skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is what I call taking the banner of "FREE" too far. In my view, the GPL and F/OSS software were created and exist to make computers easier to use. To use these tools to argue against the usage of a useful feature is perverse.
Further expanding on what you've done there, what about doing "mood avatars" based off tweets? Essentially a mashup of Twistori/Tweetsnap?

What I'm thinking basically is, people can upload their normal avatars to your site, which you use as the backdrop for your image.. and based off emotions that they tweet (love, hate etc) it can overlay a translucent colour on it?

So in effect, changing the mood of someone's avatar, based off their Tweets?

Just a thought :)
A bit off-topic, but there was a study recently claiming Giffen behaviour in China concerning rice staples. The classic textbook case of the Irish potato famine was always difficult (if not impossible) to prove, but this is apparently some evidence of the existence of Giffen goods.

Link:
http://ideas.repec.org/p/nbr/nberwo/13243.html
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But he's undermining his movement here; in effect he's saying "don't share that code with your neighbour". The contrast isn't between tool and movement, but between a strict deontological perspective, and the justification of unethical means (in RMS's view) to achieve better ends.

It's interesting because it betrays a hidden cynicism behind RMS that I wouldn't expect from such a hardliner utopian.
I can't quite place a trace, but some thing you said resounded a bit poetic.
What makes you think the entire universe exists?
Some more recent discussion in the comments here

http://www.jnode.org/node/1067
Yeah, I thought about letting people upload their own backdrops, or providing more than one. But I'm keeping it simple for now; it's much easier to add a feature than to remove it later.
"I haven't been inside of something genuinely new, let alone doing my own, truly mine, thing."

That is why what you're saying here and in the above is a rant rather than advice.

"You've gotta try, because if you haven't tried then you haven't lived."
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I read a recent Popular Science article where it says Trevor helped with the unicycle motorcycle. This article here is essentially what it said in the Popular Science article; so it seems Trevor is quite the go-to guy when it comes to these types of things.

http://www.motorcyclemojo.com/articles/the-uno/

* Not disagreeing, just supplementing
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Thanks ... I will definitely take a peek on it.
I'm surprised more people don't roast their own coffee. I've been doing it for over a year now. It's easy, and buying green beans is roughly a third the cost of buying them roasted. (Of course, you can make the process as technical as you want, which would no doubt appeal to many here.) Most importantly though, freshly roasted coffee tastes infinitely better than anything can buy at all but a few specialty shops.
Yeah, I would love to know more about it.
I think the best reason for him to switch from Win95 to WinXP is Office 2007.
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Do you see a black dot on your GMail too?
What's up with the black dot that shows up on the top-left corner of GMail, do you know anything about it?
If you consider how much we don't know, the "creation story" just happens to be a very small fraction of that.

Religious people put a lot of weight on the creation story. It's not important. It's perhaps one of those things that people tend to wonder about, but in terms of scientific knowledge and the benefit of doing science to make the world better, figuring out exactly how the universe created is pretty much a useless undertaking.

The important fact is that the universe exists and has properties that can be understood through science. It is not even relevant whether it ever did not exist. It simply does, and for human purposes it always will.

The idea of the universe not existing is borrowed from religion. Scientists have come up with some fun theories, but there are a lot more useful/practical/interesting areas of science to think about than trying to come up with a scientific alternative to religious cosmogenesis myths.
Are you sure that PDF is a superset of PS? Which parts of PostScript are part of the Portable Document Format?
Oh boy!

If you say php sucks, then go get some sleep and think again.

Thats the easiest language any noob can start web development with. Lots of libraries and resources. Just do a search for 'web development tutorial' and you'll find that every 10th good tutorial will be about php. Python is easier than php, but every cheap host supports php.

And another fact: you can even create desktop apps with php. There a GTK extension to php. Google PHP-GTK for more.
If you wouldn't mind, I'd find that very useful. I live and work in non-US markets, and US carriers' behaviour strikes me as idiosyncratic and frankly bizarre :)
It's happened long ago: Communism. One of the central dogmates: "Religion is opium for the people" (Marx). It went all the way here in Russia: purposely desecrating churches, blowing them up, using them as warehouses, shitting on icons etc.; newspapers named "Atheist" or "Blasphemer"; killing priests en masse as "reactionary elements".
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I think yes, the concept would still arise. Many disconnected societies had religion.

You know this feeling when, after stumbling and falling over a chair, you punish the poor piece of furniture as if it were alive? Or see a car crash about to occur and think to yourself, oh please, let's this not happen? Imagining self-consciousness around you, a natural human trait, leads to the invention of tree spirits, thunderstorm spirits, etc., all the way up to god.

And of course the concept of god (or any other Powerful Force orthogonal to human well-being) is very beneficial to those in power, to rationalize their decisions to the masses. So yes, it would be invented, and pretty soon.
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Compiz had it, and now so does KWin. The Desktop Cube!!!
Wasn't that the point? I'll assume it was.
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This one is even easier to follow than the awful how to's on canonicals site. Got it working within 5 minutes!!
I'm not familiar with the new stuff in PDF/PS but I'd say it probably depends on the specific versions. At the very least anything that adheres to EPS has always been part of PDF.
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Yes, there's no "time outside time", but maybe there are loops (closed timelike paths) inside the block universe.
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Its bound to happen on any news site. At NewsCred, despite our still small-ish user base, we can see patterns emerging. Identifying patterns is the key. Once you have an algorithm to identify malicious activity, resolving is simple.
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I have a rule when talking to potential system administrators, whenever I'm in a position to hire someone: If they mention Mandriva, they'd better be damned impressive in some other way (or French), because they're choice of tools is lackluster. If they love Gentoo, they're just out, as there's no hope for them. FreeBSD, which is equally bitchy and has similarly retarded package management, paradoxically has quite a lot of really smart and competent users. I don't know why one attracts the "I built a cluster of XBoxes in my mom's basement and it is teh awesomest" types while the other attracts smart computer science-y types, but that's the way it is.

Life is short, folks, don't spend it waiting on your OS to compile, or on figuring out whether you want to use syslog-ng, syslogd, or metalog (yeah, I know the difference because we have to deal with the two most popular, but I still don't care). My distribution developers ought to figure that out, and make it all fit together nicely. Gentoo does an impressive job of making all of their bizarre choices (and their users batshit crazy choices) spin nicely about 75% of the time, but when it goes wrong, it really goes pear-shaped. Our most bizarre support tickets and forum posts always come from Gentoo users.
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Thanks, just never seen it put that way before.
I can't believe someone from Zagat isn't all over this issue, responding on the forum, their blogs, and going out of their way to apologize to those unhappy customers. This is 2008. Word spreads like wildfire online. The flipside is that doing something unexpectedly nice to your customers also spreads.
Umm, pageflakes? Isn't that a pretty old site? I think its great, but surely not one of the defining sites of the next decade.
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Wouldn't "internally consistent" be equivalent to "god doesn't exist"?
So if the judge believes that the ip addresses are useless for identifying users, why does he want viacom to get them? Doesn't make any sense?
Society has a response to (a) and (b). It is called a social net, based on solidarity: it works like insurance schemes should (not speaking of fraudulent market schemes, e.g. the US health insurance).
I think the biggest problem is, that you despise pooling resources into social systems purportedly designed to help in (a) and (b). "Old" Europe has suffered enough in WWII to recognize the importance of it, and erect such a system, which is frowned upon by "risk tolerant entrepreneurship" (they have enough personal wealth to fall back on). This social net you are missing is being therefore dismantled in the EU as well, since it is regarded as uncompetitive compared to the US or China. It is a race to the bottom (if you compete with slaves, you become a slave*), of which the GOOG kindergarten is just a sign.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Norbert_Wiener
Replace RSS with Atom then yes, sounds good.
An interesting comment to me is:

"The problem is that C and C++ are based on the model that a program can access any memory cell, and can cast between pointer-sized scalars and pointers at will. This is fundamentally at odds with the execution model defined by the JVM."

So it is (obviously) not really that useful an idea, other then perhaps as a curious or academic excercise (not terribly practical).
I seriously do not understand you.

Who else is in a better position to take responsibility and care, than you (& partner)?

How else could you do it if not with love?

Your partner + you: 20% off is 1+1 days a week. Make grandparents happy, that makes +1+1 days. Each of you can take 2 days off a month. And this is even without parental leave for three years.

After that, daycare is your answer: socializing is an essential need for humans.
0 religious beliefs, but "There exists a benevolent (albeit highly ironic and humorous) higher power in the (uni|multi)verse.", taken as a working hypothesis, seems to be useful. YMMV
I think the advantages of a ball point pen were more to do with having the ink reservoir inside the pen, rather than the ball point itself. There are plenty of pens with internal reservoirs on the market, whether ball, fountain or fibre, I've been using one of these[1] almost continuously for the past 6-7 years.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/stainless-fountain-cartridges-conver...
Ask HN: About time?
Fact 1: A year is the time it takes for the Earth to fully spin around the Sun (from point A back to point A).

Fact 2: The universe is always expanding, thus Earth and Sun are being more distant.

Question: If the speed at which the the Earth moves is the same does it mean a year 1000, 2000, or 10,000 years ago was shorter than a year today and 1000 years from now?
I make the majority of my income from Linux. My longest job was at large Linux company, who makes most of its revenue replacing Sun hardware.

There is very little I like about Solaris. Ancient tools, badly named packages, a messed-up filesystem that puts binaries in /var, very few supported apps on x86, and ZFS, which solves the mid 1990s pre-san problem of having massive amounts of data connected to individual hosts, rather than use a SAN filesystem, like, er, everyone.

DTrace, however, shits all over SystemTap, for the following reason:
* I can understand DTrace
* I cannot understand SystemTap

This might be a massive problem with SystemTap documentation, but I doubt it - RHEL usually has better doco than Sun does.
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Is Someone Trying To Pharm You? Phishing Isn't Nearly As Bad
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Ten XML Schemas you should know
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That Tag Cloud Thing... 
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JavaScript VI
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A Sample Blogging Workflow
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One of the problems in these matters is that everybody's definition of god is completely different. You seem to tie it to some Gödel-incompleteness-teoremish thing. This need not be the case for most other people. And while I accept the existence of arithmetical statements which are true but not provable, I seldom encounter people who refer to them as god.
I believe through inductive reasoning that there are things we do not understand. I believe it is critically important to know this.
It's safe to say we've all arrived at the same conclusion, though we may attach different significance to it.

You seem to be saying here that, for you, "God" is the unknown -- not the unknowable, which is a fairly common belief, but the unknown. This is a novel viewpoint for me. Does this mean that knowledge, as and when it is grasped by the human mind, moves from the realm of the exalted to the secular? Is there more "God" in the world of an infant than ours?

In other comments you seem to refer to the more conventional notion of the unknowable, so perhaps I'm misunderstanding.

It is not clear what you mean by "God" to start with. Clearly it's more than just an alias for the unknown (or unknowable?). In another comment, you refer to "the real concept of a God". What is the real concept of a God? How did you arrive at it, conclude that it is the real concept of God, and integrate it into your philosophy?
Gentoo Linux 2008.0 released
DTrace is the result of a few people dedicated to making it work well. It has been around for a few years and has had time to mature. I'm so glad to have it on OSX. Even so, it's a little irritating that to make good use of it you need to dig through a lot of Solaris stuff.

SystemTap looks like a catchup effort by a group with other interests. This thread made for intersting reading: https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-2008-di...
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Why does TC keep comparing Twitter vs. FriendFeed as if one's success will bring the other's failure?

They are completely different services that do completely different things. FriendFeed is built for conversations - Twitter is built for short status updates of 140 characters or less.
Man, mid 90s HP Lasetjet. Maybe a Laserjet 4.

Two hundred bucks on eBay, ink isn't overpriced, and you can beat the living shit out of it with a baseball bat and it will still function.
Did you ever see this:
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/12/12/whats-the-weir...

(He "sold" a $22,000 Bulldozer through an Amazon affiliate link!)
I've read that the 95 kernel fits in the CPU cache of current Intel CPUs.
Nice rant, tx. Now let me tell you why is does NOT resonate at all with me.

I do not think that what we read about here at hn is a random sample of "hackerdom" in the world today. I think that my background is probably much closer to that.

I have done work for over 80 companies, only a few were in the software business. Most did something else and needed some form of IT to do it. I have sat in the worst of cubicles, attended the most lame meetings, and worked on mind-numbingly boring "projects". Just last week I rewrote a 16 year old batch program that was taking 25 minutes to run. I found 12 unresolved bugs; the program has 25% LOC and runs in 3 minutes. My experience may not be the norm for everyone here, but this project has been the norm for me.

The only time I have ever worked on something interesting was either as a contractor with the clout to change the agenda or as an independent software producer providing a solution I already knew they needed.

In my experience, the state of application software in small, midsize, and enterprise businesses is stunningly deplorable. These people desperately need good software and don't know where to find it and have no clue how to produce it themselves.

Maybe you don't think that call center apps that get the agent off the phone in 2 minutes, accounting apps that deliver exactly the info that management needs, or an inventory app that actually allows you to change a SKU are "big problems", but I do. While so many are working on a realistic robot, a social network, or a rocket to Saturn, somebody has to stick around and grab the low hanging fruit that's everywhere.

Then I come to a forum like this where the thinking is "Just Do It" (sorry Nike) and it puts me in the perfect mindset to do what I've always wanted. hn is the antecdote to corporate malaise.

jl said, "I want to give other people a better opportunity than I had in my professional career."

I say, "I want to give myself a better opportunity than I have had in my professional career."

None of this was available as recently as 10 years ago. But now, thanks to modern technology and hn style thinking, I can turn all the little wrongs I've seen over the years into my "big problems" to work on.

I'm doing a startup in order to work on what I want.

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I love the Show and Tell idea, we should have more of them!
Can a person seem rational and honest while discussing special knowledge they have that is neither experiencable or verifiable?
I am a wine lover especially the red wine.

I try to go to the wine store with a wine list but what does one do when none of the items are on the list. This is where one is in trouble.

I have sometimes bought expensive wine thinking it might be good but I have been disappointed one too many times.

Price is a factor in determining quality only because there are too many choices.

Nowadays I don't experiment that much I stick to about 2-3 of my perennial favorites.
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Seems he has chosen sites which use a concept that might be big but he has chosen the less known ones that use that concept.
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