skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are always people who want to go somewhere and start over. I'm one of them. Out of every generation, there are some who aren't happy where they're at and want to strike out for a new land to build on and call their own. But in the modern time, there's nowhere left to go. I left Florida and moved to San Francisco. It was almost as far as I could go inside the U.S., and its been a good move, but its only a placeholder.

Given the opportunity, I would leave the Earth altogether to pioneer a new world. Its not in some vain idea of grand adventure. Realistically, I could die on the voyage. Exposure to radiation in space might shorten my lifespan many years. Landing could kill me. Living in a lower gravity environment might have unforeseen long-term consequences. Some kind of equipment malfunction or disease could kill our crops on the surface.

Despite all of these possibilities, there are just some of us who don't care. Simply staying home and safe in the cradle isn't really how I want to live my life. The mere idea of being one of a handful of the first people to step onto land that no one has ever been to before, discovering whatever's there, and building something new is inspiring.

I would be in a place that is free of the history and baggage that hangs onto the society I live in. I could build something new.
Some more free lectures:

http://www.khanacademy.org/

http://ocw.mit.edu/

http://academicearth.org/

http://code.google.com/edu/
I did it over a year ago when it was on sale for $99. I got it for my wife and myself. While I did find out more about myself, many of the diagnosis weren't completely unexpected base on my eating habits. I would still recommend doing it but only when it's on sale as someone else have already commented.

If you do end up finding something, it can be highly valuable regardless of the cost.
Maybe "genome" should be replaced by "a part of his genome".

For more information about the raw format used by 23 and Me: http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/23andMe
TFA suggests that a single icon/menu for all apps that have generated any notifications, in other words: all notifications appear in the same list.

This sounds like a bad idea to me:

First, you can't see at a glance whether you've just received a text message (something you might want to respond to immediately) or an email (which you don't immediately care about).

We would need a user to be able to control which apps can generate notifications. Otherwise every shovelware developer is going to want to put their crappy icon in that menu. And then we have the iOS equivalent of a Facebook news feed full of virtual farming updates!

Second, not all notifications are equal. On WebOS, a media player notification (new song is playing) is separate from the notification about how many texts are unread. A hundred texts can come in, and they won't bury the notification about the music playing.

I hope they start with the WebOS notification system and start improving.
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And this was possible (in the 90's!) with good old ICQ...
I use http://www.songkick.com for music, and http://www.meetup.com for social stff.

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This reminds me of these designs:

http://www.aleph.se/andart/archives/2006/10/warning_signs_fo...

Nanoparticle Hazard, Nonstandard Spacetime, Macroscale Quantum System...
Aren't you not supposed to be able to patent facts? Seems like your DNA structure should be classified as a fact.
Math knowledge beyond 5th grade is not important for the majority of people, but it still gets taught in schools.
The original idea (a form of entertainment by 'lifecasting' Justin) wasn't sustainable on several levels. Of course, the company Justin.tv is alive and well, but with a different game plan than when they started out.
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Facebook is now allowing group pages to claim there own vanity profile or unique username URL. Get it now before someone else does. I was able to get "AbstractArtwork", and love it! You can get your unique profile by visiting www.facebook.com/username
Btw Matt Cutts' statement "Google's algorithms had started to work; manual action also taken." is weird.
(http://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/36502687868665856)

All evidence indicates that JC Penny was ranked #1 until the NYT provided Google with the evidence that it had collected.
Google then acted on the evidence. As a result of those actions, JC Penny's rank dropped from #1 to #71.

It is funny that he should say "Google's algorithms had started to work". Presumably, the algorithm doesn't depend on a New York Times reporter telling Google that they were being gamed :)
Thanks for clarifying (and the extra info). I've hardly heard of meth where I'm from, so it was weird driving through the country seeing graphic billboards about it everywhere.
Feature flags are a very powerful feature, especially for services. Many of the most successful web companies (amazon, google, facebook, twitter) have entire frameworks and infrastructure dedicated to supporting the design pattern.
I thought Yahoo site explorer shows more links than just 1,000?
Haha, that breeds all kinds of crazy ideas. If one could simulate the world's biosphere and its organisms at the genetic or even cellular level, we might one day be able to predict the effects of evolution on humans and other animals.

MAYBE even with bacteria and viruses to predict and then cure diseases before they even present themselves!

I doubt our understanding of genetics/biology is extensive enough for this yet, not to mention the computing power needed, but it seems quite possible.
Well said. History is full of pioneers who wanted adventure and were willing to sacrifice health or longevity for it.

From my perspective, how could anyone not want to sign up? I am extremely happy where I am now, but the thought of setting foot on Mars raises hairs on the back of my neck and gets my heart racing. I am young and single, so I would go in an instant.

I guess I can understand not going because of family or a significant other.
The details are important, but high school maths focuses only on the details, and the bigger picture is always lost.

What you're saying is true; practice is important, and muscle memory is important, but they are details.

I hated high school math because there was never a bigger picture.

I actually liked elementary and junior high math (I didn't study it in North America, but in the Middle East. Not sure if that's a part of the reason).

Some of the high school math was tolerable, but a lot of it was just details details details with no bigger picture behind it what so ever.

What I'm saying is, if computer science was taught in high school the same way math is taught, students won't learn how to program at all. They will just hate it.

To use your physics example. First year physics in my University was pretty much the same as high school physics (at least the courses I took). In high school, I had the privilege of having a really good physics teacher (IIRC he had a Scottish accent). He focused more on the theories and the ideas. His teaching style focused more on problem solving than just formulas. I liked his course and did really well in it.

In contrast, the university physics course was horrible, in the same way that high school math was horrible. It was boring as hell. I was just so disengaged that I think I got a D and had to retake the course.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_%28software%29

1983 with talk. Anybody got anything earlier?
"To quote from the paper: 'Humans are notorious for inventing ways of having sex despite all manner of logistical impediments.'"
A seemingly endless amount of free lectures:

http://www.moreofit.com/similar-to/lecturefox.com/Top_10_Sit...
At this point there's so much noise in Google Results that they're becoming an option of last resort. Not only is there a lot of noise, there's no real usable information from others on the quality of the results.

If I'm looking for a local vendor I go to Yelp, if I'm buying something I go to Amazon, and if I'm looking for coding help I go to Stack Overflow. I don't know that we necessarily need one site to replace Google; it seems to me that the era of free text search being the dominant paradigm may just be over.
I didn't understand that comment either until I read his comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2212336

Algorithmic changes went into play 1.5 weeks ago and had started to drop JCPenny, then the spam team gave them some cement shoes.
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If this were Convore, I would star Groxx's message :)
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Search engines would benefit enormously from using data from social bookmarking sites. If you haven't lately used Delicious to search, I highly recommend it. The breadth of search isn't as far-reaching, but all of the results have essentially been pre-filtered by however many users have bookmarked it -- it's unlikely that many people would bookmark a spammy site or site with crap content.

I think Google results could vastly be improved if they tied together their normal rankings with a "how many people have bookmarked this URL (and to some extent, URLs from this domain)" metric. I've worked closely with Delicious' set of data, and it's nothing short of incredible. Billions of instances of people categorizing sites and vouching for their quality are going unused in the search space.
Here are some "open source" 3d printers that you can build at home for under $1500:

* RepRap - A project with the lofty goal of printing circuit boards and becoming self-replicable (http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page)

* Fab@Home - a 3d printer that tries to optimize print quality, but not necessarily print itself (http://www.fabathome.org/)

* MakerBot - A company that makes several variants of the RepRap (http://makerbot.com/)

There is a community site of 3d models to print at http://www.thingiverse.com/tag:reprap
I suspect this will NOT undermine economies of scale (at least in some areas), due to 'toner' costs, operational costs, and power consumption. It will doubtless be less efficient to print a true-to-life oak 2x4 than it is to harvest and mill one with proper economies of scale set up.
This is a type of sentience analysis. Google could also give better weights for links that are associated with things like "I love Ebay", rather than "[example.com] is a fraud!", but they don't yet (AFAIK).
FWIW, file upload is a drop in the ocean compared to the bandwidth of managing a large number of chat users lines of chat ;)
Is the slight possibility of some people being killed in the event of total collapse of civilization (with presumably billions already dead) really worth spending time on?
Perhaps this? http://www.amazon.com/dp/0932376193
One of my favorite sci fi books on this subject is Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age. The awesome part is that the book is about the manufacturing revolution that follows the 3d printer. Always two++ steps ahead, that guy.
>What is Chronon?

A revolutionary new technology...

Oh really?

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,426529,00.asp

>Java development tool maker VisiComp Inc. on Monday announced a new version of its RetroVue debugger, which it calls a Total Recall debugger for Java.
Ron Hughes, CEO of the Felten, Calif., company, said unlike conventional debugging tools, RetroVue keeps track of every operation executed by the program being debugged and thus enables developers to "roll back the clock" to any previous instance in the program's execution and review the state of the program at that point in time.

That's from July 30, 2002. Or how about this:

http://www.lambdacs.com/debugger/

>What if your debugger could go "go backwards in time?" Would that make debugging easier? By simply recording all variable assignments, it is possible to do essentially this. This is the underlying idea for omniscient debugging.

February 18, 2007. (edit: whups, that was just the last update. Evidence of its existence in March 2003: http://www.lambdacs.com/debugger/AADEBUG_Mar_03.pdf )

Really, this isn't all that revolutionary. It's just a new iteration. Better? Quite possibly, but enough with the hyperbole. I wholly agree with the second link, it's a simple concept, and simple to realize. I'd been hoping to find it in debuggers for a couple years before I found the second link, and it's surprising that there are so few instances, but that's probably due to the potentially-very-large memory / disk cost of doing so.
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Don't forget that he also made Transport Tycoon (1994).
By the time the situation in the U.S. deteriorates to that point, the president won't care about having legal authority to do something.

It's as pointless as outlawing military coups.
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HNers and engineering majors: There is a $20,000 prize from HumanityPlus for anyone to develop a RepRap that can print conductive material.

http://humanityplus.org/gadaprize/

http://reprap.org/wiki/Gada_Prize
That's not really worth posting, since it is also toxic.

We need something that can remove the toxins from the drug and the politicians from any power they have in this world.
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There is this professor here at Oxford, Nick Bostrom, who argues that we are currently living in a simulation:

1) Moore's law holds across worlds.
2) People/beings will, for various reasons (historic, sociological, experimenting, play) want to simulate another world (at a social/molecular/submolecular, etc level).
3) If they simulate one, they'll likely do more.
4) Ergo, there will be more simulated worlds than real ones.
5) Therefore we are more likely to live in a simulated world/universe than in a first order one.

http://www.simulation-argument.com/

Think about this when you unplug something in the future...
"but the thought of setting foot on Mars raises hairs on the back of my neck and gets my heart racing"

The thought of living the rest of your life in a small capsule with no possibility of getting back and with no real-time communication to earth doesn't sound that promising.

And the scientific value of such a mission is not that high either. Wait 10 or 20 years and everything a human could do on Mars could also be done by a robot. Effects (on humans) of living on Mars could be assessed with animal testing. If you want to send humans there wait till the robots have build some base station.

Sending robots would even be economically more feasible: With humans you waste lots of energy and storage space just for life support. With robots you don't need to care about this and can use this storage for other things instead.
IP-based startups (and their lawyers) defending IP laws is similar to big agriculture (and their lobbyists) defending farm subsidies. Yes, they will be affected by the change, but if they don't even bother to try and make an argument as to why society would be worse off under a different system then why would you listen to them?

Though personally once you've used the phrase "Intellectual Property" the game is already over. The various things people lump under that heading are so broad and disparate that you might as well just say "laws need changing" and counter with "we need laws". That's not even getting into the fact that you're implicitly accepting that you're talking about a form of property, rather than government regulation and monopoly grants.
It is a horrible meme, that just won't die. By the time we actually want to get rid of the "waste" from reactors (note we haven't done anything or the sort so far) the waste will be seriously less dangerous than this article concerns itself with. Todays waste is tomorrow energy.

I am a leftie and a bit of a greenie and there are a couple of minor political parties I feel represent my views in Australia where I live. However on a couple of points I greatly disagree with them and that is on nuclear energy and GMOs.

Both these technologies are controversial and have risks associated with them. However both of these technologies promise to solve the two major (and interwoven) problems of the early 21st century, food and energy. I feel it is extremely short sighted to discount these technologies that will solve these problems just because of the dangers that may happen if they are misused/mismanaged.
It's our first title as a new startup, so we don't even have a company website yet. We're going to finish it up early in march, publish it through a few platforms, and then launch the website and do our promotional stuff to coincide with public availability. Soon, soon.

If there's anything specific you'd like to know I'd be happy to email you about it, or notify you when we release it. If you want to email me, you can use this address: spiral@ganglion.ca
Like Google Wave? So does this have an open protocol? Server-to-Server communication?

I don't see where it can be compared to wave. They seem to compare it to IRC, but also IRC is a protocol, convore is just a service.

I still hope wave sees some progress as apache project. :(
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I've found that signing up for a Microsoft tech net subscription is a decent way to get access to various os/browsers without having to deal with any timed expirations. You can download any of the currently supported Microsoft OSs and setup a bunch of virtual Machines. Plus, office and other application software is available as well.

I'm certainly not thrilled with this setup as I wish Microsoft could just allow different IE versions to be installed side by side. But the subscription cost is $200 in the US, so basically if you were planning to by a license to any piece of Microsoft software you might as well get this instead.
...But they are real people, and they have real problems, and they just need real help...
A similar question was posted on Quora. See this link: http://www.quora.com/What-books-should-entrepreneurs-read
Heh. The GitHubt default text on that page is accidentally funny in itself ;)

msporny created dna and everyone else forked it. This is the family tree.
Google still running its PR-stunt after having its OS rejected.

But hey, it's Google so lets completely ignore that and give them credit like we wouldn't give any other company!
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I actually now regret having not used the /full/ name, "Expression Web SuperPreview for Internet Explorer". ;P
"The thought of living the rest of your life in a small capsule with no possibility of getting back and with no real-time communication to earth doesn't sound that promising."

That depends on your perspective. Similar but less extreme arguments apply to:

* Living on a small boat at sea (or setting sail for another country in the 1600s)

* Living on the international space station

* Going west in the 1800s

You have a valid point that it makes more economic sense to send robots. But my post (and it's parent) weren't about the economics. They were answering the OP's title:	Why Did 400 People Volunteer for a One-Way Trip to Mars?
You mean when the USA enters a state of emergency. Like they are currently in since 1995? https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/State_of_emer...
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Is this true? I have a similar issue. So far I too consider that hosting files costs a lot, whereas bandwidth (for text) is reasonably cheap. Am I missing something?
Agreed. It would make much more sense rearranged like this http://oi51.tinypic.com/15hzdcj.jpg
For another startup in the same space, see http://flowdock.com/
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It changed a lot since they started to diverge. I don't think it's fair to consider it a purchase. Much like Powerpoint, BTW.
If black hat seos started to believe Google was paying specific attention to Delicious bookmarks, Delicious would be flooded with fake accounts faster than you can say "link farm".

History of search:

1. New company releases new search engine, better than the competition because it pays attention to a previously ignored signal.

2. Seos work out how to game the signal.

3. New search engine is now as crappy as the search engines it replaced.

Really, internet search is like macroeconomics: soon after you understand {how to prevent recessions, how to find the best webpages}, the problem vanishes and is replaced by something even more complex and incomprehensible. Furthermore, this has already happened.
Personal experience here: Convore rocks. Take it from a long-time IRC junkie. Dump Skype/IM for all your project-related chats and try using them and you quickly will see why Convore works and works well.

I remember Chatterous trying a similar play but can't recall what happened to them. Maybe the GUI wasn't so slick or maybe they pivoted into something we're unaware of...
Yea the setup takes way too long. I got it working and it's really nice, but I don't really see any reason why it can't be a one step process.
I know what you mean about searching for local vendors or buying something; my experience is that a Google search isn't great for either of those. I still find Google pretty useful for coding help, though, and personally I don't tend to go straight to somewhere like Stack Overflow.

Could you give an example or two where Stack Overflow gets you an answer more quickly than a Google search?

Here's my example: In gdb, I want to list all of the threads in my running program. A Google search for "gdb list threads" gives me the answer in the first result. The same search on Stack Overflow doesn't seem to give me the answer in the first few results. This is hardly scientific, of course, so I'm interested to hear of coding questions where Stack Overflow does a better job than a Google search.
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If you are going to say that there really are log n bits in a word, then you also need to account for the time it takes to actually do a comparison, which would be Omega(log n) in the worst case because you can't describe n values with less than log n bits -- making comparison sort Omega (n log^2 n)
I will get a look at your API. The one feature I will look for is the ability to get the list of the members of a group (so that I can dynamically create a wiki for them).

Maybe I can do that using https://convore.com/api/groups/:group_id.json -- but where is the doc about what it returns?

Anyways, it's nice to see that more and more new services come with an (often open) API. Well done :)
You cannot trust Techrights to be balanced. Those folks have a serious (albeit understandable, I admit) case of MS hatred.

But I also observed this behavior many times.
RAZR != Smartphone. That's even part of the article. We're talking simple feature phones here, so I think your workaround does not help.
"we're confusing best practice with standard practice"

This nails my dislike of the phrase 'best practice'. It never means 'the best way to do it' and always means 'the way everyone else does it' or worse 'the way the person writing the phrase has just thought of doing it'.
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