skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always wanted to do an extremely long term timelapse, something on the order of 20+ years. The logistics are tough though. Not only do you have to find a stable location, you also need an interesting composition. Something that will show both natural growth and economic growth.

Once it's running, I think it would be cool to have videos that are autogenerated, so it's always up to date. Or the ability to pick a start and end date.
I learned this trick from http://thinktrylearn.com/

Step 1: Think. Next time you approach something new, think of it as an experiment. Be curious, with a healthy sense of detachment. A scientist would say "I don't know, let's see what happens," and so can you!

Step 2: Try. Decide what you will try in your experiment. Challenge yourself to do something you might not have done before. Think about how will you measure success. How will you enjoy the journey in addition to the outcome?

Step 3: Learn. Observe what happens and learn from it. The final outcome might be different from your measurement of success. Expect to be surprised.
"The Promise Of Sleep" by William C. Dement.

It's a complete guide about sleep. If you want to manage your sleep, avoid various disorders, know how to treat them and stay in good health - you must have it. Mr. Dement is a pioneer of sleep science and knows a great deal about it. He's also a wonderful story teller - it feels as if you're reading an exciting novel, while the book remains very scientific and useful.

Personally, it helped me understand my sleep, I learned (though not completely) how to manage it and became a much happier person.
This is some incredible work. There's a few ports out there I've tried, but this is by far the most performant yet. Definitely interested to see how further it's taken.

I'm also interested to see where the author learned about the inner workings of the Gameboy (i.e, if Nazar's work had any influence: http://imrannazar.com/GameBoy-Emulation-in-JavaScript:-The-C... )
Facebook Wins Relatively Few Friends in Japan
Twig 1.0.0-RC1 released
Explanation from the Quora / Mechanical Turk Spammer
To be fair the California blackouts had as much to do with Enron as with infrastructure problems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis
I don't cook often but this could be cool. But, as somebody who does not cook often, this would probably be most beneficial to me if I saw a recipe somewhere else and was able to easily bookmark it or import it. I'm not sure how legal that'd be, though, since odds are if I'm seeing a recipe it's probably from another cooking site.

Along that line of thought, perhaps make a social aspect of the site. Maybe a browse-able list of recipes based on ingredients, or type of meal. Kind of like delicious for recipes.
Changelog for the lazy: https://github.com/fabpot/Twig/raw/master/CHANGELOG
I filled out an extensive recipe, clicked "Save", and nothing happened :(. I'm using Chrome 8.0.552.224.

Cool design though and seems easy to use. I'm not yet sure if I like the fonts. The fonts remind me of my grandmother's cookbook, and I'm not a grandmother.
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Good intentions can't justify abuse, and I don't know of a better for a pattern of calling one's child "garbage":

Once when I was young—maybe more than once—when I was extremely disrespectful
to my mother, my father angrily called me "garbage" in our native Hokkien dialect.
It worked really well.
hmm.. i'm not sure why Sandbar (https://github.com/brentonashworth/sandbar) is not being used. I think it adds support for SSL as well (https://github.com/brentonashworth/sandbar/wiki/Authenticati...).
That is a very good point. But it is not contradicting the main point of most people here. Of course there is good documentation and important documentation. It is just that most of the times your code does not need a big bloat of text around it.

And I would say that your point is a much better example than the one used in the blog post.
Will Cable and Satellite Bless TV-Internet Union?
Would be useful if, in chapter 1, section "Lisp is a huge language", the author mentioned approx how many pages of CLtL is devoted specifically to the core of the Language. Comparison to the size of Scheme would be helpful as well (one regularly hears that the size of the entire Scheme R5RS spec is smaller than the index of the CL book).
You could probably get a local/state government to invest in that sort of project.
I thought of this, as dogfooding the app to myself I found myself transcribing recipes from all recipes and other sites into the app was a recurrent task. The trouble lies in the implementation. I was thinking along the lines of a bookmarklet, but that requires either detecting ingredients and directions by looking for some sort of html structure + keywords, or allowing the user to select the ingredients on the page, both of which are no small projects.
Yep, this is why an interest graph is important.

Look out for freemeet.com soon :)
The experiment only tried tears from sad movies.

They should have used:

* tears from onions ( no emotion )

* tears from joy ( laughter )

* saline solution ( control )

Until that happens, I am not convinced. The current study should me measuring how men when forced to concentrate loose testosterone, what about other oders? Did they test pumpkin pie and vanilla that are otherwise known as male erogenous oders?
Snooping on your Calls
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Make sure you have something in the title field. If not, I do not know what happened, I would be curious if there are any javascript errors. (right click > inspect element > is there a red x in the bottom right?)
How accessible is your CMS? Two sides of the accessibility coin
I started replying, but I'm not going to engage in a discussion of syntax and semantics. Feel free to downvote me.
I got insanely excited thinking that I could play Minecraft with the Kinect that is being delivered tomorrow.

Using the Kinect as a 3D camera for modeling in Minecraft is pretty sweet too though. It has been pretty amazing to see what the community comes up with on Minecraft servers and how amazingly creative people are with hardware like the Kinect.
The Unix Sysadmin Song
Realtek AC97 driver Update 
Are you looking for a Realtek AC97 driver update? It is most likely that you are. Or at least you are looking for a sound card driver update. If you’re wondering why there is a need to download a Realtek AC97 driver, the answer is simple.
Just had the same problem in Chrome... JS Console was saying this:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot set property '3D45BE55-1155-0419-3F2C' of null
I don't see how it matters whether the buffering is implemented in software or hardware; it's still there and it's too big.

If the problem really is because your CPE device has too bigbuffers than build your own.

I think Gettys wants to solve the problem for everyone, not just ubergeeks.
What's the evaluation strategy? At first glance I thought it might be term rewriting, but it doesn't appear to be so. I don't understand what I'm allowed to pattern match. I cannot define a function like "foo(Somedata(a, b)) = a" and I don't know why.

The interpreter also became confused at one point, and stopped handling inputs.

Since this is Haskell, you should probably be using cabal to build. I didn't know where the function main was, and had to dig around until I knew which file to invoke ghc --make with.
If anonymity will remain what is the point?

And saying there is no chance a centralized database will emerge is impossible to predict.

And what purpose does the ID serve if it's not able to be referenced via some sort of data base.

The White House's comments are nonsensical.
Exactly. Without careful investigation I think it's wrong to assume that larger buffers are what is causing the difference between ping times between two different ISP at different points in time.
Yes, there's particular style of code called "self-documenting." It's a good style and I recommend that everyone learn it. However, it doesn't do everything. It's good at explaining what happens and how it happens but not why. Comments are for explaining why. Without knowing the original programmer's intention, I'm still mystified.
IPv4 NAT is the best thing that ever happened to online anonymity.

There's exactly one person behind my NAT; how many are behind yours?
I doubt he learned his lesson, but it is still an interesting read.
Melbourne, Australia: environment park looking for volunteer hackers
Romhacking.net is one of the best sources for console inner workings. I've been using for SNES internals and found everything from the official 65c816 manual to the SNES Developer Manual Nintendo used to send to devs, to text documents with very precise timing information for the entire console. Very VERY highly recommended.

http://www.romhacking.net/
>> foo(Somedata(a,b)) = a

>> foo(Somedata(1,2))

1

It is term rewriting. If I understand you correctly, this should work as you would expect.

Thanks for taking some time to play around with it. There are definitely still some bugs to work out in the interpreter; any details you can provide about the issues you find would be much appreciated.
Socket.IO 0.6.5 released
You should be downvoted for adding nothing to the discussion.
The three keys to keeping a new manned space program affordable and on schedule:
1) No new launch vehicles.
2) No new launch vehicles.
3) Whatever you do, don't decide to develop any new launch vehicles.

Sigh.
Another bubble? Some tech start-ups look over-valued
They should have tried tears from persons who don't cry easily.
> Taleb reportedly made a multi-million dollar fortune during the financial crisis that began in 2007

"Reportedly". Also, "multi-million dollar fortune" is really vague.

Sorry to spoil a good story, but the entire Taleb thesis is just a very entertaining way to say : "Shit happens". There is absolutely nothing new that he has to add, other than the entertainment and sheer drama. If there was, he would be able to publish it as a paper in a journal, not merely as a popular paperback. As an analogy, Taleb's position is akin to a religious zealot shouting, "Science dosen't know everything". Science's response is : "Sure, we know that. Why don't you help push the border by proposing and publishing a better model?". No, he is content to just shout from the rooftops and make a living out of it. Even his recent attempt to publish an academic paper in 2010 is full of negativity: it's just a way to say, "You're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong. Here are citations to show you're wrong."

Also, note that Taleb is merely an adviser to Universa. Any credit for profitability at Universa goes to their founder, traders and portfolio managers. When he was the trader (at Empirica), they had to fold the fund. That's when he wrote the books.

What fans of Taleb probably don't realize is that the enemy is not the models or the quants who published the models, who clearly stated their simplifying assumptions in order to make approximate models, (because Newton's laws are a good-enough intermediate model compared to nothing even though they may be wrong at extreme points, and that's where relativity comes in,) but overleveraging (trading with money that you don't have), and good old greed (using a model that states clearly on the label that it is only an approximation, 90% correct, as if it were 100% correct).

Taleb's recent arguments with Scholes (who was awarded a Nobel Prize for the Black-Scholes model) is like a dolt shouting a Newton, saying, "But you didn't consider relativity! You must be jailed for that!". So what, at least he DID something concrete!
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Twitter Puts Spotlight on Secret F.B.I. Subpoenas
(which is http://www.mprescient.com/journal/2011/1/9/concurrency-in-go... )
Not sure how many new books I read last year, but Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks is the first thing that comes to mind. It's the latest book in the Culture universe; if you like sci-fi then I highly recommend it (though I don't know that Surface Detail is the best introduction to the series).
What I'm actually more interested in is what Apple is intending on using instead of ZFS.

All indications are that ZFS will not be the next filesystem for OS X, yet they'll need to replace HFS soon seeing as it's the worst-performing and fewest-featured filesystem in use with this generation of operating systems. HFS+ is showing its age in multiple places, and Apple could really take advantage of some of the newer features available in modern filesystems to make a huge difference and increase the power and performance behind some of the current features (a la Time Machine), with techniques such as snapshots, transactioned reads/writes, and more.
How about products without a bar code (apples from the street vendor)?

I keep my apples in a bowl on the counter, so that wouldn't be an issue for me! To make sure we got a more accurate inventory of everything in the fridge, I would imagine a combination of barcodes, rfid tags, internal camera with image recognition (and maybe crowdsourced image tagging), and maybe cross-referencing with Mint data (if I put a CPK bag in the fridge on the same day I have a credit card charge from CPK as recorded by Mint, there's a good chance there's BBQ chicken pizza in it). Of course since I'm not actually going to build this product, the sky's the limit on technology and programming.
This is a nice demonstration that ‘raw’ inequality data is not very useful. “X% have Y% of the wealth!” really doesn’t tell you very much.

I’m actually only concerned about the consequences of inequality (which could be positive or negative), not about inequality itself. What do I care if 1% of the population have 99% of the wealth if there are no consequences to it? I certainly don’t want to reduce inequality out of spite.

Statistics that tell me, just as an example, how the wealth of parents corresponds with the success of their children in school are much more interesting and reducing inequality probably wouldn’t even be the best solution for such a problem. It’s not as though all that money in mommy’s and daddy’s bank account makes their kids magically more intelligent. (But it can pay for private schools or for private lessons and so on.)
Get Kindle for PC to Ubuntu (if you really don't like Calibre)
Looks like it was because I had a space after the comma. Oops!

Why did you choose to distinguish between data constructors and functions?
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"Some of my friends were not as lucky, and I had a few completely shutdown/rebel in college because they realized they didn't want to live their life dictated by parents or took advantage of their freedom in an unhealthy way." I went to an engineering school and I observed a lot of this. A lot of kids get to college for the work force and when the gun gets taken away from their head don't have the motivation they once did.
When I saw your link, I was fully expecting this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc -- also quite entertaining and informative.
You have a nice design. But I rarely share my facebook login with third parties just because of all the 'see contact list and this and that etc.'I think that insisting on it creates a barrier to entry for you.

On my site I discovered that having a demo that people could play with w/o creating an account increased conversion by a multiple.

Consider having a demo that people can try w/o signing on.

luck!
Amazon vs. Illinois: Game Theory and Taxes
Another great resource (although it's not as well-maintained as it was in days past) is Zophar's Domain: http://zophar.net

I originally started using it in 1996/1997 as a place to find emulators, but as I got more into low-level stuff, it became my go-to site for console information. Absolutely invaluable.
What I add to the conversation is the observation that groupthinkers enforce conformity with downvotes.

I read the article and agreed with it. It is a topic I have thought about quite a bit, the weird cult thinking about "science" where science thinking means agreeing with groupthink that has been promoted by corporate interests and special interest groups through their puppets in media and government.

Those who question the agenda or ask for evidence are called morons who don't understand science.

True science is nothing to do with any of that. The scientific illiteracy we hear about is coming from the groupthinkers that claim they respect science.
Whoops, that'd be a parsing error. Thanks for catching that.

I think different syntax for data constructors and functions reduces ambiguity and adds to readability.
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"The graphically intensive games of tomorrow are not optimized for many cores (still) and will need the raw power of a higher clock. This is especially true for strategy games like starcraft that make heavy use of the CPU."

That's not true. Console video games have 5+ years of experience dealing with multiple cpus, and some even with different ones communicating through DMA (ps3).

There are physics, sound, graphics, even data compression libraries optimized to use all CPUs there are.

The problem is the PC games where you don't really know on which machine your game would land on - dual core, or quad core - what kind of memory latency, etc.

If you are making an MMO you would shoot for more widespread PC, even laptop/notebooks.

If you are shooting for high-quality FPS game, not caring about sales much then you can require high-level machines (but you won't get much money back).

Or provide options for graphical selection.
Pathfinder - Orson Scott Card

Not only is it written by the author of the epic ender's game series ( which is a must as well), but it mixes genetic mutations of time control, ancient(objectively, not subjectively.) civilizations and plain ol good sci-fi together for one hell of a ride.
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And to follow here....

Game developers develop mainly for... PowerPC :) -> Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, PS3 are all PPC architectures.

Apart from certain MMO's - console video games are doing way more sales than PC.
Android passes iPhone in the US
The author claims unequivocally that global warming is a hoax. Submitted as evidence is a page which one-sidedly discusses troubling, suspicious, and unseemly behavior by some climate scientists. That is bad, but not proof of a hoax--not by a long shot. Such a strong claim supported by such a weak source makes it appear (at least to the skeptical) that the author may not be equally skeptical of all sources or points of view. Confirmation bias is a known bug in the wetware which makes it hard to be truly objective about anything, try as we might.

Had the author made a weaker claim I'd have read the rest of the article with much less skepticism!
If they were actually competing to differentiate themselves, wouldn't they have issued android os updates to their users phones in a reasonable time frame? And not ship phones with outdated versions? I mean I really just want a manufacturer I can trust.
Minor typo:

"No Recipies Found"

It's "recipes".
"When in doubt, estimate. In an emergency, guess. But be sure to go back and clean up the mess when the real numbers come along."

This works well for financial forecasting too.
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It’s not as though all that money in mommy’s and daddy’s bank account makes their kids magically more intelligent. (But it can pay for private schools or for private lessons and so on.)

FWIW, numerous studies have found that the vast majority of correlation between parental income and the academic success of children can be explained by a third factor: Parental education. Educated parents both earn more and provide far more educational encouragement and assistance to their children.
Agreed. Unlinked logins would be ideal.
without a standard register I'm not signing up for your site. Yes I don't want to use my google or facebook login.
Depends on which one you're looking at. Alex's repo has a tremendous amount of work. I've been doing little work since the initial build and installer since work picked up.

I went ahead and merged mine up.
Big ideas from "Inspired" that helped me feel more confident as an entrepreneur
Yeah, I knew that and should have written that in my comment. You are right.

I’m from Germany where this kind of inequality is particularly egregious. The explanation is probably that the fate of students is decided early on, in fourth grade. (You continue in one of three different types of schools after fourth grade, depending on your grades. Switching between schools is a hassle and only the highest school has a clear path to all universities.) Looking back at my own experience in elementary school, I would say that it was essential for me that my parents learned with me and helped me with my homework.
Hmmm, less minor point: it says "Why don't you make some", but offers no way to do so. I've tried it in Firefox 3.6 and Chrome 6. I used the Google login in both cases. All I see is:

* <my name>'s Cookbook (clicking it has no effect)
* Logout
* a search box that does nothing (presumably because there's nothing to search)
* the "nothing found" message.
A talent war?
I'm currently looking for a technical co-founder (having no technical background myself) and I'm wondering whether the lack of labour supply in the software developer market is having an averse effect on the willingness of software developers to join startups on the basis of sweat-equity? Is there an impending bubble? Are their services being overvalued? Are the current state of things in the tech world usurping the willingness of currently employed software developers to jump ship and join startups as co-founders?

* I apologize in advance if this has been discussed already.
Germans (or at least Nazis) would, at the time, have considered it to be entirely worth it. I believe that the intended context was that the dignitary was a member of the same organization/country as the people trying to rescue him/her, while the enemy combatants would be from a group opposed to that country. Your response, on the other hand, seems to suppose the existence of a third party (the dignitary, enemy combatants, and in addition a group which dislikes the dignitary and knows that he's a horrible person).
Post Mortem on the bug effecting users who were trying to add recipes with no result:

First of all, your recipes were being added, you were just not seeing them. Were you to refresh you would notice them. The error occurred because the master object that javascript stores the recipes in was set to null if there was no recipes. This was due to an json encoding error on the server side. Its been fixed now.
As someone who spend a lot of time designing iPhone apps I have to say that I really enjoyed Tapworthy ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449381650 )

I also finally read "Founders at Work", but I'm sure you all read that already.
Exactly. Get the degree and work on your own projects. This is how I described my experience recruiting at a college job fair:

"One student showed me her resume: it showed perfect GPA, lots of classes with impressive-sounding titles. But no summer job, no internship, no side project.

Another student showed me a less than perfect resume, but it had all kinds of extra-curricular projects and activities, showing exposure to technologies, people and business challenges." (from http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2009/05/13/being-a-new-cs-grad-...)