skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you mean flouridated instead of chlorinated water? I've never heard of chlorine affecting tooth decay; it's normally added to water supplies to control germs. Flouride on the other hand is routinely added expressly for this purpose, although whether it is either effective or wise to do so is the subject of many bitter and divisive debates in communities.
It's also an example of a market failure where there is no market for the product or service demanded. It's a textbook example of the tragedy of the commons where the gain on the TV signal is owned by no one and thus not protected.

I can buy that it's an example of market failure, but I'm not sure about the second part. According to the idealized free-market theory, this sort of stuff should be taken care of by the market just fine, by people changing the channel away from the objectionable ones, thus commercially penalizing them to the point where running quieter ads becomes the right business decision. That doesn't appear to have happened, probably because while people dislike loud TV ads enough to write to the FCC, they don't dislike them enough to actually meaningfully change their TV-watching habits (so channels with quieter ads don't really gain a commercial advantage).
Also, s3 doesnt serve up index.html for folders.
Cue the "Think of the dentists!" defense?
Well since you should change your partner at least once a day, it is about shoving around people ;)
It's not possible in Snow Leopard but in Tiger/Leopard you can open up the nib files for various system applications and mess with them. Things like adding CoreImage filters to views usually worked ok; I recommend the bloom filter combined with a white-on-black terminal.
He gave a similar presentation at TED. It's a lot longer though.Check it out.
-> Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen: http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_y...

More stuff from Rosling:
-> http://www.ted.com/search?q=hans+rosling
MathJax, beautiful math in all browsers
Those would be part of one zone, the domain.com namespace.
> follow people you know and like. Look at who they talk to,

> follow those people if they seem decent.

> Talk to the people you follow as if they're your actual friends

< because if they're not already eventually they probably will be.

I love how you just wrote down an algorithm for "making friends" :)
Well, that's an empirical point. I'd be willing to wager that none of the would-be targets get attacked in the next 6 months.
Most dentists would welcome it. Routine fillings aren't huge money-makers for them (which is why they focus so much on cosmetic dentistry these days). There are a lot of tooth/mouth related diseases beyond simple decay... they'll be fine.
New github file browser
It looks like they implemented the github finder project but there is no information on the blog yet.

http://sr3d.github.com/GithubFinder/?utm_source=bml&user_id=sr3d&repo=GithubFinder
"The airspace he covered is flown by full-scale aircraft"

He did check if any full-scale aircraft was going to be flying at that time before hand so that wouldn't be an issue.
If you've been following the Wikileaks story, then you've seen the essays by Assange about what Wikileaks wants. It's very simple. A conspiracy needs communication to be effective; if you disable it's ability to communicate, it becomes less effective. Wikileaks exists to weaken trust in communications throughout the conspiracy thus rendering it less effective, and the release of documents like this serves exactly that purpose.
Sadly, crappy management is more ubiquitous than cowboy programmers.
They're also working on a "vaccine" for cavities: replacing the native bacteria in your mouth that consume the leftover sugars and excrete acid that eats away at the enamel with genetically modified versions that are harmless.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caries_vaccine#Attempts_using_R...
Thanks for this. From now on Chrome will be the judge of how clearly and accent free I speak :)
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Obviously, you don't need a college degree to build something-- so that's the wrong question to be asking.

The college experience can be an extremely valuable one. Or, it can be a total waste of time. It depends on your attitude, your goals, and your effort (among other things.)

Are you in a situation where college is an option for you?
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But S3 doesn't even have "folders"; a bucket is just a mapping from keys (paths) to values (documents). So if you want a document at /foo/bar, just store it at the path /foo/bar.

The only special case is the root "folder" (i.e. the empty key), which CloudFront does now explicitly support: http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/08/05/cloudfr....
wow - #1 is a whole topic in itself
Simple answers
* I only invest in things I understand
* I only invest in things which produce positive cashflow
* I only take additional debt when someone else ;-) is paying it off

For me personally this means buying rental properties - I purchase 2by2 properties in North Manchester / the North West. Typically (at moment) properties at about £60k (where I'm putting down about £15k deposit). Get a good agent to manage them (around 10% of rentals). Ping me a message if you want to know more about this

(but pls not - this isn't the only option - there are plenty of other investment opportunities - but see point 1 above - understand them first)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1908250/how-to-become-a-g...
Cosmos by John North.

This book is just threatening to be a masterpiece. An overview of mans scientific ideas about the stars and the planets and the cosmos in general from before Ptolemy to Einstein and modern times. Absolutely epic in scope. This book is to the history of astronomy like "The Prize" is to the history of oil, only bigger.
It's like once people pick their teams, they can't reconsider.

You just hit the nail on the head. This shouldn't surprise you. In wars of opinion, most people pick a side, and stick with it until the bitter end. Heck, there've even been front-page articles on HN about this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_polarization

You are one of the rare people if you regularly allow yourself to switch.
What's the difference between a laden and an unladen follow?
I'm all for this but unclear what "average maximum" refers to.
I always imagined the intersection of the programmers who love Vi and the programmers who love Visual Studio was very, very small...
I'm surprised at this sentiment. Could you elaborate by any chance?

The reason for my surprise is because a significant portion of the Wave code base is geared around the user interface — which was, in many ways, the least attractive aspect of Wave (at least from the experiences of those I've spoken to). The other main parts of Wave were the various Operational Transform work — which, again, to my understanding from those who have looked at the OT framework released by Google last year, is inherently hard to scale up.

I had always assumed that these and the general market disinterest to be the reasons that Google had abandoned the Wave project — so am very keen to understand why you would be so excited... thanks!
What's wrong with people is their political correctness, which blinds them to the point that they can't accept the fact that every country has its intelligence doing some dirty work.

The human rights are violated in some way anyway. Try running some country without it first and then complain. That's the imperfect nature of human relations.

The whole leaks action was immature, ego-driven, stupid and childish act.
Ok so let me see if I follow your line of reasoning here.

A) War is bad.

B) The war in Iraq is particularly bad

C) So let's provide intel to the enemy in order to make the war even worse for the US, potentially killing many innocent foreign workers or friendly bureaucrats in the process?

You lost me at C.
Are you referring to the new UI behavior (new at least to me, since this is the first time I've seen this) when you click on directories/files in the repository file browser like in https://github.com/git/git for example?

I don't really use the github file browser frequently enough to be able to tell if the async loading of the files/directories is what you're referring to. Plus, linking to the github home page was kind of confusing.
Is it a coconut laden follow?
This data, and tons more, has been available through Google's public data explorer (http://www.google.com/publicdata/home)

Albeit, without an enthusiastic British (Edit: Swedish!) guy's explanations...
Seems like there's even less features for VIP users now. Fantastic. Also, boo.
Very interesting. I haven't read the book, but is the only reason you see some of the manipulations as "positive" because you are an authority figure to your children and you know "what is best for them"? At what stage is the manipulating a detriment to their development? Would you call it brainwashing? Building structures within their mind without them realizing (at the current time anyway)?

Am I misunderstanding here? I am seriously wondering and hoping that I am. I am still struggling with realizing what I believe in certain circumstances and I wonder if it's partly due to manipulation.
I think you totally misjudge the motivation of the people behind WikiLeaks and its supporters.
Opera killed my puppy.
Your reply seems pedantic as well. All your examples have implicit or explicit permission from the authors for the sites to post their material, as I'm sure you're well aware of.
Here's another motivation:

stupidity in thinking that they will make the world better this way.
Frankly, after the first three, it starts going downhill very fast. I stopped reading after Foundation's Edge.
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I think you're mistaken. In this discussion, I actually found it quite disruptive to have to scroll past 60 comments talking about politics so that I could find the discussion about the thing we're actually here to discuss.

They have lots of places on the internet to talk about politics. If you want to do so, I bet you'll have no problem finding an appropriate place.

This, however, is not that place.
This is a great tool! Measuring your Tweet load in Scoble units is brilliant. I'm unfollowing my top 4. I can't bear to unfollow #5, @gapingvoid at 150 tweets/week. After that, the next 4 are going, and #10 @mike_ftw gets to stay with his 82 tweets. Not bad at all, I feel like this is really going to help me focus on the neglected long tail of people I follow who don't tweet 20+ times a day.
In the eyes of a lot of non tech-savvy people (like my parents, or lots of facebook users), Zuckenberg (or the guy who invented Facebook) is more known than Jobs (the guy who [co-]invented Apple). Despite how those actions weight.
Not just any conspiracy: governmental conspiracy and corporational (as in "a large, perhaps transnational") conspiracy. He cannot leak Al Qaeda's communications these way (not that he would be against it, necessarily).
I must admit Kinect is Microsoft's most interesting hardware piece since the Z-80 Softcard... I hope its next firmware update is as hacker-friendly as this one.
Worthy of an 'atta-boy' from Knuth himself...
I've read Peter Hamilton's Night's Dawn trilogy and the Commonwealth Saga - the latter is much better but still suffers a lot, in my view, from poor characterization - something that Banks can be very good at (his bad guys can occasionally come from central casting though).

Banks is in a different class from Hamilton - in general I think the quality of his work has dropped off a bit but some of his earlier writing is exceptional: Use of Weapons is particularly strong.
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Levity aside - this MO is not common in the Middle East. This is not your typical gang-war drive-by shooting.
I feel somewhat sick, inside.
Perhaps not all information should be released, however, in the end perhaps it's only whistleblowers that can uncover certain things and force decision makers take back certain laws.

(Fictional?) example with body scanners: The company making those has a real interest in the terror threat never going away. The shareholders expect that. The politicians get elected with money from security companies. Thus: The terror threat will never go away. UNLESS a whistleblower shows the truth and the population gets upset.

Whistleblowers are important for democracy.
Swedish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Rosling)
The first chapter is good enough to carry you to the end:
http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov6/01.html
direct link to interview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXHHtBAByUQ [part 1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1znhVrb8Yek [part 2]
Hugh McLeod is a sad, insecure, self-obsessed man of such vacuous character as to inspire immediate depression. Really, ubfollow him too.
We use MathJax for inline display of equations in the GitHub wikis and it's really nice. I spent a long time looking for a LaTeX style math solution for the web, and MathJax was a great fit.
You can fly to Repuplic of Moldova, it will be cheaper even considering airplane tickets.
Doesn't work as i expect in my browser.
I think I might just buy Good Calories, Bad Calories after reading this. It might not tell me anything I haven't learned indirectly through other writers but if it's written as well as this blog post that will justify its value alone.

Looking forward to the new book incidentally, and hoping it isn't a content-less and repetitive discussion of magazine clippings as this kind of book can often be (I have no reason to suspect it will be, beyond bad experiences with other books).
Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin.

Fascinating book about the mental activity/game at peak performance, and transferring skills from old disciplines to new ones. This book helped me realize the value of interdisciplinary studies in my own personal studies and work.
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Like a good portion of the list, that would fall under the heading of "things my iPhone isn't very good at, but if I'm carrying it anyway I'll put up with the inferior quality, features, availability and/or experience". Just don't tell the iPhone fanboys that they're pragmatically compromising and accepting anything less than the very best, the cognitive dissonance may kill them.

A quick rescan shows maybe two or three entries where the iPhone is a full replacement, though of course this depends on your actual needs and wants. The original list actually calls out a few functions where it turns out it hasn't actually replaced the other device, even for him.
As of two days ago, https://sunshinepress.org [1] was hosting a webclient pointing to two Wikileaks IRC channels, but it appears to be down at the moment. That said, I didn't check if the site was legit, but, from the activity, it looked real at first sight.

[1] The "about" page of wikileaks.ch describes WL as a project of Sunshine Press.
Very nice, I'm looking forward to usinig it. So I thought I'd check the license to see if it's compatible with what I envision.

The documentation page just says "Open Source", the FAQ and download pages nothing at all.

The release announcement at http://www.mathjax.org/2010/01/12/news/mathjax-beta-released... finally says "Apache 2.0 open source license".

Note to other developers: don't hide your license -- it's a piece of information others might actually be interested in, particularly if it's not an application, but more of a library.
Ooh! downvoting, there's a compelling counterargument.
Which record types does it support?
Sometimes, when the ol' fever comes back and nobody's there to remind me that we have come to accept HTML/CSS, I dream of a world wide web built on TeX and TeX alone. It's a place of wonder, and happiness, and river-less paragraphs. Then I wake up, sweating, screaming, to a world without proper hyphenation. XeTeX is my XaNaX. Makes the web-pain go away.

[MathJax, on the other hand, looks glorious. Many thanks to the people in charge of the project!]
Where are WikiLeaks' mirrors hosted?
An hourly-generated list, of the ISPs that harbor WikiLeaks' mirrors. Updated from the main site.
Ah, it's on their FAQ page - http://aws.amazon.com/route53/faqs/

They support A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, PTR, SOA, SPF, SRV, TXT, which is better than most. But I agree, why on Earth would they not support the DNSSEC record types? It's not as if it would have been any extra work for them...
Need? No, definitely not.

But college can help a lot: if not by teaching, then by building relationships, and meeting people.
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The text of the bill doesn't contain any actual definitions (http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s111-2847), but instead instructs the FCC to make mandatory the document Recommended Practice: Techniques for Establishing and Maintaining Audio Loudness for Digital Television (A/85), published by the Advanced Television Systems Committee, a standards body. That document is open-access here: http://www.atsc.org/cms/standards/a_85-2009.pdf

It contains a method of setting the loudness of a program via a volume control, which is based on some sort of average of the underlying waveform (not peak sample value), and then "recommends" that during changes between program and interstitial content (like advertisements), the same loudness setting be used.

It seems broadly similar to something like Replay Gain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replay_Gain), which sets volume based on an average that's intended to capture perceived loudness.
Are the 250,000 leaks available on their site?

The number of leaks available on the site jives nicely with the figure of 837 reddit says: http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/egmiu/just_a_remi....

News agencies have had access to more cables, but that has nothing to do with the point.

Could it be that you are the one conflating what is happening? :)
See my article on this very topic: http://danieltenner.com/posts/0004-college-vs-startup.html
Clavell's whole Asian Saga (Shogun, Tai-Pan, Gai-Jin, King Rat, Noble House, and Whirlwind) is amazing. My favorite is Tai-Pan - the book had a tremendous impact on me, and I'd imagine it would appeal to every real entrepreneur. The underlying themes are freedom, individualism, honor, risk-taking, and ultimately, building something and defending it.
Your above link plus http://twitter.com/#!/wycats/status/11252825233293312 inspired me to make: http://chris.smeder.com/logos/Handlebars-logo-small.png http://chris.smeder.com/logos/Handlebars.js.png
Replace "Terms of Service" with "beliefs" and "ethics" and see if that comment just sounds a little weird? :)

Everyone has different opinions (Terms of Services), but why can we not judge someone on those?
I don't think this only applies to Startups, but in most jobs. There will always be niche groups and little clicks and you may not fall into them, or you might. Just with a larger company there is a larger pool of potential work-buddies.
Ask HN: How to get ideas?
Just wondering how you go about cultivating ideas.

Do you, for instance, have a routine where you sit down and think about new ideas every so often? Or do you just wait for one to hit you?

How do you get your ideas? (Also, please note if you think you're effective in how you do so. Have you had - and implemented - great ideas?)
There's only the one thread, with those 60 comments in it—so that's really just an artifact of the fact that comment threads can't be collapsed on HN like they can on Reddit. With that addition, this system really does support as many tangents as the userbase cares to follow for any given post, without any egregious annoyance per user, up to a certain scale.

Past that scale (probably 1000 individual threads or so; rarely seen on Reddit, and never on HN), a secondary voting mechanism purely to sort threads by "on-topic-ness" might be required, or perhas an automatic sort on how similar in word usage the comments are to their parent, to derive some crude sense of topicality.
It's probably a good idea to concentrate maintenance efforts on fewer kernel trees. There should probably be some kind of synchronization going on, i.e. declaring a new "stable" kernel when there are enough major Linux distros currently basing on it.
I have anecdotal evidence that if women will show that she is more versatile in some hi-tech/IT fields she will get more attention from men, compared with women who don't show it.
Say what you want about the whole Wikileaks affair, but regardless of where you stand, Amazon's sense of timing seems really bad. Couldn't they at least have waited a week after they declined to host Wikileaks?

People will undoubtedly tie the two things together, and Wikileaks supporters will make a big effort to point out Amazon's recent misstep.

I would probably have waited just a couple of days or weeks before this recent event was out of most people's minds.
Anathem gets my vote.

It's a mystery, with things left for the reader to figure out. These things include where and when it's set, and what genre it's written in. A brilliantly apt form for a novel about science, which makes it hard to describe without spoiling it.

The author has his usual fun. Historical inspriation: monasteries in the dark ages. Martial artists: far too cool for their own good. Tensor calculations performed as interpretive dance: it had to be done. The plight of hackers and scientists in a violent, greedy world strikes as true as ever.

Stephenson's neologisms are a bonus. The principle "'X would be nice' does not imply X" needs a name, though I don't expect "Diax's rake" to stick. Also useful is "Lorite", for a scholar who specialises in refuting claims of novelty.
because like... the whole world uses DNSSEC right?
Lots of people, lots of motivations. The motivation behind this leak was petty revenge, "we do it because we can", no good can come of it and it was literally senseless.
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Noticed it this morning. However it still has the waiting time...
I use MathJax on one site I'm developing. It has two problems related to speed:

1. It is so modular that you cannot really optimize it using something like Google Closure (http://code.google.com/closure/ ). If you do, it breaks it.

2. The modularity means that you're likely to need a few roundtrips to the server to get everything. Invariably these block the loading of the page and you get a hang, sometimes for a few seconds. This is not good for user experience.

Of course MathJax solves a very important problem, but it's a problem browsers have introduced. None of the support MathML in a sane way: Firefox requires content served as fully valid XHTML (good luck with that if you're using a CMS) and Webkit only got MathML support recently in the nightly releases. If browsers actually implement MathML in a way developers can use without losing hair, then MathJax is no longer needed. Till then, I love MathJax despite its warts.
If an industry has an association, don't expect lower prices or breakthroughs that reduce work to happen.
I'd be interested to see how Assange responds to this. It's going to determine my opinion about him, and put a lot of doubts to rest for better or worse. I'm sure other people feel the same.
Right now this works for some people and not others, because they aren't doing progressive enhancement over a server-side fallback rendering. The TeX samples just show raw \macros and the HTML-CSS renderings of the MathML samples are incorrect (x=−b±b2−4ac2a is not the quadratic formula).

Looks nice on the machine I use as a js sandbox, though.
Possibly you misunderstand me. I don't mean that the Chinese (for instance) might want to bomb what's on the list (although that would certainly be one approach). I mean that they might literally wish to (and be capable of) buying what's on the list. We all know they've been cornering African mineral exploitation for the last decade or so, I'm sure they wouldn't object to another cobalt mine or two on their acquisition list, even if they had to pay an absurd premium.