skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seattle has already done this, except in Seattle it is an opt-out list, similar to the "do not call" list.

There was a story about this on NPR today, and they compared Seattle's approach to San Francisco's. The SF approach is drawing a lot of opposition from advocates and aid groups from the poor and the elderly. The fear is that there are a lot of people who do not use online directories and depend on their phone books to look up numbers.

In general, when you have some service that at one point nearly everyone depends on, and then as time passes many people start needing less and less, it seems to me to make the most sense to switch it to an opt-out service for existing people so that you don't disrupt those who still depend on it, and make it opt-in for new people.
Thanks for the code review folks. I made the countNeighbors method a bit more concise and removed some unnecessary binding code from the travelWorld method.
I moved all of my domains and SSL certs last year.

I feel much better.
Amazing. I hope to some day wake up and have a deep conceptual understanding of the relationship between velocity and time in relation to the various bodies at play.

I also hope to have an understanding of what it means for a photon to be everywhere at once, from its own point of view.

In the end, I guess I just want to understand the universe just a bit more than I do.
Well, you'd still be less than 10,000 light-years away. That's still well within the galaxy.
" If the response is never received, or if there is a redirect, then a DNS request for dns.msftncsi.com is made. If DNS resolves properly but the page is inaccessible, then it is assumed that there is a working internet connection, but an in-browser authentication page is blocking access to the file. This results in the pop-up balloon above. If DNS resolution fails or returns the wrong address, then it is assumed that the internet connection is completely unsuccessful, and the “no internet access” error is shown."

Would this mean that DNS poisoning msftncsi.com would prevent Win7 machines from accessing the internet? Or would this merely cause the 'no internet access' error to be displayed despite your connection working anyway?
This is also why particles traveling at c cannot possibly
decay: no time passes for them. A photon is everywhere at
once, from its own point if view.

That's a really great explanation. For the first time, I've been able to visualize how light can be both a particle and a wave. Thank you.
Actually it looks much better today. For the past few weeks the majority of the first 30 links were 250+ days old.
Ok, so if you want people to move out of their current overcrowded cities to somewhere else, I guess it makes sense in a command economy to build the cities and then move them in. What happens if people don't want to move, though?
Is it possible to run startup with lower head count _always_?
I feel the smaller the group ,employee feel they have greater responsibility. No,I don't want to increase the head count because the startup does well in revenue.
Hotmail still the top result for keyword 'email'
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I had a hard time with the new episodes too. It took me a long time to finally put my finger on what it was that was missing. It was me, not being 12.
pg may have been messing with some code
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Are you sure your results aren't being personalized?

Here's mine in an incognito window:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1156750/screenshots/screenshot_2011...

(Spoiler: GMail is first, Yahoo is second, Hotmail is third.)
On the other hand: it looks they have been done wrong by Zuckerberg and are seeking justice. Although I would be on a beach if I was one of them...
Interesting: so would you consider the DFT patentable? How about other numerical algorithms? Would you agree with the decision in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottschalk_v._Benson?
Flagging, because the discussion is going nowhere, mainly because either almost no one is reading the article before commenting, or they are reading it but not understanding it.

To elaborate, unauthorized copying and distributing has long (decades) been a felony if you are doing it for commercial advantage or private financial gain, and in any 180-day period this involves copies worth more than $1000.

Look at the language Ars quotes. It talks about streaming a certain number of copies in any 180-day period, and puts a threshold ($2500 retail value or $5000 licenses) you have to meet in order to run afoul of the new provisions.

It sounds likely, based on the similarity to the existing felony provisions, that these new provisions fit in with those, and thus are only covering people who are doing illegal streaming AS A BUSINESS (and doing a good amount of business...if the retail value of a streaming move is $5, they have to have 500 customers over six months to hit the threshold). They are not nailing people who consume the streams (just as the felony copying and distribution provisions don't nail the customer).
This is the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my browser.
> But in reality Thunderbolt has just made internal PCI obsolete.

The current Thunderbolt implementation transfers up to 10 gigabits/second bi-directional. [1]

The current PCI-E X16 slots in the Mac Pro transfer up to 64 gigabits/second bi-directional. The future PCI-E X16 standard (3.0) has 128 gigabits/second bi-directional. [2]

Over the next decade, Thunderbolt transfer rates will reach 100 gigabits/second bi-directional. [3]

Thunderbolt is nowhere close to replacing PCI-E slots within computers.

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1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express
3. http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-20036033-76.html
It's an interesting idea, but after 10 minutes of staring at the flashing screen, the only thing I got out of it was a headache.
It's partly an effort to feed the needy, so homeless people who eat there aren't taking advantage, they're helping fulfill the mission.
Ask HN: Does HN Filter Submissions ?
I just tried to submit a link in HN to this NY Times article about the Drudge Report (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/16/business/media/16carr.html?_r=1). My submission didn't appear at all. I tried again and it failed to appear in the new category. Does HN filter links? What gives? This a story about a web pioneer who's still on top.
If people weren't fundamentally good would there be peer pressure to give more than you need to?
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sounds like a question for Quora...
The Rise of Erlang (Erlang Factory SF 2011)
Having recently done my first SW, and forming a company with the team, I'll throw some ideas out at random. Note, we didn't win, so we didn't have the baggage any prize winnings or office space or whatever.

- The biggest thing that we ran into were a couple of personality clashes. They were evident during the weekend, but grew to be more obvious as the idea proved worth pursuing. We ended up shedding some people in the process, mostly due to attrition.

- We welcomed everybody to keep going, in the hopes that roles (CEO, CTO, Cwhatever) would become organically defined. In reality, it's mostly just collaborative brainstorming, and the real roles won't become apparent until we have a product to sell.

- Don't incorporate too quickly -- let there be some time for people to realize that they don't really have time for this in their lives. A weekend is one thing, but every weekend (and afternoon, and day, etc) is another. People have lives that they can't necessarily divest themselves of. The last thing you want is to name somebody CEO and then they stop showing up.

- Try to figure out an equitable split in the event that people start talking about a big exit. Our team started as 10 people (we're down to 7) -- our initial number was 5% per person, vested, and with more to be potentially allocated later.

- Try to figure out a way to keep people on for the long term. Monthly profit sharing is an idea that potentially can kickstart someone into leaving their day job to work on it full time.

- Find the shortest path to revenue. Make dollars immediately. Even if it's just a tiny fragment of the feature set -- take one defining feature, build it, and start trying to generate revenue.

- Try to keep everybody focused. Some of our team is biz-dev, and while there's not obviously as much for them to do during the development cycle, they can be lining up sales, blogging, marketing, networking, attending related conferences, etc., etc. People that aren't looking for those opportunities should be addressed.

- Try to capitalize on the publicity you got. During our weekend, we got national press, 3 beta customers and were able to pitch with a working product and a solid business plan. Keep that going. Perpetuate that.

- Get a contract in place with everybody -- vest some shares to ensure that they get a piece of whatever happens, but make it fractional depending on how long they stay. Make it equitable -- developers can still own their code, but can't take it away from you. All works contributed become patentable, ownable, redistributable and sellable by the company. You might need a corporate entity for this to work, not sure.

- Avail yourself of legal counsel. We were fortunate enough to have a conference lined up right after which dealt with company formation from some very qualified attorneys -- we asked them a lot of questions. This might be good enough for you, or it might not. IANAL, but find one and talk.

Good luck.
"But to make a hash the fundamental data structure out of which everything else is constructed would be crazy."

A hash can easily model a vector, including sparse vectors. There are efficient functional implementations such as Clojure's which is based on Bagwell's Array Mapped Tries.

Functional vectors/arrays are an open research problem.

So I would say maps might be very reasonable as the single structure in a functional language.

Also, there are many ways to cope with tagging more types than are practically fit within the low bits of a pointer. The simplest dates all the way back to MACLISP (no relation to macintosh). The idea is to tag regions of memory that hold uniform values. This fits very well with modern memory allocators based on the slab allocator.
So an accident which doesn't harm human life, doesn't damage any property not belonging to the power company, and doesn't do any lasting or even long lived damage to the environment, does not rise to the level of 'huge disaster' in my opinion.

I disagree. I think the second-worse nuclear disaster in history is a huge disaster, especially since it looks like it will leave a large area uninhabitable.

Even by the INES standards, INES 7 (ie, Fukushima) is defined as a "Major Accident": Major release of radio­active ­material with widespread health and environmental effects requiring implementation of planned and extended ­countermeasures

I do understand your point of view here though.

It is the worst possible accident you could have at the plant.

It's not, and not by a long way. For example, there was no damage caused by any aftershocks, which was incredibly lucky.

People are told these reactors are safe in the event of a terrorist missile attack - it's pretty clear they are no where near that safe.

From the moment the wave washed over the plant everyone knew it was a serious accident, the only question has ever been what were the long term ramifications of that accident.

This is wrong. Read, for example Brave New Climate (one of the main envio-nuclear advocacy sites). Quote: There is no credible risk of a serious accident. 12 March (ie, 2 days after the Tsunami): http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/03/12/japan-nuclear-earthqua...
Programming languages are a design constraint
I'm wondering now if the film toned them down a bit to make them more believable...
Most people and most things aren't interesting, so I will be better of looking at what is than whom I have been randomly placed nearby.
But it comes with a risk you cannot insure against. See e.g. Ulrich Beck's discussion of this technology from the 1980s/1990s. On the other hand, you can more easily deal (calculate) with the downsides of coal (uhm ... well, use no coal), hydropower etc.
Yeah, Sorkin got that part right.
Obviously the DFT is not patentable any more, but yes, I see no reason why Cooley and Tukey shouldn't have been able to patent it.

I think the court's decision in Gottschalk v. Benson demonstrates a level of understanding of computers typical of members of the general public in the early 1970s -- i.e., almost none at all. To say that a process carried out via software is different from a process carried out in hardware (or even more absurdly, that buying a $5 CPU transforms a process from "unpatentable software" to "patentable machine") makes no more sense than the flood of "do X over the internet" patents; hardware or software or wetware, internet or telephone network or messengers riding horses, a process is a process regardless of the components it's built on top of.

(The same "(computers|internet) are magical so we need to treat them differently" thinking also results in politicians passing silly laws concerning things like "harrassing someone via the internet" where the pre-existing laws are entirely sufficient.)
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It's compression artifacts. I imagine it can be created by toying with video compression tools like ffmpeg.

Here is some discussion of that, to start you off. http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=90329

See also http://vimeo.com/17845583 (Kanye West's Welcome to Heartbreak). There are a couple of other fairly mainstream videos that have used this as well, as far back as 2006 I think (remember seeing it, can't remember the name of the video).
Lessons learned: nuclear power is pretty darn safe, although you shouldn't build 50s-style reactors near the coast in a tsunami zone. If you do, don't live nearby. No surprises there.

Yeah, better tell everyone in San Diego: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Onofre_Nuclear_Generating_S...
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"I currently work for a small US start-up called Yahoo"
Oh for the love of God.

This just in, 99% of websites on the Internet leak secret account credentials. Can we please ban The Register here?

Account credentials != Auth Token. And this is a result of not using SSL to share the auth token back. Is it a mistake? Yes. Is it nearly as bad as this headline or the article implies? No.
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I have to agree more there. We recently moved from Debian to Ubuntu and like it far more.
You can also zoom and pan in

www.google.com/moon

A view with Tycho centered is:

http://www.google.com/moon/#lat=-43.802818&lon=-14.16687...
The problem with articles like this is that they talk about practices that realistically (regardless of what they say) would be reasonably applied to the mass center of the bell curve.

However, everyone who reads them gives criticisms as if this hiring strategy will only apply to the "best engineers".

To make a music comparison---not everyone is a proven rock star. Some people are garage band singers who're dying to take loans to produce their record just for a chance to make it big.
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Because anything we might start now would be overtaken before it is one tenth there by anything we might start five hundred years from now. And if we won't be able to start anything faster by then, there would be no technological civilization left to receive the results. So it would be pointless, space is just too big. Once we can reliably reach 1/10 c we might think about sending a probe to Alpha Centauri, although even that would have more symbolic value as a technological demonstration than scientific value. You would have to wait more than half a century for a science mission of at most a few hours, because decellerating would require so much time and fuel to make the whole mission infeasible. A mission to Gliese 581 is a distant fourth or fifth project after that, and sending a planetary probe like the one we send to mars is even more distant.
(For reference, it took several years of swing by maneuvers to get a probe out of the orbital plane of the planets into an orbit that allows to examine the poles of the sun, and that takes far less energy than even reaching 1/100 c.)
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You don't need to go to school. Hang out with geeks, write code, and share your work on GitHub. Try to build something substantial.

My day job is recruiting, and at night I study Ruby on Rails. Tonight I was learning how to get started with Project Voldemort.
All the people who are saying evaluating obviousness of an invention is impractically hard to analyze, are failing to see that that applies to non-software patents as well.

The real problem with software patents is not that the rules (including non-obviousness constraint) are flawed, but rather that the execution of those rules is flawed. Fix the right thing please.
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Downtown, around 300 E and South Temple? That's not really upper middle class per se, it's really just mixed, but it can seem like that. I lived two blocks away in a one bedroom apartment which rented for $400/mo. On the flip side, I know the apartments across the street are one or two bedroom and rent for about $1000+/mo. Just saying, if it's where I think it is, that's a fairly mixed neighborhood, and about 3 more blocks to the north/northwest you start getting into Rose Park. It's kind of like calling the Mission in SF upper middle class... I mean it is, but it's not.
How else should I describe what is essentially vandalism?
I really cannot overstate how concerned this makes me. I already wrote one piece in response to a different Times article:

http://www.quora.com/Aaron-Greenspan/President-Obama-Wants-Y...

Now I'm thinking I should have been more emphatic.
You got me interested, so I kept digging. I found this (http://rosa-menkman.blogspot.com/2009/02/from-compression-ar...) article about an artist name Sven Konig who has done a project using this effect. He has a python script on his website that does this glitching effect on demand. http://www.popmodernism.org/appropirate/
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By making predictions that can be checked with the next generation of telescopes. That's how science works: look at what you have, figure out what you still want to know and design an experiment that can discriminate between different alternatives.
Interesting viewpoints.
If you add a space after the + also, it’ll be fine (indeed, better).

But to be honest, I hate code that tries to do 5 bits of logic on one 100-character-long line, instead of just breaking into two more readable lines. [Edit: looks like that was fixed in the version at http://willbailey.name/conway/docs/conway.html]

Also, can’t your isAlive function look like:

isAlive: (row, col) -> @world[row]?[col]?.live
Unfortunately there is a mountain of evidence that suggests that breast feeding is extremely important for optimizing your baby's chances in life. It's even been quantified, I think, to about 7 IQ points.

So - sorry, once labor is over the mother's role can not just end and in many ways it increases dramatically as she will for many weeks be getting extremely broken sleep (up several times during the night to feed for 30 mins at a time each at least).

Having said that, I hate it when anybody tells anyone else they can't do something. As a startup you're going up against huge odds in the first place and doing something nearly impossible almost by definition. If you're the kind of person who just gives up when someone tells you something is a bad idea then you probably ARE the wrong person to do a startup, but it's got nothing to do with babies.
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The page was near-unreadable for me because the CSS uses the font stack "courier,fixed,swiss,sans-serif", and courier is just too thin and wispy against a black background. I opened Firebug and changed the CSS declaration to be "monospace" and then all was right with the world.

That said, it's a phenomenal achievement, and should be a great way for websites to demonstrate command-line tools to people. :)

(also: browsers let you store more information with DOM Local Storage than you could in a cookie; If you could expose that to Linux as a block device...)
btw, I get malware warnings when I go to anything at popmodernism.org. Nothing bad happened when I bypassed them (mac/safari 5.0.5). Anyway,
here is the python source, if you're scared off by the malware warnings... or maybe it's just me getting them?

https://gist.github.com/976016
3 days. See http://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html , linked from the page source.
Anyone know how to get the network working? ping/wget don't work. But seriously, this is pretty flippin sweet!
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Not long ago:

Last-Modified: Mon, 16 May 2011 21:14:50 GMT
Keep in mind those numbers are microseconds. If you are looking for ways to improve your performance, there are probably lots of other places to focus your attention that will have a much greater impact. For example, optimizing your frontend will give you far more bang for the buck and in fact I'd argue that sometimes it's worth the extra 300 microseconds for the sanity of your development team.
I don't think a law banning phone books could be considered as a ban on free speech. A phone book is not speech. Speech is expression that communicates a message. A phone book is a reference material and does not communicate any message, position, or view.
Oh yeah, that argument.

Yeah, its true that if you are involved in the coal industry you are much more likely to die than if you are involved in the nuclear industry.

Yes, day-to-day pollution from a coal plant (especially old ones) is much worse than day-to-day operation of a nuclear plant (which is why they need to be replaced).

But there is zero chance that an accident in a coal plant will affect more than (say) 1000 people, and yet there is at least a 1/12,000 chance [1] that it will affect 100,000+ with a nuclear station.

[1] The first commercial nuclear power station was commissioned in 1954. There are ~25,000 days since then, and there have been 2 INES Level 7 accidents: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Nuclear_Event_Sca...
this is some crazy shit
How about the idea that you spend months and hundreds of thousands of dollars of your own money to come up with a new product, and two weeks after you launch, another company with a lot of money releases a copycat of your product?
no, they're just retards
My favorite bit:

# cat /proc/cpuinfo

...

f00f bug: yes

#

Hah!

20 bogomips by the way, at least on Chrome on a MacBook Pro.

I sense a whole new era of browser performance testing..
Implement emulation of a network card... ;) The tech notes page states that "there is no network emulation at this point".
You can't - Javascript can't generate arbitrary network traffic like that. You'll have to wait for someone to write a driver for /dev/json, I guess. ;)
No people or trains?
The US

- has very strong support for software patents

- is one of the most innovative countries in the world in the software area

China

- has no support for software patents whatsoever

- has close to zero innovation in software

Can someone explain this paradox?