skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AA and NA do not work. Failure rates are 95%, same as spontaneous remission. But there is an added increase in suicide of upwards of 28%.

As cliché as it seems, AA and NA are cults of indoctrination and trample our Bill of Rights as they can and often are court mandated.
Declare, by Tim Powers. Very well-written and convincing, considering the subject matter (a spy thriller with elements of horror).
Animal Liberation by Peter Singer

Peter Singer introduced and popularized the term "speciesism" in the book that is often referred to as the bible of the animal rights movement.
Computer assisted design (CAD) for RNA
GoDaddy has responded to the allegations from namecheap at TechChrunch, saying that the blocks were part of standard practice to limit the volume of Whois queries from a single IP, which is apparently common practice, unless the registrar is notified that there may be a large number of queries. [1]

If this is indeed true, then it seems namecheap are trying to score cheap PR points, although they have responded saying they attempted to reach out to GoDaddy.[2]

I'm inclined to believe that namecheap did try to reach them, although I'm not sure that they are above trying to slam more bad press onto GoDaddy....

[1]
http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/26/godaddy-responds-to-nameche...

[2]
http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/12/26/godaddy-trans...
Google Releases Mac Management Tools
Oh. 28. He really wasted the best part of his life on the CMS...</sarcasm> (But I suppose, life ends at 30 for many here, given the spin many VCs try to put on entrepreneurship)
I met a guy at a party recently, and after some discussion it transpired that he was a Perl developer, and he and his partner sold a Perl-based product they'd been building for 10 years.

And yet ... there was no involvement in the Perl community. No Moose, no Catalyst, no DBIx::Class, no Plack.

Almost puts me in mind to discussions of GNU/Linux. How much of a user's experience is the GNU tools, and how much the Linux kernel and layout?

When I say I'm a Perl programmer, Perl the language is fun and expressive, and I enjoy using it, but what makes it suitable for large, difficult problems as well as quick hacks is CPAN. Maybe we should stop talking about Perl, and start talking about CPAN/Perl?
The year of the linux desktop
OK, thanks for feedback, so a more correct way to answer this question would be...

Gnome 3 is a set of libraries that provides a desktop environment including Gnome Shell, the default GUI supplied by Gnome that uses the mutter window manager. Fedora 16 live CD provides an example of a 'standard' Gnome 3/Gnome shell environment. {needs a sentence on indicators/notifications}

Ubuntu 11.10 onwards are releasing a subset of the Gnome 3 packages with their own graphical shell called Unity, which uses the compiz windows manager. Unity packages also add a different indicator system for notifications. Gnome Shell and Gnome Shell Session can be installed on Ubuntu which provide the full Gnome environment as an alternative when logging in.

Is that closer to the truth? I need some words to describe this accurately as I'm writing about this stuff. Any publicly accessible roadmap for Gnome Shell would help, I think everyone on this forum accepts that Gnome 3 and Unity are works in progress and I certainly look forward to future iterations.
This is probably my favourite novel and Jean Valjean my favourite fictional hero.
Yes. I noticed it after I had missed my edit window.
Oh I understand the physics of it and why it's harder to grasp the concept on earth with gravity and friction.

But stop and think about it - the universe is like some kind of infinite iced-over pond where something will keep going and going and going once given momentum.

I mean in space it's sliding endlessly across "nothingness" - doesn't that kinda freak you out when you really think about it?
TV Prices Fall, Squeezing Most Makers and Sellers
From their performance page [0]:

POWER: 1088 hp
MOTOR TORQUE: 3.800 Nm

BATTERY CAPACITY: 92 kWh
RANGE: 600 km

ACCELERATION 0-100 kph: 2,8 sec.
TOP SPEED: 305 kph

The battery capacity for the Tesla Roadster is 53kWh, weights 450kg and is advertised to last 350km on a charge (and Roadster's world record at 500km). 92x350/53 magically gives us 600km. It also gives us a little short of 800kg of batteries (although they're LiPo instead of Li-ion as in the Roadster, but that should not change the weight much) and the x-ray renderings indeed show batteries take a good deal of the volume of the car. Note that weight, critical for a sports car, is not mentioned. The complete car will probably end up around 2t, and with 1000hp this makes a contender for Veyron class cars.

For reference the one in Model S is 42kWh and the Nissan Leaf has a 24kWh unit. This is expected given the audience, which requires a practical car, so volume has to be surrendered by the batteries to the passengers and the boot.

All in all it's not groundbreaking by any stretch of the imagination and you can safely "meh" the GP on the distance-on-a-charge ground. By saying so I'm not downplaying the most important fact here and that's each one of those cars show a nascent market expanding both ends, and I'm looking forward to that.

[0] http://www.rimac-automobili.com/concept_one/performance-10
Professionally, The Art of Project Management did the most for me.

Privately, general-fiction-wise, The Wind-up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami did the most for me.

Privately, SF-wise, three books by Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-five and The Sirens of Titan
Apple Fined $1.2m by Italian Antitrust Authority
Schmidt Discusses Google's Competitors and More
iPhone 5 I guess. New MacBooks.
I am loving this thread. There are so many wonderful suggestions.

My personal additions (though I know they are not obscure):

Down and Out in Disneyland - Cory Doctorow (This was gifted by a friend and really inspired me to make some significant changes in my life. That includes the decision to learn to code and escape the user end of the spectrum.)

Procrastination- Jane B. Burka , Lenora M. Yuen (This book has fundamentally altered my introspective conclusions. That is to say, I am now more aware of times when I am procrastinating and the impact it has on my life.)

This year was a great year for reading and I hope to read even more next year.
What would be binary data? The only possible thing I could think of would be the timestamp. Everything else would most likely be text, ASCII for English speakers, UTF-8 otherwise.
Apple to Build TV Sets in Q1 For Release by Q3 2012
Mine are :

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, I just love this book!

Greatest Trade Ever by Gregory Zuckerman.

And I read manga , so include One Piece as well :D
Yep. For all its faults, that book has changed my life. For the sole reason that it convinced me to try slow-carb dieting. That led to reading more about low-carb diets, and from there to (so far) sustainable weight loss.
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The only thing that killed the Fire for me (and sadly I now own one, got it as a gift), is they reneged on their 1 year of Amazon Prime free deal. Now, you only get a month.

Screw that, the tablet is next to useless without Prime unless you like buying movies/tv shows that are DRMed up.

Also, why the hell does it have stereo speakers that are only on the left side of the device in landscape orientation? What use is stereo in portrait?

And on top of that, mine was shipped from Amazon with a defective LCD and now I have to deal with that.

Honestly, I am not impressed.
Well, technically, the POSIX standard specifies that "After a write() to a regular file has successfully returned: ... Any successful read() from each byte position in the file that was modified by that write shall return the data specified by the write() for that position until such byte positions are again modified."

How well any given operating system implements this and whether it properly considers all the aspects of multiple processes writing/reading to the same file is anybody's guess. Linux /should/ do it correctly, but as I recall, SQLite had some related issues with shared files on OS X a few years ago.
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Code by Charles Petzold. It's made me think about computers in another light. AND to be amazed at how simple things (input/output, on/off) can add up to really big and complex systems.
The Windows Phone Problem In Three Words: Way Too Late
Even if people notice, it would be too late. Look at the patent issue. Everyone knows how fucked up the situation is. But since its already there, moving it is too hard.
Audio book for Tim Sanders, the Likeability Factor.

http://timsanders.com/books/likeability-factor.html

I listened to this twice, and applied everything he said to do in my life. I went from a lonely programmer to an extrovert in 18 months. He put Extroversion into words a programmer can understand, as lists of instructions. Now i have so many friends I have to prioritize time with them.
So did you not do any work on marketing Pinboard in 2011 or is this a list of only the technical stuff? I know your blogging is some indirect marketing but I'm wondering what else you did to get more users in 2011.
Yeah, I tweet it and post a subset (maybe 1 in 5) to HN if I think it's good and relevant to most people.

I haven't really dug into RSS metrics, but you get those in realtime via feedburner, so that could be another valid source.
Android will gain more market and still struggles to make more money than iOS.

I'll start my startup and still continue reading HN :D
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It isn't a proper book, but Eliezer Yudkowsky's Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality was incredible. Don't judge it by the fact that it is a fanfic.
Unmasking the Mars Face with High-Resolution Images and 3D Altimetry
Imran’s Tsunami turns into inexorable threat for traditional politicians
Don't forget InTrade.

http://www.intrade.com/v4/home/
Why it's important to respect your customers
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Shop Class as Soulcraft - Matthew B. Crawford (2009) Non-fiction

This will resonate well with people who enjoy working with their hands. It also has some pretty entertaining anecdotes from the author's personal life, but it's not overly autobiographical. I personally found this one interesting because I've had some similar experiences in life-working on (and driving) an old Volkswagen as a first car, working in the trades, going to college, getting a desk job, and now, thinking perhaps that a desk job isn't for me, as he realized.
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There is no privacy policy. Your company website is void of any information. I have no idea who you are, where you are and how you finance yourself. While I should not trust you any more if those things were fixed, I probably would.

Make sure you put the information about why what permission is required on the market page.
Wanna get iPhone applications, why don't you try your own
Is Video the New Software?
And I read Pnin - Pale Fire's next!
Crackpot, because I couldn't go through the first page with a straight face. It is attacking science for lacking rigor (why not, depending on your standards and the field) and ignoring a momentous event, then proceeds to put forth an explanation that is not rigorous at all (cultural arguments do not support neuroscience jargon).
My data is in the Stratfor dump – Everyone calm down, please.
GoDaddy Continues to Suffer for SOPA Support
> "Adding insult to injury, it’s an extremely simple and ugly unlock-gesture, just the sweep of a mono-color bar from right to left." Since when is a function being simple a problem?

The author is not arguing against the simplicity of the unlock gesture itself, he's arguing that the simplicity of the gesture makes its screwed-up-ness absolutely inexcusable. Or so I read it.
This is an interesting thought applied to all content, not just video. Look at Rovio. They are easily the most profitable/successful game company at least when measured in terms of games to revenue. They leveraged a simple bit of software into a sprawling product empire. Cheezburger inc is another great example of this trend. Definitely not the new software, but also not something to be ignored.
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Seconded. The last few chapters were unsatisfying to me, but overall a really fun read that does a good job of tying together a bunch of different threads of science around information theory.
Can you give an example of the exactly matching wrong data? I'd love to fix it myself but can only fix it if I know where the problem is.
Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa. Highly recommended for anyone who has discipline problems, it is really inspiring, one of the top 3 books I've read. It tells the history of the real samurai named Miyamoto Musashi.
The art/craft/commodity continuum
Hey, I'm sure Twilight has novelty value. You could appreciate the parodies with a new depth.
Vyvanse needs to go through the gut to be converted to its active form, which means that injecting it or crushing it and snorting it does nothing. This is intended to prevent abuse, but it does nothing extra for the user.
> The company, which sells its products with a one year warranty, is required under EU law to protect buyers with a minimum of two years protection on all consumer electronics

I've never heard of such a law (which admittedly doesn't by itself make it nonexistent), and about every single consumer electronic device out there in France is sold with a one-year warranty, and every electronic retailer out there (Fnac, Darty...) sells warranty extensions from the original one year to mostly three years (sometimes two, four or five years).
Lot of images and lot of amateurs will produce lot of charismatic false positives that will be hard to kill, like the Mars "Face": http://www.google.com.ar/search?&q=mars+face&tbm=isc...
I thoroughly enjoyed Iain M. Banks 'Culture' novels [1] (sci-fi), in particular 'Surface Detail', 'Matter' and 'The Player of Games'.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture
Even forgoing the other comments on the number of universes/galaxies/stars/planets in existence, how do you reach this hypothesis given that you have only one example of evolution to draw inferences from. The entire train of thought is derailed that the only reliable information we have on evolutionary systems is our own system and, using this information, we can only conclude that every planet on which we have found microbial life we have also found sapient life.
Re-read a classic fiction, Treasure Island by Stephenson.

Of the non-fiction I read, and completed, this year, Endurance: Shackelton's Incredible Voyage by Lansing.
It must be possible to build a great 7-inch tablet
You need to read it in a context where there is nothing else to do, and you can leisurely let your thoughts move between the book and your life.

Read in this way, the book can act as a catalyst for meditative insights -- overlooked possibilities, bigger pictures, new roles and options, and alternative directions for the future.
- read SMS or MMS
Allows application to read SMS messages stored on your device or SIM card. Malicious applications may read your confidential messages.

- receive SMS
Allows application to receive and process SMS messages. Malicious applications may monitor your messages or delete them without showing them to you.

- read contact data
Allows an application to read all of the contact (address) data stored on your device. Malicious applications can use this to send your data to other people.

- read phone state and identity
Allows the application to access the phone features of the device. An application with this permission can determine the phone number and serial number of this phone, whether a call is active, the number that call is connected to and the like.

What is the point of having these privileges, in a trivia app ?
Poor Economics - Changed my views on some areas of how to combat poverty and poor education. As well as relating a huge amount a detail regarding the unexpected ways people with different backgrounds behave.
Richard = Dick.
Your experience with drug abuse doesn't justify your opinion on how to deal with the drug abuse problem. Portugal's DATA does.
Let's see... in no particular order:

* Thinking, Fast and Slow: http://amzn.to/sXQGSR - probably makes my list because I just finished it, and as he says "what you see is all there is" - we're biased towards things that come to mind easily. Actually, it is a pretty good book even looking through all the others I've read.

* 1491: http://amzn.to/uaR0yf - about the Americas prior to the arrival of "Cristoforo Colombo".

* Built to sell: http://amzn.to/ukmyNP - how to create a business that is something that you can sell because it can exist without you. Not quite so relevant to startups working on a product, but some good concepts nonetheless. A good summary is probably just as good as reading the book, as the core concepts are fairly simple.

* Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World: http://amzn.to/tVvltK the history of the world as seen through languages.

* The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East: http://amzn.to/spQCF7 - a look at how the legal systems of 'the west' and the middle east differed and the results those systems led to.

And of course, if you haven't read this one, I think it's a great read:

Start Small, Stay Small: http://amzn.to/v2DHyx - a great guide full of practical advice on "startups for the rest of us".

What I haven't read:

Lean Startups by Eric Ries. Does it contain much practical advice? I get the impression it's a bit on the 'strategic' side without giving you concrete ideas about how to go about doing things.

The Steve Jobs biography. It looks to be so pervasive and widespread that I'm wondering if I can absorb most of the good parts from other people who have read it. I may get it anyway; we'll see.

FWIW, all links contain a referral code to help fuel my reading habit.
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
Orion series by Ben Bova
Stranger in a Stange Land, Farnham's Freehold by Robert Heinlein
The Year in Energy
The boomers are 50/50 for legalizing marijuana, it's the older generation that's the problem. It should be legal by 2022-2024 thanks to the boomers actually.
Leak huh? Sounds more like well-placed PR to me.
Agreed, I'm reading it a second time now. I find it absolutely remarkable that Kahneman is 77.
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I was perhaps a bit too liberal with my SEO ventures once... I received one single complaint to GoDaddy about a domain name that I owned with them (and admittedly was doing a bit of backlinking with)... One email and a ~$75 "fine" later I was back in business. But this is absurd.

The complaint was along the lines of "Somebody posted a link to this website X and I think it's spam."

GoDaddy immediately placed my domain on hold (same abuse department call that weebly received) and was told I would have to pay the fine to proceed or I could just forfeit the domain to them.

It seemed incredibly heavy handed for a stray blog comment.
Is this a "this generation is so spoiled" article? I got an iPad that I didn't want, didn't ask for, and it's engraved with my name so I can't very well sell it. What do I get for being the spoiled generation outlier? Do I get to keep it guilt free?
It works perfectly for me, it goes to an empty page.
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Ask HN: Did you learn a language this year?
I thought about doing a poll, but I think it'd be more interesting to see what people learned and why (or perhaps not learned and why). This year I can't say I've "learned" a language although I have dabbled in Erlang, Clojure, and Haskell.
The takeaway seems to be don't let a raging idiot near customers in the first place.

There's a second documented encounter with the guy from 6 months ago: http://www.natesnetwork.com/Poor-customer-service
Top Scientific Discoveries of 2011
The one I've enjoyed the most, was probably "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" but additionally read a couple that kept being mentioned on here:

* A Random Walk Down Wall Street

* Predictably Irrational

* Black Swan

* Blink

and enjoyed those too. I've also read "How To Make Friends and Influence People" and started "Lords of Finance" but never finished.
Sorry, but that post left me thinking less of all three parties involved.

A supplier who cusses out his customer, a customer who cusses out a supplier, and an ego tripping blogger who not only publishes a private conversation but picks a side and joins the fight.

I see no winners.
What are the long term implications of the increasing amount of parallel computing resources available to programmers? Are we getting to a point where there is enough excess CPU available, that the extra instruction on every assignment for reference counting is no big deal? (In certain contexts. In some contexts extra instructions are always a big deal, but these don't span all of computing.) Combine that with incremental algorithms for cycle reclamation, and you'd have great low-latency GC.
Here in Spain the law is that one, 2 years, but didn't know it was for all Europe and Apple, FNAC and others have had problems selling warranty extensions for the second year when they should have given it for free and some customers have reclaimed it and in the end they have to give it for free or use the extension for a third year.
I need a way to respond directly to app reviewers or maybe not.
Facebook continues work on their own fork of Android towards releasing a phone and Facebook mobile app platform. Perhaps an IPO to coincide with it.
That is quite the assumption to make, given the vastness of our universe.

I wouldn't be surprised to find a civilization with incredibly deadly power, paranoia, discipline, grandeur and respect-for-one-another all rolled into one.

Just because it doesn't fit the human persona, doesn't mean it won't fit any "thing".