skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean by "the logical fallacy of attempting to prove a negative statement?". I can prove the negative statement "I did not assassinate JFK" by citing the fact that I wasn't born yet.

You're right in that in this particular case, the practical difficulties of quantifying "less cobra-ness" or "cobra void" as you call it is difficult, but there are plenty of cases where quantifying the absence of something is straightforward.
The idea is not to test for a single void but to test for two related voids..

Offer a natural enemy to the cobra..a mongoose..
Same problem with a string of just spaces. It seems the string being hashed isn't URL-encoded first.
"There's another tellurium-based pipe dream in the form of cadmium telluride solar cells, ..."

Which have the benefit of using a sub-micron-thickness layer of CdTe, so that very large scale production is plausible if new tellurium sources can be developed. (They probably can.)

This insane thermoelectric approach uses bulk telluride. Production cannot plausibly ever scale to make this an important source of energy.
Great suggestions. For developers, I think there are a few additional things to consider. While I completely agree that a file service backup and encryption are a good idea, I think it's important for developers to be able to recover quickly even without these things.

1. Yes, use backup, but also use version control. Keep your commits sufficiently up to date that you will able to get back to work quickly with a fresh new computer. Consider it a bad sign if you have to get your new computer restored to exactly the same state as your old computer to resume developing.

2. Encrypt, but just don't keep highly sensitive files on a laptop. I read that 1 in 10 laptop are stolen, and keep in mind that many aren't stolen because they never leave someone's apartment. If you travel around with your laptop, you're in a higher risk group. Use dummy data and dummy databases. Don't store external passwords to real systems on your laptop. Consider it a bad sign if you can't develop to a local database populated with inconsequential data.

3. Definitely buy the insurance policy, if you'd have trouble coming up with the money for a replacement. But they key here is to make sure that it's just money we're talking about. Try to set up your development environment such that the cost to you of a stolen laptop is the replacement cost of the laptop.

I'm a little worried this comes off as overly judgemental, so I just want to be clear that I understand this may not all be within the control of the developer. However, I think that an IT setup that requires people to carry highly sensitive information or passwords on portable devices that are frequently and easily stolen is a sign of a badly broken system, even with encryption.
What happened to the new templates they announced at the end of March? I liked the look and was hoping to try one out for a personal project.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/fresh-new-perspective...
I've got a better idea. You give me the $4k and I'll fly to San Diego and beat you with a stick any time you stop working.

Seriously though, this is a really weird plan. It's a huge amount of money to spend for something that almost certainly won't have the effect you want. Unless you want burnout and a serious case of "maybe we should have budgeted more time to take a look around Hong Kong, which is actually pretty cool".

Take a working vacation if you want, but it's not the place you're in that's causing you trouble.
As far as we know. The Russians weren't always that honest about who they blew up by accident.
private Singleton self = null; is wrong.

It has to be:

private static Singleton self = null;
It basically looks the same in Opera. (Unfortunately, I'm tempted to say.)
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Aren't singletons the whole goal of Spring?
I don't begrudge artists making money off their early hits for a few decades, but the professional descendants whining about lost revenue don't exactly excite my pity.
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I have had malaria twice. When you have it you definitely know you have the disease. Your legs shake from side to side. You can diagnose disease as well becuase your temperature goes in a zig zag patern over a 10 to 20 min cycle. none of these methods will tell you what kind of maleria you have, which is usefull to know what the best treatment is. Sometimes this is not necessary as there is only one kind in the region. It should not be under estimated how hard it is tell one type of maleria from the other. The last time I had it took 4 hours for a major hospital in London to identfy that I had 3 types of parasite in my blood.
Or Dr. Seuss (PhD?).
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The people who need to diagnose it are in a hospital, where they can just use one of many methods. They don't need to to peer through an android lens. Laymen rarely need to diagnose malaria because the symptoms are very very clear.
I think we are being trolled. :)
It never seems to work out for us, since we’ll be work hard for 8 hours and then start wondering what our friends are up to, or start surfing the net for no apparent reason.

8 hours of productivity in a day sounds like a healthy work-life balance to me. You're just frustrated because you're not getting rich yet.

I'm starting to think I should open 'code jail' where programmers will pay me for the privilege of being dragged out of bed at 6am, given a pep talk, nutritious but unexciting meals at 6 hourly intervals, with one hour of forced exercise per day and limited opportunities for social interaction. Basically, I'll be like an extremely abusive boss/prison guard, but you retain the intellectual property for whatever you create while you're in code jail. Or boot camp, or whatever I decide to call it. You can pay me up front or give me 1% of the equity for every week of iron discipline.
the confidence to charge more is very important.

if you know what you are providing is quality, you can charge for it and people will pay for it. Sure you'll get a bit more rejection...but those cheapskates wouldn't have appreciated your work anyways.

and hey if they say no, you can always go back a few weeks/months later, and tell them that you are running a discount
I like that you don't have to start/stop when switching tasks, but I don't really get why there isn't a way to stop recording time. Does that mean at the end of the day, I'm supposed to make a 'break' entry (as you say in the FAQ) and let it run till the next morning? That seems silly. I am already having to take some action to 'stop' tracking by adding a fake entry so I don't see how it's saving time or keystrokes.

I really like the interface and the minimalist approach otherwise. Whether or not I use it will ultimately come down to the price or the free account limitations.
Oh snap. Seriously Jonathan, what you have here is a mixture of impatience and imperfect self-discipline, probably because you and your partner have not yet hit on an idea that truly excites you, to the point where social or practical considerations are simply less interesting.
The report is completely disconnected from reality. Malaria patients often have very clear symptoms, and at the point where a diagnosis is necessary, a blood test WILL have to be done. Malaria is a very common disease, and there are very clear and available treatments, and the symptoms are very well known. The blood tests are also very available.

This android device is solving a solved problem.
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No, the site allowed you to pick different regions of a single image.
Is anyone here going to be at Startupfest in Montreal next week?
Thought maybe we could do a little HN meetup kinda thing. I'll be there Mon - Fri.

I'm also judging the startup pitch contest on Thursday.

They still have tickets available if you live nearby.
Elon Musk (SpaceX) has stated that he will not be satisfied until they get a fully reusable launch vehicle, and that he aims to go for a Mars mission.

Given SpaceX's record, it might happen sooner than you think.

http://www.spacex.com/updates.php
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/aug/01/elon-musk-s...
There are even plugins to do this on jailbroken devices. I bet Paul K. is just trolling to drive up traffic to their site. Linkbait at it's finest 8-).
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The trendline appears to show both. LinkedIn has been growing and MySpace has been falling.

That LinkedIn is growing faster than Twitter is what surprises me.
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This is how it appears on Safari/Mac: http://i.imgur.com/VSyQB.png

Lots of content bleeding out of the box. Also, the title of the article needs line-height: 1.2; or more (the default line-height is almost always a typographical travesty)
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It would be great to add those to the post itself. (Good article, btw -- it was a nice way to make the concept of "most bang for the buck" more concrete.)
I used to use boxqueue with Boxee before I got an Apple TV 2 (which I don't use that much, as it turns out). http://boxqueue.appspot.com/

It's a bookmarklet that lets you save videos to watch later on Boxee. Which I liked because I could save videos to watch later on the tv from the couch.

It'd be nice if there were some way to get similar functionality on the ATV.
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2010 app store game revenue: About 1 billion

COD Black ops sales in first 44 days: over 1 billion

References:

http://blog.itchannelplanet.com/2011/02/apple-dominates-glob...

http://www.bgr.com/2010/12/21/call-of-duty-black-ops-sales-s...

Note: To calculate app store game sales I am taking the total sales and inferring the amount through the statement that "over half of sales are games".
You can slow down light http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/655518.stm and see the past!
The question has been protected on stackoverflow, so answering here. Yes a mirror 13.5 light years away can do the trick. But there is some fundamental lack of understanding regarding relativity that has lead to such a question. In fact, the top answer is incorrect on several levels.

1. Technically the only way a person can travel 27 light years in 27 years is by travelling through out at the speed of light. Ignoring the infinite amount of energy required for such travel, there is another aspect of such travel that is not being considered. Time Dilation. So assuming you were born and take off at the speed of light. Yes you will be able to observe your birth on earth 27 years later, but you would still be a baby and not 27 years old. Time would have been effectively frozen for you as you traveled.

2. The top answer says that you are always viewing and hearing the past. You are hearing the past, but you are actually viewing the present. The light radiating out of an event you are observing are also causality horizons. In your reference frame you are observing past events depending on the distance. However thanks to relativity and Lorentz contraction, there are reference frames where the distance between you and the event can be arbitrarily close to zero, effectively making the events simultaneous i.e. when you see an event you are effectively watching it as it happens simultaneously, you are not watching the past. This is also an alternative explanation for 1. i.e. the baby cannot grow older if you put it 27 light years away in 27 years time. It will be able to watch its birth, because its only just been born.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski_diagram
No offense, but - that's not helping.

The OP probably (like me) wanted to hear the real thing. A world cloud can be fun to see how repetitive some words are used or maybe even give a limited glimpse of what the focus was for Obama here - but in general it's more a toy feature and ~useless~. Pretty, cool - but not helpful.
Don't misunderstand me - I appreciate what you are saying here, and we could all take your advice to heart, but sometimes "doing what you love" simply isn't possible.

People in the US and other technology-oriented areas of the world (I'll admit I'm completely ignorant) are amazingly lucky to enjoy a wide range of career choices. We get to choose a career. Certainly we can choose things that are more pleasant than others.

But to say everyone has the option to do "what they love" is not accurate. Do something you don't hate sure. Do something you enjoy maybe. Sometimes we can't do what we love.

I love driving my car really really fast (and do when I have a chance to) but there's no way I could make a career out of it. I also happen to love technology (not my job so much) so I'm lucky to work in a field that I enjoy.

I have been thinking lately though that I should try to go somewhere else where I will be "happier" - somewhere that will challenge me. In this aspect, I'm absolutely going to follow your advice.
For most people, this is absolutely the most self-destructive advice possible, since they have not learnt how to foster a love for things that meet either their needs or wants - which is something that you fortunately learnt early on, the easy way, at 15.

Give someone without a viable skill set this advice, and watch them go to art school/form a talentless band/become an unemploued actor/rapper.

But yeah, fuck soul sucking jobs. I'm so bad at them, and they are so bad for me, I've sworn off them too.

"Do you have the ability to throw yourself against the currents of our culture and recognize that you are not the center of your life? The tasks and summonses are the center. Your happiness and your worth are a byproduct of how you engage them. Most of us are egotistical and most of us are self-concerned most of the time, but it’s nonetheless true that life comes to a point only when the self dissolves into some larger task and summons. The purpose in life is not to find yourself. It’s to lose yourself."

http://adamconrad.posterous.com/do-what-you-love-or-it-will-...
Inexplicable. I'm pretty sure Google just released some kind of new social product (although I've been having trouble finding links around here). The word on the street is also that Google has some kind of reader app (the name escapes me). These two things are what this Blogger interface does, so why on earth aren't they integrated?

Instead, they've taken a similar starting point (lightweight, white-heavy design that runs using Javascript and back-end data) and created something lifeless and disconnected from everything else.

This is Big Company Syndrome at work; exactly the kind of thing that you'd expect from a company like Microsoft, rather than the company that just released the best web app in years.
If a transcript is available, why isn't it posted as well?
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I learn how bad they were and why from this article :

https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/singleton-consider...

That's a good read
For those asking for it, here's a full transcript: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/07/twitter-t...
You don’t think newspapers and TV stations hesitate before publishing anything their advertisers wouldn’t want people to hear!?
This might be a great idea for a few days but trying to do 15 hour days for 3 weeks is too much.

Do weekend sprints where you can tell friends and family that you're going away / working on something but you can return to a normal existence afterwards.
Maybe rent a hotel suite instead of paying to go to HK.
Yeah, I hear you about the "br" issue. With some of my early testers, it works for them. For others, not so much. I'll probably add a setting that you can adjust. As for pricing, I'm still working that out but I'm going to follow Evernote's approach, i.e. pay for it when you like it or limit it to 1000 entries free (about two months of hard-core usage). I'm open to suggestions.
Isn't it bad design because it hinders testability, maintainability, and correctness?

In general, whether we are talking about procedural, OO, functional, or whatever kind of programming, code is easier to reason about and test and use if the effects of its individual units (functions, classes, modules, &c.) depend largely on the inputs to them. In functional languages this is called "referential transparency," but its value applies to OOP as well.

Using things like singletons creates hidden dependencies on things that can change over the lifetime of the program without those changes being made obvious to clients of that unit of code. Good design nails things down to explicit parameters.
From the other poster, this is from WHO:

"Clinical diagnosis, the most widely used approach, is unreliable because the symptoms of malaria are very non-speciﬁc."

From the last NIH paper I referenced, "Many of malaria's signs and symptoms are indistinguishable from those of other febrile diseases."

Here's a paper from the Lancet about Malaria misdiagnosis:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15555670

From the above: "Effective and affordable treatment is recommended for all cases of malaria within 24 h of the onset of illness. Most cases of "malaria" (ie, fever) are self-diagnosed and most treatments, and deaths, occur at home. The most ethical and cost-effective policy is to ensure that newer drug combinations are only used for true cases of malaria. Although it is cost effective to improve the accuracy of malaria diagnosis, simple, accurate, and inexpensive methods are not widely available, particularly in poor communities where they are most needed."

Additionally people apparently can build up a resistance to the Malaria treatment. See:

http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=78014

“When people are sick in Mali, the doctor will usually tell them they have malaria whether or not they test for it,” said Fatou Faye, an infectious diseases researcher and trainer at a privately funded medical laboratory, the Charles Merieux Centre in Bamako.

“The patients then buy anti-malarial drugs in the street and build up a resistance to treatment.”

As a result, according to research by Dr. Imelda Bates at the Malaria Knowledge Project (MKP), part of the Liverpool University School of Tropical Medicine, this means people miss other causes of feverish illness such as pneumonia and meningitis, which can cause further illness and even death.

Again, I'm not saying your wrong necessarily, but everything I read seems to point to the fact that low-cost accurate Malaria diagnosis would be useful.
Most of the people that play Angry Birds weren't gamers before these type of games came out on smart phones. It is these gamers and others that don't currently play these casual games that will make up the vast majority of game players in the future.
Also most people forget that the typical approach to singletons can yield multiple instances if the application employs multiple classloaders.
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I'm impressed that you got an endorsement from Cave Johnson. It must be nice having friends like that.
This specific group of Anons were really asking for it. I don't like all powerful governments like the next guy but these Anons (like many of the past) act and behave like a group of young rebellious men with nothing to do, who desire to feel powerful by causing trouble and saying it's in the name of justice.

The companies whose servers they broke into now have more of a reason to fear them than the oppressive governments anon was against in the first place. I can talk shit about Obama and Bush all day without worry, they won't hack my site. Speak out against anon...
Great point! To be fair, my audience is mostly the tech types (hence the post to HN), so I expect that those reading this are not the type to leave and become unemployed actors, but very important nonetheless.
They've made multiple mistakes, and handled the fallout of those mistakes badly. "Hating" is a term used by people who want to trivialise legitimate concerns.
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cf. "Reflections on Trusting Trust" - http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
Was using 2.0beta3 of Selenium2 with IphoneDriver for around 4 months and it has been great. The quality was very good that I don't see a need to rush and switch to the actual 2.0 release :P Great work to the team!
Not at all. IIRC, default instantiation mode is one instance per injection.
I would not call this impossible. I would just call it ripe for disruption. Why not remove "idiot" resources and give them to "gifted"? Why not make your whole school "gifted", like they are doing in the follow-on study?

The whole point of this is that the teachers were not special teachers. The students were not special students. But the joint exercise they did was new and interesting. It is more about changing teachers' attitudes and skills than about stratifying resources and kids into gifted and not-gifted.

You might be saying that sea changes are impossible due to entrenched interests in education. I do think some reform there is very important. But I also think that as administrations and states see the benefits for teachers and students, they will start gravitating in this direction.
If you are interested in hooking C from Lua or vice versa: I gave a recent talk on the ways of hooking C code from Lua at Open Source Bridge. The slides and code are here: https://github.com/philips/beaming-up-alien

Sometimes really simple examples can be useful.
I tried to keep this as open-ended as possible, so try and re-frame this as doing anything you love. Maybe you are doing the activity you love, but as you've suggested, perhaps it's not the ideal place. Or maybe you love your job, but you don't love the balance or you've lost the love of the activities you used to enjoy, like sports or camping.

For me, it was just learning to love in general. I needed to remember what it was like to love playing the guitar, to love spending time with my friends, and to love sitting down at the computer and cranking on code I enjoyed. Perhaps doing what you love means working a job that allows you to pursue all of your passions in your spare time. My hope is to share an experience so others don't hit rock bottom before they discover what they love to do in life.
It's pretty, but I'm left wondering why they bothered to launch it without the Google+ "funeral bar" integrated, or whatever you want to call it.

I find these UI refreshes an irksome feature of web software. They tend to appear on a day and time when you're most stressed, horking their newfangled wares with pop-ups that only do harm to the software's usability. Recent examples: the new Facebook chat sidebar abomination, the new Gmail people sidebar.
This seems to be the first company from the 500 Startups accelerator program to be acquired. Other companies from the 500 Startups seed fund have previously been acquired, like BackType and CardMunch.
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I haven't really been following the Dropbox fiasco(s), mostly because I've been so happy over the last year with SpiderOak (https://spideroak.com/). They go out of their way to put you in control of your data. They don't store any passwords whatsoever, encrypt everything, and have a strong zero-knowledge policy.
What wireless router would you use for a party of 100?
If you had a LAN party with a hundred people (100 devices; turn your damn cell phones off wifi) what router would you choose? Assume that you have as much bandwidth as you need from your ISP and you don't want to spend more than $500 (to be specific).