skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also don't understand why people feel the need to use giant text everywhere- that's just as hard/annoying to read as tiny text. I'm with you on all points.
Congrats to the Postgres guys. Even if this is for primarily licensing reasons, pgsql is a solid, powerful database that's easily more powerful than MySQL, and is slowly making gains against Oracle. It's underused, and lacking in name recognition, but hopefully this is the first step towards changing that.
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Images are just signals as a function of 2D space. So you can use the 2d FFT: http://fourier.eng.hmc.edu/e101/lectures/Image_Processing/no...

Another idea to grok: a checkerboard pattern image where every other pixel row and column are alternating full black and full white represents the "highest frequency" image possible at that sample rate (pixel density). This is the 2d equivalent of an alternating sinusoid +1,-1,+1,-1, etc
Study suggests automated web app attacks are on the rise
It seems an easier solution is to just log off your account rather than shut the entire computer down. Unless it can be accessed from the login screen...
Mozilla Prepping Mobile Operating System for the Web
After a period of time, threads no longer offer the option of downvoting comments. I suspect this is in part to prevent systematic targeting of an individual's karma score.
Dear webdesigners: please don't use huge images and CSS3 magic that makes your site ultra slow to scroll.
I thought these guys were anti-censorship?
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Well, nicotine is an anorectic (reduces appetite), and calorie restriction is the most proven life-extension technique known (in rats), so there is the idea that nicotine --> unintentional calorie restriction --> potentially longer lifespan. Nicotine is a lot easier on the body than other anorectics, which sounds like a weird claim but "other anorectics" means nasty things like methamphetamine and fenfluramine; nicotine is a walk in the park by comparison.

The dangers associated with smoking make it an obvious negative, but nicotine itself is not considered carcinogenic.

It remains to be seen if any of those currently experimenting with intentional calorie restriction will achieve similar results to those seen in animal studies; this would be quite impressive if true.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie_restriction#Primates
You cannot downvote:

* replies to your comments, or

* comments on your submissions, or

* comments that are older than some age threshold.

Can you characterize cases where you cannot downvote? Do the above seem to cover them?
Seems like you might just have poor eyesight. Why not simply Ctrl-scrollwheel the text larger instead of going through the trouble to alter the CSS?
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> So why does humor exist? Because it’s our checksum on reality.

Dan Dennett would call it "debugging" [1]. It is interesting to see that in our society we're so inundated with humour that sometimes pointing at something mundane or downright horrible and calling it humour (or laughing at it) is enough to make it humorous indeed (meta-humorous? I don't like that prefix) [2].

But I think the analysis falls short here, because it forgoes addressing the subject of horror. Not repulsion [3], but horror. We entertain horror like we entertain humour. They're both triggered by novelty or breakage [4], they both seem to incite the same checksum/debugging attitude from the audience, they evoke passionate reactions... and yet we perceive them as absolutely opposite to each other.

(One of these days I was being philosophical about why that might be — why humour and horror, while being so similar, are perceived as such opposites — and someone recommended to me a book called Biology of Horror which apparently sets off from that point. I haven't read it. Just passing along the recommendation.)

> Thus, the reason why humor subjectively feels good is probably because when others laugh at your jokes it shows that they respect you as a person and agree with your ideas.

There are studies [5] which indicate that humour even has a role in sexual selection, which to me feels like taking the points made in this article to the extreme. One might among other things measure social fitness in a potential partner by their shared sense of humour: that's amazing.

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_dennett_cute_sexy_sweet_funny.h...

[2] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeadBabyComedy and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-joke

[3] Yours truly, elsewhere in this page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2807137

[4] Concerning this "breakage" of "mental schemata", the law of leaky abstractions comes to mind: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.htm...

[5] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-humor-g...
A contrasting opinion: no sane person would really be moved by his ideas. But no-one wants to be a joke. Humiliating him, and his manifesto is an effective punishment, and maybe even a deterrent.
Not only did you not bother to read the site, your version gives the wrong answer for x=0.
Hardware  -  What is Hardware
The term hardware refers to the physical parts of a computer. These are the objects which possess physical properties. Computer hardware includes the Display Screen, Disk Drives, Chips, Boards, Printe
Wow, so Anonymous has decided to censor and alter something online. They are getting just as bad as the government(s) they claim to be against.
Now translate this directly from the original source.
I realize these aren't direct responses, but here are a couple of interesting historical points.

1. Mind/body dualism also arose in pagan Greece (Plato being the clearest example).

2. When most people think of dualism today, they are thinking of Cartesian dualism where the mind and body have a very tenuous connection indeed. But that is a relatively recent idea. Within the Christian tradition, something like Hylemorphic dualism[1], which maintains a very tight connection between mind and body, long predated it. (Probably due in part to belief in the Resurrection of the Body.)

[1] http://www.reading.ac.uk/AcaDepts/ld/Philos/dso/papers/Hylem...
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Yes, the above do seem to cover them. Looks like I'm able to downvote anything newer than a day old (that also doesn't meet those other criteria). After that, the arrow disappears.
Yes. It doesn't need to be altered for most people to think that it is incredibly stupid.

People who would already tend to agree with his points might either ignore the added "dumb" parts, or just agree with them.
Wait. So their great idea is to give credence to his claims?

The guy was convinced there's an organised Marxist agenda actively working in western society to distort truth and keep its citizens in the dark. This will just vindicate his claims in the eyes of anyone who was willing to buy it.

And lets face it, the originals are going to be around a lot longer than the Anonymous spoofs because these kids are going to get bored and move onto something more interesting by next week/month/whatever. They can't outlast someone festering in hatred for years.

A concerted censorship effort by anyone is the worst thing that can happen to the internet. No matter how righteous you feel your cause (of course everyone feels theirs is). Simply, the only way for wayward ideas to be uprooted is to expose them to the full light of scrutiny. Pushing them into dank corners, veiled by mystery, away from public discourse, will always find fertile ground in minds of individuals on the fringes searching for someone to blame for their woes.

At the very best this is misguided cowardice.
Short version: Apple! Apple! Apple!
Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7 do store clear-text passwords in memory, long after login.
"Since news is accessed only via subscription, most of the ads can be eliminated from the pages. Story pages could still have one or two tastefully-presented ads, but preservation of the content is what will keep readers happy, engaged, and willing to continue paying their subscriptions…just like in olden times."

Rutledge hasn't apparently visited the NYT often and maybe hasn't picked up a newspaper in awhile.

1. Not all of the NYT's traffic is through subscribers: it lets the average user access at least 20 articles a month, and its "paywall" is very permeable.

2. Even when you pay full price for an issue at the stand, that newspaper still comes with ads. Subscriptions have not accounted for the entirety of newspapers and magazines revenues in a while...
Because the methods clearly get more complicated. Starting simply and naively and then improving is a perfectly standard way of teaching.

Articles like these, which provide detailed explanation of the methods involved and results of benchmarks help greatly.
I think you need minimum 2 GB of RAM, ideally 4GB+. More than 4-5 tabs on 1G machine will deteriorate performance very easily.
Is the following reasoning correct? If the standard graviton is massless, it can't decay into r rbar for any particle r (because of momentum conservation). The standard graviton could have a tiny mass, but the low upper bounds on it means that the cross section is too tiny to be observed. RS gets around this because at LHC energies the RS graviton has a larger high-energy effective mass (because of extra dimesions) while still satisfying the low-energy experimental mass limits.
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I'm not saying they don't work hard. I'm just saying that there is a growing list of people whose livelihood depends on the government writing them a check and the government gets its money from taxing citizens and businesses.

If 1.5 out of 5 people are retired, 1 out of 5 people aren't working, and 1 out of 5 people work directly or indirectly for government, that's about 70% of the population surviving because the government writes them a check (probably a bit less-- some retirees actually saved money for retirement).
Am I the only one who can't read this? I find it almost painful to move my eyes from one headline to the next - there is nothing for my mind to anchor to. As a result, I'm just staring blankly at the screen.
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The author's focus on just 2 things, contrast and font, are not only overly simplistic, but are not even universally true for all people. For my eyes, reading high contrast black on white all day causes eye fatigue, while HN level of contrast (and the contrast on my site) causes less fatigue. I have no idea what percentage of people feel that way, but clearly some do.

I am a huge proponent of designing web sites for readability, and discuss my thoughts on optimizing site design for reading here:

http://www.filterjoe.com/2009/03/23/site-design-for-reading/

So many sites have too much clutter or layout problems that using Readable or Readability has become a requirement for me. For anyone not sure which to choose, I reviewed the latest versions of them here:

http://www.filterjoe.com/2011/04/11/web-page-reformatting-se...

I'd be curious for thoughts from HN readers on my own site's readability. It's what I optimized for, though I'm always open to improvement.

EDIT: reorganized, added eye fatigue
I agree, let's start here.

Facts:
Current birth rate among indigenous Europeans in most if not all European countries is and has been below replacement level for a few decades. Most population growth in Europe in the last few decades has been from immigration from outside Europe. The birth rate among non-indigenous Europeans in European countries is higher than indigenous birth rate.

Projections (not fact):
This trend doesn't appear to be changing and it looks like it will continue for many more decades. If the trend continues, in a few decades the genetic makeup of most Europeans will be more similar to that of non-European ethnic groups than to that of people who have lived in Europe for tens of thousands of years.

Arguments (assuming projections are true):

a) the projections above are a bad thing if you are an ethnic European and you predominantly carry genes that split from the ethnic groups of immigrants tens of thousands of years ago.

b) the projections above don't matter

c) the projections above are a good thing

State why the projections are likely to be wrong, debunk argument a) or justify why arguments b/c are correct. Proceed.
Just wanted to let you know that I don't think you're crazy, and I really like the design of your app. Most people are so used to scrolling that to see it unused probably upsets them. And the scroll wheel is easy to use with your finger, but not so much with your eyes to re-adjust. Perhaps you could take advantage of the scroll wheel and when a user scrolls with it, you could flip to the next page or section?
Petter's DIY Segway; not bad for 300 euros ($450)...
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They can be hysterically funny, but dilute the overall impact of the story and be as fun as the bonus DVD. On the other hand, the half-credits sequence is priceless.
Seems to me Twilio is quickly going to become the 37Signals of the Telephony world, and should they continue to play their cards right, they're likely to be a dominant force in a very short space of time. I wish them well and hope that someday soon we can do away with our complex voip infrastructure and move over to theirs.
BET24 warns over data breach – 19 months later
"Oh man! Let's hope nobody notices!"
Now, this design might actually work if they implemented click-dragging for changing pages/sections.
Microsoft, here is a marketing tip: release ideas like this in the winter!...
> Specifically for Usenet I use SABnzbd+, running on one of my Mac Minis, connecting to Giganews, and pulling from NZBs.org or Newzbin

Did he just openly admit to illegally downloading media via Usenet?
Anonymous Strikes Back at Italian Cops with 8 Gigabyte Leak
It's just a user friendly backup service...
Beautiful Eight CSS3 Buttons Experiment With No Images
For example a mobile photo sharing app.
Tiny Australian startup gets 250,000 downloads of its app in just 4 days
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Not seen the website or concept before but i really like it. Its a very good way of opening people up to new apps and whatnot. I'd like to see more tech celebrities on that site.

I too wish it was easier to write on the iPad, and that multi-tasking was an actual possibility.
> It's really a pretty astonishing aspect of FireWire.

Not really. Note that LightPeak/Thunderbolt has the exact same issue. I believe it can be mitigated by the right IOMMU implementation (if the OS takes advantage of the feature).
Yes, a thousand times yes. Even worse are those who use

-webkit-text-stroke: 1px transparent;

which absolutely _kills_ scrolling performance.
With good reason. If I read white on black for more than 5 minutes, whenever I look away there are negative lines floating across my vision.
Sorry, I didn't have a place to host it at first, but then a friend told me about github pages, so I actually have a working demo here: http://adrianrodriguez.github.com

Also, the font is just an example, you can use any font you wish.
I'd argue that the common view that our mind is somehow independent from our body is probably wrong, and a judeo-christian falsity

Historically, the idea was present in Greece, certainly in the writings of Plato, before Christianity. The ancient Hebraic idea, reflected in early Christian writings, was much more that the mind and body were intimately linked. But Platonic dualism taking over in Christianity is an example of one meme outcompeting another.
Sorry if it feels like I stole your name. I definitely didn't think there was a repo named Push It for css buttons.
I thought the most interesting part was his wish list at the end.

"I wish my MacBook had built-in 3G capabilities, I wish it was easier to type on my iPad, I wish Chrome was a better browser, I wish SABnzbd+ was smart enough to not re-download files, I wish my iPhone was faster, I wish I didn’t need a dongle to do a presentation with my MacBook, I wish Boxee didn’t crash so much, I wish my car accepted audio input, I wish Dropbox could backup my Google Docs and Mail."
Hmm, doesn't Microsoft's PowerShell do this? (Chain programs together, where the transport is flattened C# objects).

It's a cool idea. Though with vanilla text you can work with partial output (imagine having to buffer something huge and useless until some marshaling layer coughs up the whole object -- with text, you don't always need to wait for everything to come across to start processing).
One they missed: (x & -x) == x
HTC is braced for Apple smartphone patent war
Users want to see the people in the stories, not the people writing them.

Truthfully I hope this is a case where media people aren't giving enough credit to their audience (as opposed to a case where I'm just a minority - though I suspect this is more the case).

I mean, in a story, sure, pictures can be great. But when deciding which story to read, e.g. when reading a list of headlines, I surely can't be the only one with a long enough attention span to actually read the headlines and decide based on what the story is, without needing a small picture to draw me in?
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Yes. Their great idea is to give credence to his claims. And an audience.

Don't forget that an Anonymous was one of the forces behind the Streisand effect of Tom Cruise's Scientology video. They know exactly what they're doing.
http://whatportis.com - fairly simple little project, need to remove some of the Ajax and add content to get it more search engine friendly, however makes $xxx/pm as it is.
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Pretty good, but:

"I wish Chrome was a better browser"

John can you elaborate on this?
> Given that FireWire gives you direct, unsecured access to memory

FireWire asks for it, but in recent years CPUs have started implementing IOMMUs, which should be useable to "lie" to devices and sandbox DMA'd memory, preventing full memory access to even low level busses (such as FireWire or Thunderbolt)
That's true, this has been done a thousand times, but I wanted to see how well I can do it and improve it in any way possible. Thanks for at least checking it out. :)
Perhaps the enclosure could be separated from the room (much like an underground water boiler) and a valve could be used to switch between seasons.

My main problem with the study is that they probably didn't factor in overhead costs. Once the finances make sense — if they ever do — you can probably bet on some kind of success. Corporations are one track minded and will follow the bottom line. The tricky part will be changing consumer behavior.
We have the technnology and know-how to significantly increase life expectancy and to do research to make it even better

For what value of "significantly"? And at what cost, in a world in which many people live on five dollars a day or less?
Let's go back to the post Dove was replying to, for context. There are many people who would happily grant the abovementioned rights to all, while still considering a subset of the population somehow less inherently able. The parent comment was talking about one type of equality, Dove another (why?), me again the first, you again the second, and then you tell us twice that we're not getting it.
It uses them, too. For convenience's sake (because everything else is locked under other passwords) I use the same usernames/passwords for my local machines, and without prompting me my new Mini was able to access SMB shares on other machines. I'm not terribly worried about it because this password is unique to local logins on my own network, but it was a little unnerving.
The article also mentions that truecrypt passphrases can be recovered this way. Is this true? This would seem like a very major security oversight for software whose main focus is security.
There is also an entry with RMS http://richard.stallman.usesthis.com/

I wonder if he is still browsing the web with wget.
While I disagree with most or all of his political opinions, I wouldn't necessarily call them inappropriate. I find it strange that he consistently chooses to combine business and politics, but it's his company so it's really not my problem. Maybe it works really well for him.
Imagine, if you will, that you have a computing furnace. When you turn it on, it makes itself available to the cloud. You receive credit for the cycles used, enough to pay for the electricity it consumes. On hot days, you turn it off.

This seems very much like having your own windmill connected to the grid. In the case of computing furnaces, there would be more capacity in the winter and at night. But at some point when bandwidth and hardware become cheap enough, these would be feasible even if they don't run 24/7/365.
Anyone any idea what version they're using?
Rails 3.1.0 to be released on 22nd August
Gleebox doesnt work w/ the new version...anyone has the same problem?
Testing the waters?

Right now the G+ team is doing a lot of listening to the users and modifying the app in accordance as they go along, but make no mistake that the true purpose of the app is to copy all of Fb's functionality, clean it up and serve it to the user in the broader context of Google's ecosystem. I wouldn't be surprised if they launched a 140-character service next week.
I'd be curious for thoughts from HN readers on my own site's readability.

Looking at:

http://www.filterjoe.com/2009/03/23/site-design-for-reading/

I find the comments and list items (within an item) need more line height for comfortable web reading. Body paragraph line height seems fine.
Ask HN: How can I get more likes on our FB page?
Hi, we're looking to launch our startup Super Owl soon and in the meantime have an interesting blog, twitter and FB page.

Does anyone have any good ideas on how to make more people aware of these - I don't want to do spammy weird stuff.... I want to actually reach people who would be interested in the service that we're building, which is "the best audio stories sent to you each week" - initially as an iPhone app.

I have started a rather fun and cute campaign to on FB (http://www.facebook.com/TheSuperOwl) which states that we'll adopt a barn owl once we reach 100 likes (useful for us and helps a little owl out too!) - it's taking longer than I thought... although it is still early days.

Super Owl is for 30+ year old urban professional commuters who are into editorial content - The New Scientist, The Economist, The NewYorker, TEDtalks etc.

Any ideas and tips are really welcome.

Thanks!
Why would that bit of the license be a problem? (real question, no snark involved)

Apple's version of MySQL on Snow Leopard was GPL and distributed on Apple's own website : http://www.opensource.apple.com/release/mac-os-x-1068/

Postgres' source on Lion is now available at : http://www.opensource.apple.com/release/mac-os-x-107/
No, just like saying you like µTorrent doesn't implicate you for piracy.
Totally, absolutely agree. Apple's website actually forces antialiased text through that CSS rule. I wrote a userstyle to force it back to how it should look.
Unfortunately this doesn't work for x=0.