skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it would have been clearer without the first:

Diver snaps photo of fish using tools.

And/or

Diver snaps photo of tool-using fish.
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Google Reader or Reeder on iPad.

The only reason why I don't use Google Reader on iOS via browser is because it doesn't support sharing and emailing articles well.

One downside of Reeder app on iPad is the inability to access starred posts and shared contents to look back at articles.

Instapaper is actually a pretty good alternative on iOS. I like its UI.

Also tried Early Edition when it got much hype but quickly retired it. Too clunky and doesn't mesh content well.
Could you share your prior username? I'm hesitant to believe you because every [dead] comment I've seen so far has been by a user with a net negative karma.
Bill Gates built Microsoft around the vision "of a personal computer on every desk and in every home" into not only a large and profitable company but into the largest personal fortune of all time.

[http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/gat0int-1]
Disappointingly, it converts "spelled out" numbers, not "spoken" numbers, to decimal notation. I clicked the link thinking it was a speech-to-text engine in 256 bytes of C, and was let down to find out that it wasn't. It's still very impressive for what it is, though.
Read pg's essay. Then read this piece again.

I had already read Paul's essay, and still nothing set off my Secret Ad alert. Maybe I'm not cynical enough.

What suggests that it's truly original reporting?

What suggests that an article in the fashion section of the NY Times is going to be truly original reporting?

I read the article and it resonnated with me because I used to carry a watch (but never cared for wearing them). Now I have a phone to tell me the time but in practice it's sort of cumbersome. A dedicated time-telling device might actually be useful, and I was curious if other people on HN had been considering this. And in that context an article that's just an article in the NY Times seems pretty plausible; I bet a good number of people have considered that using phone to quickly check the time can be annoying.

Sure, this might be a really stealth ad or PR piece, but there might also be geek oneupmanship at play, with people eager to show off how quickly they can spot a stealth ad even where none exists.
It is not JSONP. You have to analyze JavaScript variable: http://servletsuite.com/geoip.htm
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NO ONE opposes stem-cell research using adult stem cells, which is what was used here. What the anti-stem cell research campaigns oppose is embryonic stem cell research, because it involves extracting cells from a human embryo, usually killing the embryo in the process.

And given that adult stem cell research 1) is morally unobjectionable; 2) is yielding effective treatments; and 3) contains no rejection risk ... I cannot understand why so many have pressed so hard for embryonic stem cell research. Factor #3 alone ought to be enough to give ASCR the edge.

Yet in the U.S., federal dollars have effectively been taken away from ASCR and given to ESCR.
But you've handed them the data. You gave them (or let them take) the hard drive. You've opened the safe. Now they're expecting you to explain its contents and how they incriminate you.

I am required to open my safe for you. I am not required to decode the encryption I perform by hand (or with my graphing calculator).
It's not the lack of space, but the eye-scanning distance, that's annoying.
I have a lot of people with multiple email addresses, and as long as they are merged into a single contact Google+ no longer asks me to add them to a circle...
I use Google Reader and am very happy with it. Especially the ability to tag an item into an output feed. I love using the 'Note in Reader' bookmarklet to collect snippets into a tag (which can be output as RSS). Have a look at FeedAFever.com as well. If I could tag and share in Fever I'd probably be using that. Will you make your reader Open? If you want to brainstorm I've been thinking about this a lot. Feel free to email me.
I've been building, running and configuring Debian, Fedora, Centos and RHEL systems for over a decade and I've never even heared of "Scientific Linux"
I think it's very bad that Google have created a product to compete with OSM but under a license which doesn't allow any reuse of the user generate data. I see absolutely no point in contributing to Map Maker whilst the data isn't open.
Transactions are really interesting. Thanks for sharing!
Probably not something you'll commonly hear, but: an easy way to program against an API and add widgets/plugins. Within newsrooms, where RSS readers get used professionally, it's frustrating having to work within the limitations of Google Reader and its unpublished API, yet on the other hand it's just not worth the engineering effort to create a reader from scratch since it's not a business-critical app.
Inconsistent Standards or When Feeds Fail
> The "why" is that CentOS has brand recognition

The real brand is RHEL. Otherwise people don't care much what the brand of the binary compiled Linux they are using. We switched from CentOS to SL to CentOS.

To be honest, the staff @ CERN and Fermilab inspire more confidence in their commitment to their distro than the CentOS. I understand the guys have full time jobs and do this on the side, but in the end that becomes kind of irrelevant for some new end user who is just looking for binary compatibility with RHEL.

> This is the first time I've heard that "Scientific Linux"

Then you haven't followed the linux distros (especially RHEL binary compatible clones) close enough. SL is actually older than CentOS.
This list is a testament to the importance of networks for startups.
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It's a fabulous troubleshooting effort made by the admins - "we saw we would frequently burst the 1 Mbit per millisecond rate of the so called 1 Gbit/s interfaces"
The only rss reader I've ever used is the one in Opera, and I don't use it at all currently. I don't see anything missing, but I rarely even had a second feed. I prefer reading the site itself, or finding the best pages and reading them weeks apart.
They compile the same SRPMS after they strip the logos and Redhat references out. Yes, they add extra optional packages like OpenAFS and others, but you can just disable those repos.
Any specific advantages? I'll try to check it out.
For example, we could transfer 900 Mbit for a half of a second and another 100 Mbit for the other half of that second. How much data was transferred during that second? The answer is 1 Gbit per second.

The dimensional analysis doesn't work here. He asks for a quantity of data and answers with a transfer rate. Also it shouldn't be surprising that the instantaneous transfer rate at a given time is different than the average transfer rate over a period of time.
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No. Google allows for exporting almost all data: feeds, email, contacts, calendar, etc. Check it out:

http://www.dataliberation.org/
I thought it was Python 2.6.2, no? I also realize you're being sarcastic.
When software offends, the pantyshot package controversy
This article is bullshit. It suggests the Enterprise Software and its associated Sales can be fixed by changing the vendor's behaviour. But historically vendors became the way they are because of their large, slow, complex inefficient clients.

Also, open source is not a game changer. Proof: it's been around a while, and nothing's changed. It's just a new checkbox ("feature") that the client demands. Sure open source is great, but I know from experience that it doesn't fundamentally affect this situation.
Red Hat without the licence. A stable, conservative flavour of Linux.
The Visual Weight of Primary and Secondary Action Buttons
Because it shorter. You see the the poin at one page.
Hot to install and how to disable.
And you have disscussion. E.g.
you also can find a link to bootchart2 in a comments: https://github.com/mmeeks/bootchart.
i use google reader, because it's fast to use and efficient with my bandwidth.

the "stream view" is good because the next 20 item in the stream is always loaded (images, videos, etc).

i subscribe to ~300 feeds and updating 300 feeds every 5 minutes would be quite painful on my slow dsl connection.

i don't like that there's no logic in it that would hide stuff i'm not interested it, kinda like a trainable priority inbox. but i couldn't imagine a convenient way for me to set that up anyway...
A 9 month lag behind RHEL is a feature? You are either misunderstanding something or just trolling.

> When it comes down to it, you really don't need the latest and greatest software on a server.

It is really great when others tell me what I need to run on my server.

Just to be clear, you do know that CentOS is a binary compatible compilation of RHEL? The distro is not about adding feature or improvements or spinning their own from scratch. There is no need to wait for it to become "fairly stable" it just tracks RHEL. If RHEL is unstable, then CentOS is going to be unstable. That is the point of it. Claiming that their lag was on purpose is a little dishonest I think.
An API will definitively be on my feature list, but I didn't know they were used in professional circles. Do you have any examples of such use cases?
I have about the same time in Linux as you but how I found out about SL was due to the delays CentOS has been having. Previously, the CentOS releases were not far behind RHEL releases as far as timing. But when 6.0 failed to show up I visited the CentOS forum.

For whatever reason that only the internal developers know, announced milestone after milestone were delayed. The chief complaint about CentOS has been the lack of openness or transparency with the devs. Numerous offers to help and contribute to the project have not been accepted. With little feedback or request for help, users became antsy if the CentOS project was dead in the water. That's where Scientific Linux seemed to have found some new users when they were the first out of the gate with a version 6 based on RHEL.

While it's great that CentOS 6.0 is out, maybe the better question is to ask why not 6.1 which was already released by RHEL some time ago (May 19th) that addresses some security issues.

I used CentOS quite a bit but have moved off to distributions as I'm happy to pay for some software and contribute to other ecosystems where there is an openness to them.
Well you mean Python 2.6.

You are probably joking but at least 2.6 is still supported by some major projects. Many have dropped 2.4 support already (NetworkX for instance). So I am pretty exciting about 2.6 actually ;-)
Creativity flourishes within constraints, from TV to iPhone apps
Hello Manual,

I just bought the LeanBundle - both your and Pedro's books look useful. I have played with NodeJS a bit and I am hoping that the two books get me to the point where I can do an "All Javascript" example app that functions like compiled GWT (Java to Javascript) web apps where the entire application lives in memory on the browser with occasional syncing between a server side data store and an in-memory data model.
It seems to be broken on an iPad.
Show HN: dial-a-stranger
Presenting my slightly odd spawnfest entry. Dial +1 (650) 763-8833 and you will be put on hold. As soon as there are two people on hold they will be linked together into a conference call.
Alternatively, send an sms to +1 (650) 763-8782 to talk to Eliza.
Since when is Google Trends reliable enough to make valid assumptions about the visitor statistics of a website?
Yes, it'll definitively be open, probably AGPL. Thanks for the suggestions, I'll look into FeedAFever and will email you when I have something set up for discussion.
In fact, although IQ explains more academic achievement and income than any other measurable psychometric factor, it still doesn’t explain very much of them. It explains only about 15-25% of variation in individual income and only about 25% of variation in individual academic achievement. Most of the rest is due to factors that are not measured.

By contrast, per capita income explains 46% of variation in average IQ among countries, and even more of the variation in academic performance. (Average academic performance explains over 50% of the variation in average IQ among countries.)

So, does high average income cause people to have high IQs and good academic performance, or the other way around? http://sitemaker.umich.edu/salas.356/more_money__better_grad... documents a study that found children’s academic performance improves when their parents’ income increases.

The TIMSS data you’re citing show the opposite of what you claim them to. The variations in academic achievement between countries are much larger than variations in IQ between ethnicities.

TIMSS doesn’t include a lot of African countries, but of those it does include, 8th-grade achievement in Ghana is 309, in Botswana is 364, in Egypt is 391, and in Tunisia is 420, compared to 508 in the US. The TIMSS scale is normalized so that one standard deviation is 100 points. If we estimated that the 508 score were a weighted average of 85% “white people” and 15% “black people” one standard deviation lower, then the “white people” would be at 523 and the “black people” would be at 423 --- closer to the “white US people” only one s.d. higher than to the Ghanaians 1.14 s.d.s lower. Even Botswana (perhaps the “upmarket” African country you’re thinking of?) would be 0.59 s.d.s below the “black US people”.

(The above breakdown is roughly correct. In the NAEP, the grade 8 mathematics average score for white students in 2009 was 293, the s.d. was 33, and the average for black students was 261, almost exactly one s.d. lower. http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/naepdata/ doesn’t let me link the results, though.)

In general, the TIMSS rankings are much better explained by median income than by average intelligence. The Taiwan average is almost two s.d.s above the international average, which would be like an average IQ of 130, while the Qatar average is almost two s.d.s below, which would be like an average IQ of just over 70, “borderline mentally retarded”. If you’ve ever traveled, it’s obvious that Qatar isn’t actually half populated with mentally retarded people and Taiwan isn’t actually half populated with geniuses.

According to the book you linked, the measured average IQs are 105 for Taiwan and 78 for Qatar.

If you look at this map, you can see how little relationship there is between ethnic composition and national IQ:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:National_IQ_Lynn_Vanhanen_...
There are enormous differences between Brazil and Congo, between Vietnam and China, between Singapore (which you can’t even see) and Indonesia.

The Bell Curve has been amply debunked already, and in any case is decades out of date.
Any examples of how G+ is behind in UI?

I find the G+ interface orders of magnitude more pleasant to use than FB. It's not perfect, but it handles all of the same use cases that I used FB for, and does so in a simpler more sensible way.
Cool idea! Too bad I can't play the audio (Safari on iOS).
Tell HN: Company returned 3X, but I (investor) may lose money
[US Tax Payer here]

I invested X into the company, with a post-money valuation of Y (a minor investor). The company was bought for 3Y. Sounds good, right?

However, the deal was structured such that 1Y was paid in cash, and 2Y was paid in stock of the buying company. (1X and 2X is my respective share of the deal)

So, I got my cash back; the 2X is considered immediate ordinary income, taxed at 35% federal + 13% NYC. So, I'm 48% down on the 2X already.

Enter SEC rule 144 - I'm not allowed to sell these in the first 6 months. That might have been ok, if the buying company didn't go down some 40% since then.

So, I'm still more than break even, but not a lot more. If the company goes down (in total) more than 52% in those 6 months, I'm going to be losing money on a successful investment.

Thanks to US security and tax laws.
Liberate your data from Google
End of NASA era commemorated in Carl Sagan remix video
> Go isn't a very good language in theory, but it's a great language in practice, and practice is all I care about, so I like it quite a bit.

just like C was meant to be a practical language for writing Unix tools. thanks for your comment.
I think we'd be talking about seconds here, not minutes. 1K units might be a lot to update in real time while doing a bunch of rendering etc, but a dedicated sync pause shouldn't really take very long in isolation.
This could always be two things:

1. You lack talent in one area, but have too many staffers doing something that you will no longer will be doing

2. This is the one I hate: You want to get rid of experienced employees that cost too much to get new employees that cost less
As a motorcyclist, the sound of traffic is almost entirely a non-issue; I can wear canalphones with music at a volume where I can't hear any traffic noise, and still negotiate peak hour inner city traffic.

But then, as a motorcyclist I pay more attention than just about any driver (including myself when I'm behind a wheel). For example, I'm never surprised by a vehicle suddenly appearing in my rear view mirror on a bike, because I move my eyes in a reflexive pattern between the road and both mirrors every few seconds.

If you're really paying attention, sound is almost a non-issue on the road - but that puts you in a very small minority of road users.
A Survey Of JavaScript Lisp Implementations
Unfortunately I'm still on a s60 phone, so a mobile reader for the new smartphones is not on the table at the moment.
I believe he means writing scripts inside of HTML attributes.
what javascript testing library is it using?
You might want to clarify the results. The best intro book for Javscript
http://bestintrobook.com/books/javascript

Begins with, "this is not for beginners." It's for already programmers.
Prosthetics beyond disability: the bionic user experience
I used to wonder about this. There are skills that require hard work and brains. Some people seem to find themselves "in their element" when they are mastering or using these skills (Roger Federer, for example). Some of those skills pay, and some don't. It seems to me like what you love in your life is largely driven by chance, and if your passion happens to be something that will not pay your bills, you are just unlucky, and will be left to do stuff you do not love as much.

It sounds like this is obvious, but I've heard "be whatever you want to be but be the best" a lot, and it used to sound like an obviously good idea.

Maybe those who are lucky enough find that doing what they love brings happiness and money, and think they have found the answer to umm.. everything?
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When I was a young kid, I remember that we used to ask each other "what's your favourite color?" a lot. At the time, this question used to panic me. I mean, red's pretty neat, but then so's blue. Yellow's nice, and so on. It's only with the benefit of hindsight that one sees that it's an artificially narrow question. A child would make that mistake, but not an adult, right?

Well, that's how I see the "do what you love," argument manifesting here. The things that define your true passions aren't going to be the dreams that you dreamed as a child, or as a teenager. You are always developing as an individual, and the things that you love are capable of redefining themselves. One thing that I hear time and time again is that "X" is fun until you have to do it for a living; that's not doing what you love, that's clinging to a bad mistake. You can do what you love by finding something you enjoy and by applying love, there's no mystical "true love" of careers that is imposed from on high.

Hmm, what I just wrote was properly glib, wasn't it?
The most awkward 404 not found page on the internet
What's open about Google+? You can delete your account and download your data from Facebook as well; you can also write third party applications that read and write from/to Facebook, unlike Google+.
very sad...
They utilize buttons with three different colors: green, blue and red.

The stream is a lot more cluttered than Facebook. As an example, this is what I see next to a name in the stream:

Fname Lname - 4:17 PM - Mobile - Public

Compared to Facebook:

Fname Lname

There are lots of such details that facebook has right--mostly because they have been around a lot longer. I am sure Google Plus will eventually get it right(facebook's very first design really sucked, too).

Another example: when someone posts a picture, it seems to appear pretty big versus Facebook. It's an issue for me because most often I am not interested in pictures in my feed so a smaller version--like facebook--is preferred. If it looks like something of interest, I'll click on it.

When I do click on a picture in my stream, I am taken to a page with black background with all comments appearing on right in white/gray. It shows the non-standard nature of the Google UI which I personally dislike.

Facebook's UI may be boring. But most things I use a lot are boring and non-shiney.

All this comes from someone who really, really hates facebook for purposely holding back privacy features. I have pretty much resorted to not posting anything that may be offensive to a 5 year old kid.
A completely reworked security framework; among other major changes. We've had a RHEL 6 installation for a few months and are still working thru the changes. Basic Linode users might want to wait unless you really need the Python updates.
Appears down from the UK at around 11pm BST Sunday, unfortunately!
So from the post "doing what you love" was sex and getting in debt. No wonder you nearly "destroyed" yourself.

Follow your bliss as a human being. If you have a calling in being a great scientist, fine, otherwise you can still follow your bliss in the most boring (apparently) job in the world.

Joseph Campbell kicks ass. You need to center your shit together and mature.
I totally agree. I love the "favorite color" example too, and I still feel the same panic nowadays - what a crap example of a security question!

I enjoy the feeling of developing expertise, and I can thrive even when tasked with something that isn't very sexy on the outside -- as long as I own the task, take responsibility for the outcome, and am able to find nontrivial issues to tackle along the way.
No surprise that the list of Facebook's owners consists mostly of Jewish people.
I'm not convinced that it is as simple as you indicate. I think there are opportunities to make money at things you love, even things that aren't typically lucrative. Most writers and painters are "starving artists" but then you have the JK Rowling's of the world who made big bucks at it. No, not everyone can do that. And, no, the answer is not as simple and straight forward for some people as for others. I have certainly wrestled with that fact personally -- I have long done things I believe in/love and not yet found a way to make them lucrative. I don't think that means it won't ever be lucrative. But, no, the answer for me has not been simple and straight forward.

Still, I have no fantasies that merely pursuing self indulgence is likely to get me there. Again: Maybe I missed something in the article, but it sounds to me like that is what the author basically did.

Peace.
I think the aversion is that with the growth of the internet, news is becoming (or already has) commoditized. People look at the articles in the NYT and they don't see original journalistic content, they see something they can get from 50 other sites thru Google News. If the NYT wants to survive, they need to get back to their journalistic roots and increase the value proposition to potential customers...it has to be more than just "it's less of an inconvenience to just pay us."
The ability to pursue your dreams is a luxury of the modern age. Generations of people have lived and died working as poor farmers, doing what they needed to to support their families. (Many hundreds of millions of poor people still live their lives doing so.) "Do what you love" is overrated advice: "find a way to love what you do" is better.