skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, because mailing every two-cent site to get permission to crawl is a sensible way to build a search engine.

Quora should just get over themselves.
After a while, you learn that the best method of self control is to remove the easy distractions. And the design of the ipad is an easy distraction. Lock down would imply you don't own it. PG even does that by having two computers, and his work computer is not connected to the internet. If he needs something from the internet, he needs to get up and go across the room to the internet computer to get it.
Really PDF is just ill-suited for distribution of text. The only reasonable exceptions are when that text is explicitly meant for printing (ala fliers or posters), or when said text is not computerized- e.g. a scan of written script that has yet to be OCR'd
Why does every article about Vim just recently seem to promote it on the Mac to be used via MacVim? Vim does work in the terminal, and apart from tabs I can't see what MacVim is bringing to the party?
Apple iPad officially Launched in India
It is difficult is to find a partner, no matter the role. I am a developer and I had a hard time finding a business person.
Celebrating Data Privacy Day
Manipulation is simpler and pays better.
Python on Heroku
You can run python on heroku with a system call from a ruby app. Just run something like:

@output = `echo \"#{variable}\" | python script.py`.

This will let you read standard out from a python script.
Is the name of this product a commentary on those who send PDF to mobile users?
The Hidden Reality: The multiple universe, explained
The Qt GUI is nice; however, what I need more is support for acceptance testing of programs generated by the students' compilers. I guess I'll just diff the output of command-line spim like last year.
Especially in an environment where said nuclear waste works as a pretext for american military action.

Previously americans invaded when they discovered yellowcake on old british survey maps.

Nobody in somalia was even mining the stuff, but the americans showed up in force and took it away.

I believe part of the reason the americans are attacking us now is to prevent the economic growth from getting to the point where somalis can adequately defend against their many incursions.
>if all the middle east leaders were merely as good as him, the region would be a much better place.

No it wouldn't. It might be a better place for Israel, but it would still be a terrible place for Arabs.

Egyptians are rebelling for a reason: They have no jobs, and no food. They are kept under the heel of a brutal dictatorship. So are Saudis and Yemenis and everyone else the West likes.

The US props up the Egyptian dictatorship because Mubarak is pro-west and willing to work with the international community re: Israel. That doesn't make him good. He's still a brutal dictator, in charge of a corrupt regime. It's no secret that Islamic fundamentalism originated in Egypt, and it's no wonder why.

Now, that's not to say the Lebanese or Syrians or Palestinians have it any better. The Iranians do, but that's a separate issue. The point is, the US needs to pull its head out of its ass in regards to foreign policy and stop propping up brutal dictators who happen to have a convergence of short-term interests with the west. From Hussein to Pinochet to Suharto to the Shah to the Sauds to Noriega to Pap & Baby Doc to Trujillo to Batista to at least a dozen others, the United States has, for the better part of a century, installed or backed countless brutal dictators the world round. First in the name of the fight against communism, then drugs, then oil, the US has always found a way to ensure people are tortured and murdered if it furthers their aims.

This might come across as an anti-American rant. It isn't. It is, however, a rant against the willful ignorance of those who think the United States acts in anything other than its own interests, or that it gives a rats ass about the suffering caused by its actions.

The Arab world, and the world as a whole, would be far better served if the US and Iran let the arab people determine their own future. Unfortunately, that would mean the end to cheap oil, so it won't happen.
I like how the organization behind this wants people to "donate" for their cause, while the ark itself will be owned by a private corporation.

Nice swindle eh?

If the project doesn't work out, they keep the cash donations, if the project works out, they charge people to see it.
> The filthily rich throughout history haven't exactly been the harbingers of revolution.

Actually, more than one revolution was an attempt by the rich to overthrow the powerful.
There are already many aspects of this author's proposal practiced in the cowboy style at Deep Springs.

By reputation, it's a highly successful institution.
Jaron Lanier recently gave a talk at UCSB, and he mentioned that Microsoft is be funding a lab he's setting up in SF to explore new avenues of perception opened up by Kinnect. He mentioned using it to see the world as a lobster, or understand say perhaps a mathematical function by translating body movements to avatar changes.
You just boggled my mind.
Actual monasteries and convents are in a perfect position to fill this role. Not only do they often have the perfect geographical location, they also have physical plants which are designed to foster the right mental attitude and already have practices that do the same. They also have the right tax exempt status.
Let me share what I stumbled upon yesterday:
https://github.com/carlhuda/janus
Oh god how I wish there would be some regulatory action to stop all this horse trading that forms these local monopolies. I was stunned when I learned that cable operators actually trade customers and regions rather than competing.

Verizon FIOS looks like the best chance at breaking the monopolies' backs, but it seems to be slow going - I haven't had it available in any of the last four places I've lived in in very dense NYC and Bay Area, yet my parents in rural Maryland who live next to cows have had it for at least four years.
Employment is to *survive* in life
Entrepreneurship is to *succeed* in life
Login forms must die as well!
Everyone, who's any good, is already buried with lucrative contract offers, or building a startup of his own.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to push your vision into a level of reality , at which these kind of people would give up dreams of their own to join forces with you.

Supply&demand at work.
Actually for me university was exactly where I learned self discipline because the opportunities to go off the rails were just so available - after coming with a hair's breadth of being thrown out I turned myself around and ended up with excellent marks and a first. In some ways the very availability of distractions is part of the strengths of a traditional university education.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yysbbPStfWw

the scene
Choose Your Competition
Metaprogramming in Perl? True metaprogramming?

Yep. While it is generally easier todo in Ruby I find that you often hit limitations sooner than with Perl.
The situation in america will not change until people stop supporting those who enact and propose legislation like this.

Who wants to give the president the kill switch? It would be good to know a full list of all sponsors of such a bill and whether Obama has endorsed it or not. Regardless of party, these people who have not even read the US constitution (or comprehended it if they have) should not be re-elected.
I could eventually come to ignore the fundamental screwed-up-ness of the API if it didn't also mess with the protocol itself; Exchange.asmx dropping out an incomplete WSDL is icing on the fractally wrong cake.
Colleges and universities are also exempt from taxation. Harvard University pays no tax on its endowment gains or property.
Nobody said anything about raising living standards to that of today. I'm not sure exactly how you got there, and I'm also not sure how you or the overcoming bias article you linked got to free markets causing the reduction in poverty. The free market's been around for a bit longer than six years, so I'd say it's more likely to be a rise in technology (particularly mobile phones and solar power) rather than global capitalism.

And never mind a minimum wage law - Victorian England would've been a much more pleasant place with some sort of health and safety law, restrictions on child labour or a functioning welfare system other than slave labour in the poor house. Did you read the People of the Abyss link that I posted earlier? There's some scary stuff in there:

I worked at Sullivan's place in Widnes, better known as the British Alkali Chemical Works. I was working in a shed, and I had to cross the yard. It was ten o'clock at night, and there was no light about. While crossing the yard I felt something take hold of my leg and screw it off. I became unconscious; I didn't know what became of me for a day or two. On the following Sunday night I came to my senses, and found myself in the hospital. I asked the nurse what was to do with my legs, and she told me both legs were off.

There was a stationary crank in the yard, let into the ground; the hole was 18 inches long, 15 inches deep, and 15 inches wide. The crank revolved in the hole three revolutions a minute. There was no fence or covering over the hole. Since my accident they have stopped it altogether, and have covered the hole up with a piece of sheet iron . . . . They gave me £25. They didn't reckon that as compensation; they said it was only for charity's sake. Out of that I paid £9 for a machine by which to wheel myself about.

(from http://london.sonoma.edu/Writings/PeopleOfTheAbyss/chapter17...)

25 pounds is about 6 months wages for the loss of both legs, and he has to buy his own wheelchair! How much productivity was lost to society because that factory and others like it didn't take enough care of its workforce? And yet you and the rest of the HN libertarian echo chamber are trying to convince us that the only thing necessary for happiness is a free market?

Give me a break.
> That's an ongoing question (and one to which I think there is no single answer.)

You're on the slippery slope to philosophy, here :)
I think link is down for this article. Could you please check?
Adder: A Lisp-1 which compiles to Python
I am getting goosebumps after seeing this on HN.
I agree there's a lot wrong with the current system, but it's not that students are having too much sex

From what I saw, it's not that students were having too much sex. It's the combination of a lot of undirected lost souls who are not committed so something substantive (like learning/research) with a pervasive atmosphere of bacchanalia. I saw people go through many emotional wringers in school.

Once again, we have some confusion between this weird form of self-denial with caring about education.

I agree. I think it's perfectly possible to have an atmosphere which is contemplative without going towards asceticism. What's really needed is a shift in emphasis.

the fact that a lot of research requires expensive equipment, something unaccounted for under this scheme

There's a lot of research and substantive work that doesn't require expensive equipment. For one thing, I would love some monasteries to become hosts for Google Summer of Code work.
is this documented, or something you just stumbled upon?
There is no threat.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/04/mullen-please-for-th...

http://www.dnaindia.com/opinion/main-article_why-the-us-can-...

http://www.gwynnedyer.com/articles/Gwynne%20Dyer%20article_%...
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if you translate the translation back it says "I have to use your Facebook"
why dont we have wireless power then?
I'm SizeUp user myself and it works fine for me.
You can never have too many choices (unless you want to make money)
Berlusconi, Obama and Wikileaks: doublethink in action
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I think that's a good tactic; certainly a valid problem to solve. I think the headline on HN oversells the ability to use different backends, whereas the real value (as explained on railstips.org) is much more about destructuring data into this scalable key-value access pattern.
Virtual Assistant Is Necessary
If you are in the online business genre and you are experiencing difficulties in trying to maintain clients due to inconveniences in communication, the virtual office assistant is the perfect solution for you.
Ironically I believe that this is to protect the users privacy on the Quora site. They have an option to hide your username from your answers, so if someone were to Google your name your Quora answers wouldn't appear.
He seems to be confused between wireless transmission of information and transmission of power. He says he can power a boat from shore, which is ridiculous, but I assume he's only controlling it from shore. Did people understand the difference back then?
The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
Andrew Hodges' excellent biography of Turing left quite an impression on me as I read it while stuck in the Camusunary mountain bothy on Skye by myself waiting for the weather to clear - which took about five days!

http://www.turing.org.uk/book/

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

Both are recommended, individually or as a combination :-)
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It's not a mistake. That's what Tesla Coils were meant to do. Tesla was a great proponent of wireless power transmission and actually believed it would be possible to transmit enough power to move a ship. The reason it doesn't exist currently is energy loss in the transmission. The wikipedia article has a picture of his device along with a general overview:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_energy_transfer
Io (http://www.iolanguage.com) comes with a set of examples: https://github.com/stevedekorte/io/tree/master/addons/Socket...
”Obsessions Make My Life Worse and My Work Better.”

Think this quote can be attributed to this artwork: http://www.segd.org/design-awards/5200/5223.html
> palm towards the TV

This sort of wording was what lead me to believe the Kinect could actually track hands. I tried three games, and none of them tracked my fingers or the rotation of my hands at all.
Thank you for following up my chain of thought.. you are clearly the go-to guy for universe simulation implementations. Let me know when you are available to put in a couple of man-centuries of development. I'll provide funding, food and not too alien coworkers.
By "non-UI", I take it you mean "non-GUI"? emacs certainly has its fair share of user interface, it'd be kind of hard to use otherwise. It can, admittedly, be kind of hard to use anyway, but that's not because it lacks a UI.
I'm working at http://jupiterit.com , company behind the http://javascriptmvc.com
Kinect loves hands. It seeks out hands in everything it sees. If you look at the greyscale video box, the moment a hand is in view it will glow white.

It might not be down to the finger level yet (I don't know) but it can certainly recognise hands to a great level of precision. The Kinect Sports bowling game, for example, is very accurate at tracking the path of your hand.
No, he was not. For Marconi, wireless transmission of information was just a byproduct of the far more important wireless transmission of power. In the linked text he is explicitly distinguishing his idea from the mere wireless transmission of information with electric waves which are quickly damped out.

Yes, he was completely wrong about that.

And ubiquitous wireless communication was a widespread idea at the time, here is an example from 1897:
http://www.citizenarcane.com/index.php/archives/2005/03/28/e...
Alan Turing is one of my personal heroes and was a genius of unmatched ability. In almost all ways he was a man ahead of his time. It is a huge shame on the British government that his life ended the way it did.
When do you work out? Like yourself, I have had phases where I worked out in the morning, afternoon, and evening. Each has their pros and cons, depending on your other activities.

I get to the gym most often when the rest of my life is "structured". You seem to be looking for the same qualities. Here is what worked for me.

1. Set a specific goal, with an end date. If you have a goal, then you are more likely to work hard to accomplish it. Working out without a goal means it's easier to quit, as you're not working to accomplish anything. Your goal should be specific. Just don't say "I want to be in better shape." Specific goals could be losing a certain amount of weight, completing a set of workout routines (such as P90X), or lifting more weight after a set amount of time.

Also, make sure you time bound the goal.

2. Don't let your job get in the way. My best time to workout has always been the early morning. However, like yourself, I'm also very productive in the morning, so I switched my workout to after work during the winter. To make this work, I have to force myself to leave work by a certain time. Getting home too late leaves me tired and gives me an excuse to not workout.

3. Think about the other 23 hours. I've read that while the 1 hour you workout is tough, you feel better the other 23. This is true.
A nation that produced Sony, Toyota and Honda has failed in recent decades to nurture young entrepreneurs

Why did those companies succeed?
We have. It is called a microwave oven and usually restricted to small, shielded compartments for health reasons.
Is there a place where I can see a list of sourceforge project names? I'd really like to merge that with my list of applications now.
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A much requested feature from when we launched RSS feeds. We're trying pretty hard to make sure we don't flood your inbox. Email logic is surprisingly tricky.
You'd have to wait for a lawsuit for this kind of thing to come to light. Deals like this could be concealed in incentive tiers across products. Say, you buy 1M WP7 licenses for your future phones and you enter a tier where your Win7 license cost decreases enough to offset the cost of the WP7 licenses, plus a small incentive. Your WP7 licenses came, essentially, for free and they can brag about how OEMs are enthusiastic about WP7 and how that dooms the iPhone 5 or whatever other MacGuffin you choose to attract media attention.
I want to give good feedback. But I also want to be a little bit of jerk. I'm pretty sure that I woke up this morning and produced 20MB of data before my coffee finished brewing. Here are some things that have more than 20MB of storage:

1987: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Macintosh_SE_b.jpg
1995: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Zip-100a-transparent.png
2002: http://reviews.cnet.com/pc-card/kodak-20-mb-compactflash/170... (Note the Discontinued tag)

Ok...enough sillyness. 20MB? If you have any index on your data this is really more like 12MB of data. I'll admit that the 20MB is free and enough to get started with a design, but there no way you'd be able to run any sort MVP on that amount of space. With the current lack of logging a couple hundred visitors would fill that up in a few days with just web traffic logging. $10/month isn't that expensive for the full 10GB...actually a great price point....but the 20MB just looks silly.

If I were you all I'd up it to 1GB. 20MB just looks so...1992ish? Heck even 100MB would look more appealing.

Please don't take this as too much of criticism. I'm using the service and love is so far. I'm sure you have some spreadsheet somewhere that says the free DB should be 20MB and I'm sure that there is a very logical reason for picking the number. But it is a bad number.
There is certainly a lot of saber rattling. Also, the 'nuclear option' is 'on the table'. The Iranian government is justifiably playing the card of foreign interference.
>"Microsoft sold 6.3 million XBox 360 consoles during the holiday season"

That's within about 10% of the number of iPads Apple moved during the same period. That seems pretty extraordinary for a consumer electronics product that's over five years old. Considering the additional sale of 8 million Kinects during the same period, the combined revenue number would appear to be in the same ballpark as those of the iPad (~$400-$600 per unit times 7 million units).
Have you seen what happens to WP7 licenses that are not used in actual phones?

Me neither.
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I'm not 100% sure of that, but if the internet in Egypt is actually blocked by not advertising BGP routes at the ISP level, my guess is TOR will not even work at all. Can anyone confirm?
Clever name ... a little crass.
Heroku has a whopping 5 MB on the free plan.
The way that he suggests Windows PCs "want" to be used (with antivirus) is clearly a design flaw, for any usage scenario. Why isn't this a design flaw, even if only for use in schools where a cheap tablet that automatically resets itself to a known good state and leaves user date in "the cloud" seems a better idea. The ChromeOS idea of being able to lose or break your laptop and carry on regardless (possibly even from a random Windows desktop as long as it has Chrome) seems a perfect fit for students, even if it doesn't play to Apple's strengths.
Actually, that's not true and it really isn't hard to verify so I'm not sure why you keep saying that.
I still not decided. I want someone secular, capitalist and liberal. Someone with a good history and background in economics and politics.

He'll get some good promotion, as I'll be dedicating all my summer for pushing his campaign forward :)
It's true, we also experienced data loss (several millions of log data caused by dirty shutdown, it's data file is very fragile) issue like this thread http://groups.google.com/group/mongodb-user/browse_thread/th...

I found the following two posts very insightful：

1, http://www.mikealrogers.com/2010/07/mongodb-performance-dura...

"This (mongodb's write plolicy) is kind of like using UDP for data that you care about getting somewhere, it’s theoretically faster but the importance of making sure your data gets somewhere and is accessible is almost always more important."

2, http://www.paperplanes.de/2011/1/10/mongodb_and_data_durabil...

"It's okay to accept trade-offs with whatever database you choose to your own liking. However, in my opinion, the potential of losing all your data when you use kill -9 to stop it should not be one of them, nor should accepting that you always need a slave to achieve any level of durability. The problem is less with the fact that it's MongoDB's current way of doing persistence, it's with people implying that it's a seemingly good choice. I don't accept it as such."
Thanks for your info. I've tried (in the last few hours) to find a good toolkit to consume WSDL rather than write my own envelopes as you mention.

I'm investigating 3 different WSDL->JS libraries.

* Guru4 JavaSriptSOAPClient - Unmaintained since 2006

* Python wsdl2js - not widely tested or maintained

* Apache CXF wsdl2js - maintained, but doesn't seem to like the WSDL provided by my service provider.

Of the three, Apache CXF is the only one that looks promising, but fails to generate any JS. I'm trying to fix it, but I keep encountering more old-style web-services acronyms. All I want are so classes - maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I simply don't think it should be this hard.

If you're interested, the WSDL issues are detailed further in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4827467/understanding-apa...

Edit: I've found a maintained version of the Guru4 implementation at
http://javascriptsoapclient.codeplex.com that I'm going to try.
My fetish for the Kindle continues... it's a real shame back catalogue items like this aren't available. I find it so hard to buy physical books nowadays beyond large reference books.

I will have to make an exception though, it looks like a great book.
I didn't make this story. I replied to a comment on twitter that was @replied to me and then Pete came to me for a quote.