skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? Do you think there's something special about displaying molecules? Or do you think Mathematica does it better than anything else?

Try PyMOL - the most widely used molecular graphics software, probably.
So can someone else answer my question then? If I want my content gzip encoded are CDNs simply not an option?
Mathematica's bugginess (on SGI) is what prompted me to learn "real" programming languages some years ago.
The Cell is a whole different type of nightmare, with various interesting properties:

1. Bitshifts by variable amounts take ~7 clocks each on the main PPU.

2. The SPUs have no cache whatsoever; all caching has to be done explicitly, and all memory access is DMA'd.

3. The SPUs do scalar math no faster than SIMD (in fact, from what I know, scalar math is just calling an SIMD function on a single value).

4. There is no instruction reordering on SPUs, and everything has to be synced exactly for max performance (certain instructions run on odd clock cycles, others on even cycles).

5. The SPUs are not Altivec chips. The SPU SIMD instruction set is similar to Altivec, but more versatile. Of course, this means you can't just run existing Altivec code on them.

6. Overall, the integer SIMD on SPUs is much slower than that on modern Intel processors. Not sure about float, as I have no experience in that arena.
Something I read in there makes me want to buy a bottle and visit local swimming pools..... :)
Ummmm..Gladwell is not Friedman and we know Joel likes to rant. Blink opened a lively conversation, so did Tipping point.
This article is manipulation of the rankest kind. It's built out of facts that are individually true, but together constitute an outright lie.

First, reread the article and not what it actually says. It summarizes, paraphrases, and offers characterizations like:

* "struggled to feed themselves adequately"

* "struggled with hunger"

* "predicted the 2008 numbers will show even more hunger because of the sharp economic downturn"

* "increases in the number of hungry people"

...and so on. But notice that whenever actual statistics are cited, they all refer to something called "food insecurity," which is a technical term defined by the FDA.

Now, consider the title of this article, published in 2003 in the Journal of Nutrition, which is an established, peer-reviewed journal run by scientists instead of politicos:

Food Insecurity Is Associated with Increased Risk of Obesity in California Women

here's the abstract: http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/abstract/133/4/1070

I'm not claiming that the US doesn't have poverty-related social problems. In fact, one of those problems is obesity, as numerous independent studies have confirmed. There's plenty of room to discuss what should be done about obesity among the poor. But they aren't getting fat because they don't have enough to eat.

In closing, dear reader, I present a few unrelated facts for your amusement:

* One of the federal government's largest discretionary expenditures is farm subsidies.

* The most heavily subsidized crops are corn and soybeans.

* The largest single donor to federal election campaigns is Archer Daniels Midland, which sells products derived from corn and soybeans.

* Midwestern states (which grow corn and soybeans) are disproportionately influential in the Senate, whence farm bills often originate.

* The FDA, which doles out the farm subsidies, is also responsible for measuring hunger and assessing nutritional requirements. Nutritional recommendations made by the FDA affect what you can buy with food stamps.

* Food consumed disproportionately by the poor contains disproportionate amounts of corn and soybeans. This is thought to be one of the main reasons why obesity is more common among this group.
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The power of bad publicity, a startup example
A site license is a lot. My dept can't afford it and use Maple instead.
Django 1.0.2 released
I think the point is that you have to type about 30 characters to get a 3d plot of the molecule of choice. Unlike M-, PyMOL doesn't have the data built-in, so you have to find, download, load etc yourself.
The upgrade for students is $75 (if you have 6). I don't think i'm gonna jump. Doesn't really seem worth it? I never use the advanced features as is. All i ever do is basic algebraic manipulations and screwy integrals.
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Home Repossessions Rise Sharply across UK
According to the latest reports, home repossession has gone up to 71%. This is a 16% rise on the previous year’s figures during the same period. In the first half of this year around 19,000 homeowners have had their houses repossessed by the lenders. It is also estimated that house repossession will double in 2008 compared to 2007.
For the very confused this is an audio file, in mp3 format, 25 minutes and 11.9MB.

I think you could have done a better job with the title - you don't need to say mp3, or 11.9mb - no one really cares (not in a title anyway).

"John McCarthy: Elephant, a programming language for 2015; 25 minute audio file" would have been much clearer.

And Elephant sounds like a verb in your title, which made things even more confusing. Note the comma and semi colon in my version.
Iconoclasm actually means the opposite. Iconoclasts were a bunch of people in the middle ages who had something against religious images and so went around breaking them. Icons = images. Clasm = break.

So the traditional meaning of iconoclast in this context would be someone who seeks to break accepted imagery on a specific topic.
What is a Business Model?
Maybe I didn't do enough acid to believe that Apple is the shit. Palm Pilots already were used to organize information, and they were much more open than the iPhone.

It would like to like Apple, but somehow it is all too restricted. Take the deeply flawed app store: since it is not open and not even HTML compatible, it is impossible for other people to step up and improve on it. I hope that is not the 21st century we are heading for.

Maybe the first time with the iPhone feels like a shot of a new, exciting drug. But ultimately using it synchronizes you to Apples way of thinking, and turns you into a drone.
As painful as it might be I try and stick to IE as my default browser. That way Im seeing sites, my own and others, as the majority of people do. I may not particularly like it but imo the only way to ensure your app works as well as possible for the largest number of people possible is to actually develop under the most common browser.
Harvard Business Review had a less emotionally loaded article with lots of factual research and the same conclusion - long tail is a myth.
+1 Bump. Thanks for the link.
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I generally agree with what you're saying, and it's amusing how she proceeds to do something that is essentially what she is criticizing Gladwell for doing himself, but I give benefit of the doubt to the critic, because there is a remarkable difference in medium. It's a book review, not a complete refutation. She has about a dozen paragraphs to summarize and critique 300+ pages. Is there enough space to complete address even one of the cases brought up in the book? I think not.

I've read the book. It's entertaining, but I don't think it's as well-developed as Blink or The Tipping Point. I think Gladwell is a good writer who serves a previously unfilled role as a popular popularizer of academic work. However, every time I read his work, I wish that experts of the fields he reports on would also write popular expositions that could be consumed by an audience like that of the New Yorker.

I know that the evidence backing some of what I was reading was sketchy at best. Asian children score higher on math tests because their ancestors labored in rice fields? Please. It doesn't detract from the entertainment value of the book, but I would think twice before believing what I read in the book was indicative of reality.

As for your theory argument, I would have to disagree in many different cases. Suppose that you only chose to include data points that support your argument. Then people have every right to pick an alternate data point, claim that your study is faulty and that you're being irresponsible. This is exactly what many of his detractors are pointing out, and it is a point that is often missed.

The primary argument against the book and the Gladwell style of investigation is that he tends not to include or even discuss studies or points or examples that do not support his argument. This is understandable, since he is attempt to speak to a popular audience and does not have the space to discuss every relevant study if he wants to run through all of his cases, but by doing this, he makes many smart people feel like he is trying to pull the wool over their eyes.
I've never heard the term "from scratch to finish" before.
i thought myth #6 was that rails was any good
Interesting. As an EY customer, this isn't something I like to hear.

Was Rubinius a sort of R&D department at EY?
There is no busness like the show business.

If you have a hit you make it big, otherwise you get next to nothing.
Some good, sound business advice.

Is it ironic that a social network for dogs knows how to turn a profit–but not a certain social network for humans?
Honestly my argument was more semantics. It's not DRM. It's something else, and certainly less odious. All they're doing is creating a way to track illegal activity.

I wonder what the laws are on selling the track and then deleting it though. Is that as legal as selling a cd, or do you get sign some sort of legal agreement when you purchase the track? I've never purchased a single track online so I don't know much about that.
4 characters with PyMOL:

Click Plugin, then PDB Load; then type 1UBQ
It's evident that you haven't met many real libertarians. Very few of us actually join the Libertarian Party. It has no influence in the real world. I think most people, regardless of their political orientation, would rather have some control over an imperfect process than none at all.

By asking to talk to members of the Libertarian Party, you're refusing to talk to the subset of libertarians who can make compromises, and deal with the moral ambiguities that exist in the real world. There are some well-meaning people in the Libertarian Party, but mostly you're asking for compound-dwelling wackos.
Yeah, not bad at all. It's labor-intensive, but does appear to pay off.
Your data is correct, but you've got it backwards. People who believe they can be successful by working harder generally do become successful. The inverse holds as well.

Aside: watch for when people say "whatever." It means they care very much about something.
Children don't lose net weight unless they are severely undernourished. Kids are essentially weight gaining machines except for plateaus at 5, 12 and 18. They may, however, stop growing as fast as other kids.

The problem is it's fairly easy to not notice or to ignore mild malnutrition. There is a huge dropoff in health and mental development if your kids don't eat right or eat enough, even if they are not obviously starving.
Sounded like he was talking about the Financial Bailout to me.... ;)
Watched the video on boxee's site. Impressive ... BUT definitely an uphill climb going against iTunes, Netflix, Amazon, etc.

It can't play DRM'd music, so the only local files it's gonna be able to use are non-DRM'd mp3s plus torrented/pirated videos.

I'm confused why a new interface to Hulu is worth giving $4M to ...
The shoe is on the other foot now, isn't it?

Joel written many an essay with sole basis in anecdote.
"However, every time I read his work, I wish that experts of the fields he reports on would also write popular expositions that could be consumed by an audience like that of the New Yorker."

I wish that were true too. I am trying in my own blog to present my work in both a form accessible to the literate public and helpful for researchers (though I have neither published most of my work yet, nor attracted an audience the size of the New Yorker so you will just have to be patient!)

Arguably, Flynn did his best with "What is intelligence?" but people probably ran for the hills at the first formula. Such is life. But there are at least a few scientists who write for the public audience, Dawkins, Dyson, Hawking and Pinker perhaps most relevantly today, that do attract a wide readership. I honestly think Gladwell does a better job presenting things straight than Hawking.

The rice field argument, while apparently silly, doesn't strike me as particularly wrong. I'm merely unconvinced.

Does Gladwell in this book, more than his others, draw theories from selected scattered 'outliers,' more often than reasonable? I do not know how far he goes.
Jailbreak it then and install flash.
Best Part: "The LoseThos operating system will be free, but I might sell applications or support, or possibly do adware" :)
The Matrix Runs on Windows
Apple: Snow Leopard release in Q1 2009
I always believed, that it was a shameless borrowing (as do "great artist") of Macsyma -- living on free as Maxima.

Octave, Scilab and python driven C++ (e.g. Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software, ATLAS) can do just as good, if not the same or better. If you know what you are doing (which would be a must, anyway).

ps: Steven's book is full of spin, so I guess some of them would also make it to his website and vice-versa: this is called marketing and propaganda...
It says "Available from VARs worldwide for under $10,000" in here http://www.nvidia.com/object/personal_computing.html

Now I know how it felt like in the '80s when people were looking at the mainframes/desktops of the time and wondering... can I afford this $10K machine? :)
Not to gloat or show off or anything - but I can type at approx. 120wpm with good accuracy. It helps immensely with all aspects of my life - not just code. I can put ideas to paper (or screen, as it were) very, very quickly. This drives a lot of iterations and allows me to hone and fine-tune my work even further.

I'm also able to write up large amounts of text - blog posts, forum posts, etc etc, and all have over the years helped me become a better communicator. I enjoy discussing things with people and writing about my work, and I can't imagine doing the volume that I do as a slower typist at, say, 30wpm.

Like others here have mentioned, being a fast and accurate typist is like having a direct mind connection to the computer - your words come out almost as quickly as you can think of them.
Google Guys the person of year??
Didn't microsoft already try to buy them?
ah.. i missed it.
any more coming soon?
I think taking down the site was a bad idea, after reading your article, I would have bought it (my pain treshold for random purchases goes somewhere around $20 so if you decide to sell it for under that, please drop a notice).

I'm an entrepreneur myself (We sold our company to a quite big company about 1,5 years ago), I think what really went wrong was not the product, niche or anything like that. It was the marketing/sales. You should never underestimate how hard selling even a good product is.

also, this kind of a product will never "get old", the principles behind it will be the same forever so if it's good and you get enough people who purchase, you will get snowball effect by mouth to mouth marketing.

I think the worst decision you made was to waste your work when you took the site down. I also think your name is awful, it's so generic that it's hard to even find using google so what I would do is to republish the program with catchy name and add a link from your blog.

Also it's not a bad idea to hang in places like digitalpoint forums and hire some indian to submit your tool to X directories, that will cost you about $10-20 and you will get a lot of google goodness.

edit: you are giving it free now? Okay suits me but I would have bought it. How about adding at least a donation button?
Microsoft Releases Much Enhanced Live Search API 2.0
Blogspam. Here's the original: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=369255
Great article, thanks for the link.
Typing is almost never the rate-limiting step when programming.
Out of interest, what features does Xobni have that Gmail is lacking?
Top 25 days in computing history
Sorry, but you've clearly never worked in a large company that had an actual IT department. There are many, many companies where what goes on your machine is what the company chooses. You are either forbidden, or prevented, from installing anything else.

Those people are forced to use Outlook.

Also, your average employee is unlikely to replace Outlook with the 'better' solution of extracting calendar information using 'gnus using elisp'.
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I'm not "successful" (beyond having a wonderful wife and daughter), but I find Gladwell sort of light in the same way Joel does. It's entertaining reading, but like most business books, the meat of it, sans anecdotes, could fit in a few pages. And sometimes the 'meat' is sort of dubious in any case.

... and thus... Squeezed Books :-)
Yah - got that now. I sent the original to Paul, who
suggested I post it here. I read a little, but didn't
get the point that the URL would link direct. I thought
a URL in the text would auto-link, as per a wiki, but
it didn't do what I thought. Mea culpa.

Next time ...
The site seems very functional. I do have two comments:

- It is _very_ congested. There is too much text to be able to focus. More whitespace and less text will help.

- How is this distinct from Digg, Reddit, etc? What do you do to differentiate your site?
Yelp Throws Down On CitySearch
As a rebuttal, I present this scientific graph: http://i37.tinypic.com/33e086s.png
Resizing the excerpts for each article would vastly improve the readability of this site. Right now they are bigger than the title of the article itself.
Using telnet or netcat to access the exchange server is better than using outlook.
Unmaintained Free Software
At the moment they have a "Customers also bought" section, bottom right in itunes.

And you can become an affiliate for the itunes store: http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/
Utter, utter nonsense.

In non-software companies the applications on the desktop are centrally managed and it's just not possible to use workarounds that engineers would find acceptable.
It's not nonsense, it's my opinion - having used outlook. I simply don't understand how anyone can bear to use outlook.

If I was forced in the workplace to use it, I'd quit. Same with IE6. If a company forces you to use either of those, they're clearly not going to be around very long.
They've redefined "struggle with hunger" to mean "has experienced food insecurity". Food insecurity is assessed by asking a 10 question instrument. (There are shorter and longer versions.) Here it is:

http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/FoodSecurity/surveytools/ad...

Typical question:

"In the last 12 months, since last November, did you ever cut the size of your meals or skip meals because there wasn't enough money for food?"

If you answer in the affirmative for 3 questions or more, you're food insecure.

I answered the test honestly. I score 3 points and have, accordingly, "low food security" which is reported as "food insecure" (i.e. struggles with hunger).

Don't feel too bad for me -- I am a professional engineer and single 20-something. Life is fine, thank you.

At the moment, I have $200 in my pocket and nothing in my checking account. If the $200 does not last until payday (the 25th), I will eat ramen and rice instead of pizza and ribs. This happens a handful of times a year. (I could have the ribs if I raided my emergency fund or used credit but, really, swapping expensive for cheap for a day or three just doesn't strike me as an emergency.)

I don't think most advocates would consider me food insecure.

They probably would have when I was growing up. My family had some rough times, money was tight once in a while, things got stretched to last another day, once in a while we went without juiceboxes. It wasn't a Dickensian tale of horror, but it is pretty squarely within the intended meaning of "food insecure". Which convinces me the metric is not worth as much as some people think it is.
What's the advantage over all other digg clones? Don't mean this in a snide way -- couldn't tell in thirty seconds, and I was looking...
Flash video on the iPhone… with a catch
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A lot of the advances we have in science came not because people rigorously studied data and then came to conclusions, but because people had flashes of insight, and then looked for data to validate or invalidate their opinions.

We need this variety of uninformed opinion because it is from one of those nuggets that new things will be invented.

Science is just philosophy combined with statistical data.
If tunnelling nanotubes are real and widespread as the article and cited articles claim, we are in front of a major, once-in-a-century discovery in biology.

Basically, the assumption that cells are enclosed units with isolated internal cytoplasm--the very definition of the word 'cell', over 100 years old--would no longer hold.

As the article explains, medicine is up for a review. Many aspects of protein prions, HIV, and who knows how many other illnesses are suddenly explainable.
Celebrity Photos an Ideal Gift to your Loved Ones
Have you been wondering what gift to get your teen kids this Christmas? Selecting gifts for teenagers can be a challenging task. They show a lack of interest in everything and nothing seems to please them or impress them. If you are that rich dad, you can get them their favorite car that would impress them or that fancy piece of Hi-Fi that they would love. However, the increasing financial stress of the present times will make even the rich dads to think twice about the expensive gifts. We need to look for budget gifts that would impress our rebellious teenagers.
What writing then would you say was similar enough to Gladwells to be in the same genre, but better in your opinion?
We can build towers that extend beyond the atmosphere? I'd like to hear about that.

Not that it matters. The top of the atmosphere is usually marked as 120 kilometers up. Let's say you can build a tower one hundred times that tall, around 10,000 kilometers high. You've only reduced the speed needed by your electromagnetic accelerator from 11 km/sec to 7 km/sec. That's still like 15,000 miles per hour.

I'm all for dreaming big, but the other ways of leaving the earth are better.
Joel did get ahead by being smarter and working harder. He was doing the blogging/article thing back before everyone was doing it, and it takes some smarts to be the first. He also kept it up on a regular schedule, and that needs some discipline.

So people like 37signals had a good pinch of luck thrown in their pot, but Joel, I believe, actually got to the top rung of the internet food chain by persistence and hard work.
This GRUESOME photo SICKENS me ... how as human beings could we treat one another this way ... again this is GRUESOME

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?q=1860s+US+Civil+War+...
Spansion and Virident reveal designs that dramatically boost memory in servers
Nanoscaffolding regrows limbs, organs
A lot of expertise is not based on scientific statistics, but rather on the sample of problems the expert encounters and his intuition.
this is totally crazy!
Amazon CloudFront Performance Numbers
Dropbox for music
Is easy concurrency the road to hell?
I can confirm this. We have a site-wide license for Matlab, but not for Mathematica. Educational version of Mathematica 7 would cost me my two monthly salaries - therefore I will pirate it.
What exactly is so unbearable about Outlook?