skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since nobody else has directly brought this up so far: our perceptions are strongly distorted by our environment. If you tend to spend a lot of time at the computer, you will tend to think that everyone else spends a lot of time at the computer.

I live in a semi-rural area (Grass Valley, CA; local population approximately 25,000). Here, the neighborhood kids get together on my street and play outside. On the weekends in the Summer, the local highways have boats on trailers, headed out to the various local lakes for the day. The locals that don't have a boat all congregate at one of the various local rivers during the Summer, and hang out with their dogs off their leashes and chat with each-other and jump off of cliffs into questionable landing areas.

I needed to get away for a bit last weekend, so some friends and I went hiking deep in the mountains and bagged some 8,000-foot buttes while we were there. Along the way, we met a bunch of other people out having fun too, including a small, but full, campground of folks. Here, there are farmers' markets somewhere almost every day, and big street events downtown. There seems to be a kind of informal local contest to see who can put on the biggest events. Last weekend, while I was out hiking, we had the brew fest (which is usually a pretty big attraction), and the "Miner's Picnic", which also gets a good draw.

I have a couple of tickets to go and see a local production of "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead". I'm trying to improve my juggling skills, so I hang out with some locals for a "circus jam" in one of the local parks every Sunday afternoon. On Tuesdays and Fridays I get together with some older friends and we play Go for a few hours at one of the various cafes. My girlfriend goes out to various places throughout the week and sets up her massage chair and offers $1/minute massage to interested people.

Yes, there are people here who spend a lot of time behind computers. I'm one of them. There are kids who spend a lot of time playing video games. I've met some of them. But, that's not the whole picture, and I know it's not, because I go out and participate in and experience everything else that's going on here.

I've also seen these dichotomies-of-community in lots of other places, too: San Diego, the East Bay, Seattle.

If you feel like other people are spending too much time in the virtual world, or that the virtual world is overtaking the physical one, or that experiences are being cheapened somehow, or that there's too much fear among people ... you need to get out more. :-)
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Gathering skill will take time, so for that read up on the sources often linked here. But to get your apps looking less than fugly asap, just copy others. Buy some cheap wordpress themes, view source, rip them apart to pick and choose individual elements. Copy the CSS from the best designed sites out there.

Initially it will feel like you're cheating, but over time you will learn the patterns and develop your own style.

EDIT: This couldn't have arrived at a better time - https://postgres.heroku.com. Just look at that beautiful design. A lot to be learnt (and copied!) there.
1) G4 Cube.

2) Using a MO drive on the first NeXT box.
Ah, I missed you by 8 hours in posting this.
More than one billion birds die a year from building strikes.

1,000,000,000 birds. I hope that puts "green" technology's impact in perspective.

http://www.fws.gov/birds/mortality-fact-sheet.pdf

http://www.birdsandbuildings.org/index.html

And that's just in the US.
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I can not see Video uploads on Facebook since morning (India time) - something wrong ?
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I happen to know that they do this at the Linguistics Data Consortium (http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/), at least with cable news shows. They mostly do that to obtain data for languages with more minimal resources though, and for the purposes of transcription, not for speech recognition qua engineering research. The real issue though is the research community is interested in increasing the accuracy of recognizers on standard datasets by developing better models, not increasing accuracy per se. Having used more data isn't publishable. Further, in terms of real gains, the data is sparse (power law distributed), and so we need more than just a constant increase in the amount of data. This issue is general to any machine-learning scenario but is particularly pronounced in anything built on language.

Some related papers ~
Moore R K. 'There's no data like more data (but when will enough be enough?)', Proc. Inst. of Acoustics Workshop on Innovation in Speech Processing, IoA Proceedings vol.23, pt.3, pp.19-26, Stratford-upon-Avon, 2-3 April (2001).
Charles Yang. Who's afraid of George Kingsley Zipf? Ms., University of Pennsylvania. http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~ycharles/papers/zipfnew.pdf
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Given that PLoS is only 8 years old, I think it's too soon to draw any meaningful conclusions from the fact that the open access movement "has failed to displace the monopolists". I think more important is that the trends are moving in the right direction: some high profile journals (like PNAS) have an open access publishing option, and it's unusual for new journals (at least in biology) not to be open access [1][2]. We aren't where we could be 20 years into the World Wide Web, but we're getting there.

[1] http://www.hhmi.org/news/20110627.html
[2] http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-06/gsoa-gln06211...
I remember the Bad Religion song "10 in 2010". I guess population growth has been slowing down.
Show HN: Do you really know what your friends want?
o	We are building an online shopping tool that can help you do that:
	When you want to give someone a gift, the software helps you find out what the person wants and helps you buy the items that fit in your budget
	Finds the best deal for things you are buying / want to buy. It is not a list of sellers / deals like in a price comparison site. Rather it gives you
	one Recommended option based on price, merchant ratings and feedback from your social circle
	the absolute lowest priced deal – including coupons
	If you do not like either of these, then you can see 2 more options available to you
How does it work?
	You install a browser plug in / toolbar from our website
	The toolbar creates your personal shopping cart that always stays with you. You can add items to it, modify or delete the items. It is different from the shopping cart you see at a retailer like Amazon. You can only add items that are sold by Amazon to your Amazon shopping cart.
	With the personal shopping cart, items that you add stay there till you remove them so you can go back and buy them whenever you want without having to search for it again.
	The software allows you to pull in your friends and select who you want to give gifts, budget and when
	Software will look into your friends shopping cart, find out which items are shared with you, then go and check prices to see which ones fit your budget.
	The software will monitor these items for deals and show you deals on up to 3 items every day
	Whenever you want to purchase any item in your personal cart or a gift for the friend that the toolbar found, just click on the Buy button next to it and you will be transferred to the retailer’s site for purchase
Manufacturing a Recovery (by MIT president Susan Hockfield)
So when does academic publishing get disrupted?
Are you saying that because I didn't set the date field as my primary key, it crashed?
I just CMD+Q to quit it (on OSX) which as far as I know does in fact close it properly. In any case I make sure to close programs I do not use.
David, I hope you'll forgive me for asking questions before I'm done
reading the draft, but I'm curious about one thing. Are there any known
effects on client-side caching? I can't think of any, but the rise in
high latency links on the last hop (particularly mobile, but to a
lesser degree WiMax, satellite, ...) is one of the places where
client-side caching (including dns caching) can make a big difference.

If you've ever seen the painfully common DNS issues on Verizon Wireless,
you'd know why I'm asking. ;)
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A quick search on uspto.gov shows Inkling, Inc. abandoned their trademark filing from 2006? If so, Inkling.com had every right to reclaim the mark.
What makes this hilarious?
Is that the same pud that did fuckedconpany? It was a hilarious site where people made fun of over valued companies during the first boom. Unfotunately the site eventually became overrun by nazis (not kidding) and had to be shut down.
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If jamming becomes common, it would take very little time for drones to be modified to be autonomous, or to follow a predetermined flight path if they lose contact with the controller. It might be effective now, and it gets points for being fairly easy to implement, but it's not going to be effective for long.
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Help Ink is a collaborative project which uses the sale of premium and exclusive screen prints to help charities in a really cool way. Each time someone buys a poster, they will simultaneously choose a charity which they would like their purchase to support.

I'd love some feedback on the site! Thanks!
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http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/ConnectionAd...

create_table(:categories_suppliers, :id => false) do |t|
t.column :category_id, :integer
t.column :supplier_id, :integer
end

I did this and indexed the table by date, and it works for everything except saving a record. Like I said, an ID/primary key is required though that section of the documentation implies that an ID is optional.
I think the phrase "target web service" from the article is misleading. This is about passing part of the client's IP address to the authoritative nameserver for the for the target web service. From my understanding the following is an example- Let's say I'm on the east coast, I'm using Google DNS on the west coast as my DNS server, and I want to load foo.edgecast.com. foo.edgecast.com has two servers, one on the east coast and one on the west coast. When I perform a lookup for foo.edgecast.com I talk to Google's recursive resolver which then talks to Edgecast's authoritative nameserver. Without EDNS edgecast doesn't get any information about me; it just knows the request came from Google on the west coast, so it gives out the IP address of their west coast server. With EDNS, Edgecast's gets enough of my IP address from Google to know that I'm on the east coast, so it gives out their east coast server's IP address.
"Of course that wouldn't help with autonomous drones, but those are still a ways off."

I can assure you that those are not a long way off. Fully autonomous drones can be deployed today by anyone with a few hundred dollars and a little electronic skills.

http://diydrones.com
http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/Main_Page

For someone with a few thousand dollars, there's more options and higher quality autopilots in the commercial market.
> We're only sending the edns-option to authoritative nameservers who also handle the HTTP request

Authoritative nameservers handling http requests? Mine certainly don't.

Or did you mean to say that you only send edns-option to the server that is authoritative for the domain being requested?
Several of these: http://adhdinc.com and http://pud.com
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I don't get it. Would anyone argue that you couldn't launch successful sites this way? Tools are made to improve the process and enable new possibilities; that's why use good tools.
Diebold, the company famous for making horrendously engineered voting machines, also makes all of the (completely awesome) ATMs for the bank I use. It was a little unnerving at first, but I came to the conclusion that it's not that bad.

The big reason: regulation. The banking industry, as with the health care industry, is highly regulated. The election industry is not, because no one's really been making them until recently.
Trademark is broken down into classes of goods and services. You can have multiple companies having the same trademark name in different classes. Check http://uspto.gov for details.
I have respect for people that can deliver, regardless of what they use. The allure of cool tech is strong but tech doesn't make products: people do.

I cannot see what is wrong with your using plain PHP if you can get the job done faster (as long as you avoid things that make exploits easy, such as raw mysql db functions). When the time for a framework comes, you'll know.

Stop worrying about what others think and good luck!
I didn't say anything about coal. I think the winner on the net is not-insane nuclear. ("Not-insane" would entail things like not having a lot of nuclear waste because we pretty much already know how to fix it, we just aren't allowed to.)
...without...

...petrochemical insecticides...

Organic (CNHO) chemicals aren't in the slightest dependent on petroleum, it is only a passing quirk of the early 21st-century economy that oil and natural gas byproducts are the most common chemical feedstocks. CNHO atoms are everywhere on earth, and they're not going anywhere (mass doesn't leave the earth, for the most part). Basic organic chemistry building-blocks, e.g. ethylene, are not much more difficult to obtain from biological matter (e.g. ethanol) than from oil/gas. Organic chemistry -- insecticides, plastics, pharma, what have you -- isn't going anywhere, and this is all a silly misunderstanding from confused Malthusians.

...aquifers...

...artificial irrigation...

There's no theoretical limit to artificial irrigation (well there is, but it's ludicrous). In refutation: nuclear or solar powered ocean desalination plants, with aqueducts, large pipes, or underground canals piping freshwater inland -- thousands of miles if need be. Elementary, existing technology, and I think not too far from economic feasibility even today. Desalination is already economic (if not directly competitive with natural freshwater sources, when they are available) -- lots of it in the Middle East, Southeast Asia. Aqueducts are ancient technology.

...phosphorus fertilizers...

Nothing stopping us from recycling phosphorus -- it's not like we're flinging it off the earth into space. The whole earth is a closed cycle for chemicals -- water, CNOH, trace minerals, all of them sustainable. Since the issue is framed as "maximum theoretical", well, in the limit we can ion-exchange phosphorus out of the seas -- the ultimate repository for "used" phosphorus. (Although in the nearer term there's more simple resolutions, like preventing runoff waste, recovery from sewers/rivers, mining new types of phosphorus minerals, etc.)

But the green revolution is totally unsustainable.

Ignorance is totally unsustainable. Please conserve.
This looks cool, but I wish it were http://socket.io compatible
Conventional turbines are already near the Betz limit - no room for tripling their efficiency. There's potential to reduce the amount of material required (e.g. kite-based systems like those proposed by Makani), but this design doesn't look like it will deliver that. So something is probably wrong with the reporting here, to say nothing of the fluff written around the story (deploying 2.6M giant steel structures without causing any deaths?). So how the heck did it get 125 points?
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Cool, thanks!

How do you edit the Cold Fusion?
Wow, DigiNotar is insane if they really think that.

The fact that they said that makes me trust them even less.
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Sustainable and the meaning of "deal with" are indeed loaded concepts. Some people would say 1 billon or less, others at least 15 billon at first world standards of living.

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/

I think demographic projections say world pop will peak in the ballpark of 10 billion (for a while, anyway).
key conclusions:

A new era of advanced manufacturing also requires more graduates with greater
proficiency in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

The prospect of good manufacturing jobs in the United States is not a
fantasy. Germany and Japan enjoy high wages and run major surpluses
in manufactured goods; so can we.

Our economy will thrive only when we make what we invent.
It depends on your background (CS and math are very very useful) and which track you're going for (standard vs advanced). I believe Norvig & Russell's textbook is being used for the class, which is the standard for AI classes at universities and a FANTASTIC textbook. If you skim through it, you can get an idea. I took a similar class in grad school with the same text (I'm a CS major) and sometimes spent 2 hours in a week...sometimes 15. It depends on what you're good at and how much detail they go into.
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Yes! Thanks, what a guess. That's exactly the one, great book.
Burger, you're saying something different than the OP (and hence, different than what tghw was criticizing). In "all probability" the location won't be China or India, as those two countries alone don't represent a substantial majority of births.

So your point that those two have the highest birth rate isn't responsive to tghw's point that those two alone don't represent the majority of new births. So if we had to bet on "one country", a person would pick one of those two. But when we're betting "India/China or somewhere else?" the smart money is on "somewhere else".
1) Why does everybody makes the assumption that people only want to download the song that is playing on the radio all the time? That is a huge misconception with no basis. In fact, those who download music [to use your example] from so called warez/pirate sources in large amounts, are usually more interested in music and more curious about the rest of the tracks than the average radio listener.
Also having 'what they want' it's a mirage if we talk about services like itunes, spotify, etc. A source of content controlled by a commercial entity will never be able to deliver the variety of content that can be found in the wild, the very nature of the concept of 'commercial service' imposes this constraint.
I myself was about to sign up for a spotify account when I checked out their catalog and find less than 50% of the music I was looking for. Not that I was surprised.

2)More convenient? For dumb users maybe... for the old school user that like to simply have his/her mp3 collection, I fail to see how itunes is more convenient than say bittorrent, let alone 1-click file hosting.
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> This doesn't change the fact that legislation would still take on a majoritarian tone.

It's not clear that this is substantially worse that legislation written for/by lobbyists.

The current process is thoroughly corrupt.
Energy production is one of the purest of the wealth producers. If the energy producer can't break even on their own strength, then needing government subsidy (especially indefinitely) is all but a mathematical proof that the subsidized energy production method is a net loss to society as a whole; were it not, they would be profitable and not need the subsidy. See also corn-based ethanol.

Yes, I am aware of subsidizing R&D but that has diminishing returns too, and given the amount already poured in around the world and the rather dismal returns, I'm underwhelmed by the proposition that pouring even more in will turn things around. You can always claim that if you just keep pouring the money in it'll all turn around; it's a null argument when it comes down to it. (We'd almost certainly be better off pouring equal funds into getting nuclear going instead.)
So, who would be interested in brainstorming about an open scientific portal with peer-reviewed OpenAccess papers? One could integrate all the well-known crowd sourcing mechanisms, e.g. accumulating papers around a specific topic or even certain question, and make things more lucid than they are now.

I have been very interested in discussing this possibility for a while. If others are interested (leave a comment), I will set up a mailing list. Or leave a comment with a link to the portal I have missed in case one exists.
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Agreed. It's very easy to learn by example, and with all the great CSS frameworks out there you won't need Photoshop to produce good-looking widgets. A lot of my early designs were based on ideas from this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Web-Designers-Idea-Book-Vol/dp/1600619...
I don't hang out with a lot of programmers and I guess this is the reason. This "laughing" the op alludes to. This endless discussion of what language or back end is the best. I find it impossible to talk about programming with people who would rather indoctrinate me on the benefits of their chosen language than talk about, say, data structures. It's like arguing about what colour is the best. It's pointless.

So big ups to pud for his post and his peculiar stack. In its own way, it's a very cool and imaginative stack. And it works, which I think is the only thing that matters in the end.
If you want recompression without quality loss, try jpgcrush: http://akuvian.org/src/jpgcrush.tar.gz

It does some quite evil things with progressive Huffman coding that most people didn't even realize was possible.
That would be an actual representative government. A good way,logical and efficient and there are others. None of which will ever happen because government cannot be representative, no one will give anything up and inequality cannot be represented. You know the saying, if voting changed anything they'd outlaw it. We don't need a better way to communicate individually with our governors, we need better minds holding power.
"Just as guns don’t kill people, ORMs don’t kill databases. Developers do."

Guns do not kill people but, they sure do facilitate killing, don't they?
Doesn't "Exploiting the System" capture the same idea? I think basically what people are doing here is understanding the core weakness that is intrinsic to the system(which probably is not perfect) and using(abusing) it to their advantage.
A little library I put together over the weekend for MailChimp's new OAuth2 offering. Lets your users authenticate against MailChimp and you get back their credintials so you can create a user or whatever.

Super-simple but it works.

Demo app here: https://github.com/kennethlove/Django-MailChimp-OAuth2
As long as Xeround sticks around and does what they say they can do, I’ll never have to worry about scaling my database

Never heard of that database/company before so I clicked on the link out of curiosity and guess what, their server is down. Not very reassuring for an "infinitely scalable solution".
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I'm not touching that thing. I hope there is a supplemental app that you can download to your phone instead. Yes, I realize menus would have germs on them too, but this seems like the kind of thing 3-year-olds would be given to salivate on to keep them occupied.
clarified language.
Irrigation always builds up salt in the soil. Areas of California are falling out of production for this reason, after a good 100 year run. Irrigation is what turned much of the middle east into desert.

The rest of your points I guess boil down to needing infinite cheap energy. Anything's possible with massive amounts of free power, I suppose. I wouldn't bet on it.