advice that has been forgotten: "You are probably not sick, and your body can take care if it." Just eat a normal, healthy diet.

Man. That was long. Sorry about that, but I had to get some facts out.
Scraping and Extracting the Cablegate HTML in Python
So what is a designer?
I'm no expert on classboxes, but there's some info here: http://timeless.judofyr.net/refinements-in-ruby (control-f for 'classb')

I'd imagine that some of the reason is due to the fact that this is already implemented, but classboxes are not. I don't know anything about ruby-core, so I don't know how much that'd matter to them, but an almost identical but implemented feature seems much better than a more pure but unimplemented one.
Oracle in conflict with another open source project?
Where does the "world's fastest" claim come from, and how was it determined? Z3 is a good SMT prover for some formulas that come from program verification, but it is neither uniformly better nor faster than other provers, one of which predates it by what, 10 years?

See the result tables in http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.5034 . Pay attention to the "Simplify" column.
Well, that's a downer. I had such high hopes for Maemo/MeeGo. It just wasn't meant to be.

I do love my N900. Coincidentally, I just started getting into app development the past few weeks. No SDK for Windows or OSX? Seriously? The SDK only works on specific versions of Ubuntu? Really? It all makes sense now why the platform has been a failure.
Sorry, what? Was this intended to be satire?

The US has done a great many things to make itself very hated in Latin America, and that is far from limited to, or even primarily in, Venezuela.
The interesting thing to note is that most of this discussion around notation is being applied to mathematics. Trying to provide higher level notation (beyond ASCII) to programming apparently was given up on a long time ago. It's a shame.
Not another step; the possibility of an alternative step.
Interviews with bootstrapping entrepreneurs: Guestlistapp.com
You hit the nail on the head. It makes it incredibly difficult to compete as a CDN when your upstream backbones start selling their "free" bandwidth as a CDN service that competes with yours.
Social Media Poll Shows Great User Insight
Glass globe doorknob is a whole-room fisheye for the other side of the door
Those smaller providers will be paying for transit with someone larger, no?
Cutting Off Burners
Not taking anything away from Sir Maurice's contributions but Babbage and Turing were both British. Was there a need for another "father"-title?
I always thought that Google should buy NetFlix. Netflix's market cap is $10B or so (maybe they pay $12-$15B in a buyout). Seems like a better deal than $6B for Groupon.

I'm sure Google has a lot more leverage in peering negotiations.
The blogger forgot to mention that designer is communication artist & scientist.

Designers build (design) communication. Not .psds or html/css
That creates a real net neutrality issue, wheras the simple issue of rather imbalanced peers doesn't.

Free peering only works, and is only reasonably fair as long as traffis is, on average, about equal. If one network is really genreating 5x the traffic of another, why would the smaller one take the hit fo free?
Sweet!! I love it.

One question: Can this library be extended to more specific areas of the body? Like detecting if somebody is naked?

I´m serios, i´m working on an adblocker especially for this.
Khelein Hum Jee jaan Sey Movie Wallpapers, Deepika Padukone & Abhishek Photos
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AI may be better than natural intelligence at coping with battlefield chaos
If you need raw performance you should look to another language because I don't think that will ever be too high a priority for Ruby.

I reject this philosophy: Lua is also a highly expressive programming language, and LuaJIT runs 75 to 100 times faster than Ruby 1.8. There's no reason why the Ruby community should settle for lousy performance.

I'm trying to track down a bug in the Rubinius JIT as I speak. Rubinius may be faster than 1.9, but I can still see dozens of really obvious optimization opportunities. If nobody screws up method caching, Ruby will eventually be 10 times faster than it is today.
How about we ask the audience? There must be at least one South American on HN willing to comment.
Bing Gordon says Kleiner Perkins is staffing up for the coming tech boom
Microsoft Wants You To Just Shut Up And Touch It
What a mess of an opening paragraph. Anyway, seems Microsoft is taking the concept of ‘touchscreen’ to its logical conclusion with a new patent, which will allow objects to be actually felt. I’m not talking, like, that Toshiba patent I rapped about awhile ago, with the electrical currents, but honest-to-Cthulhu felt.
Bracewell probe
I would say that Apple makes the user want what they do.
F*ck customer research
By looking at the smallish end of the scale, of course. I am so much bigger and more signifigant than a cilliate protist!
The solution to the wikileaks hype parade: Someone needs to start leaking stuff from wikileaks.
Chrome banner ads in Japan
Yeah or you could just turn all of them down by a third and have them all on, because most food does not need to be seared at the highest possible temperature. I could lead this sorry metaphor further with some guff about how if you want to be able to eat prime steak you need the fullest heat from one burner, but frankly I don't care.
I've created a new version of your great script, now it uses the javascript Audio() class.

https://gist.github.com/721554

This is the bookmarklet:
javascript:(function(){document.body.appendChild(document.createElement("script")).src="http://bit.ly/googlebeat})()
The $100 Million TV Over IP Startup
Awesome work, if you can append sounds to the next and create a string of phonemes instead of replacing after you click, that'd be even more awesome.
There are no doubt higher roi projects currently in the works as well. Perhaps the money devoted to this type of research could be better spent, but then, when I consider how much money human beings waste each year on football, a hearty "yes" seems entirely appropriate. My life will be changed a great deal more by whatever they announce than by who wins the superbowl.
wow, pretty damning report. initially it sounded like a cool platform to me.

Nokia should just drop Meego and throw in with android while they are still profitable.
Well, the fact that Apple is so large actually serves my point: there is a lot of information on Apple. The information asymmetry between hobbyists and analysts is nil for Apple.

In fact, I'd argue the information asymmetry tilts in favor of individuals, considering that analysts publish their forecast. I wouldn't be shocked if these guys use "analyst expectations" as an input.

Anyway, this is bad news for the analyst, because the one resource they don't have is time to focus on one company. Hobbyists, however, can focus on Apple all they want. So I'm not surprised that Apple fans nail their earnings forecast.
Numerals themselves are also notation, and I've always liked this from Alfred North Whitehead:

"By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and, in effect, increases the mental power of the race. Before the introduction of the Arabic notation, multiplication was difficult, and the division even of integers called into play the highest mathematical faculties. Probably nothing in the modern world would have more astonished a Greek mathematician than to learn that ... a large proportion of the population of Western Europe could perform the operation of division for the largest numbers. This fact would have seemed to him a sheer impossibility ... Our modern power of easy reckoning with decimal fractions is the almost miraculous result of the gradual discovery of a perfect notation. [...] By the aid of symbolism, we can make transitions in reasoning almost mechanically, by the eye, which otherwise would call into play the higher faculties of the brain. [...] It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilisation advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle -- they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments."

--from An Introduction to Mathematics, 1911
Is that page seriously embedding windows media videos ... in 2010? (yes i saw the youtube link)
That's what the address bar is for, type the address of any 'alternative' and you'll get there.
As a bonus you can also google the name of that 'alternative', click the link and you're there, and it won't cost you a thing.
No, not for any real length of time - unless of course they are granted some privilege by the government.
It's early days... it's a bit early to say that it's a failure, Maemo was never really pushed and Meego is not finished. Of course this is an ominous start. The SDK will come to Windows, thats pretty much a given, KDE works in Windows.
If it doesn't, then virtual machines are not too painful, this has a chance of working after all the stack is pretty much the standard Linux stack.

This one should be the easiest for developers, your not stuck with a language or framework that is foreign, getting started should be easy.

As it is now, we haven't even got any phones running it, so of course it doesn't all work and hasn't been polished yet. Whether Nokia can survive long enough to see it through, we'll have to wait and see, I hope so.
The Human Factor vs. The Machines [TSA Thoughts]
Looking at the library: eewww, completely undocumented code :)
Oh Wikileaks, first we learn that the USA thinks poorly of Iran, and now we learn that the banks are corrupt.

Shock. Horror.
Correcting the course of your company’s culture
Fell Off My Bike, and Vowed Never to Get Back On
There's always Fortress, which can be written in Unicode:

http://projectfortress.sun.com/Projects/Community/
Twisted 10.2.0 Released
'fast' and 'CakePHP' shouldn't be used in the same sentence. Cake is great for RAD (Rapid Application Development) but the framework itself is massively bloated to almost the same level as a full CMS.

You'll get to market faster, but you'll also be planning a rewrite or migration sooner should you enjoy some degree of success.