skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh probably not at all. That's just one of a hundred explanations of wildly varying degrees of plausibility and they're all interesting.

I can just imagine the FBI field agent wiping away the tears of laughter as he types up this memo back to headquarters after chatting with the USAF guys using spatulas to scrape the fried chimpanzees in silver lame' flightsuits off the wreckage of some top secret atomic-powered X-plane.
I really like the "I want to read / I want to write" UI element. Is that something you guys came up with or discovered somewhere else?
the real answer is that thw juxtaposition rules are made up on the spit by people trying to rationilze their incorrect answer . there is not and never had been a n "implit mulitplication" rule in the irder if operations.

sent frim my drunk phone
Yes it will definitely be something interesting and we will certainly try to strive to the challenge of controlling SEO link farming. Funny thing, I actually found a WordPress Link farm today, check it out:
http://www.wurldmedia.com/
If you do a "WhoIs" on that site you'll find that it's from this Company http://www.bigbluerobot.com/, which is a SEO company and explains why that site has so many random links in it : P
Where do Google Scholar and CiteSeer fit into this analogy?

Can't speak for other fields, but in CS any outlet worth submitting to will let you post a preprint on your own website, and from there Google Scholar will pick it up and place the link to your free copy right next to the paywall link. It's not a perfect system---it's like an extreme form price discrimination, like when Microsoft turns a blind eye to piracy in emerging markets---but it does give access to those who can't pay, and its not as dystopian as you make it out to be.
If this article makes it close to frontpage, I wonder if he's going to write a post about the impact of a post about the impact of his posts being "hackernews-ed" on his baseline traffic on his baseline traffic...

I think it's turtles all the way down on this one.
You're not alone. I spend exactly zero on all of those as well. Opiates of the modern American man?
In a link from the comments of this article I found another article about a company's t-shirt development process:

http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2011/02/01/submersible-dirigible-the-new-intervals-shirt-design/

Of most interest was their response when someone in the comments asked for a t-shirt:

"Yes, we are giving them away. Login to your [...] account and click on the feature request button at the bottom of the page."

Seems like a good approach.
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Not just fructose. In fruit fructose is fine. High fructose corn syrup is different and became prevelent in the 80's because of the sugar tariffs in the late 1970's in the USA.
Well, a 10k core cluster is a far cry from a 500TB array. The latter fits comfortably into 2-3 racks (if your DC allows the power density). The former sounds like 15+ racks - entirely different ballgame.

I'm absolutely not denying that you should have a dedicated admin to look after such a deployment. But by today's standards it's just not a lot of hardware anymore. And definitely not the size where you must spend a fortune on "platinum" support contracts that can easily cost as much (per year) as a fully fleshed out spare shelf...

FWIW, I'm personally running a few moderately sized storage clusters (the largest is ~200T, 3x3 MD1000) and we're seeing disk failures at a rate of 2-3 per year.
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I can't understand why so many people prefer chemical-laced energy drinks to natural coffee. They're more expensive on average, too.
Disheartening that books are nowhere on that list. I hope The Atlantic does a similar article for women, would make an interesting comparison.
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They did, however, cite sources (possibly made up almost on the spot), which is more than anyone on this thread has done.
I guess I wasn't clear enough. What I mean is that the communication within the community, and the reputation of a researcher among her peers, does not rely on publications in reviewed journals. These are the things that can be compared with open-source development.

If researchers also need to publish their work in journals, write grant proposals etc., how is it relevant to the idea of applying the GitHub model to science? Of course raising money is part of the job for a professor, but thanks to the arXiv it's decoupled from the actual research work. It's at a point where I, as a Ph.D. student, have no reason to consider publishing in reviewed journals. This is in contrast to my friends in optics or condensed matter, for whom a publication in Nature or Science practically guarantees a good postdoc position.
Thx, We actually found it on another site (can't remember which one - too many bookmarks!), but it was a tutorial slider. We just thought the idea was cool and recoded it from scratch with jquery. Stupid thing won't work on an iPad yet...
My goal for http://bibdex.com is to be this. I based the software on a wiki (original name was Bibwiki). The idea was to build lit reviews on topics that you could reuse and share with colleagues privately or publicly with the world.

I realized after starting that scientific communication is more complex, or at least it tries to be for various reasons. I could use help learning what people want from such a system.

I am keen on feedback or insights to drive my development. Please, if you are interested, you can reach me at sunir at bibdex com.
Afaik, you're supposedly free to ship a phone with Bing as long as it doesn't say "with Google". I assume the BusinessWeek report is saying that Google's trying to block Bing even if the phone doesn't say "with Google", otherwise this wouldn't be newsworthy. But maybe that's not the case, and Verizon's just trying to raise a stink. Unfortunately, Rubin's response doesn't exactly clarify things.
As a mathematics postdoc -- there is one (and only one) reason to publish your work in peer-reviewed journals. To prove to people outside your immediate area that you've done good work.

They are completely superfluous for disseminating knowledge.
ever go to a "book club" meeting - mostly women, rarely a guy to be seen.

My bet is the newspaper is mainly for the sports section.

Side note: One of my coworkers had no money for food, but he still had money for his cigs and soda. At first I wanted to give him food, then I thought he needs to figure this out himself. He made more than me. And I saw buying the stuff every day.
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Art of prolog makes an excellent first book, and the Craft complements it well with seasoned advice on elegant and efficient prolog.
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Under these circumstances would you, with no prompting from your audience, consider it "professional" to start talking about your interest in strip clubs?

It would be no more or less professional than mentioning playing in a death metal band on weekends or being a volunteer at an atheist outreach group or helping organize protests to support gay rights.

Any reticence would be based on how professional I thought the others were, and if I thought I would be at a disadvantage because of narrow-minded prejudice about things that have no bearing on my work.
I wonder if Youtube will be competitive and match what other live streaming sites pay their broadcasters for video advertisements? From anecdotal evidence, I know on Justin.tv select broadcasters that stream their Starcraft 2 matches make .002 cents per viewer for each 30 second commercial break, which is not too shabby for simply playing a video game. Most broadcasters that are partners on Justin.tv typically have 2000+ people watching their stream simultaneously.
@whit537, I really like how responsive you've been to questions and suggestions on this HN discussion. Gives one confidence that Aspen will be well maintained.
is it the jquery will not work or the app using UISlider will not work on the iPad?
This is terrifying. I wonder what the threat said.
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ok, never mind.
i see that ami-3e02f257 can be used in place of the compromised one.
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Seems like many samples could be prepared locally and shipped to the analysis center ala Netflix. Another possibility would be making samples to order at a location near where the necessary equipment is located. For instance, I need a brain tissue sample from xxx type of mouse, infected with pathogen yyyy.
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33HP in an electric vehicle is actually not as bad as it sounds. Most of the horsepower needed in a vehicle is to overcome inertia (e.g. starting from a standing stop) and electric motors can output full power at 0 RPM unlike an internal combustion engine. So a car driven by an electric motor would not need a clutch or transmission, which eliminates a significant inefficiency in the drivetrain.

Internal combustion engines and electric motors are also not rated in the same way. Electric motor HP is "rated" horsepower (what it can produce continuously without overheating; generally it's capable of more for short periods) while internal combustion horsepower tends to be "maximum" horsepower and there are a lot of different ways to come up with a number, some purely based on calculations and some on actual measurement. So unfortunately HP is not an apples-to-apples number between electric and combustion engines.
prolog is an interesting take on programming and by comparison, the style in which you write code is still significantly different to approaches in other languages.

sadly, most people when taught barely get past the 'parents and grandfathers' stage of programming.

why not something else? sure! erlang is actually pretty neat (otp is golden) and was originally implemented in prolog. why not learn a term re-writing language? what about snobol?

why prolog? well,

prolog for me has just been one of the most fun and interesting experiences I have had while programming. good prolog code is elegant in a way i've never seen in other languages and it's a big rush when you crack the puzzle of expressing your problem.

prolog was also used in ibm's watson and shipped as part of nt too :-)
Not really sure actually. We haven't had time to look into it yet. Just frustrating.
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Ask HN: What to keep in mind when designing an API?
I'm designing an API for information about the nearby colleges: current dining hall menus, whether they are open, list of events on campus, etc.

What should I be sure to do when I am implementing an API?
The cost of maintaining your own tools is quite high, as is the expertise required to maintain them in working order. It seems to be that the inexperience or lack of skill which leads to shared equipment getting ruined is due to the fact that extremely sensitive equipment is being handled by students and junior scientists with little engineering background. The same argument could be made for the value of having your own servers. The scientific equivalent of a datacenter, would necessarily entail staffing of highly qualified, experience personnel. Such expertise would undoubtedly be costly, but it would be amortized over a large amount of equipment.
> Haskell and Scala are closest in that they're strongly, statically typed with Hindley-Milner type inference
> Haskell has the most sophisticated type system--by far, I think it's fair to say

HM is a type system first, and that means is a logic system. HM is a logic that is deliberately kept relatively weak in order to allow full inference. Scala is not HM and never has been - it's much, much more sophisticated and so Scala uses a form of type inference not based on HM. Haskell '98 is HM plus a tiny bit (and yes that tiny bit does mean that the occasional type annotation is required). GHC Haskell is HM plus a ton more and so there are a lot more GHC Haskell programs that need some type annotation. The people behind GHC Haskell have done a good job of carefully adding type system features that don't totally break the model, though, so you rarely have to annotate much unless you love playing in advanced type land.

I would hesitate before saying GHC Haskell is more sophisticated "by far". It's not at all obvious that that is so. I'd want a type theorist to spend some time with the two core logics to determine which one subsumes what parts of the other before making that call.
I think making it a RESTful API is a good thing. And make it consistent. Document it well. Find a great example and understand why its great.
I think that CS is a lot more open than other fields, even putting preprints online and soliciting feedback before publication (that's unheard of in chemistry and biology). You're right that some authors put PDFs of their papers on their websites and Google Scholar finds them, but I frequently need papers that I can only get through interlibrary loan (and I work at MIT; even a relatively wealthy university can't afford everything).
Interesting table. Note the major decline in saturated fat intake (butter, whole milk, lard) in favor of oils and synthetics.
Manual laborers then, as now, were more likely to be fat.

Physical labor is not related to obesity.
Well if we're talking about that, then reciprocating engines can do pretty well (the prius engine is over 33% efficient when running in the ideal range, and it actually exists today; diesels do even better)
Ah yes, you are correct, with Apache.
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If you live anywhere with mountains, it's exactly as bad as it sounds though.
Look like a dignified adult with some grey hairs & some worthwhile life experiences behind her, given that she is always growing & learning?
I just implemented support for caret-L in addition to true page breaks, no configuration required.

http://aspen.io/simplates/
If you share your site's URL, I'll take a look. (I know there are a fair number of really good SEO consultants on HN so maybe we can help.)
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Possibly not so serious:

http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2011-Apr...

There's a couple other replies in the thread but it is unclear exactly what happened. Apparently some bad blood over him redirecting ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu to libav.org instead of ffmpeg.org.
The very first thing you should do: talk to consumers of your API.

API design is not something you do in a vacuum. It's basically user interface design for programmers; after all, an API is an application programming interface. And the first thing you do with UI design is find out how your interface will be used. There's usually at least one surprise in there.
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Wired is so mobbed up in this story, but suffice it to say that I'm not sure it's "sneaking" when the network has no security. I wouldn't expect Wired to comment on that part, though.
I loathe the for-profit journals as much as anyone, but I'm deeply suspicious of any hypothesis of the form "the reason why journals still cost money is that we haven't yet invented the right electronic social network for sharing scientific information".

We've had the technology to publish science online for decades. We have tinkered with it dozens of times. The web was originally invented for exactly this purpose. Far older things, like TeX, were invented for this purpose. Nowadays we have everything from PLoS to arXiv to Google Scholar to custom in-house blogs to PDFs sent through email.

The continued existence of for-profit journals is an economic, political, and anthropological problem, not a technological one. PLoS and the like are slowly changing things, but I still suspect that the only way to free our journals within less than a generation or two is to lobby (e.g.) the NIH to require that their funded projects be published in free journals. When a grant agency talks, people listen. When postdocs talk, alas, it makes a very subtle sound. ;)
You could start by hooking into Mollom for the time being (mollom.com)
Short summary: Megabus are one of a few companies operating low-overhead, curbside pickup intercity bus service.

"On most city-to-city trips under 300 miles, the curbside bus offers tickets that cost a tenth of those of Amtrak and far less even than the price of the gas to get there by car."

Passengers book online, tickets are delivered to cell phones, busses are equipped with WiFi and power outlets at each seat.

Article points out the advantages of busses over high-speed rail, which has tended to get more press as being the future of mid-haul intercity travel. Building rail lines requires years of time and bureaucratic approval, and you better hope you were right about the demand for the route. Busses can go wherever needed on existing roads and reconfigure routes easily.
Thanks that's really cool. We're checking it out now.
My point exactly - again! "They are more comfortable in that area" means "they don't actually invest outside that area." I feel I could have saved some time if I knew this before I applied for the first time.

But yeah, I get it, you can't conceive them ever being wrong, for some reason. I have nothing against that, it's an opinion and it's as personal as a haircut.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Any Mazda fan will tell you that automobile engines don't need pistons.
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I'd add a sixth component, something like "Which role do you want to play?" jerf-the-HN-participant partially exists to lead a life sharded from jerf-the-family-member or jerf-the-employee. The oil-and-water metaphor for those roles I have is particularly apt, in that it doesn't particularly take effort for me to keep them separate because they actively avoid mixing naturally on their own, but I can't use(/refuse to use) a system like Facebook that insists on mixing them anyhow. The ability of the Internet to facilitate this is an important aspect it has and I don't want to see us give it up.
For every person who wants to believe that facebook is the biggest thing since word-of-mouth, there is someone equally hoping the whole thing collapses in on itself.

Each party wants their outcome so passionately it's hard to believe that anyone can look at the data with a neutral frame of reference.
It's funny but I noticed this when I submitted my application. I had been frantically trying to polish it up and was suprised by the fact that I was still able to resubmit even after the deadline (at this time the page didn't state that it would be counted as a late submission). The late submission page came up about two and a half hours after the time of the deadline and after I had done about 10 resubmissions. lol!
You are misconstruing my statements and ignoring the context. I am well aware that you can sell free software for money. However, if I purchase a Xoom with Honeycomb, I have been given a copy of the Android software, and I will not be given a copy of the source code if I request it. That is the issue here, and the general issue of charging money for software is not relevant. If you are linking and quoting from gnu, you are surely aware that free software is about the user of the software being able to access the source code, modify it, and redistribute it. None of these freedoms (which are also part of the open source definition) are currently given to purchasers of Honeycomb tablets. Your attempt to conflate the issue of access to source code by users with that of a distributor charging a price for software is either disingenuous or the result of a misunderstanding.
I'd say more than significant evidence. They're predicted by General Relativity. If they don't exist, it would mean our understanding of the universe is seriously flawed. Not many theories of gravity can exist without gravity waves. I think the only one people take seriously is string theory. Though, string theory can exist with or without gravitational waves as it's one of the 'tunable' parameters.
That seems counter-intuitive to me. Do you have a source?
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This is very very cool. However I noticed something familiar about the logo:

http://www.brumfieldhay.com/images/PurinaLogo_LG.JPG

Personally I would change it to avoid trademark issues. Although you might be okay as long as you don't use a red colored version of your logo.
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same situation here! moving to the bay area for freshman year from hk
I don't know much about expensive lab equipment, but if you follow the DIY world, or the open source world , or even indian/chinese innovators, you see people building physical stuff at fractions of the price of commercial stuff.

A few example to illustrate my point:

1. Open farm tech - tractor and brick compressor and 1/3 to 1/10 of the commercial prices. they plan a whole set of manufacturing equipment at those reduced prices.

2. students took pictures of earth from space using £90 in equipment.

3. a diy electron microscope, a guy made himself [1], probably costs a lot less then commercial ones.

There many more extremely cheap stuff like this. Maybe the first place of open sourcing science is in support of open source tool development.

[1] http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/03/diy-scanning-electr...
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