skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but that doesn't necessarily mean that there are large, unoccupied routeable blocks within their allocated ranges that those organizations could easily hand back. More likely, they've got some sparse set of addresses scattered all over the place, reflecting allocations to their subdivisions.

Hey, it's 1992; why not give that research group a /16 if you've got the bits? There's no immediate need, but they might use some fraction of it eventually. And they parcel out /8s to subgroups, a few at a time, averaging out to maybe a dozen machines (some groups with more, some with less). Upshot: in 2011, there's an internal /16 with a few hundred machines on it --- but reallocating it to a smaller CIDR block which reflects actual usage requires negotiations up and down the hierarchy. And this kind of cruft has been piling up all over the place for decades; sorting it out may be hard enough that some of 'em would rather fight than pull the switch.
No one is obliged to do anything, least of all application developers, and I wasn't talking about them at all. I was wondering about the motivation of library and framework maintainers. It wasn't my perception that the process leading up to Python 3 was anything like the kind of language creator ego trip you describe. It was a longish collective process and it has since been made very clear that further language changes are not in the cards any time soon.
Also check out Richard Davidson's research, although he's more on the affective end of things.

http://psyphz.psych.wisc.edu/web/personnel/director.html
What if, in your statement, you've unwittingly come across the answer? Why wait for Python 2 libraries to port ... maybe there's a hole in the market here for Python 3 libraries to outright replace the Python 2 ones?

It sucks, yes, but it'll move Python 3 forward...
To be expected - the device still does not have any serious competition. If a second gas station opens in your neighborhood you might pay a little less for gas, but all things being equal they are going to be paying the same price from the refinery. Only when a serious threat comes along will Apple respond with a price drop.

Look at what Amazon did - once the Kindle was under assault from multiple companies they dropped the price.
I'm going to be giving that a go too at some point. Probably just for benchmarking though ;)
If you're looking for SO results why not use 'site:stackoverflow.com'? That would clear out everything else.
"And then all of a sudden some strange phenomenon occurs in a corner."

That give me hope. :)
Apple App Store Surpasses 10 Billion Downloads
Time Complexity of Python Data Structures
Found on HN earlier...

[The Surprising Speed of Om](http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/the-surprising-speed-o...)

[Meditation boosts part of brain where ADD, addictions reside](http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/08/meditation-boost...)

[Brief Meditative Exercise Helps Cognition](http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100414184220.ht...)
I found this (http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html) on a recent HN thread. According to that you've been on a wrong track I'm afraid.
The future of JavaScript 'arguments'
Having talked a couple of times to various members of Andreessen Horowitz's team, I'm thoroughly impressed with they way they are approaching VC in the Valley. They are very much taking a long term approach to things, and they have some really good people on their team.

Kudos to them for innovating.
The opinion of the article's author is summarized by ths paragraph:

Which started me thinking about the 5 Powerpoint slides we see in every pitch deck. Sure, the slides all look different – different colors, bar charts, pie charts, line graphs. But, basically, they tell the same story. So if and when you use these slides, use them at your own risk – because we’ve seen them before!

Incidentally a great book to teach people how to create useful pictures (both for clarifying your thinking and for presenting) is The Back of the Napkin. Be warned that it it helps you communicate your message effectively, but it does nothing to help your message be more believable.

The book contains an ironic example of this, by telling the story of a fictional company named SAX Inc. He does a very good job of communicating his thinking about this company, its problems, and what it should do. However my knowledge of software development tells me that the plan he came up with has major pitfalls he is not aware of.
Evolution of Pyramid
Swarm intelligence
Tech Crunch has one too. As well as "X-nananana: Batcache".

EDIT: ah, I see that this is likely to be a Wordpress generic thing.
I've seen this happen in smaller markets with one dominant VC... Thankfully in the Valley we're a long ways from a company being DOA without AH as an investor.
Could the 4 hours of daily sleep have any relation to the constant headache you faced then?
"Groupon looked like a very high valuation," Horowitz said, "but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment."

I don't think I'd want to hear that statement come from someone who is investing my money.
Android's Death Warrant Might Be Good for Open Source
Directory Daily - All About Directories
Yeah, same here. It's not a high-traffic website by any means, but my @lastname.ca email is listed on my lastname.ca trivially encoded with character entities. The volume of spam I get through there is dwarfed by the volume of spam I get from spammers name-guessing emails at my university's email servers.
Just as much I guess as giving a Person of the Year award to a guy who's startup hit the mainstream years ago.
Err… I agree. I said that choosing a morality is outside the scope of science. But I agree that science can (and probably should) study morality. See Eliezer Yudkowsky, who is trying to build a Friendly AI. He will probably need a complete theory of Intelligence and Morality to do that.

Your other points are related to http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Anti-epistemology and http://lesswrong.com/lw/of/dissolving_the_question/ (I suspect you know about these, but others may find them interesting.)
Cortisol + Epigenetics = shit we are just starting to understand.

Myself included.

Point being is that how we react to our environment has a profound affect on the expression (or suppression) of genes in our DNA, and can be passed on through generations.

Mindful meditation is probably (pure conjecture on my part) causing methylation of genes involved in the production of cortisol (indirect).
We live in the so called information age and everyday someone posts something like this on the web. Some road map to better educate yourself cheaper in x or y field.

Ironically, governments throughout the world still struggle to find solutions to education. Please, just teach people to open a book and do some damage.
Performance for Silicon Valley 2.0 as of January 21, 2011 - igriot's posterous
you can meditate in any position you like. lotus like or seisa positions are recommended after thousands of years of practise and probably for good reasons (helps you stop falling asleep, spine orientation etc).

however personally i've experienced meditative state most deeply lying flat. YMMV and i haven't read that book.
I recommend Simon-Peyton Jones' classic "How to give a good research talk" http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...

And also some loose bits of advice from me:

* 10 minutes is not enough to present "all the material in your paper". 30 minutes is not enough either. So, don't even try. Even if you talk fast enough, the audience won't get it. I'd expect 10 minutes be enough for a high-level overview of the paper, but if you can include just one bit of technical information which you think is the most valuable bit, that would be brilliant.

* reading from slides is an atrocity, so don't.

* and having too much text on the slides isn't cool either (the same applies to bullet lists, unless you absolutely have to). If you do, expect many people not to listen to you while they are reading the slides. So, only include large bodies of text if it's some code. And even then, format it nicely (color helps, but don't rely on it to convey useful information).

* "pictures are worth a thousand words"... unless they are badly drawn. But a good picture is a great alternative to large bodies of text.

* practice your talk, especially if you haven't given many of them. That makes huge difference in how well you perform. And remember, a technical talk is still a performance.

* if you are worried that your mind would go blank once you take the stage, hard-script the beginning of your presentation and read from the paper. Eventually, you will warm up and won't need it anymore, but it's great to quickly overcome stage fright and the like (helped me a great deal).
Sure. Note that I'll give you a brain dump, and it's up to you to pick the bits that will work for your style and knowledge.
Ask HN: Partial Trademark in Domain Name
I've purchased a domain name that I'd like to use as a platform to promote my personal web development services. I thought 'transpire solutions' sounded cool and I got the domain(s). It turns out "transpire inc" holds a trademark on the name.

My question is can I build a site around this domain, or is that just asking for issues? I probably wouldn't start a company around it, but rather just use it to showcase my designs and attract customers.

Here is the trademark info:

Word Mark	TRANSPIRE
Goods and Services	IC 042. US 100 101. G & S: Computer consulting services, namely, developing custom and general purpose software; providing technical support services, namely, troubleshooting of computer hardware and software problems and providing solutions to the problems; providing computer consulting services in the design, selection, implementation and use of computer hardware and software systems for others; and providing computer-aided engineering services for others. FIRST USE: 20040727. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20040727
How about statistical filtering---to see how well your newly imported rules do?
Jupiter Linux Applet gets its own home
Writing Python 2.x forward compatible to Python 3 code
This is exactly what I did with business, instead of getting an MBA or a PhD.

Here's my reading list: http://personalmba.com/best-business-books/

Here's the book I wrote, condensing what I learned in the process: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591843529/

I now own my own business, work for myself as a business teacher and consultant, have an enormous amount of flexibility in my day-to-day schedule, and make more than professors who teach at top business schools.

Education is changing.
Feels a little unsavory since these are mug shots.
He does go into other postures, but from what I recollect the first one he mentions is lying on your back. I got from the book that the posture isn't as important as being comfortable, clearing your mind and having something stable to focus your mind on initially. Breathing is three fold because it is always with you, you will never stop breathing* & when people are anxious or in the midst of panic usually their breathing becomes irregular, which is something you can take back and control, empowering the person in that situation to realize they are still breathing and OK.

Much of the book is has him discussing his pain & wellness center, patients & his own life. Which is why I said it's wordy. I have read reviews that suggest his follow-up book has more meat & potatoes on meditation techniques:

http://www.amazon.com/Wherever-You-There-Are-ROUGH/dp/140130...

*Yes there are exception to this which my logical mind started going down, such as paralysis, death, drowning, choking... etc...
Probably depends on what you want to achieve with meditation. My goal was to achieve things written about on this page: http://psipog.net/

Most actively I was going after clairvoyance.

And it worked to an extent, I eventually stopped because I couldn't distinguish what my mind was thinking it was doing from any sort of actual physical effect and I never managed to achieve anything that couldn't adequately be explained as lucid REM.
Kept giving me errors about unbalanced brackets, but the same regexps work perfectly as patterns in BBEdit (PCRE) and in Ruby (Onig).
I use http://gskinner.com/RegExr/ for similar reasons; it's free (doesn't even have ads), though not as powerful as RegexBuddy. Allows for a very quick test-debug-refine cycle, making clear what is matched with realtime highlighting. I'm not affiliated in any way, just very happy with the service.
I'd just like to point out that all those amazon product links have his affiliate ID in there... He's getting a cut, keep that in mind
The article is so poorly written as to be distracting. From the non sequitur in the first paragraph to "20 times as powerful than what the law allows". NYT!
Modern flight control computers can land an airplane autonomously. To protect pilots eyes, what about LCD windscreens that black out momentarily if laser light is detected. Same technology that's used in auto-darkening welding masks.
Update on Internet Censorship in Iran - Tor Blog
Yes, very likely, however there were no other indications of sleep deprivation.
I'm surprised how many times Mark Pilgrim's quote has been taken out of context.
> It's been up-voted more, however.

Exactly. The headline "Surprising Event Happens" is bound to draw more discussion than it's mere overturning....unless the discussion becomes about the meta issue of journalism.
Hands on Intro to CouchDB by Max Ogden
So? He put a lot of effort into that list, and he published it for free. If it sells some books, good for him.
Or you could actually be interested in said literature and take classes on it :) I think literature and code have a lot in common, they both tell a "story", though with code it tends to be more imperative.
It would be more useful if the state diagram page displayed the original regex.
I've tried PHP scraping many different ways and settled on http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net . It uses jQuery style selectors as well.
So what would a VC think of someone who came in with no deck, and just sketched on a whiteboard or paper pad on an easel? The best talks I've been to have been presented that way, with no technology at all. Of course those have been more academic in nature.
I like the UIs of HN and Craigslist much better than most sites.
Send messages to the future with Quantum Entanglement
> which offers a fragmented and vast range of screen sizes

Diversity is not a pure negative thing, yes it's harder to design for, but it also keeps us from being sucked in to the black hole of eternal standards.

Game designers already showed us that it's possible to handle diversity.

> Not to mention the bloatware.

I would rather tolerate some bloat ware than to have a communist App Store. See previous 'X app got rejected from App Store' articles for reference.
No one "becomes" intelligent. Intelligence is the capacity for learning and understanding concepts, and a lot of children go on to live their entire lives without getting anywhere near that capacity due to a lack of access to educational opportunities in an environment, both at home and at school, that is conducive to learning and advancing. The fact that we accept this as normal is disgraceful, especially when any one of these children could potentially become the adult that makes a major technological breakthrough that benefits us all.
Is time a side effect of universal expansion?
Krugman: a rant on national "Competitiveness"
A 1W handheld laser is amazing. I remember back in the early nineties, we got our hands on a, IIRC, 400mW Argon laser. I thought that was powerful, and it was a ~6"x6"x2ft box with a huge fan and a power cord. To have that sort of power in a battery-powered, pocket size package is... well, I'm amazed.

FYI, in Sweden, what's called "Class 4" lasers (>0.5W, basically) are regulated (or at least back in those days they were.) You need a permit to operate one, and you need to implement strict safety arrangements to avoid exposure. (I got a waiver for my 10W home-built CO2 laser, but that's a different story... ;-)
Buffett does quite well while sounding somewhat similar. He also looks at the price, though.
Eclipse Orion: The New IDE Paradigm
Telnet Bruteforce
I'm sorry, but WHAT?!?!

1) They are not a startup. They're over 4 years old. They have officially passed the starting phase

2) They have not monetized since graduating into the big boy businesses phase. Riding the coattails of VC's for years with no clear plan to reach profitability is not business

3) They are instable as hell. They crash nearly everyday, with millions of dollars in the bank, hundreds of engineers working for them, and 4 years of development under their belt, and they have a frickin meme because of how instable they are

4) They've stopped innovating. Nothing new has come from twitter in the last 2+ years other than their API. 140 character messages, we get it.

Blatant buzz word fanboyism is still running amok apparently.
I wonder if it would be feasible to coat airplane windshields with some sort of narrow-band filter which would block light at the specific frequencies of commercial lasers, but let light at other wavelengths pass.
Weird Images
Electronic Guitar without Strings
I'm currently at epic, but I know there are other companies still using the language.
Actually, I think the article said that was what their previous study looked at. Having found cognitive improvements, they went looking for brain changes.
File View: `Yu_Gi_Oh_GX_Spirit_Summoner_JAP_NDS-LGC.7z' for `Nintendo DS'
it just seems to me that there is a gaggle of very obvious failing points that can easily become the focus of your guys' attempts to clean up the serps. Buy Viagra is probably the oldest known keyword to be subjected to blackhat seo techniques in the history of Google, yet it's still littered with hacked edu's and spam sites. If 300k broad match searches a month is something you guys feel isn't worth focusing on, then I guess this is a moot point. But at that kind of volume, I think a little bit more attention is warranted.

The simplest response is that link spam works, has worked for years, and coming into 2011, it appears to be as strong as ever in terms of ranking sites for competitive niches.
It's $50/seat/year, no matter how many users. The "Standard" version (they've renamed it to something else, now) has lower quotas and no (non-bulletin board) support. It also now has a cap of 50 seats (used to be higher). For a while, you could only do video hosting and some other things on the business/"Premier" plan; not sure about now.

Academic/non-profit is "free", but you have to prove your status somehow.

I still argue it's a bargain for the "average" business, compared to trying to host and manage this stuff yourself. I don't know how good the support is, though -- the rest of Google's individual / customer level support leaves me rather doubtful. I also don't know what happens when the subpoenas start flying.

If they ever establish HIPAA compliance/certification (I don't know whether it is worth their while), they may get a "bazillion" health care providers. Especially if that "whatever is currently their health records management offer" thing works out.

But that would put them in the middle, as the records holder, of an awful lot of litigation. From that perspective, it might be a real loser for them. (Maybe the lobbyists are already working on this vis à vis some favorable legislation.)
I'll just leave this here:

http://www.khanacademy.org/
Of all the things that I dislike about MUMPS, error messages aren't anywhere near the top of the list.
Larry Page: smart, highly focused, strong-willed
Give yourself some credit for going through 99+ books, though; if something doesn't sink in after all that, then you should reconsider the way you read. :)
There were separate categories for "best new startup or product" (winner: Quora) and "best overall product or startup". I personally agree that the best new startup is more interesting and would make a better headline for the announcement.
Nice list.

One quibble: I'd put Steve Blank's "Four Steps" under Entrepreneurship rather than "Value Creation and Design". I've read Four Steps, Universal Principals of Design, and Design of Everyday things (I have not read Rework, the other book in the category). Four Steps really covers much different material than the other other two books.
It seems strange to describe 'we'll give you something, if you agree not to use it for certain purposes' as depending on 'particular exploitation of given laws that allow market restriction.' To me that's more just about 'common courtesy' between consenting parties.
> For new projects, start with Python 2.6 or 2.7

Unless you want your project used on debian stable, that is... In which case your exception handlers will be simply not compatible between versions.
The re.DEBUG flag for the python re module is also really useful in this regard
In its current state, Khan Academy's exercises are very basic, once you start following the courses. You learn the basics, but not enough to become an entrepreneur.

I've been mulling over a project to deliver more courses in a similar vein, but I'm still struggling with how I'll manage to collate the user-submitted YouTube-videos automatically without mandatory approval on my side.
It's still far less dangerous than a gun. The problem is people don't view in that category. "It's just a flashlight" vs "This is dangerous and if I use it improperly I can go to jail for a long time".

PS: When you consider how much damage someone can to with a car I think you will find causing damage for the lulz is not really that common.
Ubuntu Server Edition Survey 2011
I don't think there's any harm in saying that.

It was just something "for your consideration". Nothing accusatory.
Techcrunch is about fostering and nurturing the growth of Arringtons ego. If he can focus on all the people who really do technology and are already successful, then he can feel like he is important and part of the scene.

Just like how he invited himself to the angelgate meetings and was greeting with a nice helping of "please god, not this fucking guy" yet referred to all of them as his "close friends"

Sure Disrupt is a good platform for startups and tech to launch, but seriously looking at the quality of their hosts, and all the article after article postings on TC that are riddled with mistakes, spelling errors, grammar errors etc, one cant take them too seriously.

It is ego factory, nothing more.
Now there's a thought.
It wasn't just 99 - it was thousands. The books on the list are just the best. :-)
The Music Bay: Pirate Bay Crew Instill More Fear Into The Music Industry
A gun runs out of ammunition - with this you can stand on a freeway overpass and silently blind everybody that drives under it.
Thanks for this. It's a bloody goldmine.
JavaScript Graphical / Virtual Keyboard Interface
This script is a reusable system for adding a graphical keyboard interface to text fields, password fields and textareas so they can be filled with mouse only.
One more price differential "Western" workers are working against.

I recall when India was starting up its external-facing tech industry. There were a few conversations about how one way they kept costs down was by not paying for any software licenses.

I found and find it ironic, that the same companies that are so gung ho about IP rights in the "West", were (and are) perfectly willing to take advantage of their disregard when seeking lower prices by farming work out to "developing economies".

At this point, I respect IP inasmuch as it can break me financially or maybe get me thrown in the pokey. Morally, though? I'll make my decisions on an individual basis, but I find I have no respect nor regard for a great deal of claimed rights. The claimants are bald faced hypocrites.
Holy shit, I'd forgotten all about that, and that used to be one of my favorite websites. Amazing what the passing of time does... well, maybe more "sad" than "amazing," but whatever.

HNN... wow, those were the days.