skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more like hiding the gold from Nobel prizes from the Nazis in plain sight. Still, it's a very interesting way to hide gold that most non-chemists would never think of.

But it does give an interesting exercise: how else could you hide gold in a chemistry lab in such a way that at least the gold is retrievable? I can imagine submerging the prizes in various dangerous chemicals, but getting them clean enough to be safe afterward would be worrisome.
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i have no problem making the data publicly available, as soon as i have submitted my first draft to turnitin.com (a plagiarism checker thingy) (done link is below)

to be honest i dont think the information would be much use to anyone because as mentioned the survey pretty much points that respondent in one direction

(Here is a link to the spreadsheet)
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtwEsLgSGhLCdEYwVTB...
From what I've seen of Fringe, it makes a mockery of science.
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In your opinion what are the best sites online that show you how to design a site in CSS from scratch?
Looking for tutorials that focus on the practical side of things and forces you to code rather than read about CSS. Almost looking for walk through tutorials. Any recommendations? THANKS!
Gentoo founder Daniel Robins lasted at Microsoft for eight months. He too sounded upbeat when he started.

Robins' role seems to have been fairly similar to Gianugo's; help Microsoft understand Open Source and community-based projects.
Yeah, I've seen that before. I'm not talking about just that. What I'm talking about is having the full screen mode Apple is developing will have support for turning the app into an iPad version with little effort. Basically, by following their API and implementing official full screen support, when the time comes to implement Mac to iPad support like I'm describing, instead of seeing the Mac's desktop, your seeing the application on your iPad in an "iPadified" version of the app.
That's just a function of the different technologies, not the attitudes.
Still confused and doubtful: how does the camera/person issue relate to the coffee mug/comfy chair? The article (which I was criticising) made extraordinary claims about mind control and inanimate objects.

Even if the interview process you describe was part of the 'science' (not evident from the article we're commenting on) then its not the camera, but the actual person that is responsible for the stress response. Isn't it ludicrous to attribute it to the camera?

Finally, social 'science' is mostly cargo-cult science. There are such inadequate attempts to control variables, so little effort to even understand the variables, that doing statistics appropriate for physics and chemistry are inadequate and wildly misleading.
Awesome! Really excited this opportunity exists for people with my interests.
The Hipmunk interface seems really divisive. I don't find it confusing at all, but I keep reading that from many people. Perhaps it has to do with one's familiarity with Gantt charts?
So now we all adopt feng-sui and hope for the best?
As I said: "Doesn't mean there is never a reason to stop or change course"; this is different from "quit" in terms of the article. You don't quit a family just because frustrations mount. Leaving to escape abuse isn't quitting, it's survival. There's a difference, which I was assuming was obvious (nonetheless, I expected someone would call me on not including a volume clarifying the obvious and disclaiming all inane misrepresentations; I decided not to include all that until someone went there).
we see the "information revolution/productivity gain" which was anticipated before y2k materializing today (at least to some extend). but seing an arms race in the finance industry is seldom a good thing. so my guess is that sooner or later it will be a bubble. but it will take a little longer to develop. the fundamentals are actually there, thus the numbers are not made up.
on the other side these high prices could just be the inflation created trough the financial crisis.

its still a good thing that the US drives investments into technology. in the end, most of these will survive and act as an enabler for even more high tech industries.
You're better off with just doing something. Make up your mind on something you wish to create. Imagine a website. Then work till you're there. When you don't know how to accomplish something - Google it on Bing. "CSS text shadow", "CSS sidebar", "CSS menu" and so on. You'll be a master in no time. "The Definitive Guide to HTML & CSS -- Fully Updated" might be worth getting - or just do another Google for "CSS Reference".

Godspeed.
Oracle making Java, Solaris certifications pricier
It's troubling how little of this article is about the actual service. I'm left wondering why this is worth $5m? Isn't this basically HotBot for signup services?
What I find odd is that most people want to believe everyone is born equal. They want to believe this so badly they ignore any evidence to the contrary. For example, I can eat anything and won't gain weight, yet someone else is morbidly obese on the same diet. I can glance at something once and memorize it easily whereas else may have to spend hours and hours. We are not born equal, BUT we can improve ourselves.
The author of Worse is Better wrote papers attacking and defending WiB, even under a playful pseudonym. A decade after writing it, he still didn't settle on a side. So citing "Worse is Better" doesn't end the discussion right there.

http://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
... for support outside the US! =)

I kid, I kid! Much love from someone whose spent 10 years now dealing with banks and the credit card companies.
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The US market is as unique as the Japanese (for different reasons). And when I arrived in US from UK in 2006 I was staggered at how behind the phone technology was.

In addition to the points raised in the Quora link, I think a lot of the reason US didn't innovate was because other than the NE corridor there isn't a public transport culture like there is in Japan and Europe - where people will sit on a train for 45 minutes and watch TV or engage with apps (and thus be prepared to pay for them).

Sure the iPhone and Android have bought app culture to the US but I bet the amount of engagement they receive is much shorter than in Europe and Asia.

Here in the US I think a lot of Apps are task oriented - "I want to find a restaurant nearby"... 30 seconds later the app is closed and done. In Europe I might be on a train for half an hour so I'll engage with a video-on-demand app... I'll watch 5 news clips and read two articles which might be 10minutes + usage.
If you're learning from scratch, the first thing I would do is go to w3schools (http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp). I swear by them as a tool for learning the basics - as for actual coding, they have "Try it yourself" options throughout their lessons.
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Given that it is 5:30 AM here I wouldn't trust a book-length elaboration right now, but yes, I am always happy to talk scalable content generation. See Greatest Hits section on my blog or upcoming projects that I'm not sure I can talk about.

Short version: identify large source of related problems for customers. Solve one problem via writing a web page about it, manually. Productize process of writing that web page such that the only asset required to write a spiritually similar page is money. Scale horizontally across large number of customer needs via addition of money. Collect stats on what becomes popular or profitable. Do it again, focusing on what worked or shows other obvious opportunities.

Basically, it's the "I sell BCC because I out publish every educational publisher in the world, combined, with regards to bingo cards", applied to whatever actually matters for your particular niche. You can safely assume that myGengo is interested in the problems experienced by people speaking Japanese who are trying to sell cookies to people who speak English. There is a very large set of similar needs. I'd bet money (OK, technically, they're betting money) that those needs (or similar ones) can be addressed at scale.
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Nice one, Patrick. As almost always, your article set my mind in motion.

So I decided to stop with the pointless puzzle game I was playing and to write an article myself I've long been planning to write on Being Unique:
http://blog.pokercopilot.com/2011/03/being-unique.html
thanks for the input, basically i only wanted to ask 4 questions

Do you participate?
Do you get compensated?
Tick all that apply 1
Tick all the apply 2

Which would have told me what in essence, i need.
People who participate in Open source (for no financial compensation) have fulfilled the needs associated with the bottom 4 levels of Maslow's Pyramid of needs

Again thanks for the input, i should have made the survey more open ended and just narrowed down the parts where i needed specific answers
http://www.boctaoe.com/

(Man, I just learned about this site five minutes ago and it's already useful!)
Blocking Facebook in Adblock is the gift that keeps on giving.

No need to resort to an additional mod when all you need to do is toss the following in Adblock:

||facebook.com/

||facebook.net/

||fbcdn.com/

||fbcdn.net/
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My bad, I'm sorry for that.
I found this article deeply irritating. I didn't even get through the whole thing, but the message was clear. Sure it is great to be a scientist...but everyone really wants to be a movie star. This makes me want to puke. Shining a bright, glowing light on those who are already drenched in adoration and celebrity. The implication is that if you're "just" a great scientist, you still must live with the bitter knowledge that you aren't loved by the masses. And to have the gall to call this a "science" article. This is the sort of shlock that belongs in People magazine.

The New York Times has been reduced to gawking.
Been using hipmunk for a while now & love it for airline searches. People may say its confusing but I find it extremely easy to use and much less confusing then their competitors. The hotel feature is a great addition as well. The only thing I'd add to it (at least on a quick look) is an option to search/filter by pet friendly hotels.
A model for using equity as compensation in the early days
Rich Cook on programming.
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Why would they do that? That's what the APIs are for.
Smooth zoom animations with jQuery and CSS Transforms
I'm launching my very first startup, Rocket Press today.

The idea is pretty simple: We focus on providing optimized hosting for WordPress. This means we use Memcached, we tweak MySQL and we use object caching for php.

My big focus is on making people that are passionate about their websites and blogs happy. WordPress is so popular, it's really amazing that there's not a lot of hosts dedicating themselves or at least having a real strategy around the product. You can get hosting at GoDaddy or Dreamhost for cheap, but you're paying for disk space and bandwidth, that's it.

We provide a completely set up and optimized experience out of the gate. We're also very involved with WordPress day to day, so our support is personal and tailored to the software.

I have plans for Rocket Press in the future that involve creating a custom framework for rapid customization of your site/blog using drag and drop components right in the WordPress admin screen. This will be a value-added feature on top of the already great hosting.

Thanks HN!
In my defense... I submitted it because I thought it was a bit like an easter egg -- something the engineers hid for someone to later find. It doesn't appear anyone knew they had hidden the time-capsules so I I just thought there was some hacker mentality in there.

I take the "covered on TV" point - although I don't watch TV and so have no idea. And anyway, this happened in New Zealand so I doubt the US TV media would even care to cover it :(
Another relevant blog post on the importance of URL design: http://warpspire.com/posts/url-design/
I sincerely doubt that you are skinny on a diet that would make someone else morbidly obese [1]. What I think is more likely is that you eat as much as you want and are skinny. You're just lucky that, either through nature or nurture, what you want to eat, and the amount you want to eat, balances out with what your body needs.

I agree that there are going to be variations in inherent intelligence, body composition, or even ability to play basketball. I just don't think it's as extreme as some people do, nor do I think it's enough to be the sole enabler of people who operate at the genius level in activities.

[1] Assuming they don't have a hormonal problem, which are known to cause people on reasonable diets to become obese.
If I'm hit by a car in Australia I'm pretty well covered.

If I'm hit by a car in the US I could be looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees if I don't have travel insurance.
The 10 Python Conferences Happening at PyCon 2011 (part 3)
Raising money is not hard, what is hard is make money :/
Amazon.com Says It Will Open App Store to Rival Google’s
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Show HN: Circular concept, a social network that has boundaries
I think his points are valid, but I think you're right, the cultural aspect is huge, as is the marketing, for that matter.

They successfully marketed cameras, infra-red transfer, mobile internet, and QR code scanners to high school and college girls (the most profitable demographic in Japan to sell to). Without that, the other issues likely wouldn't have mattered.
Node.js is great stuff. It's not new (as far as concepts used), but really nice to work with. Javascript tools and runtimes are growing up very fast; it'll probably go on to surpass Erlang for this purpose if the libs are stable enough. Node.js was the killer framework for JS anyway.
This is more a why post than a how post. The five minute intervention will not, by itself, add millions, just like your first commit to a version control system won't. However, it is a necessary prerequisite to doing clearly, incontestably valuable things.

I found a funded startup today whose title tag was $COMPANY_NAME. They're in a space where SEO is a clear win and it is obvious no person has spent so much as thirty seconds thinking about it. That's as bad as source control through "I zip up a copy of the code and email it to you."
I'm currently reading and preparing to work through C Interfaces and Implementations based on your recommendation - so thanks. At first blush, I like it very much and wish to tie it more closely to a more modern C reference that is the successor to K&R (which doesn't seem to exist).

Skiena instead of CLR? Hmmmm . . . not sure I'll agree with that.

You might want to consider having a look at the Stepanov Elements of Programming book. I think there is a chance it could be a good follow-up for hackers interested in moving from Hanson's elegant looking code to a nice, minimal C++. I lack enough applied C/C++ experience for this recommendation to have much weight.

Regarding SQL optimization - I suspect most people would be best served to work through Celko's books to have the most thorough grounding in applied SQL and then refer to the docs included with their RDBMs of choice that deal with access plans, performance monitoring, and general engine tuning. The problem is that there are just too many knobs built into the different RDBMs products for it to be a general topic. Oh, and the answer is always a better index, materialized view, or to use a column store engine. :-)
It will happen, but there are many languages out there, each with its own runtimes, debuggers, etc. We are first focusing on making the IDE solid and stable, and then we will focus on what people want. In fact, thanks to the work done by the Mono guys C#/F# shouldn't be difficult to get working, but for now there are more important hings to do.
6 Things You Should Know About Fragment URLs
Like a lot of folks, I'm curious how this will effect sales of BinDiff and BinNavi (I don't see Google in the business of selling security software); but this should be really good news for Halvar and Co.
I'm curious who puts their phone number and home address into their Facebook profiles. This information is not needed to use Facebook in the same way as it would be for my bank to maintain my checking account there.

What is the benefit of giving Facebook that information? I can only see ignorance as the only reason someone would do such a thing.
Oh, I agree. Every time someone advocates Erlang they mention how it was used to build super-reliable telecoms and they start mentioning three-letter acronyms and immediately everyone's eyes glaze over. It just isn't sexy like node (yet?).
Wouldn't it be neat if they just open-sourced them? They almost might as well; both have open source substitutes already, neither could possibly make Google any money.
1998 called
The $83,332-83,333 seems like an odd boundary. Can anyone explain why this particular boundary is important?
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WePay is awesome. I found out about them a few weeks back and within seconds had a account ready for my skydiving group to get going.

I'm still waiting on support for outside the US & it would be nice for them to support transactions & become a full-fledged paypal competitor, but with leadership thinking things through this well, I'm really hopefully we'll finallY have another alternative.
My startup: Simplified Cloud Cost Management (pre-launch)
Looks great. If someone searches by zip outside of the area, maybe return a message saying that new areas are coming soon, and enter an email address to be notified? I skipped right ahead, entered my zip, and the first result that came up was Le Bernardin, but I'm 4 hours from NYC.
Holy crap this is fun.

I'm stuck on level 3 right now. The way I'm doing it is probably very very stupid, but I think it will work :)

(I'm trying to brute force it. I may look back at this as very very stupid, but we'll see).

This could get filed under: "Ways to denial-of-service Ryan".

Love it. Thanks to whoever set up the challenge.
so, these are clearly on MIT OCW, but for the life of me I can't seem to find them through iTunes U. halp?
I heart Andrew Warner. So would always recommend his interviews.

Outside of that...you have to hand it to Wufoo, simple is what wins these days. Take Go Daddy for example...if you were to look at their dashboard for more than 2 minutes you would have a spinning headache..constantly trying to upsell and show you more information than you can handle.

Simple wins (and is worth paying for).
That's what I'm hoping for.

BinNavi always seemed like it was priced the way that IDA should have been (considering that for what IDA does it's way under-priced).
Congrats to Halvar and the team. They've done great products for years and as 'tptacek says, they've got great security talent.

And kudos to Google -- a great investment in technology and people. Acquisitions aren't easy, so let's hope they can make it work!
I think the reason to the strong reaction against the term "potential lost sale" is because this is often used by the *IAA to then massively overstate the losses from piracy. It has the potential to be a lost sale, but the question is how likely was that person to buy the product if an illegal version had not existed?

For example, without piracy, many of my friends (young twenties/teens, so we grew up with piracy) wouldn't have the same taste in music or movies without piracy because we simply would have never found a lot of the stuff we now greatly enjoy. The chances they would have purchased a good deal of their favorite media without piracy existing are utterly minuscule, and to say it's a possible lost sale somewhat glosses over the details, although it is technically correct. That's not to say all piracy would never be purchased, but I think that's the case for a lot of piracy. This is just my personal opinion, but I believe I've seen more statistics that point this way than.
UPDATE: Wolfram listens and changes policy

http://blog.agiletortoise.com/post/3587122629/wolfram-listen...
Where you see archaic and limiting, the market - aka normal folks like our mom's and dad's - see a friendly and consistent platform that doesn't change ever time they see a new Droid commercial.

People need to realize Apple is a consumer electronics company now more like Sony than Microsoft.
Thanks, those are great points! I have to admit at this point to be forming some of these thoughts as I type. (Also, I should admit replying to the GP mostly because I wanted to complain about the popularity of Avatar.)

But they won't have much "entertainment value" and therefore be disregarded as narcissistic ramblings or self-indulgent drivel. Or, just a hobby.

I disagree. History is littered with profound cultural artifacts that had plenty of "entertainment value" (weird term if you ask me) that did not have a monetary motivation. One might argue that these are in fact the best ones. You point out yourself that cave art preceeded money. Yet, it existed.

To have a "value" in a society or to have a cultural impact, one must create compelling works that appeal to a wide swath of the population to which the piece of creative expression is communicating.

True enough. But I would argue that in general the breadth of that impact is inversely proportional to it's weight. The Pixies (as the first example that comes to mind) influenced a pretty small number of mostly musicians, but that influence was profound enough to inspire bands that would later go on to have a much wider (and more commercial) impact.

I'm sure neither of us believe that money doesn't change the way art is produced. My point is that if you look at the correlation between production cost and final quality (of say, Avatar), if anything (maybe after a certain point), things get worse, not better.
I learned some mod_rewrite tricks for a personal project, only to discover many of my peers consider useful URLs to be unattainable magic!

I think it's a disservice to common users of any site when the address becomes an opaque mess of seemingly random characters.
Using a # to show JS state changes in the URL isn't some huge developer cock-up like it's being portrayed to be, it's just making the best user experience out of the functionality available - see this for instance: http://code.google.com/p/reallysimplehistory/

HTML5 provides the new history.push system, which provides all the functionality hashbangs are being used for without the hashbangs: http://www.kylescholz.com/blog/2010/04/html5_history_is_the_.... The fact that a new feature has been added for it goes to show that it's something necessary - Facebook, for instance, uses history.push if present, and falls back on hashbangs when it isn't.

It's often a very important thing to be able to do, else if you have (for example) multiple tabs or other frontend navigation for your web-app, pressing back would have to take you right out of the application, rather than back to the last place you were.
I see your point, but — as already more eloquently explained by ecuzzillo and monastic — dormancy does eventually lead to worthlessness.

Already people are experiencing issues with features not working properly [1], and relatively simple (but non-vital) updates to add to functionality are not being made [2].

[1] I don't get RSS updates reliably any more, essentially making the app worthless to me, considering that was the main reason I bought it.

[2] E.g. the Twitter button opens m.twitter.com, not the official Twitter app. Same goes for Google Reader.