skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many old scientists don't accept new theories. Thirty years ago there was a lot less evidence of global worming and computer models where a lot worse. My concern with the "Non Global worming" crowd is they have no single consistent theory. Some say it’s getting hotter but people are not involved others say it’s not and some even say it’s getting colder. If there was a consistent set of facts that disproved global worming there would be consist response that x, y or z is why global worming is wrong but for a significant length of time it's just pick a new pet theory and plaster it around and drop it as soon as it's disprove by evidence.

Find me some 10 year model with 10 year old evidence that is validated and consistently disproves global worming and I would look into it until then your just ranting.
I don't think it's illegal... yet.

This is one of the key issues in the "Net Neutrality" debate.
For #2: You simply need to change the session store in PHP. You can easily make PHP sessions database backed.
(Disclosure: I’ve been a user since [almost] day one and have contributed to the Tunecore blog)

Here's my comment (#209) on the original thread:

I would love it if we could start hearing about more businesses that are growing out of existing industries that are leveraging the Net (rather than SV startups leveraging the Net to get into existing industries).

Another example in the music domain would be SonicBids.

Concentrating so much on SV just leads to too much irony:

TuneCore is probably THE most revolutionary music-focused web service (esp in terms of business model innovation) and they’ve been pulling in real revenue with a real, sustainable revenue stream that solves extreme problems for its customers for years.

To top it off, they have probably THE most intelligent strategic partnership (w/ Guitar Center) of any web-based business.

I agree that a) there’s only so many hours in the day, b) the Valley is the most important place in the world for software innovation, and c) much of the work TechCrunch does is very valuable, but it would be nice to see more “worldly” coverage [for lack of a better term].
Not directly related to the OLPC & Corruption issue but, something annoying's happening in Turkey, too. (First of all, let me start by saying that our country's got nothing to do with the english meaning of turkey and in contrast to the popular impression, it's not a country of radical religion some extremist groups of people notwithstanding)

After this brief introduction let me come to the main point:

Well the national telecommunication company of turkey (Turkish Telekom or Türk Telekom) has began to offer its E-Mail services ,which is bundled free with the ADSL subscriptions, on the Microsoft Windows environment! For years it has been offered thru a fine and effectively working Java application.

Sadly, this change from Java to Microsoft occurred right after the turkish telekom 's been privatized.

What annoys me is not only that the public services are being misused, it's also that this new Outlook like E-Mail service apparently favors Internet Explorer. This in turn makes people more dependent on Microsoft....

Just wanted to let you know...
I go to bed about 3 AM, and there's not much pressing business after midnight.
That's an interesting approach to building a machine. I haven't built my own box in some years now, but I'm curious if the savings involved are still worth it?

Idea: Aggregate compatible configurations and prices/coupons to yield "complete system" pricing.
"Don't conservative types like you believe in market influences? How could spending more money NOT improve education levels?"

It's insulated from the actual market. Government schools are a de facto monopoly, since they sell their product below cost, and you have to pay for it even if you don't use it. They also use a teacher's cartel to supply their teachers, and this cartel pays a lot of money to lobbyists who craft our education policy. Given these layers of monopolies, cartels, and corruption, your reference to 'market influences' makes little sense.

"1) Spending more means higher teacher salaries. Higher salaries attract better talent, which means better education"

I'd rather figure out how to fire the bad teachers rather than hiring new ones. Imagine how much money we could spend on new teachers if we shut down the rubber room: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/10/education/10education.html...

"Decent materials and supplies lead to a better classroom experience."

Oh. Does this mean "I looked at what kind of school supplies people used fifty years ago, and concluded..." or "I imagine..."?

"This whole "bureaucratic inefficiency" argument it a catch-all that greedy rich people like to use as an excuse to not help out the less-fortunate."

Or this whole "spending other people's money on a system that has only gotten more pathologically ineffective as billions of dollars of other people's money has been spent on it" argument is just a way for people to feel good about themselves without facing reality. Or maybe it's pointless to attribute someone else's argument to their biases, especially when you can't disprove the argument!

I think we should accept that school is not for everyone. I think we should get people out of school when they can contribute more to society by working rather than disrupting classrooms. It's a travesty that so many otherwise useful 14-year-olds are earning their straight-D report cards for years (and spending my money to do it!) when they could be mopping floors, flipping burgers, etc. I would have been happier working full-time when I was thirteen, instead of going to school and only getting to work evenings and weekends. Surely I'm not the only one.
Good regurgitation of Agile/Pragmatic/... folklore. Pity it has no base in reality.

Most Scheme implementations have always had functionality well beyond the standard, and many Scheme users don't see a contradiction in having a minimalistic language standard[1] and rich implementations.

[1] I'm talking about R5RS here, but the story doesn't apply to R6RS either. That was never intended to be a small incremental step, as your fable suggests.

P.S.: BTW, I think the metaphor you meant was the boiled frog, rather than stone soup.
Ask HN: What web language for server side scripting?
I know this gets asked a lot, but some input on our specific situation would be appreciated, considering we don't have: a) experience with one of the languages already or b) bit of an app already coded.

For a dynamic web-based solution, what language would you recommend?

Some Criteria:
1) The languages we are thinking about are php, python, perl, ruby we are open to other suggestions, don't have enough experience in any of them to make a difference.
2) We value speed of execution most.
3) We are going to use postgres for a database.
4) Webhost compatibility is not an issue.
I doubt the savings are that much, but it's still worthwhile to learn how the innards of a PC fit together.
Unfortunate title. PLT Scheme 4.0 introduces major new changes to PLT Scheme.
"Mobile phones do not pose health problems to adults in the short term but there is a "slight hint" of a cancer risk for long-term users, according to the results of a study which could not rule out risks of brain or ear cancer for those who have used mobiles for more than 10 years."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/sep/13/mobilephones.h...

Another interesting study is this one:

"Microwaves similar to those emitted by cell phones may affect long-term memory, according to a new study by a University of Washington researcher."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/12/991202070403.ht...
Colonizing the moon and mars would lead to speciation because of the effects of reduced gravity, I would imagine. That said, lunar and martian babes will likely be hot if they stay in shape. Think about the effects of low/no gravity, and no sunlight on aging--35 year olds will probably look 20.

At some point, there will definitely be an us/them feeling as the culture and needs of the societies diverge.
How to Make a Twitter Resume
Here are some examples of twitter resumes, all using 140 characters or less.
Education spending is not just a single number.

Should we spend more or less on:

Sports, Teachers, Food, Text Books, Staff, Administration, Trips, Gifted Programs, Counseling Services, Science Fairs, Music Programs, preschool, 1st, 2nd...12th, Collage, Grad School, PhD Programs, Anti Drug Programs, Anti Teen Pregnancy Pamphlets, etc.

I think it's safe to assume each of the above have related rates of diminishing returns. If you wanted to evaluate how effective changing each of the above programs where you might come up with an interesting idea but hacking education is more than just how much money should the US government in total spend.
Dude, if you remember it, then you weren't really there!
Aubrey de Grey's SENS strikes me as the most sensible approach to longevity. I suspect that he's a bit optimistic in his time estimates, however. (He is a computer scientist, after all.)
scriptacululous by default loads like 5 separate files. Only load the ones you need!!
18-year-old hacker need life advice
I just finished high school, 18 years old.

I know the first courses of university math(linear algebra, some matrix-math, i know a fair bit of machine learning(2% improvement on netflixrecommendation algorhitm) and artificial intelligence(own and have worked through both of norvigs books))
Big software I have written:

* netflixrecalgorhitm: 2% improvement
* search engine(just searches www.xxx.com-addresses and supports basic keywordsearch) not very efficient or good but is working and is usable.
* basic 3D FPS with raycasting, walk around ina 3Droom, can shoot, but no enemies.
* have written prolog in lisp(before reading norvigs book)
* know python and lisp very good, halfdecent at Java, prolog written short fairly pointless programs in erlang, haskell, c/c++, ruby and some other languages.

I am from sweden and i didnt want to study at uni directly after highschool because:
1. I have studied a lot lately and want to take a year to relax and figure out what i want to do with my life + enjoy life etc.
2. Since i am halfway through university already this poses a problem.
i dont want to take a masters degree if it means spending 2years studying what i already know.

I want to study next year though, this year I will continue my hobby hacking, learning more and working boring industrial job to finance my winter in the alps, snowboarding :)

I would like to jump right in at 3year or something but I dont think it is possible.
What does american universities think about this?

Studying for myself seems like i will first of all miss out on the whole social side and i want to meet people who share my interests plus i think it is hard to reahc the same level by myself.
Sure you can learn to program and learn the basics of how a computer works etc by yourself but digging deep into a subject by myself seems hard and i think even it is possible one would spend a lot of time reinventing the wheel.
Obviously the perspective would be good, coming from a different angle then everything else, seeings things differently perhaps.
But i dont think it is a good idea and i really want to go to university.

Also, maybe I could get a job now working as a programmer but i feel like if i start working it will be hard to get to the level i want ebcause i wont have time to learn new stuff(because i dont want to spend 16hours a day hacking first at work then at home).

I think I want to learn:

* Have a really good idea how computers work and our communicationsystems(mobile, telenets etc).
* Learn to be a master hacker :)
* Learn very highlevel math
* be an expert in the domains of uncertainty, machine learning, programming languages(yes to wide perhaps).
*im interested in solar power, how can this be connected to computers?

What should i do? What advice can you give an ambitious young man?
I can confirm this - I've been using 1.2.6b for a couple weeks on a JQuery-UI based app, and it's much better for anything involving mouse movement. Before, mousemove() was virtually unusable for performance reasons. Now, everything is reasonably snappy.
The Guide to Success in Social Media
Most of it is intuitive, but Nick does hit the nail on the head with his analysis. Most hackers should be familiar with the social media landscape to build a better product (or so I believe).
Ask HN: Offers to help with webapp
I'm a solo founder, built a web app over the last 12 months, targeted at a niche market of about 50,000. It has received enthusiastic feedback from users. I'd rather not disclose the URL at the moment because there is a monopoly that I'm trying to sneak up on.

Something that keeps coming up: People offering to donate and/or help with the software. How should I handle these emails?
Say 100 people really liked it, and 1,000 people did not.

Well, you'd have an article that had 100 upmods and far more comments inside saying that the article sucked and should not have been upmodded.
If speed really is key i'd say Perl, otherwise I would just stick to PHP. Ruby and Python are nice for writing code really fast in but Perl / PHP execute much faster.
Fun (for a certain definition of fun) and economical, but not what you want to do if you need to PC to work every day when you sit down at it.

PC power supplies, in general, are ticking time bombs the day you buy one. Buying a used one just ensures your PC fails even sooner.

Used third party ram makes me queasy too. It is a good price, but consider that at the RAM factory the lots go through statistical process control, lots rejected at that point still contain mostly passable chips which are probably sold at a lower price to the third party RAM suppliers. But there is something about the lot that isn't quite right.

There was a time around 2000 that whenever a Mac user called me with a flakey machine I used to say "Take out the extra third party ram you bought cheap two years ago when you bought the machine." A near 100% fix rate without having to ask any questions. It would work fine for months or years then start flaking out. I don't need that in any machine for which I'm responsible.

One of our departments is building its own machines from low priced components to save money. I think by any measure, the time it takes to find and remove the flakey ram modules and replace the disk drives that start having bad sectors 3 months into service has more than offset the cost savings.
It'd be neat to somehow highlight really unpopular views while still being able to filter things out that are simply trash. YC doesn't have much of a problem with this right now, but it could help suppress the noise from the random waves of out-of-place comments.
Hometown or Startup Hub?
My partner and I are starting a web startup in October. We figure we need 6 months max to build the product til launch. Our dilemma: stay in our hometown Amsterdam - really not a startup hub, but we can live here cheaply and have a bit of a network - and go to SV after the product is finished, OR go to SV right away. What do you guys think is the best strategy?
It seems like this link will allow you to view the article without logging in:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/technology/04flip.html
In the 12 years that I've largely wasted as a professional software engineer, what I've noticed is that the best developers never work a lot of overtime for extended periods of time. Sure, it happens that they end up staying late to get something done now and then, but it's very rare.

The bad ones make up for taking the "shut up and code" methodology and spending hours and hours trying to get their pointlessly complicated solutions to work, rather than trying to do it right in the first place. The results, assuming they work, are almost invariably a morass of undocumented spaghetti code. It makes you wonder; what were they doing with all that time? If they weren't documenting their code, then the options are:
a) they were faking it
b) hunting for code that solves their problem on the internet to hide the fact that they couldn't write it themselvse
c) wasting time debugging their own mess because they couldn't remember what the code they wrote last night at 11pm was supposed to do, but they were too tired and rushed to bother with little things like documentation

The let's work a 12+ hour day approach isn't how you get the job done, it's how you achieve job security when you work for a big company.
Yahoo Opens Address Books to 3rd-Party Developers
Jerry Yang’s Salary Is Only $1, But Icahn Still Wants His Head
As one of the Confreaks owners, here's the lowdown: I attended RailsConf, but unfortunately we were not contracted to record it. Hopefully they will record it next year.
The former - focus your initial time on building, getting users and feedback. If all is great, you will have a number of options, including going to SV.

Is there a specific reason why you want to go to SV first?
that sounds like a slippery slope. this is the first political topic i've seen in a while, and it's about a fairly significant milestone. i think people know this isn't a general news site
A good option is to put the files at the end of the page. The page won't load faster but the rendering will be done earlier. The user will see a faster page.

Try to follow Yahoo! performance rules : http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html
The irony is overpowering here - the horrible politicization by GW opponents is perhaps the second-best example of politicized science being overshadowed only by the disbelief in evolution by creationists.

I really don't have the ego to claim I magically know better than thousands of scientists and decades of research, so when I read something like the IPCC report (http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar4-wg1-spm...), or the fact that CO2 Levels are higher today than anytime in the last 800000 years (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5314592.stm) or the fact of the 40% increase since the 1800s (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Carbon_Di...), my conclusion is pretty obvious.

The politicization of GW comes solely from idealogical-opposition - people don't like what the facts imply (ie, we need a smart energy policy) so they simply ignore the facts using a variety of techniques. For example Inhofe and his ilk are the usual anti-intellectuals - no way they'll let some egg-head ivory-tower geek with his crazy computer models tell them what to do, no siree bob. Meanwhile, Crichton is playing the ever-popular Nazi card - "gee, look at how vaguely similar this situation is things that happened under Nazism and Communism. You're not a Nazi or a Commie, are you?"
You're going to have to define what sort of speed you need for #2. If you're talking about basic CRUD, then all of the languages you've specified will work just fine. If you're doing a lot of scientific work, then you might want to look at Python, along with NumPy / SciPy. If it's a small core of calculations that you know you'll have to execute over and over again, then all of the above are fine if you're happy to interop with C.

So... whatcha building?
would be great, except there's already Canvas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_%28HTML_element%29
Mostly the advantages of being in a startup hub, and SV is the primus inter pares.
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2008-02/msg00051.html

That link includes a link to the Lua mailing list post by Mike Pall, the author of LuaJIT. It includes some great info and links to papers if you read a bit in. I found it extremely informative, and not just about the Lua-specific implementation.
The thirst quenching attributes of Coke and wine both come from their major component, the well-known substance dihydrogen monoxide:

http://www.dhmo.org/

You can get it cheaper than both Coke and wine, and contrary to the alarmism in that page, it's quite safe if you take some basic precautions (and helps extend your life too.)
These improvements sound great. .css, .attr, and .map were major bottlenecks in my performance, meaning a lot of JQuery functionality was just too costly to use (performance-wise). Now, I'll have to play around with JQuery to see if it's usable for some heavy javascripting.

300% speed increase in drag and drop? I'll have to start using that somewhere...
But time on the computer means there is less time to spend outside and less time to spend on other tasks. Screen media simply isn't helpful for children under high school.
The license of the tools you use does not affect the license of the products you produce, so this is irrelevant.

I can use Photoshop to make a graphic, and then release that graphic as part of a BSD-licensed package without any trouble, since I own the copyright on that graphic.
Slow news day
You have email, IM, etc. for that :)

IMHO, where you right now, I don't think that's a significant enough advantage. The costs of moving and living/working in SV is just not worth it at this stage.
YouTube adds annotations to their videos
See how I got THOUSANDS of visitors to my website using Hacker News 
First I wrote a catchy header like the one you’re about to click on above. Then I added the following slogan, Sososher – it’s a bit of a tongue twister isn’t it “try saying it three times in a row”. Now you’ve heard the name, you’re going to have to find out what it means.
Are you sure about PHP being faster than python?

Unscientific as it could be, this test shows speeds comparable or better for python:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all...

[lines going right are better for python, the ones going left are better for php]

I don't mean to bring this as proof of any sort, but also according to my own experience python scripts outperform php ones.
My schedule have this priority: day job - startup - sleep - fun.(besides programming)

Day job - 8 hours on weekday

Startup - 3 hours on weekday, 6 hours on weekend (minimum)

Sleep - 6 hours

Fun - unrestricted as long as I get my minimum hours for startup and sleep

Prioritizing works better for me rather than a schedule. I usually work on the startup longer but if anyone invites me to hangout No problem as long as I get my minimum hours.
I find that I am much more productive when I go do something else when I find myself wasting time on the PC. I'll come back refreshed and ready to go.

"butt-time" is the bane of my existence.
i think that i didn't think that thought all the way through. sorry about that
If you already have a cofounder, a product, a network, and a six month plan with enough funding to keep you alive until launch, I can't see any point in moving right now.

Even without the visa issues, moving to another continent takes a lot of time and effort, and will eat up a significant fraction of those six months. (Visa issues have been discussed to death in other threads, but they're likely to be a problem too.) Even just the effort of packing all your stuff, getting on a plane, finding a new place to live and work, and buying all the stuff you need to keep you going in the short term is likely to occupy a lot of your attention for many more months than you might think.
The Internet's Greatest Scammer Returns
Then you have to deal with people.

I think of population of a new country a lot like hiring. You want only the best if you're really trying something new.

Most countries ripe for revolution probably wouldn't be stable enough for the goals. It's like Woody Allen quipped "I just don't want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member"
It's also a downgrade. No branches or tags.
I am sure you've heard of the word credit.
PHP is a horrible disease. We're just trying to help... before it's too late.