skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah it is annoying but once you have put in your stats, you can just keep pressing the start game button you get a spot within in a minute which admittedly is an aeon in net-time though.
Here's another argument for you -- what makes people think that the temperature as it is today is the best one for the planet? Isn't that in itself playing God? It's been warmer and colder before on earth, what kind of selfish and anthropocentric mindset thinks we get to pick what temperature we want anyway?
mm... nope. that didn't help
"... Steve Jobs's famous maxim "artists ship" works both ways. Artists aren't merely capable of shipping. They insist on it. So if you don't let people ship, you won't have any artists ..."

Steve Yegge has had the unenviable luck of working on 3 products all of which have not shipped (cited as business reasons) yet he still works for Google ~ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/podcast-25/ So it seems there is something else going on that keeps programmers on board. Is it money, having the freedom to talking about it the process? I don't know.
Relating special relativity and quantum entanglement with imaginary numbers
This is my choice too - get the pro version - it comes with a scheduler plugin - its only 60 bucks. I use it for both http://biologynews.net and http://esciencenews.com mail lists, both have around 2000 subscribers, no problem up so far.
between the quote below from the article and the excellent picture above, you should be able to see it....Try again, cuz it's really interesting.

"Imagine you're driving on a circular race track. You overtake a car on the right, and immediately slow down and go into the left lane. When the other car passes you, you speed up and overtake on the right again. You will then be making circles around the other car, but when seen from above, both of you are driving forward all the time and your path will be convex."
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I appreciate that, and thanks for the feedback. I thought the 'emotional arguments' where easy to make it apparent that maybe we are doing something wrong, climate change or not.
The rational/scientific arguments can be argued. Tough to stand in a clearcut and say 'damn happy we got rid of those trees!'. ;)
just tried 20q.net and i can say it does make a lot better guesses and it is also not categorised.
I would ditch either or both of them in favor of a functional open-source media environment.

js + svg + ogg OR whatever

If you want me to take sides in your standards war give me something worth fighting for. Freedom.
I have very little experience with EC2 (or managing server farms). I have worked at Amazon and been responsible for an internal service there that ran on a server farm, but we didn't use EC2 and another department managed the machines.

Has EC2 been reliable enough lately? I've heard horror stories of 8+ hour downtime multiple times a year.
I'd also suggest checking out pyjamas-desktop (http://pyjd.org/), which allows you to deploy pyjamas apps to the desktop
> You're making the right choice on 1U 8-core boxes.

If it's appropriate... I've found Apple XServe is a competitive 1U 8-core as well.
Feynman's lectures at Cornell
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I like Sun servers, they can be expensive, but you can get some good deals if you are accepted into SSE (Sun Startup Essentials). For me one of the best things about them is the ILOM, which is badass as far as I'm concerned. Also, their N1 System manager lets you manage and provision a bunch of servers from a single location. It will also keep track of the environment on all of them, but thats nothing you couldn't build with SNMP traps etc. Also, I must mention that if you pay for the support, it is awesome, I had a problem with system drives on a Friday, and they overnighted it and I had it Saturday. They also don't charge you unless you don't send the defective part back, with THEIR free packaging and shipping. It was also nice of them to include 3-4 3M anti-static wrist straps with my shipment of new hardware :)
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codeigniter is a good purely MVC framework that doesn't add much extra overhead to your project (by default -- you can pull in plenty of overhead with the external libraries and such). if you want the MVC separation but don't want to be weighted down by other things and like to hack around in php, its a good choice.

cake/symfony/etc. are rapid development frameworks that try and recreate some of the magic of rails in php form. they're very good to get somewhere quick. they do suffer from a bit of feature bloat and performance problems if you're planning for a large application down the line.

i've used them all, i like them all. having said that, i would hands-down go with codeigniter on every project IF they were to pull together a better community and form better community code and libraries. for example, it took me forever to get a simple, working, secure authorization library in codeigniter, including having to mess around with the module myself to do what i wanted it to do. it comes fully functional in cakephp.

just my $0.02
Here is another book of his I found:

http://www.umcs.maine.edu/~chaitin/unknowable/ch6.html
This isn't entirely correct. If you're just talking about enhancing a web page, then ok sure Javascript is more widely used. However, if you're talking about building Rich Internet Applications, Flex is many lightyears ahead of what JavaScript has to offer.
I read it differently... People who say "Climates have always changed and they always will" are saying it to all the folks who REALLY DON'T KNOW IT. Seriously, if you asked 100 Americans to plot the average temperature in Iowa over then past 10,000 years, how many do you think would draw a flat line with a quick slope up starting around the twentieth century?

As recently as about 30 years ago, scientists were freaking out about Global Cooling which, at the time, had been going on since the 40s. Before that, they were concerned about the warming trend that started in the 1880s.

Here's a delightful article from Newsweek in the 70s:
http://denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm
And they also have a patent for sale! And all goes below the reserve price. As vaskel said, they surely need a new design. Especially the intro on the left of the homepage looks cluttered
Normally there is a power threshold measured in Kilowatts or amps on your cabinet. Amps is generally easier to work with. 16A or 32A would be pretty standard. Really, you need to ask your colo facility. Be careful with a 32 amp A & B feed if you're using them for redundancy. Ideally you don't want to overload the A or B feed if one of them is down.

The advice given to you regarding Dell servers is pretty good. They also have a power estimator on their website which you can download which give really good indicators as to what your power usage might be.

Basically, the chances are you wouldn't be able to pack 42 1u servers into a 42U cab and power is becoming more and more of an issue.

Extra note: newer generation dell servers are much less hungry than the old ones. The PE 2950's are great 2U machines, easy to work with and I'd vote for them over the equivalent 1U form factor 1950s from my experience.
I think you need to go back and look up the definition of 'open standard'. Someone figuring out how to reverse engineer one company's product implementation does not make that either 'open' or a 'standard'. What's needed is a written specification that is not subject to the whims of any single company and that anyone who wants to can build an implementation of.
Limits to running speed in dogs, horses and humans
A thought, can we use wikipedia info to boost up the accuracy of 20q? For that we can have a huge near accurate data at the beginning. Considering the paper on CIKM 2008 "Learning to Link with Wikipedia", I think that it is practical.
Before it started saying it's too busy, I stumped it twice: once with B'Elanna Torres and once with Kaylee (Firefly)
yeah it looks great. I think its a great idea to use more of the web for the desktop - there is so much work going on in browsers/javascript it makes sense to use it for offline work as well.
This is really cool. But wouldn't it be better to generate docs from comments than refering to GWT docs?

Anyway, they also have an online demo which you won't find on the site. Their BookReader http://pyjs.org/book/output/Bookreader.html (ongoing documentation) is itself a demo.

EDIT: Oh! just noticed that the Bookreader docs is very linux oriented.
If you could die at any moment and one person says, "have fun" and another person says, "be a christian or you could spend eternity in hell!", what would you advise?
i would hands-down go with codeigniter on every project IF they were to pull together a better community and form better community code and libraries

The CI community is one of my favorites. People are quick to respond on the forums, and Ellis Lab works closely with the community to make sure people get the help they need. As for code, I feel that there are plenty of good solutions for most of the common spots that CI itself does not fill, but everybody's needs are different.
To "make something people want", you need to know your customer's value system: what's important to him and what's not. This can be hard for startups, especially ycombinator types which may be very low budget, because their own value system is so different. Startups start with a company worth about $1 and want to turn it into a company worth about $1,000,000. Therefore startups value the ability to change rapidly -- that's why they want good programmers.

Big companies on the other hand, start with a company worth $100,000,000, and want to turn it into a company worth $150,000,000. They value steady process improvement that doesn't risk their existing revenue -- that's why they want good managers.

It's important to know this if you're trying to sell to a big company as well as if you're trying to compete with a big company.
I've heard great news about Aweber (http://www.aweber.com/). I plan to use them for my next few projects.
www.MadMimi.com
A free online WYSIWIG editor that is very intuitive and yields some very pretty things.

Highly recommended (much better than ConstantContact).

They also have amazing customer service, even for those who don't pay.
That works actually, thanks
Kohana is my favorite PHP framework by a long shot. The developers are very bright and they work hard to incorporate the wants and needs of the community, without diluting quality. It is PHP5 only, though.

Use CodeIgniter if you need PHP4. The two are similarly flexible and light.
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All else equal, in a program with good curriculum and instruction, CS will come out on top. That is if you are not looking at an average, because CS produces plenty of terrible coders. Those who enjoy coding enough to switch from music or focus from math will likely be better programmers on average.
How so? I mean, what can you accomplish with Flex that you can't also accomplish with modern javascript frameworks?
If gmail deleted all your mail it might, though.
Funny that some of those large companies you mention didn't seem to get the memo about being risk-averse... ;-)
Well, what if this bug happened to allow content which was not-safe-for-children onto the front page of the most heavily trafficked web page in the world, widely promoted to Middle America as being G-rated? I speak purely hypothetically of course.
rolls eyes I thought we were talking about watching video online not ending world hunger or tibetan oppression.
"... AMD believes that the Netbook screen size is too small and the performance disappointing ... The coming year should show whether the Netbook has legs or whether it was just another marketing flash-in-the-pan ..."

So after the Intel heads (Craig Barrett) bad mouths the idea, then screws over MIT's OLPC effort ~ http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-9839806-37.html comes to this conclusion... "flash-in-the-pan"? I think not. The real problem is the cost. No company wants to build cheap netbooks (very small PC's due to margins but I can tell you people want to buy them. The lowest cost I see now in shops is AUD$330. The low cost & razor margins is most likely the reason.
A "net neutrality" bill would've forced the CRTC to rule in favor of the small ISPs

Can you name a regulation that in practice has benefited small companies at the expense of larger companies? Most regulations get enacted in two steps 1) a moral argument is made for the need for some sort of government intervention. 2) while no one is paying attention to the sausage making in Congress, the bill is worded to actually favor specific interests, often at the expense of the public.

To believe that "net neutrality" would end up different is the triumph of hope over experience. Big companies have far more money to lobby, and they always win the regulatory game.
What design flaw? You said yourself that you dismantled it. That's a pretty solid indicator that you yourself broke it. Why on earth would you expect Apple to repair that for free? Would you expect anybody else to? Would you work for free?

Your experience with other shops is irrelevant when regarding Apple's customer service, as those shops aren't Apple. An authorized shop can charge whatever it wants for out-of-warranty repairs, and an unauthorized one, well, you're really grasping at straws if you think Apple has anything to do with that.

I don't see how anything you've written here is a counterpoint. It's just an anecdote about how much money you chose to spend to have someone fix your mistake.
In my opinion, what is wrong with Canada is Canadians. Nobody cares. The government, the companies, the unions, everybody is f*-ing up that country, yet, people could care less. It's even worse, ask any Canadian, and chances are they would tell you what a great country Canada is and how Canada has it so much better than the US. Last year, 77% of Canadians ranked Canada as 10 out of 10 as the best country to live in. 77%!!! I doubt that even the brainwashed North Koreans would vote 77% for their country.
ArduiPilot - Navigation for UAVs

MAKEcontroller - read a lot about it. Seems it's very easy to program than the Arduino.

Reprap 3D printer (these guys have a very good parts list page which mentions different vendors and also generates a shopping cart for you in the respective vendor's website. So it shouldn't be easy to buy and make it if you have the time and money)

Damn! I wish I wasn't a no-buck-making student anymore. Everytime I look at these stuff, I wanna start making a lot of money to buy and tryout all these stuff and build something... something that's atleast half-good as an IronMan suit.
I think most people want to do a good job and prefer to work hard. They want to see an impact from their labors and want their firm's customers to be delighted with their experience of interacting with the firm's products and service teams. It's our challenge as entrepreneurs to create the right environment for this.
It used to be a nightmare for viewing videos on the web.

This site needed Real, that site needed QuickTime, some other site needed Windows Media, and yet another site needed Some Bullshit Player 4 which only ran on Windows 98 on a good day.
There is if they can't fill the seats.
If the error was a security vulnerability in Lotus notes that resulted in all of GM's confidential email being uploaded to thepiratebay I think IBM's reputation would take a pretty serious hit.

And this is an error that one unchecked programmer would be perfectly able to make if there were no checks in place.
A culture of testing is a lot more than just verifying functionality. Code reviews with experienced engineers would have caught that design flaw before it was released. Or made it a high priority to fix.

I've dealt with the security teams at large companies. They end up implementing sometimes draconian policies, but it seems that programmers refuse to learn to write secure code any other way. I have to admit that, if you consider the large company as being a legitimate entity, they're doing legitimate work.
I think you're being downmodded because your comment is a bit more reddit-like than news.yc-like. Personally I find it borderline, but I'd just be sure to include some serious question or commentary with a joke post like this.
thanks .. much appreciated.
Don’t Copy That Floppy - good coders code, great reuse
Writer are like hackers, yes. But the reason most salesmen like to work hard is that they're paid on commission. That's very different.
That's not the point of this question.
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I like where you're going with that. Now we just need a catchy acronym. :)

REST may be the applicable acronym for the server side (or at least, one design for implementing what you describe). But I haven't heard any design patterns with a catchy acronym for what all the cool kids are doing in the browser with Javascript. Perhaps that's for the best. Often a catchy acronym is a sign that a technology will soon either stagnate or be considered passe.
"many scientists have been personally enriched by promoting global warming":

Can we name concrete names of those rich scientists, please? I'm pretty sure Jim Hansen's gains have been limited to the risk of losing his job and of not being allowed to publish his results.

And saying that "it used to be 75 years but people didn't care so now they say the world will be destroyed in 10 years" is spectacularly dishonest. First, scientific facts change. If you follow the research you'll know that evidence is accumulating that effects like deglaciation are happening faster than models used to predict.

When better data become available, scientific predictions will change. Arguing that this proves that science is flawed or scientists are dishonest is like calling people changing their mind about something with more information "flip-floppers" -- but it's the only rational thing to do.

Second, who is saying that "the world will be destroyed in ten years"? As far as I know, reputable scientists are saying things like "unless changes are made within ten years, we will reach a point where it will be too late to stop climate change from reaching a point with likely bad effects". That's a very different thing. Those bad effects won't happen for a long time, like 50-100 years, because of the thermal inertia of the planet, but that also means we must start slowing down now. It's like driving a car, you'd better start slowing down before you get to the curve, trying to do it when you realize you're heading off the road is too little, too late.

Oh, and Al Gore is not a politician. He holds no office, and does not work for a political party. I guess it would be fair to call him a lobbyist, but his financial gain is much less than that of other "lobbyists" like the wall street people. In my eyes, he has way more credibility in his current position than any of those who have large financial stakes in influencing people.
Entourage is underrepresented :)
I'm using it at work and absolutely hate it: if feels unfinished in almost every aspect. Try to use it yourself to do something nice and not simplicistic and you'll see it yourself.

Now it appears that only Microsoft's evangelist and members of the silverlight team are using it. All the blog postings/tutorials are posted by these people.

I feel that if a technology is naturally good you'll want to use it yourself, but this requires an army of payed bloggers to be pushed down the throats of developers.

Also, what problem is silverlight trying to solve? I feel it's trying to solve the i-dont-know-html problem in the end... well, i dont have it.
Provisional patent, at least in software, is only worth it for telling investors "we have a provisional patent." If it's a lawyer written provisional patent it may be worth more if it can be refiled as a regular patent with minimum work, but anyone can have a provisional patent for $125.
I think MVC was always blurred, even in established contexts.
Except that in silverlight you can't use the whole of .net, just a subset.
If Al Gore thinks it is so dangerous to live the way he does, why does he continue to do so? Why does he not himself do, what he wants to coerce everyone else to do? For crying out loud. It screams hypocrisy!
It's pretty clear that if Al Gore believes himself he should do whatever is in his power to change the global system. Since the alternative is to hole up and get nothing done, that means flying around, giving talks, and contributing to a (vanishingly) small increase in emissions with the hope of effecting large change.

By your argument you could discount everyone who is arguing that global warming is real by saying that they are driving and flying and emitting carbon. Face it -- in the US today you have to drive and fly to do anything, including trying to change that fact itself.

I don't know anything about his residence, but that is anyway a complete ad hominem attack. The characteristics of his home have nothing to do with the merits of his case.
Not only that. It was able to get the Black Hat guy from xkcd.

It also got Minsc (Baldur's Gate) and Conan the Barbarian. It took two tries to get Andrew Jackson (guessed George Washington the first time around), but got it after about 10 more questions.
The people from 20q.net manufactured a great physical device for playing the game. Sold for about $15 at Walmart, makes an exceptional gift for hard to shop for people. On eBay for $12 shipped... http://cgi.ebay.com/20-Q-Game-I-can-read-your-mind_W0QQitemZ...
And Felix Dennis' How to Get Rich.
http://www.amazon.com/How-Get-Rich-Greatest-Entrepreneurs/dp...
yup, and it looks great. Very very interesting technology.
If I eat a Big Mac today, am I wrong if I say McDonalds is unhealthy?
Here Comes "Here Comes Everybody"
Meta tip for these kinds of queries: If you can find the product category in Google Directory, you get a nice list of products in page-rank order. http://www.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Internet/Server...
It couldn't think of Ron Paul.

Fail! ;)
Would eating heavy atoms lengthen our lives?
Very interesting that Texas, being the second largest state and the largest in the lower 48, has only 1.9 percent owned by the USG. If the theory that more private ownership leads to more wealth were true, it would be expected that TX would have fewer people living below the poverty line. A bit of research reveals that it actually has more -- statistically significant: 16.2 percent of its population lives below the poverty line compared to the 12.1 percent national average. Source: http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/48000.html
After the 20th question, it guessed Bertrand Russel when I was thinking of Thomas Paine who was in the list after I told it the guess was incorrect.
I read "Fido" and thought Fidonet and said "wow, Canada _is_ really out of date". Although it would be cool to go old school and get access to a fed Fidonet BBS on your phone.
Rapper in that video is a lawyer now :D

http://www.strategicinteractions.com/who_staff.html#me
Ryan Carson talked a lot about how selling in the open wasn't good for him with Dropsend (http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/webapps/sell-your-web-a...).

I would think this applies to them too.
Would microsoft provide a binary for the iPhone? How about my custom browser on my odd cpu?
Whoops -- 12.7 was the percentage statistic of persons in the USA living below the poverty line, not 12.1. NV, by contrast has 11.1 percent below the poverty line despite having 84.5 percent of its land area owned by the USG.