skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Evolutionary processes aren't magic, they can only move along gradients defined by small changes. If it can be shown that these bacteria have something so radically different that it couldn't possibly have gotten there by small changes, such as by having a biology with no resemblance to DNA/RNA as we know it, then I'll have to accept a second origin.

However, if these things were just discovered I find it unlikely these have been analyzed to the point that we can be conclusive about it. Historically speaking people have tended to get radically more excited about this sort of thing than they have scientific justification for, for a variety of reasons. The full answer will probably take longer, unless they've been successfully sitting on this for a rather long time. A slow process of swapping in arsenic for phosphorus might cover it and leave something superficially distinct from modern life but still clearly descended from it.
du -hs ~/.config/google-chrome
89M	/home/cole/.config/google-chrome

Hm.
I think he's probably on target. This was my prediction in the previous thread on the upcoming press conference: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=1952449
She's an order of magnitude faster in developing HTML+CSS than anyone else I've met, and I've worked with some extremely talented people.

It's not a gender issue, just happens that a lot of talented developers I've met have been women.
F.T.C. Online Privacy Plan Seeks ‘Do Not Track’ Option
It's true that tabs on top are more sensible structurally, but they fail in one big way: there's no place on the screen that shows the full page title. I look at my Chrome, and the titles in the tabs are all truncated. I go to FF, and the title of the current tab is in the window's title bar.
Does it support oAuth? It doesn't seem to.
Interactive VC co-investment network
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect_(law)
That quip was about Korotkevich not Neal. And besides, it was Kolstad who said it.
Sarah Palin says: target WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange like the Taliban
By way of NAT there is effectively unlimited IPv4 space. I predict IPv6 will continue its very slow pace of adoption for quite some time.
Ask HN: Facebook like. What's the significance of it?
I read an article a month ago that discusses the significance of being liked in Facebook.

It shows that for each 10 likes, there's a chance that it will be read 3 times by their friends.

Now, I'm trying to find that article again because I want to re-read it.

Please if anyone knows the article, please point it to me.

Thanks
What helped me was f.lux <http://www.stereopsis.com/flux/>, a tool that adjusts the color temperature of your screens during the day, following the natural daylight pattern. It's available for Windows, OS X and Linux, and it's free, so I recommend trying it out.
I don't have data, but I suspect that labor costs these days are lower than they were back then due to a greater use of machinery. e.g., a foundation trench that would have taken a dozen men a week to dig with pickaxes, shovels and wheelbarrows can be done with one guy and a BobCat in a day.

Don't forget that technology offers massive leverage in construction.
I think you're on to something very important.

Playing along with this idea a bit, everybody says that Facebook is bad because the stupid things you do when you're a kid can haunt you forever.

Well this just takes it up another level, doesn't it? Ever have a bad day, get pissed at somebody? Maybe say some things you probably shouldn't?

Of course you have. Everybody has.

But now, through the marvels of modern technology, your words stay with you forever.

That means -- and I don't advocate doing this at all -- that if I'm running a business that's in competition with you, I don't have to perhaps develop the best product or service. Nope. Instead I can develop a just-average product, and then do a little digging to find out what sorts of shitty things you've done or said on the internet. Wait for the right moment, use a social network and a trusted poster as a conduit, and voila! I just helped you trash your own business. And my fingerprints are nowhere on it.

I'm not saying that this is what happened. For all I know, the guy might be a jerk. What I'm saying, along with plusbryan, is that there is no way to know from the information available if you are being purposely manipulated for a response or just being honestly told a story

That's kinda scary.
Beware the fluffy story - the hidden influence of PR agencies
Post a comment on this post with a rough idea (and preferred technology) and contact info. If anyone is interested they'll e-mail you.
More or less, yes.
Tactical Hell...the great source of misery in business and life
Today's the deadline for applying to the Knight News Challenge
The Chronicles of Narnia 3: Wallpapers, Release Dates
The Chronicles of Narnia 3: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is an upcoming 2010 3D fantasy-adventure film directed by Michael Apted. The movie is based on The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the third published novel in C.S. Lewis's epic fantasy series,
I won't say that is impossible, but anyone wanting to execute on it needs to have a team where everyone speaks a lot better Japanese than I do, and your odds of recruiting that team stateside are pretty slim.
A nice reinforcement of pg's 2005 article on the PR agencies behind the 'news':
http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Even human interest stories aren't immune.
And I didn't mean to sound like I was lambasting you. Not everyone is familiar with the Cocoa world.

I just wanted to point out that (most likely) the vast majority of objc/Cocoa programmers in the world got started by reading his book (along with Kochan's objc book).
I agree, even though Scribd works pretty well in Chromium. In Firefox, it used to crash the browser all the time. I wish people would just use Google Docs as a PDF viewer on the web. Just prepend https://docs.google.com/viewer?url= to any PDF URL and there you go. Or even better, link to the PDF and give me the option to handle it as I want. I have a Chrome extension that uses Google Docs as a PDF Viewer, but also lets me download it. No more Adobe Reader, ... just Scribd still gets in the way.

//offtopic
"Without restriction". Not that that matters. If a license doesnt have a term, then its irrevocable. Oracle can always change the license for future releases.

You must bear in mind that this is open source. Oracle does not own this. It doesn't appear to be aware of this.
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South Korea spy chief says more attacks likely ~ A News Fuse
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Make sure to look at this more comprehensive review: http://nichol.as/benchmark-of-python-web-servers
I wonder when they will sue skype (which also has these indicators)...

Funny how RIM wrote an open letter (strangely removed from their site now) about how patents were a problem, and needed to be reformed. They got sued for similarly obvious patents not long ago, and had a very different attitude from the defendant's side of the argument.

Article about the now redacted letter: http://goo.gl/e6e4U
No, I don't. My interpretation of the situation (which is probably incorrect) is that I'm asking you to share some wisdom and insight, and you're responding with snide remarks about the nature of stock exchanges.
No need to mess around with curl bindings directly in php. `file_get_contents` will accept an url.
There's a difference between "Hey, HN! Check out what I made! Thoughts, please?" and "Hey, HN! Theres this awesome app that I really like that has a new beta out."
another shameless plug for my own site as well:
http://minutestocountdown.com/

experimental: send a text or call to set a timer when you aren't near a computer
Thanks. That should definitely be the default, though.
ISP-level NAT is a nightmare scenario for anything P2P; you can say goodbye to skype and bittorrent under "effectively unlimited" NAT'd IPv4.
On my macbook (with intel/nvidia auto switching graphics) chrome will grab the nvidia card and never release it. If i force it to use the onboard intel card it works fine, and doesn't get insanely hot running flash videos. That hurts battery life too.
This task screams for DSLs, especially on the generation end. Doing this in PHP directly (or most other general purpose languages) encourages too little variation because adding alternatives is relatively heavyweight. Writing a good DSL that makes it easy to offer more alternatives in a single template will make it much easier to produce something even less distinguishable from a human report.
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but we're always looking for anyone smart.

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Ask HN: What service does your website use to send emails?
Do you just use postfix/sendmail on your localhost, do you SMTP to your company's Exchange server, or are you using a 3rd party that just gets the job done?

Our server is sending around 7,000 emails a day (all opt-in job alerts), and it led me to question if using postfix is the smartest method or if there are reasons to rely on a 3rd party for email delivery.
That video is very good, but don't forget the research papers from the Self project either (http://selflanguage.org/documentation/published/index.html)

Particularly good:

"An Efficient Implementation of Self" (http://selflanguage.org/documentation/published/implementati...)

"Making Pure Object-Oriented Languages Practical" (http://selflanguage.org/documentation/published/practical.ht...)

"Organizing Programs Without Classes" (http://selflanguage.org/documentation/published/organizing-p...)
Unique Templates for Different Categories and Authors in WordPress
Why indeed? Especially when the company has grown so large and sclerotic that developing new products has become a struggle against entrenched corporate bureaucracy. I'm sure it's a very tempting and logical proposition, in the short term.
Please take my short, 3 question, domain Name Survey for entrepreneurs/startups
Wondering how startup folks think about domain names.

Will share the result later today.
Awesome DIY papercraft toys
The only thing I would add would be to make sure the links are cross-domain.

I can imagine several different websites operating in a target niche, say home mortgages, that might have menus and pages and such that reflect common search terms in that area. In fact, if you think about it, if you're writing for a niche you should anticipate what people want to know about that niche, and search terms give you that, so there's quite a bit of commonality.

But as long as the links were cross-domain, sure, makes sense to me.

I just wonder if there aren't a lot of more edge cases like this. At the end of the article he kind of waves his hands around and says something like "and if this doesn't work, then you can use artificial intelligence and machine learning"

That's a sign that perhaps there are many more holes in this line of attack that he just doesn't care to deal with. Don't know.
Living organisms that aren't based on something resembling DNA/RNA would be just as big a deal as extraterrestrial life, and I don't think the labeling of such organisms as 'alien' is misdirection.

Now, if it proves that they're merely DNA/RNA based organisms that happen to metabolize arsenic, that would be a biological whimper, as yes, they're just an earlier branch in the evolutionary tree.

However something that appears not to share a common ancestor with the rest of life on the planet would be a huge deal.
You have to be careful that what follows the "but" is not a personal criticisim. For example:

"I don't mean to be rude, but you're an idiot"

is no less rude as a result of claiming not to be rude (though they /may/ not notice this and it might work).
Writing a spider in 10 mins using Scrapy
While I agree with the consensus that this is evil (essentially cutting a start-up off at it's knees), RIM has a legal obligation to enforce that patent if they know someone is infringing or they risk losing it. The Kik founder should have been much more vocal about being booted and having his keys revoked; now he makes himself look like an easy target. He really needs to put PR pressure on RIM at this point if Kik is going to survive.
Are there any start ups working on this problem? It seems like a ripe niche. Perhaps not so much for iPhone (since you need root), but Android certainly.
Normally, I'd agree, but in the context of Self, Smalltalk, Xerox PARC, and everything that have come out of them, it's justified.
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-addr...

How long before one of the companies sitting on "legacy class A" IP space sells them off? Are any of them doing this already?
Emile, great job! A few things:

-The font is an eyesore. You should change to a much more reader-friendly font stack (for starters, you have a sans-serif font whose base font is serif, that's a no-no). Check out some links for help: http://delicious.com/acconrad/typography

-You have a typo on the front page "Please use a commma between tags" 2 m's :)

-You should stagger points based on answering v. asking, as answering/mentoring is arguably worth more than asking.
Ask HN: What would you do with 6 months of free time?
I'm graduating from college this month, and just accepted a job that I'll start in June-July. I was lucky enough to get a signing bonus as well as have some money saved up, and I want to put this gap time to good use.

I've got a few side projects that I've been putting off that I could work on, and a few hobbies that I could spend some time on (photography, for one), but I could do these things anytime.

Any particular places to travel? Any experiences that I could go and seek out in this time? Any other ideas?
On the other hand we may have been just lucky, we have had an infection of upwards of 10 million systems of unknown size, origin and purposes, but fortunately its owners decided to not use it.
This seems different on a couple of levels to me. J-Ro's headline was a pretty accurate summary of what the NY Times reported in the context of the overall Net Neutrality debate. And the top-ranked response on Reddit pointed out his agenda and dissented, while on Yelp the two "Elite" posters both criticized the business.
Panopticlick shows if you can be uniquely identified, but it doesn't show if you have been uniquely identified. I'd find it useful for the site to show me a record of my past visits ("You last visited the site on...") as a proof of concept, but the EFF may be intentionally avoiding any privacy issues. This is important, as uniqueness isn't in itself a bad thing, if your unique identifiers change on every page load. For example, it would be enough for a user agent switcher plugin to append a random number for every page load to make you look like a first-time visitor every time.
Ah thanks for the feedback!
+1 for "dissolves the geese".
> I went from struggling to do an easy one hour run to running over 150km/week.

I think 150km/week qualifies as pretty strenuous! I'm not saying one can't lose 20 lbs. / month, I'm saying it doesn't happen by just eating healthier, smaller meals.

> you should be burning over a 100 calories per km, not mile.

Well, 125 cal / mile = 78 cal / km, so we're not off by much. Certainly, there will be that much variance depending on whether you're (a) healthy but not lean or (b) fairly overweight
Rim is taking a significant risk that its patents will be invalidated now for obviousness, or, just as likely, if prior art surfaces.
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Thank the contributors, I only maintain the site! ;) Of course you can thank the site by paying it forward!

That said, UVa's problems are better defined nowadays. Tough problems are actually tough, instead of trying to trick people!
At the time, AC was paying about $3 up front, plus pay-per-view incentives. And it has a good Google PR. So, I figured I could either be lazy and submit to AC or build my own site and spend a lot of time trying to get a decent PageRank. I chose lazy.
I was thinking more of a team of entrepreneurial native Japanese who simply decided to do it in US in search of better start-up culture.
8 Ways To Boost Your Business With Webinars
I'd love to hear if you have used webinars to increase your leads and sales in the past, or if you think about doing them after reading this post.
That's true. The problem is that source code is only a fraction of the knowledge contained in the system. In most source-code-based systems, you would write code for building a lookup table, or for reading one from storage. This code would be executed at application startup. In Smalltalk or image-based lisp, you simply make the table and save the image. Unfortunately, the source code now doesn't fully describe the system. Systems like ENVY are intended to provide a process for putting the data in the source.
Given how short and pointless this article is, all it can do is make FastCompany look like a bunch of chauvinists.
I worked on this a long time ago and knew of others working on the same idea. I didn't pursue it for financial gain because it seemed too sleazy.

If you're curious what kinds of information your browser gives to a remote server, creating a "test.php" file with the contents "<?php phpinfo(); ?>", and opening that page in a browser is a good start. There are some other ingenious (read: I didn't think them up) methods, but I don't want to help the spammers n' spies.

These days, I use them in forensics.
Ask HN: What is with Rotten Tomatoes' HTML Source?
1. http://rottentomatoes.com

2. View source
Document And Invitation Folders Are Appealing Products
Indeed both document and invitation folders are appealing folders at all. That is why online folder printing company offers you hot and sizzling folders internationally.
I think you're confusing patent with trademark:

"As a trademark must be used to maintain rights in relation to that mark, a trademark can be 'abandoned' or its registration can be cancelled or revoked if the mark is not continuously used. By comparison, patents and copyrights cannot be 'abandoned' and a patent holder or copyright owner can generally enforce their rights without taking any particular action to maintain the patent or copyright."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark#Comparison_with_paten...
Have you used Alpha Five? Any comments on it? Glancing over the page it looks like it might be in the realm of what I am thinking of.

As an aside, one thing that these type of tools often lack is integrated testing. Which is a shame, because it seems like it should be easier in these tools, as the tool can have a lot of context about what the fields, etc, mean.
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Working at Monetate has been a blast. Everyone here is great at what they do, and it's been a pleasure working with a team that cares so much about the success of our work.

If you have any questions, I'd be happy to talk.. kshouler at monetate
Eminem, Lady Antebellum likely Grammy favorites ~ A News Fuse
I think there's a slight difference between an intrinsically public matter, like the Comcast issue, and a relationship between, say, a business owner and a customer. In political fights, people on all sides make their best case to the public. Sometimes that best case is deceptive or manipulative and that's a problem, but the fact of activists trying to shift public opinion just goes with the territory and long predates the Internet. We're used to it; we have filters for it.

The other thing is more complicated. If a business owner rips me off, that's bad. In the past, my only redress was the courts, which is a slow, cumbersome, expensive process. Now there's this new avenue where I can try to make the Internet hate the business owner. This can be a useful corrective, but it's very vulnerable to abuse.
These articles are slightly misleading. The blocks have been assigned to ISPs, not to Users. There is a still a modestly large (albeit shrinking) pool of IPv4 addresses available for end-user use. I still don't anticipate actual scarcity of IPv4 address space for another few years, though it sucks if you try to start an ISP in that time, as you likely wouldn't be abel to get any IPv4 address space allocated to you.
I agree about the "angry black woman" prototype, it was leveled against Michelle Obama, too, among others.

My point was that I think the issues with women in technical workplace are somewhat different from those relating to minorities. You, of course are getting hit by both!
The more unusual your configuration, the more likely it is to be unique in the context of things you can't change. Most people don't run with all these things disabled...
Evolution isn't some process that's specific to life. It's just a term we use to describe what happens to a living system with external pressures.

That same process happens to any system with external pressures. If I put a bucket in the rain, rain will collect in it. Someone coming along might exclaim, "See how perfectly that water has shaped itself to fit exactly into that bucket!"