skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea this is interesting, with a little fiddling I was able to get the webserver up. It's not picking up my app yet. Though I'm not sure if it's because it's not being initialized or because I can't reach it due to not having the dns setup.
Michigan State's team of engineers hope to have a car-sized 25-kilowatt version of the prototype ready by the end of the year.

It should be noted than 25kW is 33HP. Though it's possible to make a useful car with that little power, 33HP is generally considered an appropriate power level for a beginner's motorcycle, not a car. Even if it's much lighter than a piston engine and has such a wide powerband that it doesn't need a gearbox, it's likely they'd need a lot more power for consumer acceptance even in small cars.

Edit: I googled this and found that the intent is to use this engine to run generators to charge batteries in hybrid cars, not for direct propulsion. In that case, the cars probably won't be much, if any lighter than standard cars since all the weight savings will be replaced with batteries. Power output could, of course be lower than a standard car engine and still provide good performance since the electric motors could have peak outputs far exceeding the sustained output of the generator.
Thanks a lot for that, I'll add in the validation.
That is funny... but it's a valid point.Upper chest (e.g. towards the top edge of a high-necked shirt), shoulder or arm might be more workable, no?

The worst company t-shirts have two lines of text, one on the upper chest ("FooCo...") (typically on the upper parts of women's breasts) with a second, smaller font, tag-line of text ("leveraging X for Y") below - so people who read the text (kind of reflexive) look like they are giving someone a good, comprehensive ogling. I saw a lot of shirts like that at the last tech conference I was at...

Add "booth babes" (at a business-to-business oriented show, yet) to the mix and you've got the perfect environment for making women in tech feel real comfortable... :-<
Too ephemeral for signaling to other programmers.
I'd heard the bitcoin system auto-adjusted for more 'mining'... but is its production rate really constant, no matter how large the arrival of new computing power under a single authority?

(My 'proposal' was a thought experiment; I'd definitely agree that given that much computing-power there are more beneficial and/or profitable things to do... among them running a market-dominating search engine.)
Cotton shrinks. Ink does not. Shrink a shirt with ink on it, you'll have a puckered mess.
I think using require would do the trick. Something along the line like:

/* foo.js /

var date = new Date();

exports.Date = date;

/ bar.js /

var foo = require('./foo.js');

exports.Date = foo.Date;

/ foobar.js */

var foo = require('./foo.js');

var bar = require('./bar.js');

console.log(foo.Date);

console.log(bar.Date)

> console.log(foo.Date);

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 01:05:12 GMT

> console.log(bar.Date)

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 01:05:12 GMT

We are dealing with the same date variable between modules.

[edited. not a good place to share code. gist over github: https://gist.github.com/910994]
Even more importantly, how easy is it to maintain this engine? The reason rotary engines haven't become more mainstream is that the first attempt (the Mazda RX-7) was notoriously difficult to repair. The RX-8 is better (I hear), but the damage has been done - of all the major carmakers out there, only Mazda offers a rotary engine.
Came here to say that. Seems like 2 of the 3 examples this article provides of useless disclaimers do not in fact attempt to unilaterally create a contractual obligation.
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Actually, identity is who you are, and authentication is proving it.
Was that there an hour ago? I'm surprised I missed it.
"There are two each year, one from January through March and one from June through August." -- http://ycombinator.com/about.html
Well, not confirming confirming, but when an agent reports talking to an Air Force investigator about "flying saucers" and little humanoids dressed in "metallic cloth of a very fine texture", you're probably in the neighborhood.

Oops?
The biggest problem with CS academicians have been in their misinterpretation of computers. Its a very different field from traditional sciences like Physics, Chemistry etc.. In traditional sciences, we study the world, understand it and express those ideas formally. With computers, its upto one's imagination what they can do with it. We just get so lost in the depths of formalism, that we forget that hacking and exploration are what can break boundaries and enable people to make computers do what they could not.

Funnily, academia harbours the most brilliant minds of CS, and barely produces usable software. Its people who identify problems, and provide software/ideas who actually get things moving. Github/Blogosphere etc allow such solutions to emerge more efficiently by allowing a lot of people to look at such solutions. In academia, a publication is taken as a end point for problem solving. There are no incentives to build real software or real systems.

If computer science wants to make a difference, it must move away from its publish or perish culture.
It's even funnier for those of us living in the tropics (Darwin, in my case). From where I sit Sydney's summers are pleasantly cool and dry.

"Territory Formal" is a short sleeve shirt and trousers. No jacket, no tie, no long sleeves. It is just too damn hot and humid.

I can usually spot "southerners" in the CBD: they walk one way up a street wearing the jacket and tie. They walk the other way, beet read, with the tie loosened, sleeves rolled up and jacket over their arms.
I have no idea but on at least one occasion someone changed what their article said after I remarked on it on HN. HN is pretty well known. I wouldn't be surprised if they updated it because of your remark, as appears to have happened once in a different article/blog because of a remark I made (thus making me look "dumb" at the time).
Whatever anyone wants to say negatively about this article, it's bang on. I just got my first android phone, it has 2.2 and the little microphone is my new best friend. I talk out todos, write emails, texts, search youtube, search everything, it blows my mind. The only thing it's not good at is uncommon names and places (like my name "Micah" and "Quebec"). Rock on Google.
This is cool idea and I wish it was available for linux.
"Australian summer" is a very broad term, given the size of the continent. I'm in the tropics, for example, and let me tell you: everything sticks when it's > 30C and > 70% humidity. You could make a shirt out of teflon and it would stick.
The fathering comment is an in-joke with our batch: http://adgrok.com/?p=666
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OpenID and OAuth come to mind
I looked at the source - they are using Hipmunk for the physics engine, a Haskell binding to Chipmunk (a physics library in C) to store state like object positions. Things like updating positions of objects occur in the IO monad.

The UI is done using a custom Qt Haskell binding, and it looks like the key mapping to key translation is hard-coded - possibly the cause of key problems on Mac if they key codes are different to what it is expecting.
Which FPGA programming kit and book?
I am a programmer who wants to learn something different in my free time to have a little bit of fun. I was thinking of trying my hand at FPGA programming. Which board, book and resources etc. would you recommend? Budget is an issue as currently I am not sitting on much cash so cheap options appreciated.
Yes, but next day support makes all the difference. When I worked as an HPC sysadmin, we saw about 2-3 DIMM failures a week in our 10,000 core cluster. I'm sure we could have gotten the hardware cheaper, even with replacement DIMMs for the 3 years period of service, but Dell made it quite frictionless. A simple web login and form and the new DIMM would show up the next day. We ship the old one back (using their shipping label) and move on. Our time was worth more than we would have saved building it ourselves.

500 TB in 1 or 2 TB drives is a lot of hardware. <complete back of the hand calculation> If we have 250 drives with a 1 000 000 hour mtbf, then (according to an exponential distribution), you've got around ~5% chance of a drive failure each week. Not huge, but worth noting. </ complete back of the hand calculation>
Clickable: http://myide.as
I'm not knocking on Javascript because its really not all that bad but, some very smart people are doing very interesting things with languages these days so its unfortunate to me that developers are being limited to Javascript in the browser just because its to the only choice available. Personally I liked the idea of a common bytecode language for the browser which has been raised here on HN before (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1934021).
Take a cup of flour from 1914 and a cup of AP flour from 2011. Place them side by side on the counter top. Tell me how they are different from each other.

Take a cup of oatmeal from 1914 and a cup of Quaker Oats from 2011. Place them side by side on the counter top. Tell me how they are different from each other.

Take a slice from loaf of bread baked in the home from 1914 and place it next to a slice of bread from the grocery store bought in 2011. Tell me how they are different.

So no, it's not just grains that are making us fat. It's how grains are typically available to us. Highly refined, protein and fiber reduced, extended with fillers and soaked in sweeteners. It's a fact. People won't eat things that taste bad. If I gave you my great-grandmother's breakfast from 1914 (the Scottish one, you get oatmeal), you just might not eat it. I've heard she liked it with ham.

And, as other commenters point out, it doesn't hurt that people walked pretty much everywhere 100 years ago. And swept their floors, washed their laundry by hand, walked up lots of stairs as elevators were not in wide adoption.
This is actually absurdly hilarious.
Congrats on your first rails app! I like some of the design (less is more). My suggestion would be to make it clear how to get back to your list of ideas. Coming back to the page forces you to the publish page instead of the list all view. Keep building!
OpenID kind of illustrates my point.

OAuth, on the other hand, isn't scalable Internet-wide authentication so much as a tool for doing delegated authentication.
I suggest you use a site like bestplaces.net and compare what your current salary buys where you currently live to how much you would need just to stay even if you moved to where you are job hunting. If you can't get at at least that much, it's a pay cut. (Cali tends to be pretty pricey compared to most places in the US, so odds are good the cost of living is higher, not lower, than where you currently live.) Then tack on a pay raise and compare to what some folks here have said and blah blah blah. I am acquainted (via internet) with someone who turned down a job in Cali because it would have been a de facto pay cut for him in spite of the juicy-sounding number they named.

Best of luck.
Frankly I'd almost rather wear what Neo wears as a 'slave to the man', if it was all a matter of symbolism (a hot climate makes suits impractical).

But seriously, celebrating the fact that we dress like 22 year olds might have a teeny tiny bit to do with the fact that programmers are typically PAID like 22 year olds.

The false consciousness is epic. We'd do a lot better if we put on a suit and admitted that we're going to a place where we work. We'd do a lot better if we demonstrated on a regular basis that we have no real problem putting on a suit and walking out the damn door into a bank if pay or conditions go to shit. We'd do a lot better if we demonstrated that we think we're going to a place of work rather than a place to hang out with friends and do 'cool stuff'. We'd do a lot better if we conveyed regularly to our employers that paying us properly and treating us well is more important to us than playing stupid 'tribal identification' mind games (this stuff should come organically from below, not be created by management).

Apparently we're celebrating our individuality and difference on one hand with our tshirts, while also having 'tribal cohesion' and advertising our company in our spare time. We're showing how flat our organization is in one way, while collecting t-shirts as merit badges on the other.

It's all a bit eyerolling. Combine all this with the non-existent standards for programmer qualification, and the vocal minority of GPL people who claim that it's actually _immoral_ to be writing closed-source software, and I feel like I'm working in a field that has a 'anti-guild' (that works in the reverse direction from a traditional guild, ensuring that its members are paid less and treated worse than their qualifications should imply).
"Apparently the most likely animals to be left alive after a nuclear war are cockroaches, because they're so hard to kill. That's what you want to be as a startup, initially. Instead of a beautiful but fragile flower that needs to have its stem in a plastic tube to support itself, better to be small, ugly, and indestructible."

- PG in The hacker's guide to investors, Apr 2007
Tks. Actually only people posting there ideas with facebook can keep a list of there idea. No public index, I was inspire by pen.io (wich have already evolve since launch).
"No further evaluation was attempted by SA ... concerning the above."

Really nothing unusual here. I can see why they would not be interested in learning more.
I'm absolutely not interested in making people scared of Pow.
Why didn't Mulder just check his bureau's record room?
Plus, I might add, most tech people like like absolute crap wearing a t-shirt, due to the fact that most of them are sedentary as hell and thus either skinny, fat, or sometimes that horrible combination of both.
You have to compile it.

http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/
Show HN: Our first startup attempt: blogging without a blog
Is there any information as to where this came from? Yes, the FBI vault, but why did they choose to release this now?

Did somebody request it? If so, how did they know to request this specific piece of information? (Is this how FOIA requests work?)

There was something just like this on reddit a few days ago, but it was dated April 1.

Seems a bit odd that somebody would go out of their way to release something like this unless it was either asked for, or it was a joke.
A potato is basically sugar, as far as digestion is concerned.

The "complex carb" and glycemic index thing is pretty well nonsense. A carb is a carb. The only question is whether you have a properly functioning metabolism and insulin sensitivity. They call a screwed up insulin sensitivity "metabolic syndrome". If you've developed one, typically through many years of poor eating, you need to cut out starch, because your fat cells and pancreas can't handle it properly. If you're thin, well then the glycemic index thing is useless. Your pancreas and fat cells work fine.
So the three of us are trying to quit our finance jobs and get into startups. Man.. that would be nice...

None of us are bloggers, so we wanted to build something where we could post ad hoc content without having to create/build/maintain a blog. FB is not really meant for article-length content.

InsideWord is kind of a mix between citizen journalism sites and, I guess, blogging platforms - at least, that’s what we think it is. We could definitely use some feedback and advice.
Joshua Bloch gave a good presentation on API design, you might have seen this before. Here is the link -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAb7hSCtvGw

Mostly along those lines will make a presentation useful and interesting. Not sure whats the time limit for your presentation but real life example would keep the audience more interactive or building something on the fly from ground up.
According to the article, the "FUD" is coming from those partners you listed above.

BusinessWeek attributed complaints about Android's waning openness to "a dozen executives" at companies that are major Android stakeholders, including LG, Samsung, Toshiba, and Facebook.

There are 2 main points in the article.

1) Why does Google feel the need to play favorites? Aside: if shortcuts were taken to get a manufacturer partner's product to market, what does that tell you about the product, from a consumer and developer point-of-view?

2) Why did Andy Rubin not address the fact that Skyhook Wireless was prevented from doing business with Motorola because it competed with Google's geo-location services?
"I get knocked down but I get up again -- you're never gonna keep me down" -- Tubthumping by Chumbawamba

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5uWRjFsGc
I've just realised the t-shirt I'm wearing today is from the 2007 "volunteer day" for a company I used to work for
I'd not submit your StackOverflow questions to HN until and unless they have some especially useful or insightful answers.
I develop in SproutCore at our startup and find that you can scale a code base to large swathes of functionality and elegant composibility, something enabled by the flexibility of ECMAScript.
If it's a joke/urban legend, then Snopes has been caught with their pants down.
While unlikely it is possible that Gmail has added 550k in the (almost) year since.
IIRC it uses the same principle (Brayton cycle). It's just a lot easier to put in a car.
We spend enormous amounts of mental energy thinking about types and combinations of calories, but not much time burning them. We pay huge signup and monthly fees to gyms that we never find the time to visit, meanwhile we never walk our streets.
Not very much substance to the article - Facebook opened their designs because they can't afford the manpower Google can.
I think you will find reading Hayek and Coase to be rewarding.

Hayek introduced the idea that no one individual planner can make flawless plans because the information to do so is widely dispersed; instead success or failure in the market gives rapid feedback about how to allocate resources. Indeed the market is a discovery process that unearths this information in a way that a planner never could[1].

Coase asked the question: if this is so, how do large firms emerge? He identified the cost of transactions to be the key. The higher the transaction costs, the higher the cost of loosely coupled economies. The size of the firm is thus based on the relative costs of transactions (searching, identifying, validating, negotiating etc) vs the inevitable waste caused by planning.

In essence, large companies are islands of command economics in the sea of the market.

[1] In a related argument, Mises said that even if a planner could know all the variables the resulting problem would simply be too large to solve rationally.
The obesity epidemic had a start date. It was not a gradual trend, or something that ebbed and flowed over the decades. People first got obese in large numbers in the early 1980s.

Whatever is making everybody huge can be traced to a change in the 1980s. That is a useful data point in that it rules out a lot of things. It's not exercise. It's probably not starch.

Personally I suspect it's a mix of telling everybody to cut out saturated fat and the increased prevalence of fructose.
Ask HN: Sites similar to hothardware, anandtech but with server/blade specifics?
Looking for sites that review hardware primarily aimed at the server space, rack servers, blade servers... I can't find any really good source.

Anyone know of some good sites? I've tried the following and they are all pretty bad:

serverwatch.com
infoworld.com
techworld.com
networkworld.com
pcworld.com
It's not that page rendering can't be done with JavaScript and still be accessible. My experience with it via testing is that due to the large number of screen readers, and then differences within versions of the even the most common screen readers (JAWS for example) is that you can't really expect a consistent experience for your users where you get much more consistency with vanilla HTML. The single largest complaint we received while testing with screen readers on our latest app was related to how the user was informed by their software about dynamically changed content, something I have no control over. The compromise that we implemented was to try to detect screen readers and offer to disable all JavaScript content since the site was designed to degrade gracefully anyway.

This is going to be less of a problem for some companies than others, I just happen to be working on software that's designed to help HR departments with their hiring process and specifically with the accurate completion of certain federal forms. Getting complaints about violating the ADA could lead to lawsuits against my employer or our clients. Similar to the complaints that Google is receiving about accessibility problems in Google Apps and specifically gmail.

Here's a pretty good survey that has some more information if you are interested in the topic: http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey2/
Haskell in Space (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.91....) [PDF] is a good writeup of simple game development in Haskell.

Here's the course page, as well: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~cxl/lehre/pi3.ws01/aste...
I'm a little confused by the idea that just because you don't have to do something, you shouldn't do it. I do things all the time that I don't have to do because not doing them would make me kind of a dick. I don't want to be a dick and I doubt pg/yc does either.
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Why do you want to get in the YC?
I've noticed the strong interest in getting admitted, can you justify it? I'm curious to know.
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I absolutely agree that interval arithmetic is the best way to deal with this, accountants and their budget systems always require estimates to be reduced to fix figures.
>> So just keep trying. You don't know what you can do until you try.

Will do. Thank you so much for taking the time to suggest this route and for your encouragement.
This article repeats the lie that wild meat is lean, lacking fat.

The white and yellow stuff in in the pictures below is loads of fat in free range grass fed bison.
http://www.tribeoffive.com/2011/04/hunting-for-good-food-and...

Kurt Harris has lately been addressing this misconception that the ancestral diet was low fat.
http://www.archevore.com/panu-weblog/2011/4/5/wild-vs-grass-...

http://www.archevore.com/panu-weblog/2011/4/4/imagining-head...
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That has been on my mind a bit recently.. I think I might play with that this weekend!
There is some data to back up this fattening-over-time thesis: http://imgur.com/OjWoz
The headline of the submission here might as well read, "Document in trove of released FBI files records interview of person claiming to have seen flying saucer." There isn't an official action of the FBI here "confirming" any of the wilder stories about Roswell.
So programmers of Blog software think that lots of page visits are some kind of accident? I hope not!

Also, handling lots of requests for small, static content is note exactly a tough problem. (Although it requires a minimum of care.)

To any author who cares about what he writes (publishes), being read by many people is a great chance. However, crappy blog software deliberately destroys all those nice opportunities in advance.
So if we edited late, and got a rejection letter, then we were reviewed and rejected. This is only for folks who did NOT get a rejection letter, right?